Once issue 829416 is completed and we can run the benchmarks on those models, how will we decide which of the models to choose? Here's what I can think of:

1. Lab team preference: ask the lab folk which devices are the easiest to work with and prefer those.

2. Stability: Run the devices on the fyi waterfall for a while and prefer devices that fail the least over that time period.

3. Speed: Prefer the devices that take the least time to run the benchmarks.

4. Cost: Prefer the cheapest devices. 

Are there any other things we should be considering as we pick the model?

Is there a design doc for this work?

Tentatively assigning this to myself.

Ned, Emily, could you please advise per #4?

Potential models are 

Windows 10
Lenovo P51
Dell Precision 5520

Windows 7
Dell Latitude 3580
Lenovo ThinkPad E470 20H1

(Acer model was removed because lab folk were having trouble with it)

#4: another important factors are they cover important code areas/usage areas.

I suggest you discuss your choices with GPU team (kbr@, vmiura@) & windows team (brucedawson@) to see if those devices represent the Windows user base

Makes sense. Do you know if these models choices were already audited by the GPU team and the windows team? How did we pick these potential models originally? Is there a design doc?

 Issue 779642  has been merged into this issue.

#8: there is no design doc, but I forwarded you the thread offline

We thoroughly vetted our choices with the gpu and windows team per this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ybt8ytIq6iNVQtwlSAjBlXdfDB3PlXVdh2SSMx2lbaU/edit#heading=h.vffoodoufkab

I think at this point the most important thing is stability (which ones can we keep green) and availability.  I think we chose ones with the labs team that they were able to purchase in bulk, so it is a matter of getting them on the FYI and seeing which ones are having trouble and speed is important as well.

I just contacted our vendor and it looks like all of the laptops we bought are no longer being made and available for purchase.

Dell Precision 5520 -> replace by 5530
Lenovi P51 -> replace by P52

Asking vendor what the possible replacements for the following:

Acer Aspire 5 
Dell Latitude 3580
Lenovo ThinkPad E470

Once I know what's a possible replacements, I'll go through the process of ordering 2 of each again and johnw will help get them online.  We'll need to act a lot faster this second time around and make a decision quickly.

Yes, we can act much more quickly this time. Please ping me before you order two of each again since I need to make sure that we still need all of these. This time, we will short-circuit the process and make sure everything gets done quickly.