Two wishes. They supported 16GB RAM. Dell Australia would sell them.
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
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Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#152I've been using one of these with the HD screen since the spring, here are some thoughts: Nice: - Good battery life. With screen on full, wifi on I can get between 3-5 hours depending on CPU utilization. With screen brightness turned down, wifi off, low utilization, ~6 hours - Keyboard and mouse pad are great - No issues with unsupported bits and pieces from ubuntu, with exception of video output via usb - the batter…
How about the backlight bleeding issue (especially bothering in the terminal window)? This is why I returned two laptops from the older models and decided to stick with Macs!
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Hi David, I have one of these too! But which one, that is the rub. As far as I can tell there are now three versions of project Sputnik. I too am so happy to throw my € in Dell's direction. I have the second because I bought mine just before the recent Haswell refresh, gah :( Please correct me if I am wrong. Original version ... November 2012 1: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/11/29/sputnik-has-landed-introd... Brings 1…
The Dell Sputnik forum has been somewhat useful, but mark me interested in a possible third party forum/list for sputnik users. I'm still running 12.04 (plus too many PPAs for apps) on my Sputnik beta XPS. Lots of folks are doing fine with other Ubuntu but I'm waiting for another LTS. I mostly use Gnome classic and Gnome 3, fwiw. Other than the touchpad still being too sensitive for my preferences (this gripe not lim…
I too am jealous of the new CPU and chipsets as it does seem to extend battery life by all accounts. Also the new Intel integrated graphics chipset is said to have a fair bit more grunt which I wouldn't mind. Oh well. If only I'd known, I'd have held off a few months.
A few people seem interested in a third-party forum so maybe...
Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi David, I have one of these too! But which one, that is the rub. As far as I can tell there are now three versions of project Sputnik. I too am so happy to throw my € in Dell's direction. I have the second because I bought mine just before the recent Haswell refresh, gah :( Please correct me if I am wrong. Original version ... November 2012 1: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/11/29/sputnik-has-landed-introd... Brings 1…
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#155Good might me next laptop series... Hm.
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There isn't anything better than Vim or Emacs. Sorry.
For text editing, sure. For an IDE for, say, C/C++, Visual Studio beats it soundly. For Java, Eclipse. All that said, these tools are quite useful despite being old--I don't mean anything pointing out their age other than that a somewhat old laptop is probably still quite sufficient.
Eclipse? Surely you mean IntelliJ IDEA.
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As an X220 it's a very nice machine but it's no in the same realm as the XPS or the Air/rMBP. It has a great keyboard and underlying hardware. But it's also stuck with a low-resolution screen with terrible viewing angles, and is also as thick as a brick. The touchpad also leaves a lot to be desired but it does have the TrackPoint which is great. The X240 will supposedly have a 1080p IPS screen but I'm not sure what t…
Does the x240 have the same screen dimensions as the x230? If so I wonder if you can use it to upgrade the 230 panel.
Chassis is quite a bit different, so probably not.
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The problem with the new T440p, and the entire Lenovo line in general, is the awful keyboard and trackpad. They moved to a chiclet style keyboard in the previous generation, removed the top row of keys, and have now inverted the function keys so they perform media functions first. In order to get an F4 you have to press Fn+F4. Ridiculous! Also they have removed the physical buttons surrounding the trackpad. Previousl…
Also they have removed the physical buttons surrounding the trackpad. The W530 still has the proper trackpoint buttons. But it's a 1080p screen with a numpad that displaces the main keyboard. Lenovo sells USB trackpoint keboards (with and without a trackpad). I already had one for my HP desktop box and ordered another on the assumption that sooner or later Lenovo will turn to the Thinkpad line to shit and I'll want t…
You're confusing w530 and w540. w530 has a centered keyboard and no numpad, and physical trackpoint buttons. It's the new w540 that drops the buttons and shifts the keyboard.
That said, I suppose I'm the audience that Lenovo's changes are targeted to. As a current owner of an early 2011 macbook pro, I just ordered a T440p yesterday, but for a long time I was deciding between it and T540p. I prefered T540p to the very similarly priced and equipped w530 (for my price range) because of the new trackpad.
I eventually settled on the T440p because of its greater portability and centered keyboard.
There's just more people who care about a good trackpad than a good trackpoint. I've used lenovo trackpoints and just can't get used to them, so I suppose it must be similarly difficult for trackpoint users to learn to use trackpads effectively, but I don't think either is inherently better.
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#159Not sure why anyone would get one of these. The new MacbookPro 13 inch is the sweetest laptop deal out there right now (if you can do with 13 inch and only 2 cores).
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#160Not sure why anyone would get one of these. The new MacbookPro 13 inch is the sweetest laptop deal out there right now (if you can do with 13 inch and only 2 cores).
Because they want an Ubuntu laptop?