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It's a small point, but I get about 9 hours sometimes on Windows, same configuration. Similar tweaks on windows also help.

Awesome can't wait. Bumping up the memory speed might be a particularly useful possibility.

To the user who was working on the unlocked bios: I just wanna put it out there that I've successfully unlocked hidden menus (thermal, voltage, etc.) on the bios before, just couldn't flash it. So if you need any advice for that part of the process let me know. Any updates on how it's going?

Oh wow, it seems the engineers might have accomplished their job and genuinely locked down the system. The best avenue might be to try and get someone at dell to share a developer's BIOS.

Given that there is a rom chip, I'm unsure as to why recovery attempts didn't work. In any case, unlocking the bios is definitely an important problem. I found this here (different bios) I'm wondering if something similar could be changed from UEFI shell or not.

No it's well and truly bricked. I've tried every recovery method ever mentioned, including those. Which is part of my warning; I was under the impression that if I messed up I could always recover it, but apparently it's not always possible. It was 0x6E8, Aperture size. My understanding is...

I joined to post a warning. I edited an IFR variable related to graphics aperture size and completely bricked the laptop. None of the various recovery processes had any effect. My guess as to why it happened is that IFR variables between 2.5. and 2.6.2 bioses are not compatible, and I may...