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Posted by Aces

- April 28, 2022, 18:47:04

Meanwhile in 2022....

As an IT technician I refurbish a lot of laptops (properly, not the slap-dash way of the large companies) and its not too often corpo level laptops come across my workbench and I got curious about it. What people say is true, its slow, HOWEVER after fully refurbing the unit and doing the below its actually quite snappy.

- Replace CPU thermal materials, and add a 6w thermal pad for the IGPU.
- Replace HDD with SSD
- Update system firmware to the latest
- Upgrade system memory to 8\16GB dual channel DDR3 1600

Those changes will give quite a shot in the arm to the system making it rather good even in 2022 for most duties, the one thing I still don't like however is that there isn't an option to assign how much memory the IGPU has access to, in a system with 8GB RAM or more this should be 512MB or 1GB but as far as I can tell on the E5550 only a laughably pathetic (even for 2014) 128MB is allocated with no way to change this. Overall with the above changes the laptop is a nice cheap well running recycle job for 2022 in most tasks and even now unless there is some kind of dynamic memory allocation up to 1GB for the IGPU Dell should release a firmware giving the user the option to selected allocated memory sizes from 256MB up to 1GB.

Posted by IhateDellLatitudee5550

- April 01, 2017, 18:23:57

DO NOT BUY IT!
I was given one for work. Man, this is the slowest computer I ever used. and I have been very happy with my Thinkpad for 3 years.
Not only the speed is unbearably slow, the weight is also something that I cannot stand. Close to 6 lb. For comparison, my carry-on is only 12 lb. Bottom line, do not buy it either for personal use or business use.

Posted by Arthur

- June 14, 2016, 10:54:32

I bought a Dell Latitude E5550/5550, three months ago, mainly because of the positive reviews on the internet. Having intensively used it now for all this time I can tell you that I am UNhappy with it. It is a step back from most other laptops I have used over my life (about seven). Long story short: don't buy this piece of ...

It has mediocre power, mediocre battery life, instable OS, and feels not solid. Just stay away from it. It is wholly different from a Dell that I owned over ten years ago and which was good. I am very disappointed.

Posted by Apostolos Chatzidiavatis

- May 15, 2016, 12:21:46

m-Sata DOES NOT exist, despite what the specs were mentioning (store specs, not dell specs since dell has millions of models with the same name: e5550 thus not applicable).

It came with ubuntu 15.04 image to install. First of all Legacy boot didn't work, thus other distributions cannot be installed.

-- Wifi malfunctioned: Reconnecting each 5 seconds.
-- Usb after some time not detected.

Installed 16.10:

-- HDMI not detecting external screens. I tried a lot of workarounds from askubuntu and other forums, didn't manage to solve the issue.

I am not going to buy anything else from dell any more.

Posted by Jan Pochop

- May 02, 2016, 13:23:16

Hi, when will you review the e5570? Thank you

Posted by tj

- February 11, 2016, 10:07:08

USB ports + docking station
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the two rear USB ports are disabled when docked. Them you only have one remaining USB on the laptop.
If you use USB dongles (mouse, headset, keyboard, hardware keys etc.) and you are using a docking staion DO NOT BUY THIS, it is soooo annoying when you have to move all your dongles from laptop ports to the ports on docking station enerytime you dock/undock...
grrrrr

Posted by SimonSiegenth

- October 01, 2015, 11:33:10

Bought two for our company. The Laptop is quite nice. The screen is really crisp, but colors are a litte too saturated in my opinion.

Worst thing about the laptop is the keyboard, and the key placement. I'm a programmer, and I cursed way too much. (Enter key, Arrows super small, other keys very strangly placed)

And then there is this extra thingy inside the keyboard, which also acts as a mouse. This triggers sometime while typing and does strange stuff.

Performancewise it's a nice laptop, but keyboard is awfull, sound is really bad. Would not recommend to buy it!

Posted by Mary McGillycuddy

- September 16, 2015, 22:59:34

Quote from: Ryszard on September 01, 2015, 15:03:40
I've just got my brand new E5550. This review was very helpful for me (I considered Lenovo L540, similar price would allow 4-core I7 CPU).

However - I missed two important things:

1. Home and End keys: who the hell got the idea to put them on left and right cursor keys, with pressing Fn key? This is a business laptop, I really do need to use comfortable Home and End in excel, I don't need switching songs on numeric keyboard
2. Docking station port is placed near the back edge. So close, that laptop placed on docking station does not have a solid support. It also has slippery rubber feets, so I have to be very carefull using it so, that it does not rotate around the docking port. I suppose I will have to use a peace of tube and glue it to my table.

I think Dell should better design this.

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Posted by Heracles

- September 15, 2015, 01:16:34

Quote from: Ryszard on September 01, 2015, 15:03:40
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1. Home and End keys: who the hell got the idea to put them on left and right cursor keys, with pressing Fn key? This is a business laptop, I really do need to use comfortable Home and End in excel, I don't need switching songs on numeric keyboard
...

I too was a little surprised/sceptical to see the new Home and End key arrangement using the Fn key. It actually makes navigating much easer though: You can press Home and End without having to lift your hand from the arrow keys and reaching all the way to the top of the numpad. The usual Home/End key arrangements found on laptops is something which always bothered me. Good job, Dell.

Posted by Ryszard

- September 01, 2015, 15:03:40

I've just got my brand new E5550. This review was very helpful for me (I considered Lenovo L540, similar price would allow 4-core I7 CPU).

However - I missed two important things:

1. Home and End keys: who the hell got the idea to put them on left and right cursor keys, with pressing Fn key? This is a business laptop, I really do need to use comfortable Home and End in excel, I don't need switching songs on numeric keyboard
2. Docking station port is placed near the back edge. So close, that laptop placed on docking station does not have a solid support. It also has slippery rubber feets, so I have to be very carefull using it so, that it does not rotate around the docking port. I suppose I will have to use a peace of tube and glue it to my table.

I think Dell should better design this.

Posted by DandyAndy

- August 02, 2015, 15:21:00

Quote from: Jim on Dell on January 27, 2015, 23:04:40
Seems impossible to configure the E5550 with an SSD on the USA site.

Still so many machines with slow hard disks and low resolution screens. Wake up, Dell!

Still many people wants over 500GB hard drive space but dont want to pay too much for it..

Posted by Sravan

- July 03, 2015, 20:37:06

Hi,

Thanks for the review.

I was actually looking for a business laptop and was doing lot of comparisons between few models in Latitude and Thinkpad.
With this review, Seems DELL Latitude E5550 would be the best choice.

Can you please tell me the best pricing for the below quotation.

i5 processor 5th Gen
8GB RAM
500 GB Sata HDD
15.16" FHD Screen
2GB Graphic Card
Web Cam
Windows 8.1
3 years onsite warranty.
No Finger print and no smart card reader

Thanks much!

Sravan

Posted by Fardu

- June 14, 2015, 00:23:29

Quote from: Forwards on June 05, 2015, 21:00:34
Does anyone know what is the maximum memory this system supports?

It supports up to 16Gb RAM.

Posted by Forwards

- June 05, 2015, 21:00:34

Does anyone know what is the maximum memory this system supports?

Posted by Danny Hecht

- May 07, 2015, 23:29:43

The key word is 'should' work with the existing docking station product line.
It does work with the E-view port replicator however this new design can not fit to a port replicator sitting in a an E-stand tray!!

By pushing the docking port all the way to the edge of the case the e-stand cannot stretch too all the way for the laptop to sit in properly causing poor connection with the port replicator.

I have over 50 E-stands to look after with a mix of E5520/30/40 so what am I suppose to do now they changed the case design?

When I spoke to Dell they didn't even know about this issue and did not yet changed the design of the E-Stand to be compatible with the E5550.

Great laptop but simply not fit for purpose as users at list in my company will not be able to hot desk as we all use a the E-Stand tray.

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