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The company I work for used to buy XPS's for upper management and C-levels. We stopped because every single one of them had their batteries bulge so bad they po
by thesuitonym 4y ago
The company I work for used to buy XPS's for upper management and C-levels. We stopped because every single one of them had their batteries bulge so bad they popped out the keyboards and trackpads. At first we thought it was a problem of traveling with them in standby, but then it started happening on users' desks. Other Dell laptops don't have such a problem, it has to be something with the XPS design.
- packetlost 4y agoIt happened fairly often to the 2015-2016ish era XPSs. Afaik they fixed whatever issue was causing it
- thesuitonym 4y agoThat's about the time we stopped buying them. Maybe as late as 2018, but I'm not 100% certain on that.
- kurupt213 4y agoAny lithium-ion battery can go spicy. The pouch form-factor common to the thin profile laptops that don’t have easily removed batteries can really swell. It’s the same phenomenon that warps iPhones