does ubuntu really handle HiDPI?
i have a 4K screen at home and it is a disaster.
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
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#12does ubuntu really handle HiDPI? i have a 4K screen at home and it is a disaster.
Depends on what desktop environment / window manager you use.
`echo "Xft.dpi: XXX" >> ~/.Xdefaults` typically takes care of everything.
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#13It runs Ubuntu and costs about the same of a ChromeBook Pixel here a few weeks back. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9185526 ). Seems to be limited to 8 gigs ram, Pixel gives you 16 but has less HD space. No USB Type-C either... How does the keyboard compare to a MBP? Love that keyboard. Do they also include free Ubuntu stickers to cover up the Windows logo on the keyboard? :) Would love to hear from real devs…
get them from here - http://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux-keyboard-stickers
wow these exist, amazing!
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#148GB max RAM kind of rules it out for any heavy duty development.
:( 8GB rules out me.Fitting inside that with constant swap file writes will kill the SSD quickly.
16GB is fine for now but it wont be long beofer I need to look for 32GB. Multiple VMs, Docker clusters with several memory heavy JVM apps (Scala), too many browser tabs, etc. just don't play nice with 8GB anymore.
A nearly $2K laptop aimed at developers with 8GB is a bit of a joke to be honest. Shame, as otherwise it seems like such a nice piece of kit.
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#15This looks like the perfect laptop for me at this moment. I just worry that a ceiling of 8GB of RAM means it won't be the perfect laptop for me next year. And I'd like my laptop to last me 2-3 years.
Second that, 8GB of RAM is a bit meager.
Google Chrome takes up at least 2.5GB on my Mac, 8GB is a complete joke
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#16How much is the battery backup of it?
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#17A dell notebook? Never again.
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#19To ask those complaining about 8gb not being enough... Please name one thing that won't allow you to do which is crucial in your day to day workflow.
I'm not saying i don't believe you, I'm just genuinely curious.
Edit: Looking at this thread, I have to say there has to be a cause and effect here somewhere. You have a million web-developers saying they need more than 8GB to use Chrome to surf web-pages and web-apps.
I'm pretty sure web-apps sucking that amount of resources was caused by giving web-devs machines with 8GBs+ of RAM to begin with. Giving them more, wont fix the problem. It will only make it worse.
As for a developer-anecdote: Almost all bugs post-shipping bugs I've experienced and had to fix, more than 50% has only been reproducable on low-resource constrained environments.
By super-specing your dev-environment, you are shipping bugs you cannot detect. You just don't know it.
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#20the lack of a native ethernet port rules it out for any operations work that requires working on the datacenter floor.
actually this is a frustrating trend, native ethernet adapters are 0 cost to CPU instructions, I know you can use thunderbolt (and I've not looked at the spec in detail) but USB ethernet controllers use the CPU when plugged in- and I'm not a large fan of that honestly.
what happened to the very small, fold out ethernet ports? like the one on the old XPS 15 (or: http://www.pcstats.com/articleimages/201304/sam540U3C_edge2....)
Maybe I'm too much of a power user for a 13" but for me this feels like a step back from netbooks from a functionality and mobility standpoint, and not far enough a leap forward for performance to justify stepping "up" from a Thinkpad X201. (which I have loaded with an SSD and 8G ram)
but, I agree that my use-case is significantly different from most peoples. I'm still left recalling a time where manufacturers were reluctant to stop shipping with 56k modems- but seem to have dropped Rj45 pretty quick.