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Most important tid-bid for me: 7th Gen Intel® Quad Core™ processors optional 4GB GeForce® GTX 1050 Supports up to 32GB of memory Killer™ Wireless: The Killer
by Roritharr 10y ago
Most important tid-bid for me:
7th Gen Intel® Quad Core™ processors
optional 4GB GeForce® GTX 1050
Supports up to 32GB of memory
Killer™ Wireless: The Killer 1535 Wireless-AC
- sliken 10y agoNice, I don't need a fire breathing gtx 1080 and the noise and terrible battery life. However the GTX 1050 might well justified. Very curious how long the battery lasts.
- Roritharr 10y agoI just wish they'd give me this in a 13inch package. (like the Alienware 13, just with a more mature chassis)
- sliken 10y agoWouldn't that be the XPS13?
- sethhochberg 10y agoCan't get an XPS 13 with a discrete GPU, however
- sliken 10y agoCorrect, but if you get the 2015 you can get the Iris 540 which is a pretty decent GPU (at least compared to anything else intel ships). Beats some of the low/medium range chipsets. Sadly dell makes makes you pick on the XPS13: Lousy CPU No iris graphics 8GB ram small disk Great battery nice matte display And: Nice CPU Iris 540 graphics 16GB ram 3200x1800 shiny/reflective display (that halves your battery life) Sadly I was looking for the Iris 540, 1080P display, and 16GB ram. A very rare combination. Hopefully the new dell makes the 1080P option independ of the rest of the laptop. Sadly the kaby lake + iris graphics won't be out for a few more months. So the 2015 XPS13 is WAY faster at graphics than the 2016 kaby lake.
- ido 10y agoThe highest end i7 xps13 actually has surprisingly good graphics performance despite the intel integrated gpu (been using one the moment the 2016 version became available).
- slantyyz 10y agoIt might be good, but it doesn't even remotely compare to the Nvidia GTX 1060 in the VR capable 13R3. Although battery life suffers immensely because of it.
- Roritharr 10y agoThe 13 doesn't have a real quad core, just a dual-core and only goes up to 16gb of ram. I want 32 and a quad-core, in an 13-inch form-factor. Both of which the Alienware 13 offers, but thats a gaming machine.
- slantyyz 10y agoThe problem with the Alienware 13R3 is that it's a great professional machine with the most incredibly stupid looking adornments. I absolutely hate how the best machines are Gaming machines, which means you're stuck with all sorts of LED bling-crap. The 13R3 looks like an absolutely killer machine for everyday work. OLED touch, quad core CPU (HQ series), fast GPU, physical touchpad buttons, ports out the wazoo, user serviceable RAM (up to 32!) and storage, etc.
- Roritharr 10y agoYou are absolutely right.
- hashhar 10y agoTry the Razer Blade or the Razer Blade Pro. Except for the green logo on the top nothing makes it look like a gaming machine. And the Pro even has mechanical switches.
- slantyyz 10y agoThose are nice machines, but for any laptop I buy for work reasons, I like to invest in a 3 year extended warranty. With brands like Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo, I know I'll get at least OK support. Because Razer is more of a niche brand without a mature support infrastructure like the aforementioned companies, I do have some concerns.
- hashhar 10y agoI do agree with the support. I have a cheap Dell Inspiron with 1 year complete warranty which I extended to 3 years (very cheap package) and their service is so great that they came the next day I called them to ask about a keyboard replacement and fixed it on the spot in my home.
- Roritharr 10y agoLast time i looked neither the 13 nor the 14 offered 32gb ram.
- wolfgke 10y agoMost important flaw for me: Seems to have no ethernet port.
- tyree731 10y agoI'm guessing that ethernet is supported via an associated dock.
- pmontra 10y agoYes, I would be using a dongle all the time, which is unbearable. So long for the XPS.
- alkonaut 10y agoThe slimmer dell laptops have been lacking the RJ45 port for a while now. I have a precision m3300 (very happy with that) which doesn't have one. Had to get a cheap adapter for USB but that one feels more like a plug that sits at the end of the network cable than a dongle. The thing I think with those of us that do have their computers connected to cable network a lot ("all the time") is that it's usually in the same place (our desk) so it's not that big a problem to adapt the end of the network cable there. In fact I'd prefer to use a usb-c brick with all connections (video, keyboard, mouse, lan) over the current one where I insert the network cable into one usb, then the monitor into the hdmi, and the monitor usb which has the mouse/keyboard in it's hub into a second usb. Of all the "docking flaws" with my current laptop I find the lack of RJ45 to be the least annoying actually.
- ryanlol 10y agoWhat do you do on a laptop that 802.11ac is too slow for? Or do you live on the NRQZ? Gbit ethernet isn't that much faster than 802.11ac, so I'm really having a hard time thinking of a realistic use case here. EDIT: wrote this before I realised that the wifi card this laptop ships with is particularly bad.
- swozey 10y agoI use a USB3 dongle that has 3 USB ports and an ethernet port. It works great. I've used it all over the place, OSX, Mint, etc. $27 Anker, https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Unibody-Aluminum-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00PC07T02/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482259686&sr=8-1&keywords=anker+usb+ethernet https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Unibody-Aluminum-Gigabit-Ethern...