The Upcoming All New Dell 3510 Precision Laptop !!!

OK folks. so I saw something cool on internet and I decided to write about it.

UPDATE: 10/02/2015..
       The rumors were partially correct. The precision model with infinity display is 5510..

Here is the details from Dell's press release

SKU	Dimensions	Upgrades from Previous Generation	Starting Price
Dell Precision Mobile Workstations
Dell Precision 17 7000 Series: 17"- 7710	16.42" x 11.08" x 1.12" (rear 1.36")	Dell’s most powerful workstation ever. UHD PremierColor 100% Adobe RGB color gamut display 14% thinner 20% faster CPUs 43% faster memory 3x faster SSDs	$1,699 U.S.
Dell Precision 15 7000 Series: 15" - 7510	14.88" x 10.38" x 1.09" (rear 1.3")		$1,199 U.S.
Dell Precision 15 5000 Series: 15" - 5510	14.06" x 9.27" x 0.45" (rear 0.66"); Starting at 3.93 lbs.	Dell’s lightest, thinnest and smallest workstation ever. 20% faster CPUs 43% faster memory 3x faster SSDs The world’s first 15" workstation with an InfinityEdge display	$1,399 U.S.
Dell Precision 15 3000 Series: 15" – 3510	14.61" x 9.94" x 0.97"	Impressive performance at an affordable price. 15% faster CPUs 20% faster GFX 33% faster memory 3x faster SSDs 26% thinner Up to 12% lighter	$999 U.S
Dell Precision Desktop Workstations
Tower 3000 Series: 3620	14.17" x 6.89" x 17.12"	Affordable, professional performance in compact form factors 33% faster CPUs 34% faster GFX 33% faster memory 3x faster SSDs World’s Smallest SFF workstation chassis	$729 U.S.
Tower 3000 Series: 3420	11.42" x 3.65" x 11.5"		$679 U.S.

     I was looking to buy a new laptop few months back but I did not want my laptop to be outdated within months after buying it since windows 10 and skylake were around the corner. And then the cool Thunderbolt 3.0 was announced. so I decided to wait till I can buy a powerful laptop with windows 10, skylake and Thunderbolt 3.0. My old laptop started giving bluescreens and oh man it stops doing anything if i open up couple of projects simultaneously on visual studio.

     so I was eagerly following skylake and windows 10 related feeds. That's when I came across this cool looking windows 10 device with infinity display from Dell that was put up in display in computex Taipei event forum.

       Since microsoft used this device to show off windows 10, there were rumors that this laptop from dell would be announced during windows 10 release but that did not happen.  But when I was searching internet today for a dell laptop with skylake processor, I came across something interesting.

It looks like dell is working on precision line ups(mobile workstations) with skylake processors and windows 10. I came across a leaked image showing up the precision laptop lineups.

Image courtesy Giga

in these line up Dell Precision 3510 is very interesting. It has got the super cool infinity display. The specs include

• Infinity display with quad HD or 4K resolution
• Skylake Processor -( may be I7-6820H with other options too) - the latest and greatest from intel
• Thunderbolt 3.0 and USB Type C - the reversible usb type c cable. thunderbolt port supports speeds upto 40Gbps. which means the thunderbolt port can drive two external 4K monitors @60HZ simultaneously.  

A laptop that resembles one from these lineup was put on display in IFA 2015. There is only one video available that walks through this special laptop from IFA

Video courtesy: mobilegeeks

Even though the reporter says it is xps15, the label under the laptop clearly says it is dell precision 5510 @1:41 in the video. the video covers the other important specifications though.

          The existence of 3510 laptop has been confirmed by another search result that shows that this laptop has been imported to bangalore(India) for testing. this imported item information also reveals that this laptop comes with I7-6820H processor. 

I think we do not need to wait for longer for this laptop to be released. This should be out in a month or two. It may well be announced at the Dell world conference next month.I am very excited about this laptop and I think I am going to buy it as soon as it is out. 

What do you think folks? share if you have any information on this laptop. Leave your question in the comments section.

UPDATE:-
This is the answer I got from dell to my query about the above laptop on twitter. Well we all expected the same standard answer

DDNS - Using Dynamic Domain Name Service in RT-AC68U

           In this post I am going to talk about  DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name Services) which lets you access your network over the internet. This works even if you have dynamic IP.

               your ASUS RT-AC68U router settings page can be accessed from outside network as well. you will use this url http://192.168.1.1 (this is the default router settings url in most cases) when you access your router from your Local Network(which I am going to call Home Network). Here 192.168.1.1 is your router's local IP. ASUS router also provides options to access this page via internet. i.e you can access this page from your office to check the Router Status or Download Progress etc.

          If you want to access this router settings page via internet from a different machine, you have to access this page using the url  http://<yourpublicip>:8080 here publicip is your WAN IP address which keeps changing for most of the home users as they are given dynamic IP address by their ISP. We have to pay extra for a static IP. The number 8080 is the port number through which you can access this router settings page from outside network (you can change this in router administration page).

           For non technical users: IP is the acronym for Internet Protocol. IP address is a four part number that gives identity to your network or router when it connects to internet. your home router is the machine that connects you to internet. you can think of your home network as a big house connected to internet via this router. other devices in the internet identify your house using this internet protocol address. so whenever you are connected to the internet, the data that has to be delivered to your house is sent to this IP address. You can think of port number as one among many doors in your home. so by specifying Ip address and portnumber, you are telling that the data has to be delivered at this house at this door.

so the router settings page can be accessed by http://<yourpublicip>:8080

           Please remember this port number and without this port number specified in the url, you cannot access the router from outside network.

Dynamic Domain Name Services (DDNS)

            When you have dynamic IP, it will keep changing and you don't know what will be your assigned public IP.  Even if you have a static ip or dynamic ip, you would not want to remember the numbers to access the router from outside. How to solve this problem? enter DDNS. the ASUS RT-AC68U firmware has options to set up a domain name and it will be linked to your public ip even if you do not have a static ip. as soon as you are assigned a new ip , the new ip is registered against the given domain name and hence you do not need to worry about the changing ip addresses. You can always access your network using the domain name like this from anywhere

http://mydomainname:8080

In the router settings page go to WAN>>DDNS

                Enable DDNS client and choose the DDNS server from the list. I personally prefer asus.com. In the next field enter the host name with which you want to access the domain name. for example "alicenetwork" and after which your url would be {http://alicenetwork.asuscomm.com:8080}. Click apply and you will get a confirmation message. then you can open a browser window and enter this url and check if it is working( it will work immediately in local network but when you use the url from outside network, it will take sometime for the DDNS entry to be active) .

                 After setting up a Domain Name of your choice, we will have to enable WAN access for the router. for this go to  Administration>>System and make sure Enable Wan access is set. It is always good to set authentication method as HTTPS. if you set this then you will have to use https:// instead of http:// . this will make sure that the data flow between your router and your browser is secured.

if we enable HTTPS then the router settings oage url will be {https://alicenetwork.asuscomm.com:8443}. If you look at the settings, we have set the port number as 8443.

now we are all set to access your network from outside using internet.

            Now you can use this domain name to access lot of features like AiCloud, FTP Server, Download Master etc that Asus's high end routers offer, over internet.You can attach a USB hard drive to your RT-AC68 router and you can enable AiCloud and ftp Servers which let you access the content of your drive from anywhere.You can also enable the download master with which you can add a url to your download master application and the router will download the data from the url to your hard drive attached to it.

            You can access AiCloud, Ftp/Other file servers and download master settings page from Home>>USB Application page.There are mobile applications available for AiCloud and Download Master. I will cover all these features in separate blog posts. DDNS is must (or we can say makes our life easier) to use all these features.

           In the next post, I am going to cover the WOL feature which lets you switch your pc on from other devices in the same LAN. we will also see how to power on your system from ASUS RT-AC68U page and how we can make use of DDNS plus RT-AC68U's WOL utility to power your machine on over internet.