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There is an important value, implied by the repairability, that gets little attention here. When I went to Malaysia, My 7 years old Asus N550 was malfunctionin
by aljgz 5y ago
There is an important value, implied by the repairability, that gets little attention here.
When I went to Malaysia, My 7 years old Asus N550 was malfunctioning and I needed to get a new laptop. In my previous company I got a zenbook 13" and loved it, but the ones in Malaysia were only sold with 8GB ram. I've been using 16 for 7 years and there was no way to go back. I wanted 10th gen intel (For the improved integrated GPU) and my only options which sold 16GB were Dell xps (500$ more expensive) and Lenovo (1000$ more expensive), but the latter would arrive in 3 months.
I got a Dell xps as my only option, and I hate it. One reason is that the specific cpu I got did not get the improved GPU (Intel's shady marketing and lack of transparency is to blame). Another reason is that the fingerprint reader has no drivers for Fedora, while Dell advertises the laptop as Linux ready.
Now I need more ram for my new activities and I want to bump it to 32 but I cannot do that.
Manufacturers tell us that they need to solder ram to MB to be able to give high performance for a thin and light form factor. Framework shows that this is not true.
Also, see how Framework tries to be transparent and informative? It clearly tells you that the tiny performance improvement by i7-1185G7 over i7-1165G7 is not worth the 400$ difference for most people.
I will get rid of this Dell Xps and get a Framework as soon as it's available in my area.
- dijit 5y agofor the little it's worth it's unlikely that you could have even upgraded to 32g. Most of the mobile intel chips have been limited to 16GiB max for quite a bit, only the very recent ones go to 32GiB
- aljgz 5y agoYou're right and this kinda reinforces my point: With Framework, I clearly know that it supports up to 64, even if right now I only need 16.
- kirbyfan64sos 5y ago> Another reason is that the fingerprint reader has no drivers for Fedora, while Dell advertises the laptop as Linux ready. Which XPS is it? I believe most of their fingerprint readers should be supported in recent libfprint versions.
- aljgz 5y agoIt's 7390. When I bought it there was no Linux driver. And then they released an Ubuntu only driver naming it "Linux driver". My device is 27c6:5385 which is not listed in https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html. I remember people trying to reverse-engineer the Ubuntu driver, or re-pack it for Fedora. Unfortunately, I did not dare to install the repacked version.
- kelnos 5y agoNot the person you are replying to, but I have a XPS 13 9380 (the 2018 model), and the fingerprint sensor is still not supported on Linux. I'm subscribed to the relevant issue on the libfprint bug tracker, so if there was news, I'd hear about it.