Yep, for the price, I can't say I'm impressed with my XPS 9350. The 4k screen is nice, but the shoddy WiFi chip plus random wakeups from sleep make it a real pain.

It's worth seeing if you can upgrade the Wifi, I upgraded the abysmal wifi on my Asus and it has been great every since.

[ It still has terrible battery life, and chucks out a load of heat though ].

It usually requires firmware hacks since the brand names like to add whitelists to only allow specific chips.

I don't think the 9350 has whitelists, but I've already seen how tricky it is to open (on site screen replacement 4 days after I got the device...), so I'm wary of getting out the screw driver for now.

I replaced the Wifi chip with an Intel one and have had no problems since.

I did have other problems -- some serious. Right now, running Fedora 24 and Gnome 3, it seems to be a reasonably workable machine, but yeah, it's been more trouble than you'd like for the money. Part of it seems to be that Skylake is just wonky on its own. Some of my issues in Linux have been issues with the dual-booted Windows 10 install as well (e.g., sometimes rebooting instead of waking from sleep).

It amazes me how often an otherwise good-to-high end set of hardware will have a shitty wifi card. You put all this effort into a nice screen, good keyboard, etc. etc. and then you choose a wifi card that is bottom of the barrel just to shave a few bucks off your manufacturing costs?

What is a better suggestion in the 2-3k price range?

If you find one, let me know. I'm in the market to replace my 2013 rMBP 15", and I haven't found anything else that hits the sweet spot in terms of combining a high-DPI screen with great battery life (8+ hours).

Right now, just wait. I'm not saying they'll be the answer, but it'd be daft to jump ship before waiting to see the new Macbooks that are expected to launch this month.

Some years ago I had good luck with Dell's Precision Mobile Workstation line of laptops. If they've upheld the quality level, it's worth a look.

Try the Oryx Pro: https://system76.com/laptops/