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No. I had the Dell XPS 15 9550 and there were several issues. • Trackpad much worse than on a Mac • Coil whine • Bad fan control means it was sometimes noisy

No. I had the Dell XPS 15 9550 and there were several issues. • Trackpad much worse than on a Mac • Coil whine • Bad fan control means it was sometimes noisy in near-idle contitions (though in idle it was very silent) • there were some flicker issues with the GPU (might have been resolved though) • one key was bouncy, meaning it sometimes triggered twice • it woke up from sleep randomly, sometimes while in my bag, often completely emptying the battery In the beginning it also crashed very often, however this was resolved with an update. So all in all the quality wasn't on the level of a Mac. And I wouldn't even start speaking about the OS. If you're used to macOS, it's still such a day and night difference. Connecting a normal low dpi display to the 9550 with HIDPI display lead to so many annoyances with Windows and all the programs that won't support this for the years to come. I'd barely consider it useful. Although the display itself was quite nice.

rstuart4133 10y ago
This I think is the Windows perspective. The Linux perspective (Debian in my case) is somewhat different: - Hardware wise the Trackpad is identical in performance to the Mac. All the same gestures are recognised - but the software doesn't use most of them. In fact the software side was terrible until libxinput took over from the old synaptics driver. Now if it works, it works well - but it's still a little lacking on the gesture front. - Coil whine should be no different - but I've never heard it. - Fan control is perfect, which is weird. Maybe it was old BIOS? - Intel's GPU firmware & driver has been a 18 month long cluster fuck. It's the same cluster fuck on Windows and Linux. It still isn't perfect, but it's much better. At the rate they are going, they may get it right 2 years after the initial release of the CPU. Here's hoping. I don't know how Apple could escape this mess. Maybe they knew they couldn't, so escaped it by not upgrading the CPU's for donkey's years. - Oddly the wakeup problem happened on Linux too. Once I opened by bag and it was so hot I though I'd destroyed it. The issue has gone now. - Linux has the same issues a Windows when it comes to mixing HIDPI and normal displays. In Linux it's a fundamental limitation of X. It can be fixed in Wayland. One piece of advice: update the BIOS religiously. At least until Intel fixes their Skylake GPU issues.

rstuart4133 10y ago

This I think is the Windows perspective. The Linux perspective (Debian in my case) is somewhat different: - Hardware wise the Trackpad is identical in performance to the Mac. All the same gestures are recognised - but the software doesn't use most of them. In fact the software side was terrible until libxinput took over from the old synaptics driver. Now if it works, it works well - but it's still a little lacking on the gesture front. - Coil whine should be no different - but I've never heard it. - Fan control is perfect, which is weird. Maybe it was old BIOS? - Intel's GPU firmware & driver has been a 18 month long cluster fuck. It's the same cluster fuck on Windows and Linux. It still isn't perfect, but it's much better. At the rate they are going, they may get it right 2 years after the initial release of the CPU. Here's hoping. I don't know how Apple could escape this mess. Maybe they knew they couldn't, so escaped it by not upgrading the CPU's for donkey's years. - Oddly the wakeup problem happened on Linux too. Once I opened by bag and it was so hot I though I'd destroyed it. The issue has gone now. - Linux has the same issues a Windows when it comes to mixing HIDPI and normal displays. In Linux it's a fundamental limitation of X. It can be fixed in Wayland. One piece of advice: update the BIOS religiously. At least until Intel fixes their Skylake GPU issues.