I own a Dell XPS 13 and it seems to be fine build quality wise. Others have not been so lucky. To be honest though, if I had the budget and Apple weren't being

I own a Dell XPS 13 and it seems to be fine build quality wise. Others have not been so lucky. To be honest though, if I had the budget and Apple weren't being ridiculous with the specs I'd still consider a mac a much better development machine; specifically due to Adobe's refusal to port photoshop to ubuntu. If you do not have any need for photoshop, then XPS developer edition is much better value. My only concern with the dell line is that drivers really are a problem. For some reason, the audio works perfectly fine under Ubuntu and is really half baked on Windows 10 (with the newest drivers from dell). It's like upside down bizarro world.