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My current trick is to limit my search to "gaming laptops" because gamers are picky as hell when it comes to components.
Dell Precision 5510 user here, hands down the best computer I ever had. Great build quality, powerful, sober, beautiful and professional.
Works flawless under Fedora 25. Plus I even get the firmware updates presented "through Gnome".
Build quality is very nice, although it's no full aluminium unibody
I'm very satisfied, the installation was easy, everything is working correctly, apart the fingerprint reader but biometric is a joke so no big loss.
The biggest problem with this machine is the fan system, it's configured at a pretty conservative temperature and when the fan start, it does a 1-2 seconds at almost full speed which is noisy.
The ports are just right for me, an hdmi port, two usb-3 and two usb-c which will make my life so much better when I will buy this screen/usb-c dock: http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/258B6QUEB_00/brilliance-lcd-mon.... With an unique cable I will have everything I need when working from my desk: power, video, audio, ethernet, keyboard and mouse!
I run Linux on a slightly modified Chromebook. It seems solid to me, but I never owned a MBP. It has all of the things I care about: - 1080p IPS display (13.3" screen) - SSD - 4GB of RAM - Fast enough to handle real work loads (lots of browser tabs, running large Rails apps in Docker, streaming music, etc.) - SD card and USB ports The whole thing was $350 USD and it's under 3 pounds. Details are at: https://nickjanet…
Generally, chromebooks are modern netbooks (not saying that's a bad thing, just different), and not really comparable to an MBP.
Dell Precision 5510 user here, hands down the best computer I ever had. Great build quality, powerful, sober, beautiful and professional.
Is that the little brother of the XPS 15 ? Cause I have an XPS 15, and it's been a (expensive) disappointment for the last year.
The pros are a quad core i7, NVidia 1060, a better keyboard than MBP (my opinion), 16gb RAM, option of 4K glossy or 1080p flat panel. I chose the 1080p so I don't have glare.
I run Linux on a slightly modified Chromebook. It seems solid to me, but I never owned a MBP. It has all of the things I care about: - 1080p IPS display (13.3" screen) - SSD - 4GB of RAM - Fast enough to handle real work loads (lots of browser tabs, running large Rails apps in Docker, streaming music, etc.) - SD card and USB ports The whole thing was $350 USD and it's under 3 pounds. Details are at: https://nickjanet…
My mbp has 2560x1600 screen, effectively making 1080p quite bad in comparison.
Dell XPS 13, build quality is great, next day on-site service is unbeatable.