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The real issue here is battery life. Only 6 hours? The new X1 carbon from Lenovo can get 9, the T440s can get up to 17 (with extended battery), and the MBA can get 12 right out of the box.
The Lenovo X1 carbon has a 1600 x 900 screen though... I needz my linez of code ;)
How is the multi-monitor support on the XPS 13 running Ubuntu? I googled, but could not find much useful information. How many external monitors can be connected? I found some information here: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-031040.htm , but it looks as if most of the info applies to Windows.
I have the first-gen XPS 13 with 1366x768 internal display. No problems at all in a multi monitor setup. I have a Dell S2409W, 1920x1080 at home and a NEC 1920x1200 at work.
Have you tried connecting more than one external monitor?
I'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…
So not the Haswell version the review is about?
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I have the first-gen XPS 13 with 1366x768 internal display. No problems at all in a multi monitor setup. I have a Dell S2409W, 1920x1080 at home and a NEC 1920x1200 at work.
Do you use both the internal display and external monitor? Have you tried connecting more than one external monitor?
> Do you use both the internal display and external monitor?
> Have you tried connecting more than one external monitor?
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Thunderbolt is way too expensive for most hardware (and tightly controlled, which bothers some manufactorers), and USB3 is damn near free. Thunderbolt is expensive for the manufactorer and expensive for the user (read: complex cable requirements). With USB3.1 "doubling" the speed of USB3.0 in a backwards compatible way -- I suspect it will continue to dominate.
There is one thing, USB3 cannot solve, the latency(typical latency of USB is around 1 ms, compared to PCI-e sub-us). Graphics cards will never work on USB3 port. Well, external graphics card is for consumer market. For industrial, high speed data acquisition system has sub-us latency over PCI-e bus, which is included in thunderbolt. That is one of real application of thunder bolt. But I have not seen any such device…
If it had internal style latency, there would be GOBS of devices pushing to jump on it, but it simply doesn't. You can't even respond correctly to interupts... compared to internal PCI -- it is painfully slow.
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Thinkpads make rock solid GNU/Linux machines. I highly recommend the X220. It has some issues such as not being Coreboot compatible and needing nonfree firmware to drive the wireless chip. The former has no fix, but the latter can be fixed with a little hack and an Atheros chip.
I love my X220 (work laptop). I use it as my main machine at work with the dock and two monitors. It is fast, responsive and very portable and the Intel graphics just work on Linux. But I have a T410 at home and I am not very happy with it. The dock is unstable, it disconnects, USB dies. The stupid dock blocks the fan, and you do anything cpu intensive and it end shutting the system down because of temperature. The N…
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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…
I get that maybe more people are interested in the trackpad but I don't see why Lenovo improves the pad at the expense of the trackpoint. I disable the trackpad on my laptops so there's a net loss for me when they degrade the trackpoint buttons.
If they insist on degrading what distinguishes a Thinkpad then they'll be yet another generic laptop provider.
I was debating getting this laptop or a Thinkpad T440s and a Chromebook Pixel. For me the Pixel just doesn't have the storage capacity I want, and the T440s isn't quite as portable. I've made a deal with myself to get this once I've paid my loans off. C'mon, baby, just two months..
Then maybe the new Thinkpad X1 Carbon is for you: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca... I would seriously love to buy it but the new keyboard changes put me off (see comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7016535 ). It's a shame, because otherwise it is really a nice machine - will as well go with T440s.
Does Dell XPS 3 DE work fine with external monitor on ubuntu ?