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Not true, coil whine is a very well known XPS issue. You just need to get familiar with the owners reviews, not the regular/advertising reviews.
by vladimir-y 10y ago
Not true, coil whine is a very well known XPS issue. You just need to get familiar with the owners reviews, not the regular/advertising reviews.
- hbogert 10y agoIf you take all the laptops with those annoyances from being possible candidates for a new laptop; What is a good non-apple laptop? I always was anti-Apple, still do, but I just can't fault the Macbook Air 2012, which for the time had reasonable resolution/memory/cpu for the price. But more importantly, it had none of the annoyances.
- vladimir-y 10y agoI'm going replace my current Dell Latitude 14 inch laptop and yes it's a hard to find something decent on the market to run Linux even if price is not the issue. So far my top candidate is Acer TravelMate P648, I mentioned it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12290096 I first need to find a chance to try it in action.