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Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by robocat on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:44AM (#20294840)
2017, 2018, 2019 models (XPS 13" and 15") are aluminium alloy top and bottom from my quick check on the Dell website.

Did you make any effort to check the facts?

Disclaimer: I have last year's XPS 15: although I am not a fan of Dell, I chose the XPS for fast i9 and good Linux support and I haven't been disappointed.

Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by paranoidrobot on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:45AM (#20295432)
> Did you make any effort to check the facts?

There's no need to be rude or condescending.

I'm going based on my experience of using Dell XPS13 and XPS15 laptops at work over several generations. I don't have access to those laptops anymore, so I can't tell you which models they were, but I'm not making this shit up.

To be clear, I'm talking about the plastic on the inside, around the keyboard rest/etc, not the external shell - from the images on the linked page, they still have that same look to them, so I don't know if they've stopped using it.

Re:Thin yet Repairable Devices: HP Proves They Exist by robocat on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:00AM (#20302111)
> To be clear, I'm talking about the plastic on the inside

Ok: your original comment mentions 'lid' and 'metal case' without anything about the keyboard rest (which is carbon fibre). I am not saying I am the clearest communicator, but you didn't answer me very well IMHO.