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A few months ago I would of said a new Asus zenbook with ubuntu LTS 16.04 as everything works out the box and 10hr battery life with Linux, however I had to tak

A few months ago I would of said a new Asus zenbook with ubuntu LTS 16.04 as everything works out the box and 10hr battery life with Linux, however I had to take to service center recently so they could hard reset it because I switched it off and on too quickly (my taxi arrived just as I switched it on, so immediately held button down again) and it never switch on since. Service center being a bunch of idiots wanted to book it in for 2 weeks, I pleaded (with some profanity laced in as they pushed me beyond frustration with their robotics responses) with them to do a hard reset there and then (they needs opening to remove the bios battery), they caved, and surprise surprise 10mins later I have a working laptop again. I probably wouldn't buy Asus again because service centers are truely shit and obviously there is a race condition with the on switch and bios or whatever that isn't fully tested. In fact I bought some torx screwdrivers to do it myself next time. Dell XPS next I think.

hdhzy 9y ago
I wouldn't recommend XPS. I have version 9350 and it constantly have one problem after another. In no particular order: slow boot time (it can take 7 seconds to see dell logo after pressing power button), coil whine, a firmware update killed the laptop once. I don't know how much of these problems can be attributed to Intel but I fear hardware manufacturers have adopted "release early fix later through firmware" mind-set. Good things about Dell: next business day warranty where a guy will come and replace the motherboard in case the update renders it useless.
- chrisbennet 9y ago
  I have a 2017 XPS 15 (9560) and it has been pretty good with the exception of a 1-2 second pause about once a day. I use it for Windows development.
  - sitepodmatt 9y ago
    Could it be some SSD firmware issue? I could live with a few second pause a day.
    - chrisbennet 9y ago
      I’d heard that some had fixed the problem by updating the intel graphics driver. I did a Dell “update everything including the BIOS” and it made my QT development IDE and my application have bad rendering problems so I did a system restore. The “pause” is a complete lock up, mouse and keyboard stop responding.
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hdhzy 9y ago

I wouldn't recommend XPS. I have version 9350 and it constantly have one problem after another. In no particular order: slow boot time (it can take 7 seconds to see dell logo after pressing power button), coil whine, a firmware update killed the laptop once. I don't know how much of these problems can be attributed to Intel but I fear hardware manufacturers have adopted "release early fix later through firmware" mind-set. Good things about Dell: next business day warranty where a guy will come and replace the motherboard in case the update renders it useless.

chrisbennet 9y ago
I have a 2017 XPS 15 (9560) and it has been pretty good with the exception of a 1-2 second pause about once a day. I use it for Windows development.
- sitepodmatt 9y ago
  Could it be some SSD firmware issue? I could live with a few second pause a day.
  - chrisbennet 9y ago
    I’d heard that some had fixed the problem by updating the intel graphics driver. I did a Dell “update everything including the BIOS” and it made my QT development IDE and my application have bad rendering problems so I did a system restore. The “pause” is a complete lock up, mouse and keyboard stop responding.

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