If its vertical resolution is lower than 900 pixels I can't take it seriously as a laptop designed for developers.
Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
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Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#12How about a laptop with a better key board, slim figure, larger special character keys and more feedback for keys? Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen. That's a developer laptop. Ill install my own software, Thank you very much.
I agree that all your points are far more important than whatever image is pre-loaded.
At the very least a laptop designed for developers ought to keep the Insert/Home/PageUp + Delete/End/PageDown cluster in the normal formation, like Thinkpads do.
We are typists before we are programmers, and software is something we do have control over. Dell should be fretting over the things we don't have the ability to change on a lark.
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#13The most obvious thing about Dell's ignorance-promoting product page for the XPS13 (the differences are only defined in marketspeak) is that there is still no SSD available: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-l321x/pd However, I'll keep the low-end version in mind the next time I'm shopping for "America's Best Protection." Oh wait, they all come with that. Hrm. Are they really hoping to get a piece of the Macbook Air pi…
The most obvious thing about Dell's ignorance-promoting product page for the XPS13 (the differences are only defined in marketspeak) is that there is still no SSD available: Says right there on the page you linked that the $999 base model comes with a 128GB SSD. So does the final summary if you went through their configuration tool (which is admittedly laughable because all it allows you to configure is what level of…
I'm not seeing any mention of an SSD on the page I'm looking at:
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#14How about a laptop with a better key board, slim figure, larger special character keys and more feedback for keys? Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen. That's a developer laptop. Ill install my own software, Thank you very much.
I agree that all your points are far more important than whatever image is pre-loaded. At the very least a laptop designed for developers ought to keep the Insert/Home/PageUp + Delete/End/PageDown cluster in the normal formation, like Thinkpads do. We are typists before we are programmers, and software is something we do have control over. Dell should be fretting over the things we don't have the ability to change on…
At least they centered the touchpad and set the keyboard so I can touch type from a center position (no numeric keypad).
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#15I'm surprised they think developers would be interested in this. Having worked with Dell in IT, you couldn't pay me to use anything they put their name on. Dell have a bad reputation in both hardware and peopleware, and it's well deserved.
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#16How about a laptop with a better key board, slim figure, larger special character keys and more feedback for keys? Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen. That's a developer laptop. Ill install my own software, Thank you very much.
I agree that all your points are far more important than whatever image is pre-loaded. At the very least a laptop designed for developers ought to keep the Insert/Home/PageUp + Delete/End/PageDown cluster in the normal formation, like Thinkpads do. We are typists before we are programmers, and software is something we do have control over. Dell should be fretting over the things we don't have the ability to change on…
Like thinkpads did... the ivy bridge models soon to be announced use a new layout. While the chicklet keyboards are largely an improvement (I've tried an E420 for a few moments and love the wider spacing), losing that row will take some getting used to.
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#17How about a laptop with a better key board, slim figure, larger special character keys and more feedback for keys? Then shove a great processor, a mouse pad that's not accidentally click able while typing, and a high resolution screen. That's a developer laptop. Ill install my own software, Thank you very much.
On top of that, I will never consider switching away from my Macbook until the following things are true:
* battery will last several hours (macbook still at 4+ hrs on full charge and it is 1.5 yrs old)
* very good (open) acpi support - if I can't 100% trust closing and opening to just suspend and resume correctly, I won't use it for anything other than toy purposes. (and open because I will be using my own kernel, or at least my own install of a distro, so it needs to be supported or at least compilable for every kernel).
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#18I like the pop-under ad for gambling when you visit this site. Classy.
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most obvious thing about Dell's ignorance-promoting product page for the XPS13 (the differences are only defined in marketspeak) is that there is still no SSD available: Says right there on the page you linked that the $999 base model comes with a 128GB SSD. So does the final summary if you went through their configuration tool (which is admittedly laughable because all it allows you to configure is what level of…
I'm not seeing any mention of an SSD on the page I'm looking at: http://imgur.com/JjneQ
Check the yellow (telephone reception) thing on the right of the ram.
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most obvious thing about Dell's ignorance-promoting product page for the XPS13 (the differences are only defined in marketspeak) is that there is still no SSD available: Says right there on the page you linked that the $999 base model comes with a 128GB SSD. So does the final summary if you went through their configuration tool (which is admittedly laughable because all it allows you to configure is what level of…
I'm not seeing any mention of an SSD on the page I'm looking at: http://imgur.com/JjneQ
The yellow 'signal strength' bars under the 3 configurations -- 'Solid State Drive'.
Also, a 'solid state drive' is mentioned in the feature details under 'Turns on instantly'.