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I have a Precision 5520 (basically an XPS 15) at work. At home, I have a Retina MacBook Pro Late 2013. I still prefer the MacBook, even though it’s a lot less p
by fuzzy2 8y ago
I have a Precision 5520 (basically an XPS 15) at work. At home, I have a Retina MacBook Pro Late 2013. I still prefer the MacBook, even though it’s a lot less powerful.
First off, the killer with anything Dell: The firmware is just incredibly terrible. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds for the initial Dell logo to show. Others have similar issues, too, but no firmware setting seems to help. The Latitude I had before also took its sweet time during startup.
The MacBook has a keyboard that is actually usable. The Precision does not. They keys just don’t feel right and make weird noises. The MacBook touchpad is better, too. The Precision touchpad tends to make the cursor jump while clicking.
And last but not least: Windows. Microsoft is trying very hard, but it’s not there yet. Especially mixed DPI support is still terrible, even in Windows itself.
However, if given a choice, I’ll take the 4K screen again any time. Once you go “Retina”, you don’t go back.
- jdhawk 8y ago5510 Work Computer - the keyboard is complete trash. The XPS 13's we have laying around have a slightly better feel to them, but they're still trash compared to my 2011 Macbook Air. Its really frustrating, and has basically turned my "laptop" into a desktop
- BenoitP 8y agoSame sentiment here with XPS 15. The firmware is confusing the integrated Intel HD Graphics card with the nVidia GeForce; leading to a hugely yanky windows UI, while the CUDA cores are sitting idle. Independently of wether the laptop is running on battery. The issue runs around the Desktop Windows Manager not wanting to be executed on the proper GPU. I don't know who to blame here, Microsoft, Dell or nVidia. Probably all of them as this seems like a common support issue no one wants to engage into.