Speaking of laptops, what would you recommend to someone running Ubuntu? My 2013 MacBook Air is feeling it, with its non-upgradable 4 GB RAM. A discrete graphics card so I could play DotA2 once in a while would be nice, even if it's at medium graphics quality.
New XPS 15 Laptop
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#52anyone else here thinking dell designs are kinda boring?
I bought macbook to run win10 because it had great design. I am thinking of buying surface book next.
Why can't Dell focus on a creative design?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most important tid-bid for me: 7th Gen Intel® Quad Core™ processors optional 4GB GeForce® GTX 1050 Supports up to 32GB of memory Killer™ Wireless: The Killer 1535 Wireless-AC
Most important flaw for me: Seems to have no ethernet port.
I'm guessing that ethernet is supported via an associated dock.
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#54ubuntu!?
This is something I'd really like to know too. About a month ago I contacted Dell's chat session thing to ask about Linux support on the XPS13 ...the Dell representative gave a hand wavey reply and terminated the session. I got the impression he'd not heard of either Sputnik or the Developer Edition.
Try again, or just google XPS13 developer edition.
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#55I'd love to hear how this laptop runs Ubuntu or Mint.
One of my co-workers has the current gen (9550) and Ubuntu 16.04 runs great on it. I think he's got an intel wifi card, I'd just check Linux compatibility with the Killer wifi card before going that route. It's easy enough to change a WiFi card out aftermarket if there is issues though, an Intel 8260 card will run you $30.
Killer WiFi should work with the `ath10k` driver in recent kernels.
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#56Why would developers get a Windows laptop that don't have touch-screens? It seems the entire purpose of Windows laptops would be to test out touch-screen capabilities for your Windows apps. If you want to get a laptop without a touch screen, a Mac Book Pro would be the way to go. Especially with the great trackpad. But otherwise it looks great. It just needs that touch-screen for developing touch-enabled apps. Edit:…
Apple's hardware upgrades recently have not been super popular.
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#57Why would developers get a Windows laptop that don't have touch-screens? It seems the entire purpose of Windows laptops would be to test out touch-screen capabilities for your Windows apps. If you want to get a laptop without a touch screen, a Mac Book Pro would be the way to go. Especially with the great trackpad. But otherwise it looks great. It just needs that touch-screen for developing touch-enabled apps. Edit:…
Because very few consumers are using touch screens, let alone touch screen optimized apps.
What consumers are even paying for Windows apps to begin with?
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#58i bought the older version about 10 days ago (still within window to return), apart from the CPU, what changes have they made?
same, but didn't want to wait any longer. New CPU and GPU it seems
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#59Speaking of laptops, what would you recommend to someone running Ubuntu? My 2013 MacBook Air is feeling it, with its non-upgradable 4 GB RAM. A discrete graphics card so I could play DotA2 once in a while would be nice, even if it's at medium graphics quality.
I ve switched from air running Ubuntu to XPS 13 dev edition with Ubuntu. Not everything beautiful but a decent switch, great power, autonomy and screen.
Re: New XPS 15 Laptop
#60Why would developers get a Windows laptop that don't have touch-screens? It seems the entire purpose of Windows laptops would be to test out touch-screen capabilities for your Windows apps. If you want to get a laptop without a touch screen, a Mac Book Pro would be the way to go. Especially with the great trackpad. But otherwise it looks great. It just needs that touch-screen for developing touch-enabled apps. Edit:…
Because you replace a nice matte screen that's very power efficient and replace it with a shiny/reflective display that halves your battery life.
Are you willing to halve your battery life and see your face reflected in a fingerprint ridden screen... just to touch it?