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Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
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Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#2Best is cheapest. Because you can have one or more spares. And you don't cry when it dies or you forget it somewhere
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#3I can certainly recommend the XPS 15 as a dev laptop. Don't get the high end screen it eats battery like crazy. I run Ubuntu as my only OS and it works perfectly out of the box. Keyboard is excellent and the screen is big enough for daily use. USB-C hub works very smoothly.
Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#4I prefer better keyboards, like on the Thinkpad
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#5LG Gram 17
Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#6Personally I find that the two things that make the most difference to me are the keyboard and the screen real estate. So if you can find a shop where you can try typing on a variety of laptops. Other specs you can equalise but the hardware is fixed when you're on the move. Where I work I have a separate keyboard and monitor as full size and full travel keyboards are nicer to work with than most laptop keyboards, including the XPS.
I like the XPS 15 screen size, although for some development on Windows the high resolution means you're squinting at tiny fonts if the program doesn't scale up. Performance wise, it does what I ask it to and only really has an issue with very heavy tasks, which is expected for a laptop of this spec.
Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#7Best is cheapest. Because you can have one or more spares. And you don't cry when it dies or you forget it somewhere
Most times I've stocked up on hardware spares, when the time comes to actually use the first or second spare, I don't particularly like the product any more, and would rather have something else.
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#8I have dell xps 9570 and i DON'T RECOMMEND it...it's noisy,fan is constantly on, weird noises, coil whining, random freezing...
Buy Lenovo x1
Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#9Personally I find that the two things that make the most difference to me are the keyboard and the screen real estate. So if you can find a shop where you can try typing on a variety of laptops. Other specs you can equalise but the hardware is fixed when you're on the move. Where I work I have a separate keyboard and monitor as full size and full travel keyboards are nicer to work with than most laptop keyboards, inc…
Thanks for the info.
I travel a good bit. Hours on planes where i get lots of work done. However for this i find slightly smaller screens than 15" easier to manage.
Re: Ask HN: Dell XPS 13/15 best developer laptop? Preparing for Black Friday
#10I have an xps13 (9360) running linux; it's been extremely sturdy and relatively painless to upgrade/repair (except for the memory, which is soldered on). it's also very compact. I've had almost no driver issues (one was resolved by a BIOS update). The battery still lasts ~7 hours after 2.5 years. keyboard is good. would strongly recommend, especially if you're moving around a lot.