New Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

[Stephen Partington]

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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> Stephen
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