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@butash.net> wrote:
Ohh, pretty.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3120815/hardware/windows-10-haters-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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