XPS 16 9640

Dell XPS for me

Carbon black XPS 16 9640 with Core 9 Ultra, OLED panel, RTX4070, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB NVMe. I handle phone calls, emails, and chats. A $700 Vostro would have been fine but I’m not complaining. I squashed the company windows install down to 200GB and loaded a second partition with bazzite for playing

Yes! Exactly that. The Air’s throttling is fine. My use won’t be heavy loads. Web browser, soft phone, and a few apps. That’s it. Right now I’m stuck lugging an XPS 16 9640. They spoiled me with the Core9 Ultra and 4070 but… I very much do not like Windows.

Check out the College of Engineering laptop recommendations, they typically give the best advice for new students looking at computers I’m CCE, but for me a Dell XPS has been goated for both school and personal uses

Everything you say is true, except that in laptop hardware, nothing compares to the mac trackpad. Nothing. I bought a second laptop for linux (dell xps) which is better than most, but it’s not even close. Every MacBook i’ve owned has lasted me a decade without issues. They deserve some credit for th

This. I have the XPS 16 9640 so basically the same laptop but chungus version. When the system is in this severe of a hard-stop crash, it takes an awkward amount of time holding down the power button for the system to fully power off.

You ever solve this? After going through everything you have described with my xps. For me what finally got my 4080 being used was Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings>change advanced power settings>PCI Express>Link State Power Mgmt>Set to off Xps 16 9640 Windows 11 pro

https://jonathanleaders.com/fix/installing-linux-ubuntu-on-alienware-m16-nvidia-4080 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/794586/alienware-m16-r2-does-not-boot-many-linux-distros-after-bios-update I did some light research and it looks like your laptop is simply not compatable in the linux kerne

On XPS 9640, the linux support is quite poor. Ubuntu 24.10 is mostly okay, but has many problems (depending on the Bios version long boot time or sometimes it does not boot at all). Sound issues with gaming on the Nvidia card. Unfortunately, Ubuntu24.10will be discontinued in less than a month, and

I think XPS 16 9640 is significantly different than the previous XPS 15 models, and this is because you have no problems. But the XPS 16 is simply problematic with Linux (I am running Linux on mine since about November last year. It was not perfect but I can manage it).