XPS 13

Dell released their wildcat lake laptop today. Xps13. Nearly half the price. Similar features. 120hz. Touchscreen. Except it has Linux support. Framework was already expensive. This makes the framework look like the budget option.

Battery life is mostly a platform property. You need to get all your ducks in a row from the low-level hardware all the way to applications. Hardware design choices by the manufacturer matter, and firmware is important too. In the end, with some laptops you get awesome power efficiency under Linux o

I personally question how much software optimisation can be done to be honest. One of the biggest resource hogs on my machine right now is hilariously Spotify, at a whopping 1.8G of RAM split over 9 processes. Then I've got Discord with 8 processes at 1.7GB. That's 3.5G, or nearly half the RAM gone

I am Tony Stark. btw, its dual boot Dell XPS 13 9310. I use Linux mostly for school work. Gaming is lowky bad.

That's a huge change because it provides manufacturers with a framework they had to come up with on their own so far. This was already provided by fwupd, which is used by system update applications (e.g. GNOME Software or KDE's Discover). Some manufacturers already support it. For instance I have a

Does the ambient light sensor (automatic brightness) work? I have a few years old XPS 13 I will be upgrading from to the FW 13 Pro and one thing that I absolutely would wish have worked (that works on windows, but not Linux) is the ambient light sensor...

Definitely a win11 problem, switching my aging Dell XPS 13 9310 over to Fedora Linux made it snappy again and breathed some life back into it. The problem is likely their recent push to virtualization based security and copilot, both of which are pretty resource hungry and can slow down the operatin

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 have an XPS 13, which is almost the same age, same form factor and a few hundred euros cheaper. It has 16GB of RAM instead of 64, and a consumer-grade Intel CPU. Now, the Speedometer 3.0 results are ~30% higher, real battery life is the same as IBP, sound and mic are both decent, the webcam doesn’

This was my issue with a dell xps 13 with 8gb of ram. I found some instructions to add a page file, added back hibernate instead of the sleep in zram, and my laptop works freat now.