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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list, Mike Butash
Subject: Re: New Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
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 <>
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" <> 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 <>
>> 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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