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Hands-On WIth Dell's 4K Infinity Edge-Equipped Laptops (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Dell's 2015 version of the XPS 13, the company's 13-inch premium ultrabook, is arguably one of the most acclaimed laptops of the year, with its "Infinity Edge" display that comes in resolutions from 1080p up to UHD 4K, with almost no bezel, and a carbon fiber composite chassis design with a machined aluminum lid. Based on the product's success in the market, Dell recently announced they were bringing the design approach and 4K Infinity Edge display to both their XPS 15 consumer based ultrabooks as well as their Precision 15 professional line up. At Dell World 2015 this week Austin, the company had both 15-inch versions on display for demos and this quick hands on shows just how compact and well-built the machines are, though they're also now refreshed with Intel Skylake processors and PCIe NVMe SSDs.
XPS 15 is a productivity powerhouse that can also be used for multimedia and gaming.
It's going to fry .
A review would have been interesting, this is just fluff.
things can only get better? truth+mercy=justice....see you there..
I particularly like how the first link is to another of his clickbait "articles". It furbishes a genre-spanning experience which will appeal to both constituencies, without appearing to be a forced mash-up.
I give it 4.5 stars.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I've tried to use these keyboards, and just can't get used to them. It seems like laptops have come with flatter and flatter chicklet keyboards, with less travel, that just doesn't allow the fingers to find home. There is no dish to the key caps and no dish to the rows. Looks good, feels like crap.
Now that the screen dictates the size of the laptop, it's also disappointing to see all the wasted bezel space around a smushed keyboard, with shortcut and function keys to get to 9-key cluster that would be above the arrows. Even page up/down over there would be a plus. Direction arrows at least exist here though.
At least the touchpad area is generous, but again, that makes it impossible to rest your palms anywhere without the cursor going nuts.
Took reviewing the video to see that the screen is glossy mirror finish. Another looks shiny, is actually crap, feature.
Please give power users a laptop free of "modern" bling.
Which Linux distributions is the 4K version with GTX960M compatible with?
We've replaced nearly half of the ones on the Dells we bought last year. They're absolute garbage even when they do work.
Did they finally fix annoying coil whine? Dell wasn't able to do that for their top XPS models in last 2.5 years. Replacement boards also had this issue and Dell didn't care.
Here is 56 pages thread: http://en.community.dell.com/s...
Qualiity is crap these days :-(
Very disappointed that these machines don't support at least 32 gigabytes of RAM, especially the 15inch. We've been stuck at 16 gig now for like 5 years in this class of machine. I'm hoping the new "retro thinkpad" hopefully out next year will be the machine of choice for developers.
I am asking Dell to ship laptops. with no OS encumbrances. No MS tax.
Are you still beholden to MS' bullying tactics? Where Michael sold his soul and signed on the dotted line?
Or are you hardware makers, pure and simple?
Ship this flagship notebook, without an OS. This is your wake-up call. Go mano a mano with the big boys. I think it is time. The Force awakens. We can buy your Windows-encumbered hardware, sure, and reach for the moon. Or you can sell us the hardware with our choice of a distro, and we can shoot for Mars instead.
This is your wake-up call, Dell.
Pop quiz: Do you hit the snooze button? Or show them there's a new sheriff in town, and he would like to play on your sandlot.
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didn't mojo kid already post this dell ad here a few weeks ago?
They even make a developer edition running Ubuntu. The problem is, all the reviews point out the poor keyboard and trackpad. Deal breaker for me. I'll stick with Macbooks until I can get something at least as good. Why is it so hard for anyone else to build a trackpad that good?
I'm sick of seeing all these tiny laptops with 4K 16:9 screens. What is the point? If they sold 17" 4K laptops it'd make some sense, but these things seem like they exist solely for people to masturbate over their high resolutions and nothing else, and even Windows 10 has issues with scaling old applications up from their low-DPI designs, so you end up with unreadably tiny text and images in some software. Why are there no 17" laptops with 4K IPS panels out there? How am I supposed to do any kind of actual work (video or otherwise) on a 13" 4K screen?
The last laptop I purchased was bought based on the high build quality and the fact that it was the biggest IPS panel laptop I could get with an optical drive bay. I had to put in the SSD and Blu-ray drive myself, but if someone made a laptop that already had these things I would have happily paid extra for it instead of beating a "close enough" model into roughly what I wanted in the first place. No one who does actual work wants your fancy-looking laptop that's impressive on paper. Give us something we can use for more than just watching movies and showing off to strangers on airplanes.
I am asking Dell to ship laptops. with no OS encumbrances. No MS tax.
The geek has been whining about this since the nineties and the answer is always the same. The mass market shopper in his tens of millions buys nothing but the plug-and-play product.
The "known good" balanced and tested configuration of hardware and software that will meet his expectations of price and performance without hassle --- and can be returned for refund or exchange under warranty if it doesn't.
Walmart, with its enormous purchasing power, wasted about ten years trying to find a credible Linux system that could be sold and serviced for significantly less than the budget HP or Dell desktop. Nothing ever came of it.
The real meaning of the M$ tax is that the product that sells in very small numbers will always be always harder to find and cost you more.
More importantly, where are the 4:3 screens for business and science works. 16:9 is useful only if you want to watch a movie, or if you're talking about replacing a 24-30" screen with a 40-45" (essentially trading up to two 8:9 "square" work areas below toolbars). On a small screen, the vertical dimension is too shallow, especially give that app toolbars and OS taskbars take even more space from the top and bottom.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Prolly not gonna replace my MacBookPro 13" Retina running Mint any time soon, this thing is awesome.
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How many years before 64K displays become the norm?
These won't be your ordinary TV or PC displays though - there's not much point in cramming 64K into something that typically takes up 10%-30% (left to right) of an average viewer's field of vision. 16K, maybe, but 64K, not for your average viewer.
No, these will either be wall-sized displays that are intended for people to view "up close" at least some of the time, "virtual reality" displays that are intended to fill up almost all of the field of view, or "head-mount/eyeglass mount" displays like Google Glass that are intended to overlay rather than replace what our eyes area already seeing. For very large displays, such as continuous displays along the wall of a shopping center (think "OLED on a roll, cut to size"), we won't even be thinking in terms of "pixels per display" but rather "pixels per mm" and terms like "4K" as we use it today won't have any meaning.
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