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Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition – With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

8 points by eblanshey 12y ago

h43k3r 12y ago
How much memory is sufficient these days. I mean with all the development work, I can max out my 8 gigs of ram. I understand that it would be difficult to fit 16 gigs or 12 gigs of ram in an 13in laptop.
- digitalzombie 12y ago
  You want more if you want to run a lot of virtualization from what I've read. So far I'm doing well with 16GB and SSD. A situation that comes up for multiple VMs was clustering Cassandra. I had several contract projects and I had several vagrant box up and running for each project. https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-C25A8823-F595-4322-BD0D-4FD5B081F877.html https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.... Hopefully it's that link. Starbuck internet is bad at the moment. edit: That sucks, their last laptop spunik was also 8GB. I thought for sure they're going to push for more since a few developers were asking for it =/.
eblanshey 12y ago
Announcement here: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-available/ http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-devel...
peatmoss 12y ago
If I were in the market for a laptop, I'd be pretty interested in this unit. Seems like it might be a bit of a hacker sweet spot, assuming they haven't resorted to lots of non-free shenanigans--a laptop that is fully supported by a non-bleeding edge Linux is much better than a laptop that is stuck with a particular Linux distribution. Seems like I know a lot of folks "coming home" from OS X to other platforms. My homecoming was to an OpenBSD workstation because I decided I didn't want or need my work to be portable. But if I had, I'd be taking a long hard look at this machine with the larger high-res screen, decent CPU, and MacBook Air-ish design.
wodenokoto 12y ago
Last I heard Linux and ultra high res screen were a kind of hit and miss. Has dell done anything to uptimize Ubuntu or has it matured enough on its own?

8 points by eblanshey 12y ago

How much memory is sufficient these days. I mean with all the development work, I can max out my 8 gigs of ram. I understand that it would be difficult to fit 16 gigs or 12 gigs of ram in an 13in laptop.

digitalzombie 12y ago
You want more if you want to run a lot of virtualization from what I've read. So far I'm doing well with 16GB and SSD. A situation that comes up for multiple VMs was clustering Cassandra. I had several contract projects and I had several vagrant box up and running for each project. https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-C25A8823-F595-4322-BD0D-4FD5B081F877.html https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.... Hopefully it's that link. Starbuck internet is bad at the moment. edit: That sucks, their last laptop spunik was also 8GB. I thought for sure they're going to push for more since a few developers were asking for it =/.

eblanshey 12y ago

Announcement here: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-available/ http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-devel...

peatmoss 12y ago

If I were in the market for a laptop, I'd be pretty interested in this unit. Seems like it might be a bit of a hacker sweet spot, assuming they haven't resorted to lots of non-free shenanigans--a laptop that is fully supported by a non-bleeding edge Linux is much better than a laptop that is stuck with a particular Linux distribution. Seems like I know a lot of folks "coming home" from OS X to other platforms. My homecoming was to an OpenBSD workstation because I decided I didn't want or need my work to be portable. But if I had, I'd be taking a long hard look at this machine with the larger high-res screen, decent CPU, and MacBook Air-ish design.

wodenokoto 12y ago

Last I heard Linux and ultra high res screen were a kind of hit and miss. Has dell done anything to uptimize Ubuntu or has it matured enough on its own?