XPS 13

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

If the underlying Intel platform is supported, the probability of being able to boot the kernel and having CPU, GPU and ACPI support is essentially 100% on x86-64, because so much of it is just "the BIOS already knows where all the hardware is, so hey kernel, here you go". The annoying parts are usu

Wipe it, and install Windows 11 IoT LTSC. Never use the image that comes with the laptop. I’ve got the current XPS 13 9350 and this easily lasts me multiple days before I have to charge. In a day, I can keep going with ease.

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

Given that the FW13 has 4 flexible ports (and FW16 even 6) I don't see much point. USB-A is becoming obsolete. A lot of peripherals are Bluetooth connected anyway. I was mostly fine with the just 2 USB-C ports of a XPS-13 before. The 4 interchangeable ones in FW13 are already luxury. Especially as I

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.

I've had several XPS 13's and an XPS 17. Love them, but my Framework 13 takes the cake and gets the most usage. The new XPS 13's have really frustrating design (e.g. Where does the trackpad begin and end? WTF did Dell do to the function keys???) XPS Pluses Very vibrant IPS screens (I always prefer t

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

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