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i recommend you get the xps 13 or 15. once you swap out the killer wifi card for an intel solution, you have a solid machine that's ready to run your favorite d
by leetcrew 8y ago
i recommend you get the xps 13 or 15. once you swap out the killer wifi card for an intel solution, you have a solid machine that's ready to run your favorite distro out of the box. or you can get the developer addition that actually has dell support for ubuntu. idk why you would prefer the pixelbook to this unless you really like chromeOS.
- voltagex_ 8y agoThis is the annoying thing - I've got the 9350 and I had to swap the Broadcom card for an Intel card to get any kind of stability in Windows. Well known error: https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/bcmpciedhd63-sys-Blue-Screen-Dell-XPS-13-QHD/td-p/4677205 https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/bcm... At one point, the crashes even managed to corrupt my filesystem. What I will say is that it's super easy to swap out the wifi and M.2 SSD - took 2 screwdrivers and about 10 minutes. I may have lost Miracast but does anyone actually use that?
- PascLeRasc 8y agoYMMV but a former coworker had a 2016 XPS 13" and swapped out the wifi card for some Intel one and Miracast still worked for him.
- jcims 8y agoMy only word of caution with the xps is to mind the keyboard layout. I returned an xps 15 because I was constantly needing to use the Fn key to get what I wanted. Stopped back in the store and the xps 13 key layout solved all those problems. Just not sure I can handle that small a screen all day.
- craftkiller 8y agoWell that's interesting, I did the opposite. I bought the xps 13 9350, and the Intel 8260 in there was terribly unstable. I opened it up and put in a killer 1525, which also was unstable. Then I replaced it with a killer 1535 and it's worked perfectly ever since. Perhaps the 8260 was just a bad model?