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Re:New XPS 15 Laptop by dreistdreist on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:02AM (#13219807)
Did they fix the coil whine?
Re:New XPS 15 Laptop by irontoby on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:30AM (#13221292)
I sure as hell hope so. Typing this on a 2015 XPS 15 as we speak, and the incessant "chirp chirp chirp" any time it's in a non-horizontal position (such as when docked) drives me insane.

Finally convinced support to take it in for warranty (expires in a few weeks), which means I'll be without it for a while, but hopefully they at least can swap out the mobo with a non-chirpy version...

Re:New XPS 15 Laptop by haspok on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:03PM (#13221634)
They did not fix that either. You might be lucky to receive a device that doesn't exhibit it, or you may not notice it, or you may not even bother about it.

Dell doesn't really care - they still sell loads, and as long as the online reviewers don't complain loudly enough so that their sales are affected it is just not worth the cost.

Re:New XPS 15 Laptop by karussell on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:28PM (#13223614)
Wow how lame of Dell. That was the reason I went with a Lenovo T460 (which I do not regret btw ;))
Re:New XPS 15 Laptop by dreistdreist on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @03:03AM (#13227555)
Lenovo is much worse than Dell though... They deserve to go bankrupt after superfish and all that other crap they did.