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Yep, for the price, I can't say I'm impressed with my XPS 9350. The 4k screen is nice, but the shoddy WiFi chip plus random wakeups from sleep make it a real pa

• stuaxo 10y ago
  It's worth seeing if you can upgrade the Wifi, I upgraded the abysmal wifi on my Asus and it has been great every since. [ It still has terrible battery life, and chucks out a load of heat though ].
  • oneplane 10y ago
    It usually requires firmware hacks since the brand names like to add whitelists to only allow specific chips.
    • voltagex_ 10y ago
      I don't think the 9350 has whitelists, but I've already seen how tricky it is to open (on site screen replacement 4 days after I got the device...), so I'm wary of getting out the screw driver for now.
• deong 10y ago
  I replaced the Wifi chip with an Intel one and have had no problems since. I did have other problems -- some serious. Right now, running Fedora 24 and Gnome 3, it seems to be a reasonably workable machine, but yeah, it's been more trouble than you'd like for the money. Part of it seems to be that Skylake is just wonky on its own. Some of my issues in Linux have been issues with the dual-booted Windows 10 install as well (e.g., sometimes rebooting instead of waking from sleep).
• brazzledazzle 10y ago
  It amazes me how often an otherwise good-to-high end set of hardware will have a shitty wifi card. You put all this effort into a nice screen, good keyboard, etc. etc. and then you choose a wifi card that is bottom of the barrel just to shave a few bucks off your manufacturing costs?