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

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

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

That being said I had a dell XPS laptop and the bios update last month explicitly said it was updating the keys (is the bios you download directly from dell) Alwaya good to keep bios up to date due to security fixes.

Maybe a bit out of your price range but the new dell xps looks quite appealing and seems to fit the specs you are looking for. Im giving it serious thought whether to get one to run linux on or just replace my macbook for the new m5. Much prefer linux to mac os though.

Disclaimer: I’m in grad school studying architecture, not at RISD (idk why this sub is always recommended to me). But for any creative major where frequent software usage is going to be required (including illustrator, photoshop, etc) I would recommend against MacBooks and choose windows as most sof

Sounds like the same laptop I have for work. For me, everything works pretty much flawlessly, apart from the camera which seems so far practically impossible to get working. I am looking at getting a USB webcam for the time being. I am having to go through some rabbit holes to try and find any drive

Yeah, unfortunately that's a common "issue" with previous versions of Dell XPS... 😬 The 96-series with Ultra CPU's are much better and they have worked a lot to make them quieter now. My XPS 16 9640 hardly ever runs the fans, unless I really hurt it. However, that doesn't help you, so if you run Win