At what cost was this computer, docking station and its upgrades? > On Feb 15, 2019, at 5:21 PM, r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com> wrote: > > In Feb of 2017 I bought a Dell XPS-15, 32G RAM, 4KUHD 15", 1TB PCIe SSD The first thing I did after booting Windows 10 and running full diagnostics was replace the PCIe SSD with a Samsung 960Pro 1TB and the Killer AC 1535 BT/WiFi card with an Intel card (can't remember the model) for better throughput and better driver support at that time. > > Having replaced the PCIe SSD allowed me to re-install the Win10 SSD for low level firmware updates from Dell that wouldn't be coming from any Linux repo. I've been running Ubuntu 16.04 on it ever since - even the TB16 docking station works with Ubuntu. I hear that Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't run well on this laptop, yet. > > If this small laptop is too large (14.1x9.3x0.6), Dell does sell the XPS-13 (many similar specs to the XPS-15), and they used to sell a developers edition preinstalled with (can't remember the distro) Linux. > > When I did my research, I spent quite a bit of time creating a spreadsheet to compare the following: > currently owned 2008 Apple MBPro - reference #1 > currently owned 2007 Lenovo T61p - reference #2 > currently owned 2010 Lenovo W500 - reference #3 > 2015 Apple MBPro MJLU2xx/A (11,4) > 2016 Apple MBPro > Dell XPS-15 9560 max build > Dell XPS-15 9560 min build, aftermarket upgrade > HP Spectre x360 max build > HP Spectre x360 min build, aftermarket upgrade > Asus Zenbook UX510VW > Lenovo Yoga 910 > Lenovo X1 Carbon 4th Gen > Lenovo T560 > 4 different builds from min to max of the Lenovo P50 > > I settled on the Dell XPS-15 9560 max build for $2500 because it had verified Linux installs and what it took to get Linux working on it (very little), it had 1-SD, 1-HDMI 1.4, 2-USB3, and 1-TB3 port and with the 97Whr battery, I get 6-8 hours of battery life. The two monitors I use with this laptop are a 32" 4KUHD and a 40" 4KUHD, depending on where I plug into which docking station. > > I've been very happy with this laptop, the Samsung 960 Pro is 400-1100 MB/s faster reads and writes over the OEM PCIe SSD, so this machine boots to a usable logged in system in ~20 seconds, maybe less. > > Hope that helps, Oh, and the keyboard on the Dell XPS-15 9560 has the keys you listed > > On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 11:29 -0800, Brian Wood wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:25 AM Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Also, I want something around 14 inches size, maybe smaller, but think it's >> unlikely to have keyboard I like if it's smaller. >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20190215/6ac567a5/attachment-0001.html>