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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