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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by kanishkdudeja on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:21AM (#17415305)
The Dell XPS 13 has been a solid work machine for me.

Portable, powerful, comes with USB Type A and C ports, Thunderbolt 3 and comes with one of the best keyboards in laptops.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by fg_my_pw_again on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:52AM (#17415456)
Well, the XPS13 has had its share of keyboard problems too:

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9370-Keyboard-Skip...

It took months for a BIOS release to make the keyboard workable.

Now if only they could get the webcam to work..

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by robinduckett on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:25AM (#17415316)
The XPS 15 is a bit better, I got one from last year for about the same price as my 13
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by kayoone on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:31AM (#17415361)
do you run Windows or Linux on it ?
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by kiksy on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:00AM (#17415497)
Big fan of the XPS 13. I bought the developer Linux edition first, which had a 1080p (boo!) screen and matte finish (yeah!). It had an issue where the trackpad would just intermittently stop working or the cursor would just zoom around the screen, making it unusable. Dell sent out an engineer THE NEXT DAY TO MY HOUSE with a replacement trackpad. Insane customer support. I ended up swapping it for a Windows version for the same price but with the higher res screen (but gloss) as the HDMI out didn't work on the Linux version. I think this was software rather than hardware.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by kanishkdudeja on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:47AM (#17416385)
Ubuntu 18.04 :)
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