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What are you misssing in a Dell XPS 13?
A laptop that's pleasing to the eyes.
Is this: http://spadkobiercy.nazwa.pl/XPS13/7.jpg seriously not pleasing?
Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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pretty naive. especially since it has a dual graphics with nvidia. which is really akward to "correctly" install on linux. and then there are drivers. pretty sure that there won't be many stuff that directly works on linux.
In my experience nvidia has always been much easier to install than amd (fglrx).
That there even worse alternatives isn't helping. Avoid third party binary modules. Sure, they might work right now but you'll have no guarantees it'll work in the future. You also risk interactions with other subsystems (sleep etc.). It would be like Windows, where your printer might prevent you from upgrading your operating system.
If you intend to run Linux on the thing, buy things that Linux supports out of the box. That probably means sticking to the working Intel stuff for now. You'll thank me later (or not, because you won't miss the problems you don't have).
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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#35People shit on Xiaomi here but even imitation requires some level of artistry and finesse. This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.
> This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.
Clearly it's not a cheap product, but the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 is razor thin, high powered, well built, and very good looking.
Maybe I'm missing something?
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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#37People shit on Xiaomi here but even imitation requires some level of artistry and finesse. This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.
What are you misssing in a Dell XPS 13?
I can second that. I am using XPS 15 and dual booted Ubuntu along side Windows 10. On Windows, some apps icons and texts are pixelated because of the 4k display (it reminds me of the time when the very first Retina Macbook Pro came out). Aside from that, pretty solid and fast laptop, given the size and the spec (can go up to 32 GB RAM + i7 CPU).
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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#40If it gets full Linux support, i.e. I can blow away Windows and use Ubuntu, then I'm in. This'll be my last macbook ..
Installed Ubuntu once, I can't help to notice that it tries too much to be macosx. I would rather keep using macbook, or use plain debian instead if installing wifi driver weren't a pain in the ass.
Give KDE a try!