The Dell XPS 13 ends up being responsive, small, light, and well built. Dell has crafted what I am sure most people were hoping for when the original Ultrabook specification was announced. On top of that, they have designed a laptop with class-leading battery life, and plenty of choice to let people buy as little or as much as they need. Considering the competition, this is clearly the Ultrabook of the Broadwell-U generation to beat, and from what we saw at CES it may very well go unchallenged for the remainder of the year.
This is the kind of stuff Dell should restrict itself to. Looks like a winner – that battery life is exceptionally amazing.
…looks like Dell’s privatization is paying off big time!
Just so damned hard for me to even suggest our company consider this model after the horrendous Dell Venue Windows 8 tablets our CEO bought. Two dozen hours spent by me on 4 systems personally upgrading systems, firmware multiple times and more. Also wondering what systems the reviewers got as they were highly reviewed. Makes me think that reviewers don’t have much credibility, and question premium support if before Dell will support me, I have to spend dozens of hours upgrading firmware before they’ll support me and honor the support contract we paid for? Uh, let’s just say, all four are sitting on a shelf, not used, collecting dust because I had to move on to more important issues.
https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2015-mode…
It seems to be getting better, but I’d never buy a machine anymore before having 100% working Linux support out of the box
Loving my Asus X201EP that came with Ubuntu out of the box
I couldn´t agree more.
I am contemplating whether to buy this laptop for a group of ten web developers but if it isn´t properly supported by Dell on linux yet, we will have to look elsewhere.
I reckon that Dell could iron out the bugs if a few of its people spent a few days on it.
I will keep my eyes on that blog till mid march, which is our deadline for the purchase, but if things do not radically improve, we will have to pass.
I am looking to have the laptop actually come preinstalled with Linux, not because we cannot install it ourselves, but becasue it sends a message that we do care and that we have done our homework and made sure that the laptop runs perfectly under Linux.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-offers-new-ubuntu-linux-workstati…
My Dell 12″ Latitude E7240 is 100% linux compatible. Works with Fedora, Ubuntu, and many others without mods. Audio, wifi AC, bluetooth, gigabit, keyboard backlight, hardware keys (volume), etc all work without issue. My cellular modem also works. Shows right up in the connections menu.
The 7440 works as well.
I use Fedora 21 on my E7240, btw.
the previous xps 13 was such utter crap that i wouldn’t trust my money on this one…
We have a couple of that previous version and they all have incredible crappy USB… (it’s like it’s 1995, it’s really that bad…)
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Hmm, I’ve had the previous XPS13 Developer Edition for the last 2 years or so. It’s by far the best laptop I’ve ever used.
I’m not sure what problems you’re referring to with USB but I can say that under Linux it works fine.
I’m just waiting for the Developer Edition (i.e. Linux preinstalled) of this latest one to appear before upgrading. According to a chat I had with one of their sales guys it should be appearing for the UK in a couple of weeks or so.
Shame about the 8G max RAM, but there’s always a compromise somewhere.
I have that Ubuntu XPS 13 also. Love it.
I’m going to try a Precision 3800 this year. See how that works.
Why would they restrict themselves to this? That would mean no more servers and would reduce them to at most 5% of what they are now. Unfortunately enough most people simply don’t buy these high-end machines.
And what is it with these “x should only do y” articles lately? Sony only doing PlayStation and Dell only doing ultrabooks?
I am very happy that this article from AnandTech is linked here though, the article from The Verge comes to the same conclusion but calls the battery and touchpad crap and gives the “great looking future” a 7.5. How it is possible that these two giants of tech come to such different conclusions about battery and touchpad is a mystery but I will believe AnandTech over The Verge any day (unless the topic is the Oscars)
I have the 2013 XPS Developer Edition. It’s been a fabulous machine so far. I’m sure that I’ll be using it for another year or two yet and will almost certainly get a new XPS 13 to replace it. It’s been a fabulous machine. I’ve been avoiding Dell for most of my professional career. These laptops are unquestionably among the best on the market and I frequently recommend them.
From what I can see, Dell’s near-death experience was the best thing to happen to it.
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