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Most important flaw for me: Seems to have no ethernet port.

• tyree731 10y ago
  I'm guessing that ethernet is supported via an associated dock.
• pmontra 10y ago
  Yes, I would be using a dongle all the time, which is unbearable. So long for the XPS.
  • alkonaut 10y ago
    The 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 ago
    What 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 ago
  I 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...