Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
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#2I have one of these and think it's pretty good. I am really happy to have been able to give my money to someone selling me something with Linux on it.
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#3Great laptop. I got mine over Christmas and I have no complaints. I hope Dell continues to support Linux.
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#4Notebookcheck has a test of this laptop:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-13-Ultrabook-La...
I love their review because they go into very much detail and some of the information is hard to found elsewhere, like real measurements of screen contrast and brightness, the one parameter that already eliminates 95% of laptops every time I look for one, and of loudness.
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#5does Ubuntu use some kind of DPI scaling on this or is it just native FHD ? That could be pretty small for some people. How does it handle setting to lower resolutions ?
Also 6hours of battery life seem a bit on the short side, though he had quite a few programs running. Id like to know how it would do in Windows8 though.
Id also be interested in how well it handles sleep/awake scenarios with an external display attached etc.
Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#6Notebookcheck has a test of this laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-13-Ultrabook-La... I love their review because they go into very much detail and some of the information is hard to found elsewhere, like real measurements of screen contrast and brightness, the one parameter that already eliminates 95% of laptops every time I look for one, and of loudness.
Thats a review of the 2012 version though, the 2013 haswell version should be much improved.
Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#7Notebookcheck has a test of this laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-13-Ultrabook-La... I love their review because they go into very much detail and some of the information is hard to found elsewhere, like real measurements of screen contrast and brightness, the one parameter that already eliminates 95% of laptops every time I look for one, and of loudness.
This is not the haswell/HD screen version though.
I'm currently looking for a laptop and it will be either the XPS 13 or a rMBP 13 inches. I'm currently favoring the rMPB a little bit because it seems it get less hot than the XPS. It kinds of scare me when the review says the laptop gets somewhat warm while surfing and I've had really bad experiences with overheating Dell laptops.
What's your experience XPS 13 owners ?
Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#8does Ubuntu use some kind of DPI scaling on this or is it just native FHD ? That could be pretty small for some people. How does it handle setting to lower resolutions ? Also 6hours of battery life seem a bit on the short side, though he had quite a few programs running. Id like to know how it would do in Windows8 though. Id also be interested in how well it handles sleep/awake scenarios with an external display atta…
Yeah, for $1500 after tax, I'll stick with the 11 hours a MBPr gets and install a VM if I want to use Linux.
Re: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
#9Notebookcheck has a test of this laptop: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-XPS-13-Ultrabook-La... I love their review because they go into very much detail and some of the information is hard to found elsewhere, like real measurements of screen contrast and brightness, the one parameter that already eliminates 95% of laptops every time I look for one, and of loudness.
This is not the haswell/HD screen version though. I'm currently looking for a laptop and it will be either the XPS 13 or a rMBP 13 inches. I'm currently favoring the rMPB a little bit because it seems it get less hot than the XPS. It kinds of scare me when the review says the laptop gets somewhat warm while surfing and I've had really bad experiences with overheating Dell laptops. What's your experience XPS 13 owners…
I use and love Apple hardware, but if you're not going to use OS X, does it make sense to pay the price in driver potential wonkiness?
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#10I owned one of the early 2013 1080p versions for about a month, but had serious issues with backlight bleed. After having it replaced twice it became clear that the issue was inherent to the hardware.
Aside from this, it seemed like a fantastic machine, but beware of the potential backlight issues if you spend a significant amount of time with dark or black windows / backgrounds. For me, this was 90% of the time between terminal windows and Sublime Text.