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Dell Launches XPS 13 2-in-1 Laptop With Intel Kaby Lake Chip, Starts at $1,000 (venturebeat.com)
Ahead of CES 2016, which officially kicks off Tuesday, Dell has announced a convertible version of its popular XPS 13 laptop. The machine is powered by a seventh-generation Kaby Lake Intel Core i chip (i5 and i7 options are available), Intel HD Graphics 615 integrated GPU, 4 to 16GB LPDDR3 RAM, a 128GB-1TB solid-state drive (SSD), a 720p webcam on the bottom of the display with support for Windows Hello, a fingerprint scanner, a 46 watt-hour battery, and a 13.3-inch touchscreen, available in QHD+ or FHD configurations. From a report on VentureBeat: The bezel is very narrow, in keeping with the XPS style. The fanless PC offers an SD card slot and two USB-C ports, and a USB-A to USB-C adapter comes in the box. The laptop is 0.32-0.54 inch thick, which is thinner than Dell's 2016 XPS. But the keyboard hasn't been squished down -- the keys have 1.3mm travel, or just a tad bit (0.1mm) more than you get on the XPS laptop -- which is impressive. The laptop weighs 2.7 pounds. The question is whether people will want the convertible option when the laptop is fine as is. The convertible XPS 13 starts at $1000, which is $200 more than the XPS 13 laptop.
So they put a great all powerful CPU in and don't cool it. Yay for thermal throttling, exactly what you want from your all powerful laptops.
I'm getting so sick of laptop manufacturers, in particular Dell, offering specs from 2010. You should just be shot if you ship a laptop with 4GB of RAM. Start at 8. No hard drive should be smaller than 200GB. Don't even think of putting anything less than an i5 in an XPS or Latitude line.
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I wonder if they have fixed the coil whine issue... https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/...
Stop this 16GB as maximum nonsense!
without any dirty tricks, i dont want to lay down 1000+ bucks on a new laptop only to be stuck with windows and no possible way of installing Linux on it
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It's a Core M processor, so I'm sure it's fine.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
Excellent job, editors. If you didn't get the memo, it's 2017.
Beware of the Leopard.
Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers. but Ubuntu would work just fine.
I run *Ubuntu under CROUTON when using ChromeOS... which for me is the best of all worlds.. a secure, simple OS for 90% of what I need, and Ubuntu for nearly everything else.
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Where did you buy the convertible?? It isn't yet released?
Dell Precision. It's the only serious portable left.
I'm happy with my Lenovo p50 other than bios is a little funky. Had to be reset often
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Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
More telling is Intel killed off their KBL-H(mobile workstations) in the 2017 road map and alos moved investor meeting to from Nov to Feb. Most likely having to adjust to Ryzen actually being a threat in 2017. Note wccftech screws up some the arch sizes but the headline is correct. http://wccftech.com/intel-kaby...
Yep.
I have Xeon in mine.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
RAM prices just have not fallen enough I guess. Lately, across all spectrums consumer computing, I sense a... disturbance in the force. Smartphones don't need to be new to run all the apps you need at a reasonable speed. Laptops are improving in some areas, but in some, it's the same as 5 years ago, as an earlier commenter mentioned. Desktops have seen great strides in the SSD department, but RAM prices still suck, and ancient motherboards and processor specs abound. Intels NG desktop stuff is mostly just going to be more power efficient too! I mean I love the atmosphere, that is great, but raw computing power just seems stalled lately, it's like living in molasses world compared to a decade or (especially) two ago!
in real life, the difference between Y and U is negligible: 2~3 w/h
Happy with my P70... it's flawless!
Games, at the very least. You say music videos, but at what quality. And music videos are generally the smallest of video files. Let's plays, not to mention shows and movies are generally larger. Tutorial videos? Like ones on how to use Unity or the "Processing" environment?
Put another way, a U will use 55.5% more energy. Doesn't sound negligible to me.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?
Yes, but the screen will drink ~10 watts anyways. As Y are more of a genuine SoC, the rest of the chipset will be eating less than for U. As peak currents are less for Y, Dell most likely put a more feeble and less efficient DC-DC power converters. Wireless will eat the same amount of power regardless. A cheap WiFi chip that does half of the work of the chip in software can burn a lot of power if the host CPU is something low-power like Atom or Y (if you have a 45w cpu, a little overhead is not felt that big), the one that does everything inside drinks a lot of power by itself. A thinner package also means that battery cells
Lots of trade-offs both ways.
What on earth? This better be a cheap option and not a high end model. It's now 2017, it should ship with DDR4, 8GB and at least a 1080p camera.
Quote from the fine article: The bezel is very narrow, in keeping with the XPS style. The fanless PC offers an SD card slot and two USB-C ports, and a USB-A to USB-C adapter comes in the box.
Apple, pay attention. As a convenience to their customers, Dell puts an adapter in the box.
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Really looks great.. wish there was a ChromeOS* vers...
That's the problem Intel has at the moment: people are looking at these things and thinking "is that like a Chromebook"? And the other problem Intel has is that the cost of the processor alone is 30%+ of the retail price. That's gotta hurt.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Have they stopped using the BIOS to force-load bloatware / junk into Windows yet ? Is there any way to turn that off ?
I have an XPS15 rev (9530). Its really lovely but not anywhere near needing replacement yet. Its well made and easy to look after both inside and out. It runs Ubuntu flawlessley and I've upgraded the mechanical drive to an SSD. It really flies!
This new XPS13 looks nice and ill definitely be investigating Dells offerings when im ready for an upgrade as i am hoping this trend continues.
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I'm still using my 8 years old Precision M4400. That thing is rock solid, and the battery still last 2 hours. If I ever buy another laptop, it will probably be a Precision.
and what about the ThinkPads?!
When Apple released the USB-C Only MacBook Pros a couple of months ago, they were excoriated by lots and lots of people for "Removing all the Useful Ports" and "Forcing people to use Dongles" and "ignoring the needs of 'Pro' Users" (and variants on those themes).
So, you're saying that just because Dell has decided to include one measly $2.50 USB-C to USB-A Adapter (not even two, one for each port), they are somehow exonerated from all that unbridled Hate? Even though their USB-C ports don't even appear to support TB 3?
Wow. Just. Wow.
The least expensive model of the 2-in-1 is $200 more than the least expensive conventional XPS 13. But the 2-in-1 has an i5 processor rather than an i3 and it has a touchscreen. It's hard to do a direct price comparison of the two models because none of the configurations line up exactly in features, but the spread is certainly far less than $200 for similarly configured systems.
If you want the lowest priced system period or the lowest priced one with the Quad HD display, the conventional XPS 13 is what you want. On the other hand, the 2-in-1 offers the lowest priced configuration with 16GB RAM. Recent XPS 13 models have the RAM soldered to the motherboard so they can't be upgraded; what you buy with the system is all you are going to get.
The 2-in-1 uses a Y-series processor, which is slower than the U-series processor in the conventional XPS 13. But it also yields longer battery life, despite the fact that the 2-in-1 model has a smaller battery. The weight of the two systems is the same; the more complex hinge in the 2-in-1 is heavier but the smaller battery balances it out. And the 2-in-1 is fanless so it's completely quiet.
No force-load bloatware on the T / P / X line (workstation & business laptops)... AFAIK, only the entry-level / consumer Lenovo where affected by this. They stopped in 2015 this crap.