> We neither develop nor support the Linux drivers for our devices, and this is common, as free and open source is the Linux way.
> As such, if you encounter an issue with your Killer Networking adapter in Linux, your best, quickest, and most accurate line of support is going to be the community, either for the Linux distribution that you are using, or the driver itself.
Easy way out I guess.
I just learned that Intel bought Rivet, maker of Killer wifi: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-acquisition-may-...
But I haven't heard about reliability issues, and as long as that's the case the worst outcome is paying a couple extra bucks for a fancy WiFi card with no difference/a small enough difference you can't notice it.
Really? < 10ms resume? From hibernation, too?
Unfortunately I am using a Mac from my employer for the first time in years. It is nice to have hardware that works extremely well again! But the glare is bad in certain lighting conditions and the touch bar is extremely annoying. I have caps lock mapped to escape, but it is just a more difficult place to get my pinky finger to.
https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-lapt...
You're overestimating the performance of phone CPUs and storage too.
iPads are growing up into computers, and have a 4:3.
It's odd, but it's really hard to find high-quality computers these days. Everyone skimps corners by giving things like 16:9 instead of 4:3. That makes sense on the low-end, but the top-of-the-line just doesn't seem to exist much anymore.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-10610U-vs-AMD-...
The graphics should also be better than the Intel ones.
So far the only interesting laptop I've seen is the Lenovo T14s which is their lower-end ultrabook from the X1 Carbon. Frustratingly they've limited it to 1080p screens in the AMD version when the Intel version includes a great 4K option:
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
I agree the vast majority of AMD laptops have unacceptable compromises baked in. I can't help but believe this will change now that the APUs are arguably on par for games and massively more efficient for other tasks.
Would those AMD 8 core chips consume a similar amount of power to the i7-1065G7? (quad core 10nm)
A very quick summary: about the same.
Intel seems to still have the lead on quickly going to lower energy states, but AMD still has the upper hand on better node: TSMCs 7nm is better than Intels 10nm+, but 11th gen 10++ seems to have finally matured enough to be on par, so Tiger Lake will be interesting to see.
If your parameter is "I want a notebook today", then Renoir Ryzens are the best to go[0]. If you can wait until the late part of the year, maybe Tiger Lake will shake things up (again) in the mobile arena, or maybe they're spilling rumors to keep people away from AMD as much as they can.
[0] HOWEVER it seems there's no well-rounded notebook with Zen2 yet. I was almost decided for an Asus Zephyrus G14, but decided to wait a bit and see if something a bit larger (with larger battery too) becomes available in my country.
I started out in November last year with an XPS and after multiple freezes I requested an repair that would take my laptop out for multiple weeks. Having seen my previous company send multiple laptops back multiple times I didn't have much trust in the certainty of resolution for my issues with the xps. My coworker at the time didn't have any issues with her XPS but I gave up on Dell and switched to Mac. Sadly my coworkers XPS broke down after 2 months and it's still being repaired after 5 weeks...
The specs of the XPS certainly are the best and the feel is great and I so hoped it would be a succes but it just sucks the experience is so bad. I often hear others still raving and reading about non problems so somehow I still think I might have seen a really bad batch enter the Netherlands over 2 years time.
I like both, but switching between the two is a bit jarring. The different keyboard layout is particularly annoying. Maybe this is worse with a British keyboard though. I switched the Mac to use the 'PC' layout, which helps a bit, but adapting between the cmd-ctrl-fn is difficult. And there are inconsistencies in the readline behaviour that I haven't worked out. I'm fairly indifferent to the feel of the keyboard - maybe a slight preference for the XPS.
I like the 16:9 ratio of the XPS, but not a big deal.
The 20.04 update has been such an improvement. The fan used to be constantly running, maybe because of the previously-experimental fractional scaling, but since the update this runs so smooth. If anyone from Gnome/Ubuntu reads this: thank you!
The trackpad on the MacBook is obviously nice: support for gestures and the bigger area. I can't stand the touch bar - I'm constantly accidentally pressing buttons. TouchID is nice - the fingerprint reader in this new version sounds good.
Few other things that are better on the MBP: speakers, brightness (especially the auto-adjusting brightness), and webcam (this version of the XPS has the webcam below the screen, which sucks).
I don't make any use of the touchscreen on the XPS and I haven't got around to turning it off from the BIOS. Seems kind of wasteful.
The coil whine on the XPS is really bad. Interested to know if this is fixed/better on the newer models?
I replaced the battery on the XPS recently, but turns out the battery isn't as official as Amazon promised so the LED occasionally does an angry flashing sequence. But yay for being able to replace this.
Also the Dell support turned out to be pretty good. At one point there was an issue with my screen and they sent a guy to my house to replace the screen for free.
Mmm, love shopping in "Emerging countries", gotta get a ticket to there :D
Kinda reminds me of the "hot singles near Anonymous Proxy" banners.
I use it with a docking station and two external monitors with no problems. It's normally physically connected to the network so I can't comment much on the wifi. I don't do anything with Bluetooth.
My personal laptop is a MBP but if Dell ever came out with a XPS 15 DE I would immediately switch.
The page mentioned that: 10th generation Intel® Core™ 10nm mobile processors and up to 32 gigabytes of RAM
But on the product page, we can only get either 8 or 16 GB of memory. Do you know if it's possible to buy these with 32GB of RAM from Dell?
Current issues:
Screen distorted - Have to use external monitor
Laptop randomly freezes for 30s - Great for meetings
Bluetooth randomly disconnects all devices
WiFi randomly disconnects
Happened to me with the battery swelling issue on the 2016 model. I would never buy another Dell after that experience.
Overall has been a great platform.
I really wonder whether they’ve fixed this issue, as I’ve heard that some models after this one still suffered from the same.
I wanted to run Ubuntu as the primary OS .. ended up choosing a ThinkPad. Still certified for Ubuntu, and the fact it came with a Window's license was a benefit for the few times I've needed to use Win10.
Your current options are gnome-disks and cryptsetup, and the former simply didn't work with long passphrases last time I dabbled with it.
It's also quite difficult to encrypt an existing setup without formatting the drive. You'd need to unmount your root partition, and since you can't do that from a running system, you'd need to boot off of a USB stick first. BitLocker is definitely easier in that regard.
also availability and warranty is important for companies too.
I had previously given up on this and was excited that WSL2 was finally available, but installed 20.04 and haven’t looked back.
In the same time we have had 2 of 4 appple laptops need a new motherboard / some drastic problem
Only because apple won’t do simple repairs. Eg, blwn capacitor worth 40 cent? New motherboard worth hundreds! [1] Of course, to the end user, the effect is the same...
[1] https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns and https://youtu.be/K1A9y4S60kg for just two examples
It works great. No coil whine, and I haven't heard anyone complaining about coil whine with this year's model.
I was overseas at the time and they dragged the process out long enough that eventually warranty was up and they told me they wouldn't replace it.
I replaced it myself but I'll never buy a Dell again and recommend others go with Lenovo.
When having external speakers or earbuds plugged into the 3.5mm jack, it does pop.
IMO the pops are not loud and do not at all hurt even with earbuds in.
Dell has a 30 day return policy, so if that's the only thing holding you back, you can try it for yourself.
I can't seem to find any old (or new) complaints about it limiting, or anything about a fix for same. You sure it was that?
I've edited my comment above to fix that mistake.
The Asus G14 looked good too, but once they became available reviewers gave me a it fo an angle that I haven't considered from using it and it was then I decidede to wait. Pretty much the same happened with the Asus TUF A15 (good on paper, but actually terrible once you get it -- it's missing a couple of heatsinks inside who knows why).
So I got into a situation where there are apparently good Ryzen notebooks on paper, but once you start using them they all come with gotchas.
Another gotcha that I have: most are not being paired with good GPUs, and I run quite a lot of code that can be accelerated with CUDA, and while not a deal breaker, having a CUDA-capable GPU is a big plus for me. And most of the Ryzens are coming with 16x0 instead of 20x0's :/
I would suspect that toss and replace is the norm across the whole spectrum of hardware sellers.
You could debate Apple's design choices like... say... riveted keyboards, and they'd argue durability as a retort, but I don't think they're any better or worse than others in terms of warranty work.
My brother has had a water-damaged macbook pro repaired by a third party repair shop when apple said the only thing that can be done is a logic board replacement and they fixed it without replacing it.
$20 mother board and 15 minute of $50 / hr tech
vs
$0.40 cap and 45 minutes of a $50 / hr tech
Replacing the cap might not actually be a win. Would need to know more about the actual hardware costs, as well as how often swapping 1 cap really fixes the problem (like, why did it blow to begin with? Will it just blow again in 3 days?)
On a brand new system, opening new windows lagged. Multiple popups constantly required my attention and kept getting in my way. I couldn't imagine using the Home version, where you have to deal with Ads on the Start menu on top of all that.
Today I live happily with Kubuntu.
I have no interest in running Windows day to day. I live in Emacs, the CLI, and Common Lisp, all of which work best in a Unix-based OS. So it's MacOS or Linux. Plus I'd heard too many horror stories of how difficult it was to turn off all the Microsoft spyware, advertising, and no-choice updates to ever consider Windows seriously.
This was a couple of years ago before WLS was production quality. I might try again if I was doing it today, but only if I could turn off all the Microsoft daemons. Even so, I still find it philosophically distasteful to have to engage in technological warfare against my operating system just to stop it spying on me.