By: EddyCJ
I have to say, the new XPS line is really appealing, and they have some cracking cheap deals. As much as a year ago, I’d have agreed with you. In this case, do Dell not realise people will just buy a...
View ArticleBy: whiteafrican
Yeah, actually the pricing does sort of make sense when you think about it. It’s a question of economies of scale – if you are likely to sell more Windows laptops than Ubuntu ones (and the market...
View ArticleBy: Richo
Valid points. However, why on earth would anyone wanting an Ubuntu device buy this when they could purchase the Windows equivalent and install their own copy? The type of folks using Ubuntu are...
View ArticleBy: mattoc4
I have been using my Dell XPS 17 for almost 2 years now and its the best machine I have ever used. It was £1200, with Quadcore SandyBridge 2.20 GHz, 4GB Ram & a 3GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M. I...
View ArticleBy: nitrousavster
Having brought the Dell XPS 1330 and the Alienware M11x when they first came out, all I can say is – NEVER AGAIN. The 1330 was replaced twice and had the motherboard replaced and hinge replaced, screen...
View ArticleBy: josh.moulder
as far as i can tell, the “something additional” being offered here is more drivers, which i don’t really see the point of, i’ve never had any driver problems on any hardware i’ve used with Ubuntu
View ArticleBy: gibbleking
i have the xps 1710 and its a great machine….i do wish the keyboard came off the ibm lenovo …
View ArticleBy: jtanz0
I’ve got an xps previous generation to this one but that was only because they had a voucher stacking deal/glitch that meant I got an £890 laptop for £500!
View ArticleBy: bikerlifestyle
never understood the dell hate, my wifes Dell i5 Latitude E5430 it is very well built, runs real fast and has all you need from a decent laptop also my desktop is one of the first quad core desktops,...
View ArticleBy: resis
Agreed – I used to build my own, but got lazy/busy, and my last two PCs have been Dells – I just got my One XPS 2710 in September. The first one they delivered (days ahead of schedule BTW) had a duff...
View ArticleBy: lancsDavid
i want one. don’t care if its a bit more cos i know they had to do a lot of work getting everything to run right (like the touchpad, which was apparently a bit of a pain)
View ArticleBy: The_Alpha_Gamer
It’s a Dell, it was never going to be reasonably priced. I don’t understand the Dell hate either, my Inspiron 1545 has been running smoothly for over two years now.
View ArticleBy: jsimswilliams
Perhaps it is because the windows machine is subsidised by all the bloatware Dell will have undoubtedly stuck on there. There probably isn’t any on the Linux version.
View ArticleBy: ProcT0r
I suspect the lack of 3rd party software subsidies will also have something to do with it too – I’ll bet the Linux version doesn’t come with a dozen free trials or any resource hog anti-virus!
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