XPS 15 9530

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XPS 15 9530

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What is a brand that used to be the 'Gold Standard' of quality but is now absolute garbage?

Dell XPS completely went to shit.

JWils411 in r/AskReddit

December 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM

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Just got an iPad m4 for 10 dollars with some trade ins, now my iPad is more powerful than my macbook. Why did I spend 1100 on an m1 macbook in 2020 😔

I have an M1 air. And an M5 iPad Pro. Almost the same as you. I don’t see a reason to upgrade the M1 air just yet. Apple Silicon is hard to beat. Cuz on my battle station I run a Dell XPS with an i7, a Chromebook with a Ryzen 3 7000 and the M1 Air. I do similar things with all of them. And different

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OilInternational2566 in r/ipad

March 22, 2026 at 7:49 PM

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The plot thickens with that Dell post I made. Turns out you can’t use any random charger with Dell even if it’s usb c

The Dell 130W charger is not to the USB-PD spec, it's their own custom 130W spec to avoid having to design their USB-C port to the USB-PD spec for high power chargers. Specifically, it outputs 130W by using 20V x 6.5A, where as the USB-PD standard specified that current cannot exceed 5A, so a 130W c

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Anraiel in r/LinusTechTips

July 24, 2026 at 2:29 AM

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43 hours battery life: Dell XPS 14 2026 lasts almost 3x longer vs MacBook Air 15 M5 in web browsing test

Yeah XPS never again. I have got one in 2017 XPS 15 battery went bust 3 years later with Dell stopped producing the battery so the only replacement was with Chinese cheap knock offs. Buy a nice Thinkpad, that will last, battery takes 30 minutes to change and plenty of spare parts around.

AtraVenator in r/technology

March 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM

35

I started to like DELL new designs

Nice try marketing guys 🤨. For me dell XPS line is long dead when they decide to copy apple.

Material-Ratio7342 in r/Dell

March 23, 2026 at 2:48 PM

30

MacBook of the Linux World

Dell XPS for me

Zer0h0ur12 in r/linuxhardware

March 27, 2026 at 8:56 PM

28

GParted is so good, I'd boot the Live image over using the Windows disk utility

It is not so much an issue now, but there was a time when driver compatibility was an issue on Linux. Nah m8, it’s still pretty bad. A Brazilian kid was reverse engineering the thinkpad sound chip on the Fedora discord because apparently Lenovo somehow messed up the kernel patches and the sound was

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deviled-tux in r/LinusTechTips

March 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM

26

Framework Laptop 13 Pro and highlights from the Framework [Next Gen]

Its expensive but even the prebuilt 385h with 32gb of ram andd 1tb ssd is competitive with like the dell xps 14 which is 100 dollars more (and has an oled over ips) sadly i bought a macbook pro 16 m5 pro to replace my 7840u framework 13 so im skipping this

bobrods in r/framework

April 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM

21

The memory crisis continues to destroy MacBook competitors. The price of the two-year-old model has increased by $500 (price on the official Surface website)

What swung me to a Macbook Pro was that I had 3 or 4 machines bookmarked to be the replacement for my Dell XPS, once I had the money available... by the time I did have the money available they were all £400+ more expensive. I've just looked at one and it's nearly £700 more expensive now.

Neverbethesky in r/mac

April 14, 2026 at 8:11 AM

18

I managed to balance my Airpods upside down while bored

Ahh I'm a Dell XPS guy. Nice and quiet.... ....provided you open it up and blow the dust out every six months or so.

RecentTwo544 in r/mildlyinteresting

April 1, 2026 at 1:05 PM

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