XPS 13

The Dell XPS13 was the best implementation of the "small light but not shit" laptop. Always interesting to see what uni students buy: it's their own money, they want to take it everywhere, and they want four years service with no drama. XPS13 was the #1 choice. Now it's MacBook Air M-series.

get a refurbished dell xps 13 with 16 gb ram as a budget pick, it will get you thru school, and then upgrade to a beefy thinkpad once you’re close to working. congrats on pulling the trigger!!!! that first step changed my life.

I bought my X1 Carbon Gen 10 in 2023 not because it's the fastest. I travel a lot usually backpacking for months at a time and weight is a very important consideration. It's also sturdy and well built. Good battery life on Linux. At the time my top contenders were X1 or Dell XPS 13. Having Linux ins

I have 2 of these XPS 13 9310s. They both came with Ubuntu preinstalled. I have never had a problem with either of them. Ubuntu has been gone for a long time. I run Arch/hyprland on one and Debian Sid with Gnome on the other. I think these are the best Linux laptops.

You're probably right that it being the work provided laptop makes the comparison complicated. But my bare minimum expectation is to not find my laptop dead in my backpack after putting it in sleep. I briefly tried a Lunar Lake powered Dell XPS 13 and compared the app launch times and excel performa

I also have anecdotes. At the start of the year I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7i laptop and have been plagued with technical issues since, it is maddening. We’re talking lost audio, the touchpad not working every once in a while and trouble connecting to Whatsapp… I’d just moved from a 10 year old Dell XPS

Depends what you mean by "used." My daily driver is a Dell XPS13 that is ten-ish years old. I still have a Lenovo and an HP "media" laptop with Windows 7 and Vista respectively, that still work but I boot up only for nostalgia purposes. The only laptops that have actually physically failed on me are

Choose a balanced ultrabook over a gaming laptop. Windows i7 or Ryzen 7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD The ThinkPad X13, Dell XPS 13, and Zenbook are all good. The MacBook Air M2 or M3 is great unless you need Windows apps. The keyboard, battery, and build are more important than raw power.

I run Ubuntu on an XPS 13 and it works really well (no issues in 5+ years)

You can try using a small reverse drill bit and GO SLOW to get the screw head removed or back the screw out. Had success with this a few times on an XPS 13 from around 2015 or so with the star head screws.