Dell XPS 13 Review

Re:Dell XPS 13 Review by sk5t on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:56PM (#9079004)

FWIW, I got nothing but grief from the Lenovo Windows 8 / 8.1 installation on my Thinkstation--Windows booting into repair mode for no apparent reason, janky addon software, etc. A clean, fresh install made it all better, although finding the right storage drivers was a chore.

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Re:Dell XPS 13 Review by thanksgiving on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:30AM (#9080129)

I'm thinking of doing the same for my y510p. Will the reset windows option keep the recovery partition so I can go back to factory state if I need to do so?

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Re:Dell XPS 13 Review by sk5t on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:15PM (#9083983)

AFAIK the recovery partition is actually somewhat difficult to destroy even during a fresh, non-OEM install (I tried and gave up) but I would never choose to recover to the Lenovo build.

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Re:Dell XPS 13 Review by thanksgiving on Sunday February 22, 2015 @02:57PM (#9090763)

I created a bootable Windows image on a flash drive and sure enough it does give you a choice to keep the other partitions intact. YMMV.

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