XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Post by zlynx » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:01 AM UTC

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The main reason for putting touch screens on laptops is that Windows 8 - 10 have an interface that is designed to be tablet friendly, at the expense of being desktop friendly. So it is easier to do an occasional touch gesture to do certain things. Also, things like kinetic scrolling is easier with touch. With a mouse, you have to click the button, move the mouse, then unclick while the mouse is sill moving. Much easi…

But I thought XPS developer edition was supposed to be aimed at Linux users, specifically Ubuntu. I use i3, which would (edit:) not benefit from the touch screen from the get-go. Maybe I could configure it to react to touch events in a cool manner, like moving windowed stuff around with touch. Resizing with two fingers. That might actually be pretty cool

Post by aaronmdjones » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:32 AM UTC

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Dan, I apologize for your experience. If you ever run into something like this again, besides contacting support directly, you can ping @dellcarespro on twitter and, if its related to the developer edition or project Sputnik you can loop me in @barton808. thanks!

I'm not a fan of the 13" form factor to shipping a developer edition XPS 15 (with 32GB) would be awesome FYI!

Post by fulafel » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:18 AM UTC

torgard wrote: post #98

Max 8gb for regular display... I mean, who uses touch screens for development? I can't really imagine a scenario where it would be helpful for me. Maybe when doing work in Illustrator and Photoshop, but I usually use a different machine for that anyhow, because of Adobe's lack of Linux support. I don't want to pay for something I won't use. I am otherwise actively looking for a laptop. System76 does not have European…

Post by inertial » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:55 AM UTC

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I've had so many problems with my XPS 13 that I bought in 2016 that I will never buy another one. Killer WiFi card was utter crap, laptop has issues going to sleep and waking up when closing the lid (sometimes it would hang on the the dell screen when trying to wake up and never recover), etc. Purely anecdotal, but a hard pass for me. Lenovo is my new laptop brand of choice.

Which lenovo product would you recommend for a linux laptop?

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:16 AM UTC

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I bought a Dell XPS 9550 with terrible coil whine from the Microsoft Store about two years ago. Thinking I was just unlucky, I did an exchange (MS Store) to a different unit. This one had no coil whine, but would not wake up from sleep about half the time. If you think Apple has fallen in terms of quality, you have no idea how low they would have to fall to match Dell's.

> If you think Apple has fallen in terms of quality I don't. I've found Apple (hardware) to be reliable and long-lasting. It's the developer-hostile designs where I think they've gone crazy.