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After a ton of research I picked up a Dell XPS 15 (9510) around the holidays for roughly 1600 USD and switched from OSX to Manjaro and I'm in love. 11th gen 11
by jmsa 4y ago
After a ton of research I picked up a Dell XPS 15 (9510) around the holidays for roughly 1600 USD and switched from OSX to Manjaro and I'm in love. 11th gen 11900H processor. I started with the super high def display but returned it for the FHD display. The resolution of the FHD is more than sufficient (it's actually GREAT), the battery life is better, and it's matte display is much easier on my eyes. Things I love - 16GB of RAM (that is upgradable, and will be upgraded), two SSD slots (both occupied). I set it up to hibernate since s3 sleep is gone. I open/close my lid many, many times per day, and it comes back quickly enough for me (probably ~5s). And I appreciate that it's totally powered off that way when the lid is closed. The only hardware issue I'm aware of is the two extra subwoofer speakers don't yet work in Linux, and they sound really good in Windows (I kept a dual boot, but I very, very rarely use it). But the speakers still sound decent w/o the subs running, much much better than my wife's Ideapad. I don't know if the fingerprint scanner is operational and don't care about that, but everything else works well. I do lots of Zoom calls, camera is fine, etc, etc. I code on it all day almost every day, and the keyboard is a high point. I'm a trackpad user, and Linux trackpad is subpar, but after a ton of tweaking I'm happy and functional.