Review of Precision 5750 Laptop - What Dell Calls "the World's thinnest, lightest and smallest 17" workstation"

As one of only seven people in the world, outside of Dell, to have hands-on testing of the new 1/2" thick Dell Precision 5750 workstation-grade laptop with a 17" 4k touch display, I am extremely excited to share my review in today's BIM Chapters post... spoiler; this will be a game changer for many architects, engineers and designers in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry.

The unit is aesthetically pleasing, light , reasonably powerful, flexible and has an incredible display powered by an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 with 6GB of dedicated GPU RAM.

What do you get if you cross my high-end Dell Precision 7730 laptop with my kid's Microsoft Surface Book? A Dell Precision 5750. You can quote me on that:)

The 5750 is not for everyone, e.g. large and complex custom architectural VR projects, but it is very capable as you will see in this review. I have tested everything from streaming 4k movies, to using Autodesk Revit, to Enscape's real-time RTX-enabled rendering engine, to using the HTC Vive Pro for virtual reality.

Disclaimer: I’ve been partnering with Dell and they sent me an early sample of the Precision 5750 for free to try out and share my thoughts.

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NVIDIA GTC 2020 Keynote Highlight

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered his GTC keynote remotely from his home kitchen in California during the COVID-19 pandemic! They continue to amaze me with the new tech they develop every year. They have a section on RTX Graphics and show an amazing real-time rendered game with physics that I want!

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BILT-NA also Canceled this Year

Another not-surprising announcement, this week, that BILT-NA 2020 San Diego has been cancelled. They oddly call it postponed, even though I have to resubmit my approved sessions and it will be in a different location a year later... but, in any case it was the right move!

Next year, BILT-NA will be in Denver Colorado.

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AU Conferences go digital in 2020

Autodesk's Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Campbell let the world know that all Autodesk University events will be digital this year due to the global pandemic. Unfortunate, but a very good idea!

AU is a great learning and networking event for anyone in the AEC space. Last year I had the privilege of attending two Autodesk university conferences, in Las Vegas and London. Here are the two recap posts I wrote about them:

• Reflection on Autodesk University Las Vegas 2019
• Selfies from Autodesk University 2019
• Autodesk University London 2019 Recap

Here is a selfie of me with Autodesk's CEO Andrew Anagnost... from an Autodesk Expert Elite lunch.

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Revit Public Roadmap Update – April 2020

Autodesk released its annual public road map, giving us a hint of what they are working on post-2021 release. In this message they also celebrate 20 years since Revit 1.0 was released!

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Off Topic - '97 Doghouse Design at BWBR

Many years ago, while I was working at BWBR Architects in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, I was part of an internal 'young architects' group, called Momentum, that designed and built a doghouse for a local Humane Society fundraiser... this is today's 'off topic' post!

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Deleting a Crop Region Deletes the Current Plan View

Here is an odd condition I ran across recently using Autodesk Revit 2020.2... in one scenario you are not able to delete a selected Crop Region for the current floor plan view, but in another you can... meaning the view you are in goes away! Check out this super short video I posted on YouTube...

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