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My top of the line XPS battery swole so much it broke the keyboard. Repaired under warranty. Less than a year later that battery was swollen. No warranty rep
by 650REDHAIR 9mo ago
My top of the line XPS battery swole so much it broke the keyboard.
Repaired under warranty.
Less than a year later that battery was swollen.
No warranty replacement. No OEM batteries available through Dell.
I buy 4 replacements from Amazon and none work. The XPS line has battery DRM.
I have an i7 with a discrete card, 64gb of ram, and a 4k screen that’s worthless.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoThe XPS line has battery DRM Good comment to cc: to your Congressional reps. Only legislation can fix this.
- lostlogin 9mo agoI’d like to think congress is busy sorting out some of the more pressing issues. But maybe they can walk and chew gum.
- klipklop 9mo agoThis post talked me out of buying the new XPS that is going to be released in a few weeks.
- hexbin010 9mo agoNever buy an XPS. Always been trash always will
- rationalist 9mo agoMy nearly 6 year old XPS begs to differ. I've seen quite a few various laptops with swollen batteries, and their users don't understand that can't habitually store their laptops in the sun (well, in sun rays through windows). Those people also don't even realize their battery is swelling, and that it's a bad thing.
- 650REDHAIR 9mo agoMy XPS never sat in the sun and none of my thinkpads or MacBooks have ever had issues like this. Much less multiple issues back to back. More importantly they can all accept 3rd party batteries.
- trympet 9mo agoAdditional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.
- 650REDHAIR 9mo agoGood! Mine is sitting on a shelf. I can’t even use it without the battery because it throttles when the only power source is the charger. I keep it around to maybe scavenge the 4k touchscreen for a project or the ram for a family member’s under-specced laptop or maybe one day someone will crack the battery DRM…
- rtaylorgarlock 9mo agoDell will design the worst laptop power rail circuits, even after that awful power adapter barrel connector, and still DRM the battery to ensure they alone get revenue on things they designed to fail.