XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available

Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by zbobet2012 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:17PM (#16074174)

I have an XPS 15 9560 and I _love_ it. Never had coil whine or any of those problems. I did spend a bit of time re-pasting the CPU* when I noticed CPU throttling during gaming. That fixed it.

I put 32GB of ram and (now) Fedora 27 on it. I love everything about it. LOVE!

The comment I get the most is "that screen is incredible" from mac users.

* https://www.ultrabookreview.com/14875-fix-throttling-xps-15/ (PS, unlike a mac this is something you can do. Which is part of the beauty). To get the gpu dynamic switching working "right" with bumblebee you need to compile a custom kernel with CFG_ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE. See https://xps13.landweg.nl/

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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by lloeki on Thursday January 04, 2018 @04:38PM (#16074306)

> I did spend a bit of time re-pasting [...] unlike a mac this is something you can do

Why couldn't you? [0][1].

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Image/meta/6JoCTCytFZE4gSOU

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Function...

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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by pkilgore on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:31PM (#16075104)

What resolution screen? I love the screen on my precision 5520 (basically the same computer) but I'm having a hell of a time with DPI scaling with distros I've tried.

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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available by bluedino on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:49PM (#16075205)

Scaling is ten times worse than it is on a Windows

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