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XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

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Re: XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

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Post by eropple »

ythn wrote: post #3

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.

Lenovo's higher-end machines are still solid, but their midrange and low-end machines are really disappointing. Sucks that you've had this experience, but among the folks I work with, Dell's high-end machines have a rep for being really reliable in both Windows and Linux. My next machine's probably an Alienware 13, but the lighter XPS 13 is real tempting too.

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Post by gtaylor »

ythn wrote: post #3

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.

I went the other direction. Bought a Thinkpad due to how amazing they were in the past. Found that the build quality had gone way down. Was pretty disappointed as this expensive piece of hardware developed cracks on the casing within the first year.

Switched to an XPS 15 and have been very happy. Love the build quality, specs are good enough. Battery life is much better even on Linux.

YMMV!

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

foodstances wrote: post #2

Does it still have that awful coil whine?

Like many others, I was told by their Twitter people that coil whine on my 9560 was "not a known issue per se" and that I just needed to update my BIOS.

I won't be buying a Dell next time.

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Post by eliaspro »

foodstances wrote: post #2

Does it still have that awful coil whine?

Quoting Barton George:

> We are definitely looking into the coil whine issue, this has senior management visibility, and pursuing several avenues for the current system as well as solutions going forward.

Source: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

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Post by desireco42 »

ascendantlogic wrote: post #11

Only 16 gigs of RAM? Why do companies still hold that limit in 2018? I was hoping for 32 gigs back in 2015.

Not 100% sure but mostly due to battery life, the more ram you have, the more power you use. 32 gigs probably shaves hour or so off the battery (don't know for sure) and that might be the reason.
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