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Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by branon »

On the contrary I've had great experiences with Dell's business line (Latitude, Precision models). Likewise the business warranty is excellent - log into TechDirect and I can submit a ticket for any one of the machines in my fleet. Dell will either send a technician out to service it in the field, or they'll mail me an empty box so I can send the unit in for repair.

Consumer _anything_ is going to be hit or miss. This is known. Buying Dell's consumer line and having a hard time trying to cash in on the consumer warranty doesn't mean Dell is shit, just means their priorities are elsewhere. XPS in particular I see lots of complaints about so I don't know why one would willingly buy what one _knows_ is their lowend (yes, it's lowend crap - we know this because they advertise it as "consumer highend"). It probably still gets the job done for most people who own one.

Buy a recent, used Latitude next time and quit worrying - they are great.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by spikej »

georgyo wrote: post #13

I have been using the same Dell XPS 13 for about 6 years now, and I cannot say agree with most of that article. The Dell XPS line was my goto recommendation for people when they ask what laptop they should get. Dell XPS support is also fantastic, if you go though the business channel and pay for support. That said, Dell XPS is no longer my recommendation as the "New" line is a serious downgrade. They removed the head…

I have an XPS 13 also that I'll probably be replacing in another year or two. What is your new go-to I should look into?

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by formerly_proven »

0xAFFFF wrote: post #6

The XPS 13 I bought a few years ago ended up being a decent development machine, with a price point hard to match for the form factor and specs. And the Dell crapware on it was relatively low. What are good alternatives for non-Apple slim 13' laptops with good screen real estate, low weight, loads of RAM and a decent price range?

Unless you are actively using all that RAM simultaneously (instead of simply leaving a few applications open and switching between them) modern SSDs and zram significantly reduce the need for loads of main memory imho; it just isn't an issue if the web browser uses xx GB over time or the IDE requires a few gigs or a VM here and there needs a couple gigs because almost all of that is going to get paged out when not used actively, and once you get back to it, no big deal to have it paged in at a few GB/s. Laptops with 16 GB are common, 32 or 64 a lot less so. And laptopts with fixed memory are going to be more power efficient and somewhat higher performance (usually).

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by philliphaydon »

Belphemur wrote: post #20

My experience with Dell with their laptop has been the worst at work. Who thought it's a good idea to put a Intel power hungry heat generator in a laptop with no airflow or proper cooling for enterprise product ? I had a coworker that nearly burn his leg when having the laptop on them and coding with Spotify in the background. The thing would thermal throttle like crazy and turn into an helicopter because it has only…

It’s amazing that my ThinkPad x1 extreme with a 7th gen Intel compiles my project faster than my dell XPS 15 with 12th gen cpu. I’m convinced the heat and throttling kills the 12th gen laptops. Apple did the right thing dropping Intel.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by tomrod »

georgyo wrote: post #13

I have been using the same Dell XPS 13 for about 6 years now, and I cannot say agree with most of that article. The Dell XPS line was my goto recommendation for people when they ask what laptop they should get. Dell XPS support is also fantastic, if you go though the business channel and pay for support. That said, Dell XPS is no longer my recommendation as the "New" line is a serious downgrade. They removed the head…

Build quality on Dell XPS has slipped dramatically. I had one whose case would flex when you would touch it (let alone pick it up or use it in a laptop). This caused all kinds of issues, from the touchpad to being unusable to the entire system freezing.

Pretty paperweight after nine months of torture.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by pxx »

There's a lot of one-off nonsense in here, but then there is also:

> Another example is using a 4k screen ona a 13” laptop. Much better in terms of battery life and price to use a 2.5k screen. Humans can’t tell the difference. Why did they use a 4k?

What? Citation for sure needed. That's ~330 ppi, which is about where Apple's "retina" marketing ends up, so even with that optimistic view on things, it's still "just enough".

Regardless: humans can definitely tell the difference, because pixel density depends on how close your eye is to the display.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by CrazyStat »

samhuk wrote: post #15

Did anyone actually read the article? TL;DR: GPT-3 wrote this from looking at, I guess, various internet review sites and forums etc.

GPT-3 wrote one paragraph at the beginning which is in blockquotes and clearly marked as written by GPT-3. It did not write the whole article.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by tangus »

samhuk wrote: post #15

Did anyone actually read the article? TL;DR: GPT-3 wrote this from looking at, I guess, various internet review sites and forums etc.

Did you read the article? That's just the first section.

Re: DontBuyDell.com

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Post by gowings97 »

branon wrote: post #21

On the contrary I've had great experiences with Dell's business line (Latitude, Precision models). Likewise the business warranty is excellent - log into TechDirect and I can submit a ticket for any one of the machines in my fleet. Dell will either send a technician out to service it in the field, or they'll mail me an empty box so I can send the unit in for repair. Consumer _anything_ is going to be hit or miss. Thi…

Oh how I wish the Latitude line had Ryzen and USB4.
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