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These laptops have been around, and successful, for years. They've just been snuffed by hipsters because they weren't Apple.
by creshal 10y ago
These laptops have been around, and successful, for years. They've just been snuffed by hipsters because they weren't Apple.
- StevePerkins 10y agoFeel free to provide some recommended examples instead of just being snarky.
- creshal 10y agoDell's XPS series has been around since 2013, they just didn't make it to HN. Lenovo also had more compact-ish 15" models with the T540p and later the T550/T560. Not sure about HP's Envy series, I'm not following them too closely.
- webaholic 10y agowhat? I have a 2008 dell xps. XPS is Dell's premium laptop line that has been around since forever now.
- slantyyz 10y agoI found that after Dell went private, their XPS'es (and other products, for that matter) all of a sudden became machines I'd actually consider buying.
- mikestew 10y agoI had an XPS when I worked Microsoft. I haven't worked at Microsoft in over ten years. IIRC, XPS goes back to the 90s.
- Chant-I-CRW 10y agoI had an m1530 from 2008. It was still working great until 2015 when it stopped booting. I gave it to a friend for parts, but he used a blowtorch to redo the GPU solder. Says it is still working just fine today.
- seabrookmx 10y agoYup. Their XPS monicker is really old. My second PC was a Dell "Dimension XPS D266". 266 stood for the cutting edge 266mhz Pentium II that thing was rocking.
- kedean 10y agoXPS has been heavily recommended for a long time, but dell does still have a stigma and I personally had a hard time finding a way to actually BUY one when I looked. Lenovo lost developers trust years ago when they started pulling stunt after stunt with security vulnerabilities, backdoors, and spyware.
- creshal 10y agoDell sells twice as many laptops as Apple does (making it the third largest vendor). They only carry a "stigma" in a very small echo chamber of Apple fanboys.
- mercer 10y agoIs there any way I can convince you to stop with the 'Apple fanboys' bullshit? It's not furthering whatever 'cause' you have and just comes across as presumptuous. Based on what I've been reading here on HN, most Apple users are pissed off by the choices that Apple made for the new MBP's, and are honestly exploring their options (as am I). That doesn't sound like fanboy behavior.
- kedean 10y agoA) You should stop the condescending attitude towards Apple's users. It doesn't help anyone you influence anybody's opinion. B) I believe Dell's sales volume is heavily inflated by all of the government and school contracts they have. Every computer I used in K-12 and most in college were dell machines, simply because that's what schools buy. That makes raw sales numbers irrelevant, because we're talking laptops for developers, not average office workers or students.