And how would you know what reason someone has for what they are doing? There are legitimate reasons to exceed posted speed limits you know. Not that most people are doing it for those reasons, but they do exist.
Well, that would require them to try. There was a time that AMD did (Athlon vs Pentium 4, and then the Athlon 64 vs Pentium D). The AMD FX failed to deliver, and AMD is way overdue on releasing a new chip (Piledriver came out how long ago? 2012? Intel has released Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Broadwell since then).
If you're buying a laptop that ships with Linux (I'm looking at the Dell Precision line) they ship with the proprietary drivers installed. The OOBE experience from the manufacturer isn't the same as a vanilla install.
I can't speak for the XPS 13, but I can say that my Precision M4500 runs flawless with the Quadro GPU.
The other big thing the Precision line has over the MBP line (and for that matter, over just about any laptop on the market right now) is NOT having that damned chicklet keyboard.
I can give a couple of reasons:
Better hardware options (Quadro vs Geforce)
Upgradable hardware - decide you need a bigger SSD or more RAM later? No can do on a MBP.
Most people that work on Laptops spend a lot more then 1K on a system. For a work laptop 1.8-2.5K isn't unreasonable. And they usually last a long time ( >5years ) before they quit working.
The one thing that a Linux laptop (say a Dell Precision like the OP mentioned) has over the Macbook is better GPU options - I can get a Quadro card instead of GeForce
There is, but it is extremely slow and clunky. Either SGI had some sort of magic they put in to their Firefox build (very possible) that people didn't figure out for 3, or 3 supports a lot of slowness that isn't in the older build. Since I just upgraded my Octane (upped the RAM to 1280MB from 384MB and the CPU from a 250MHz R10K to a 300MHz R12K) I intend to play with it again.
And relevant to this thread, the string for Firefox 3 is:
Microsoft Keyboards are pretty nice across the board. And I love the mice even more. At work I'm using a Sun Type V keyboard, which I love, with a Wireless Intellimouse.
The default option, last I looked, switched to the Windows 8 All Programs list instead of the Windows 6 style menu. The Windows 6 style menu, found in earlier builds can be switched back to via PowerShell. Not sure if they updated the default menu again.
Actually it is legal in quite a few states, and questionable in some others (in Maryland, for example, suicide isn't illegal, but I don't think the physician is allowed to administer it).
Debian did it because Red Hat did it. And Red Hat did it because, wait for it, it was THEIR employee that created Pulseaudio AND systemd. If we truly needed to replace init, there are other open source projects already that do that (upstart, SMF, and launchd).
And the GNOME team isn't exactly a favorite of many people either, so don't look to them for being happy community members (and they are known to reject outside patches anyway. Unless you're going to tell me that Linus himself contributes bad patches...)
Oddly enough, it took me about a year to realize I hadn't hooked up the DVD drive in my desktop, and I don't remember the last time I used one in a laptop (with the exception of some really old ones I toy with sometimes, like my Thinkpad 600e since it doesn't support USB boot).
If it comes with a square screen you've sold me too. But I think Panasonic is the only laptop manufacturer that meets either requirement (and they've only got one square one, and one serial port on it), and they've got a price tag that makes Apple look cheap.
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And how would you know what reason someone has for what they are doing? There are legitimate reasons to exceed posted speed limits you know. Not that most people are doing it for those reasons, but they do exist.
I consider a 13" laptop to be small form factor....I wouldn't be able to use an 11" laptop.
Well, that would require them to try. There was a time that AMD did (Athlon vs Pentium 4, and then the Athlon 64 vs Pentium D). The AMD FX failed to deliver, and AMD is way overdue on releasing a new chip (Piledriver came out how long ago? 2012? Intel has released Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Broadwell since then).
Except this "fringe" software is one of the widest used pieces of software out there.
If you're buying a laptop that ships with Linux (I'm looking at the Dell Precision line) they ship with the proprietary drivers installed. The OOBE experience from the manufacturer isn't the same as a vanilla install. I can't speak for the XPS 13, but I can say that my Precision M4500 runs flawless with the Quadro GPU.
Can't change the RAM - since moving to the Retina displays RAM is soldered to the board.
Not trolling - you can't upgrade the RAM (soldered, and the top option is 16GB anyway) and you're limited in SSD choices.
Last MBP I saw the insides of (a Retina-screen one, mind you) the SSD was the only upgradable part.
The other big thing the Precision line has over the MBP line (and for that matter, over just about any laptop on the market right now) is NOT having that damned chicklet keyboard.
Replaceable parts, and better GPUs. Next.
I can give a couple of reasons:
Better hardware options (Quadro vs Geforce)
Upgradable hardware - decide you need a bigger SSD or more RAM later? No can do on a MBP.
Most people that work on Laptops spend a lot more then 1K on a system. For a work laptop 1.8-2.5K isn't unreasonable. And they usually last a long time ( >5years ) before they quit working.
The one thing that a Linux laptop (say a Dell Precision like the OP mentioned) has over the Macbook is better GPU options - I can get a Quadro card instead of GeForce
There is, but it is extremely slow and clunky. Either SGI had some sort of magic they put in to their Firefox build (very possible) that people didn't figure out for 3, or 3 supports a lot of slowness that isn't in the older build. Since I just upgraded my Octane (upped the RAM to 1280MB from 384MB and the CPU from a 250MHz R10K to a 300MHz R12K) I intend to play with it again.
And relevant to this thread, the string for Firefox 3 is:
"Mozilla/5.0; U; IRIX64 IP30; en-US; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2013020113 Firefox/3.0.19"
My string shows what I'm using anyway....
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; IRIX64 IP30; en-US; rv:1.8.1.25pre) Gecko/20121112 Firefox/2.0.0.22pre"
Personally, I like the older Apple Pro Keyboard better then the current ones. And I'm still using a Sun Type 6 I replaced my old Apple keyboard with.
Microsoft Keyboards are pretty nice across the board. And I love the mice even more. At work I'm using a Sun Type V keyboard, which I love, with a Wireless Intellimouse.
The default option, last I looked, switched to the Windows 8 All Programs list instead of the Windows 6 style menu. The Windows 6 style menu, found in earlier builds can be switched back to via PowerShell. Not sure if they updated the default menu again.
You can, via PowerShell, change it back. I will be pissed if they take it out completely.
Actually it is legal in quite a few states, and questionable in some others (in Maryland, for example, suicide isn't illegal, but I don't think the physician is allowed to administer it).
It's equally easy on Fedora (I think you need to enable RPMFusion first) - 'yum install steam' and you're good to go.
Hard to say. It could be broken like the nvidia engineer says, and everyone else just allowing something to work that the spec says shouldn't.
Debian did it because Red Hat did it. And Red Hat did it because, wait for it, it was THEIR employee that created Pulseaudio AND systemd. If we truly needed to replace init, there are other open source projects already that do that (upstart, SMF, and launchd).
And the GNOME team isn't exactly a favorite of many people either, so don't look to them for being happy community members (and they are known to reject outside patches anyway. Unless you're going to tell me that Linus himself contributes bad patches...)
Oddly enough, it took me about a year to realize I hadn't hooked up the DVD drive in my desktop, and I don't remember the last time I used one in a laptop (with the exception of some really old ones I toy with sometimes, like my Thinkpad 600e since it doesn't support USB boot).
If it comes with a square screen you've sold me too. But I think Panasonic is the only laptop manufacturer that meets either requirement (and they've only got one square one, and one serial port on it), and they've got a price tag that makes Apple look cheap.