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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.
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.
Slackware of course .
We've replaced nearly half of the ones on the Dells
With what? . Just curious
I don't understand the question. We replaced the trackpads with the only thing that will fit, which is another piece of Dell garbage. That usually took about four hours on the phone each and two weeks of begging despite having a "guaranteed" next business day response. They guarantee a response. They don't guarantee that they'll actually do something. Dell's support is as dreadful as their trackpads. I'm sure we're already over a man-year into this current XPS fiasco. Nearly six figures wasted because of their garbage trackpads plus we've had several people get angry and quit over the issue.
Are they as bad as the ones on the Latitudes? We had a VP here smash hers in front of our COO. She, like everyone else with one, was fed-up with the crappy trackpad.
That was your mistake. Dell trackpads are wear items and not covered by the warranty. We usually get about six months out of the before our users start complaining.
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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The XPS 13 variant actually ships with Windows!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
That is why I tend to stick with Think Pads for PC laptops. I actually don't use the trackpad much but the Pointing Stick. Just because that way I don't need to move my hand from they keyboard.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Can't comment about the new model but I'm typing this on an XPS 13 (with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) purchased in May 2014 and I've never had a problem with it in all that time.
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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 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?
We had a VP here smash hers in front of our COO.
I'd love to work at a place where C level employees trash laptops in front of each other. None of this quiet desperation stuff.
Action! Excitement!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Well, there's a huge surprise.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Prolly not gonna replace my MacBookPro 13" Retina running Mint any time soon, this thing is awesome.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
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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We get a pretty good number of questions, from folks with these laptops, over on the StackExchange AskUbuntu sub.
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