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klipklop | 1 month ago

This post talked me out of buying the new XPS that is going to be released in a few weeks.

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650REDHAIR|1 month ago

Good!

Mine is sitting on a shelf. I can’t even use it without the battery because it throttles when the only power source is the charger.

I keep it around to maybe scavenge the 4k touchscreen for a project or the ram for a family member’s under-specced laptop or maybe one day someone will crack the battery DRM…

hexbin010|1 month ago

Never buy an XPS. Always been trash always will

rationalist|1 month ago

My nearly 6 year old XPS begs to differ.

I've seen quite a few various laptops with swollen batteries, and their users don't understand that can't habitually store their laptops in the sun (well, in sun rays through windows).

Those people also don't even realize their battery is swelling, and that it's a bad thing.

trympet|1 month ago

Additional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.