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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by eliaspro on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:18PM (#16073188)
Quoting Barton George:

> We are definitely looking into the coil whine issue, this has senior management visibility, and pursuing several avenues for the current system as well as solutions going forward.

Source: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by foodstances on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:23PM (#16073240)
That is from June, this is the latest from December:

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...

A motherboard change and a BIOS update (2.4.2) are supposed to lower the noise as much as they can, while still deeming it "working within specification". Users report the 2.4.2 update didn't help much or even made it worse.

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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by josephmx on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:29PM (#16073290)
This update (without motherboard change) did help by making the fans run less often, which doesn't seem to be causing overheating issues or me
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