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Honest question: what is the alternative? Apple is not. Dell has finicky hardware. HP has crappy laptops. Asus is hit and miss. When my x1 dies, I think I'll j

Honest question: what is the alternative? Apple is not. Dell has finicky hardware. HP has crappy laptops. Asus is hit and miss. When my x1 dies, I think I'll just continue and get the then current generation x1...

0xCMP 10y ago
Idk of the reliability, but I recommend looking at the recent build quality of HP laptops in person. It's pretty impressive. Still need to see that they're good for the long run, but they look like they're getting better. Also Dells being finicky? Never heard of that, but wouldn't doubt it either. I think the XPS line works well with Linux. I know someone who used Ubuntu exclusively on it for a long time.
- sergiosgc 10y ago
  My Dell impression is anecdata. A company of a friend of mine bought a bunch of XPS 13. Out of a dozen laptops, only two were not RMA'd. The issues were not the same either. Keyboards with stuck keys, dead pixel strips on screens, screens that were too dim even on the highest setting. The overall impression was really not good.
sevensor 10y ago
For work, I just ordered a Dell Precision, the one that supports Ubuntu. We'll see how it turns out; I'll chime in on the next HN laptop thread. (Seems like we have one every week or so.) It certainly looks better than Lenovo at this point.
edoceo 10y ago
Alternative: Librem 15
Chuck_Out 10y ago
>> When my x1 dies, I think I'll just continue and get the then current generation x1... They changed the finish a bit so that carbon-fiber texture is gone, and they removed the physical volume button above the function keys, but at least there's proper function keys now (unlike the third gen, I think). I got mine with 16 GBs RAM and 1 TB SSD. I had to tell someone :P
- sergiosgc 10y ago
  Congrats, it looks like a sweet machine. I have a 2nd gen one. The one with the clickpad and no proper function keys. Got it after a 1st gen one was stolen. I'd trade it for the previous version if I could. A couple of months after I bought it, the 3rd gen reverted the idiotic clickpad and oled function key ideas. The bad side in disguise is that these machines are tough. They usually last five years of daily travel and daily usage, so I'm still three or four years out of a decent trackpad.
catena 10y ago
I've been happy for a few years with my 17" System76 laptop. Came with Ubuntu preinstalled, and has worked fine through two major OS version upgrades. Really fast boot with the OS on an SSD drive.

0xCMP 10y ago

Idk of the reliability, but I recommend looking at the recent build quality of HP laptops in person. It's pretty impressive. Still need to see that they're good for the long run, but they look like they're getting better. Also Dells being finicky? Never heard of that, but wouldn't doubt it either. I think the XPS line works well with Linux. I know someone who used Ubuntu exclusively on it for a long time.

sergiosgc 10y ago
My Dell impression is anecdata. A company of a friend of mine bought a bunch of XPS 13. Out of a dozen laptops, only two were not RMA'd. The issues were not the same either. Keyboards with stuck keys, dead pixel strips on screens, screens that were too dim even on the highest setting. The overall impression was really not good.

sevensor 10y ago

For work, I just ordered a Dell Precision, the one that supports Ubuntu. We'll see how it turns out; I'll chime in on the next HN laptop thread. (Seems like we have one every week or so.) It certainly looks better than Lenovo at this point.

edoceo 10y ago

Alternative: Librem 15

Chuck_Out 10y ago

>> When my x1 dies, I think I'll just continue and get the then current generation x1... They changed the finish a bit so that carbon-fiber texture is gone, and they removed the physical volume button above the function keys, but at least there's proper function keys now (unlike the third gen, I think). I got mine with 16 GBs RAM and 1 TB SSD. I had to tell someone :P

sergiosgc 10y ago
Congrats, it looks like a sweet machine. I have a 2nd gen one. The one with the clickpad and no proper function keys. Got it after a 1st gen one was stolen. I'd trade it for the previous version if I could. A couple of months after I bought it, the 3rd gen reverted the idiotic clickpad and oled function key ideas. The bad side in disguise is that these machines are tough. They usually last five years of daily travel and daily usage, so I'm still three or four years out of a decent trackpad.

catena 10y ago

I've been happy for a few years with my 17" System76 laptop. Came with Ubuntu preinstalled, and has worked fine through two major OS version upgrades. Really fast boot with the OS on an SSD drive.