New Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

[Stephen Partington]

If you are looking for an alternate solution the Razer blade and its
relative the core might be an interesting solution for you.

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I love my 850 Evo and it's 5 yr warranty.
>
> I am also a fan of the latitudes but want a different nvidia chip than
> they tend to use.
>
> On Sep 17, 2016 1:55 AM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> The xps 15 with nvidia is nice, though it is bigger than I like.  That,
>> and they don't put docking station pads on the xps line.  They put those
>> screens on the latitude line as well I'm noticing, which is better aside
>> from the intel-only gpu, but no nvidia for latitude it seems.
>>
>> I just wish they'd give more love to the people that like small laptops.
>> I love my 12.5" latitude, but that intel gpu is useless for anything, and
>> even compositing takes a hit with the cpu.  Boo.  Razor puts an nvidia 1070
>> in their 14 blade that is marginally larger only by a bit.
>>
>> Then again, I used to rock a 3" sony android phone every day for a few
>> years, and miss it terribly in the age of giant 5-7" phones.  I like
>> small/light.
>>
>> Side note, I noticed with either new xps or latitude with kaby lake arch,
>> those only have 1x m.2 ssd/nvme slot, which is a problem and
>> disappointment.  It does have a dock though on the latitude model.  Embrace
>> cloud, yeah, but I like some local redundant disk for critical data.
>>
>> My older latitude e7240 I upgraded to have 2x msata's in that works great
>> with software raid, only downside was a lack of a gsm/lte radio internally
>> for the extra disk.  Power-out events (suspend, power runs out)
>> occasionally cause a resync when it sits in my travel bag too long, but
>> always recovers/resyncs perfectly in 2 years of use.  In extenuating
>> circumstances, I can/do trust it with my livelihood.  I've dropped it
>> several times, no problemo.
>>
>> Samsung 840 evo msata ssd's ftw in it, every other ssd 2.5/different
>> vendor has failed me.  Horribly/sadly.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On 09/16/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>
>> the XPS15 however is wonderful....
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ohh, pretty.
>>>
>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3120815/hardware/windows-10-h
>>> aters-try-linux-on-kaby-lake-chips-with-dells-new-xps-13.html
>>>
>>> Shame they still leave only an anemic intel gpu in it, and no real
>>> docking station.
>>>
>>> -mb
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>>
>>
>> --
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
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-- 
A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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