Seems like a PR piece [1].<p>I wouldn't buy the DELL XPS 13 due to my experience with the Samsung Series 9 and seeing other people use Macbook Air.<p>All these classes of laptop are not really durable - they last maybe 2-3 years with heavy use - so unless you are ready to shell out a huge amount of money every 2 years for a laptop it it not worth getting these shiny laptops.<p>My current laptop - Thinkpad X1 Carbon is like a wife - durable and I can have some garantee of failure tolerance.<p># There is a reason NASA only approves thinkpads in space - ask yourself why your laptop is not being used by astronauts ?<p>[1] <i>'.. Bryan is a writer and works as the Social Media Marketing Manager of SUS ...'</i><p>how does this person know this laptop is good for developers without being a developer ? It says right there that his job is marketing ! wake up sheeps !
I find Thunderbult quite useful (but I'm on a Mac). Not sure why this guy is so against it, presumably there's reasonable peripheral support on other OSes by now?<p>He talks about editing video on the machine, Thunderbolt should allow for high capacity/speed external storage. I'd prefer the options Thunderbolt provides over HDMI.
Technically speaking, the worst parts is that their SSD is quite slow compared to Macs, and they ship wireless cards that don't support DFS on the 5ghz frequency, that's getting more and more necessary for solid deploy of a 5Ghz network. Not supporting DFS means that you can't use it on a 5Ghz DFS network.<p>The QHD version has a nice screen but it's hard to use it at its best in Linux, especially when using an external monitor (you can't configure different PPIs on the two monitors because of limitations on X; I know you can try to use Wayland but it's not what it's being shipped; YMMV).<p>This said, it's obviously a very nice laptop.
> I ended up needing to lower the resolution by half for desktop environments that just weren't built for such high DPI displays.<p>About that, what should one do if one wants to run Linux on a computer with a high-resolution screen? For example, does it work well on the Ubuntu that this computer comes with?
Oh, if only things like this came with a trackpoint (a decent one).<p>I live in the anxiety of Thinkpads getting not worth the investment anymore, and having to opt for another machine without this so efficient keyboard/trackpoint combination...
Do any of you have experience in using the QHD Display in this version of the XPS13?<p>I read somewhere that is a lot glossier than the Full HD non-Developer Edition and is nearly useless with a lot of light in the room or outside.
Would be nice to see a comparison with the Surface Book - I've fallen in love with mine, and I understand there's a substantial community for running linux on them.
Still, 13". That's too small for serious work, even if it super high resolution - that's only 1/4 of the surface area of a decent monitor.
I hope you don't program on a back monitor. The display turns down the brightness when you're looking at dark things, and up when you're looking at bright things. The only way to disable it is to install windows...