2015 Dell XPS 13 Incoming

[barnsley]

Why not? All you need is the cd and use the OEM key to install it. Unless they changed that you can easily get them cheap. If you are spending over $1000 then it really shouldn't make a difference, but it will on the user experience. If you bought a budget laptop that's different.

When you drop a large chunk of money on a laptop, you'd expect it to just work and not need much tweaking at all right? Or is that unreasonable? Its ridiculous how much crap some laptops have on them, even £2000+ ones. You're paying for a complete product, not something that needs work to be good.

Stuff like this is why Mac has become more popular. The average user would not know how to install windows.

 

[ShaunB-91]

When you drop a large chunk of money on a laptop, you'd expect it to just work and not need much tweaking at all right? Or is that unreasonable? Its ridiculous how much crap some laptops have on them, even £2000+ ones. You're paying for a complete product, not something that needs work to be good.

Stuff like this is why Mac has become more popular. The average user would not know how to install windows.

+1 on that.

 

[NeverBackDown]

When you drop a large chunk of money on a laptop, you'd expect it to just work and not need much tweaking at all right? Or is that unreasonable? Its ridiculous how much crap some laptops have on them, even £2000+ ones. You're paying for a complete product, not something that needs work to be good.

Stuff like this is why Mac has become more popular. The average user would not know how to install windows.

It doesn't bother me to drop more money on it. At that point i am anyway upgrading the ram and to a ssd. Once you start spending a lot it won't make a difference really.

Every user should know. Put in the cd and follow instructions.. boom done. Or google it, there is no excuse for people when all the information is at their disposale.

 

[barnsley]

It doesn't bother me to drop more money on it. At that point i am anyway upgrading the ram and to a ssd. Once you start spending a lot it won't make a difference really.

So you're happy to pay more for less?

 

[NeverBackDown]

So you're happy to pay more for less?

Its not paying more for less. I buy the laptop and upgrade it if possible. I'm gonna end up doing it at some point mine as well do it now

 

[barnsley]

Its not paying more for less. I buy the laptop and upgrade it if possible. I'm gonna end up doing it at some point mine as well do it now

Why do that if you could just add the extra you'd spend on upgrades and get a better laptop? Its an interesting way of doing things I'll give you that

 

[NeverBackDown]

Why do that if you could just add the extra you'd spend on upgrades and get a better laptop? Its an interesting way of doing things I'll give you that

It's hardly any extra money being spent. Not all laptops are worth the extra price tag. Some laptops are better and cheaper and can be upgraded to be better with another ram stick or ssd. Can always sell the old sticks and drive.

 

[barnsley]

It's hardly any extra money being spent. Not all laptops are worth the extra price tag. Some laptops are better and cheaper and can be upgraded to be better with another ram stick or ssd. Can always sell the old sticks and drive.

If we take the price of a 240GB ssd and some ram thats pretty much an extra £100. For that you can often get the next model up with a better CPU and more ram (as an example).

 

[NeverBackDown]

If we take the price of a 240GB ssd and some ram thats pretty much an extra £100. For that you can often get the next model up with a better CPU and more ram (as an example).

Generally when you buy expensive laptops they already come with the top cpu, ram is dependent on model. SSD is always and they are pretty cheap in the US.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Generally when you buy expensive laptops they already come with the top cpu, ram is dependent on model. SSD is always and they are pretty cheap in the US.

Not always the case, the Dell XPS 13 starts with a Core i3, upgrading to an i7 will be quite expensive. Its the same with all brands really.

 

[barnsley]

Generally when you buy expensive laptops they already come with the top cpu, ram is dependent on model. SSD is always and they are pretty cheap in the US.

It doesn't work like that with ultrabooks. Its often a crappy screen+small ssd+ the lowest end i5 they can find.

 

[zatoichi]

That's a big budget for a laptop.

Its a nice laptop on paper but Dell...

Why do i not not trust that name???

 

[ShaunB-91]

New link added to purchase this bad boy. Here

 

[JR23]

Aww we don't get the epic battery life 1080p version

JR

 

[tinytomlogan]

Wish I knew what the difference between the two SSD's were other than capacity

 

[ShaunB-91]

Wish I knew what the difference between the two SSD's were other than capacity

The mobility bit? Just has added mobility init.

 

[tinytomlogan]

The mobility bit? Just has added mobility init.

Its the "timmeh" model

 

[barnsley]

Wish I knew what the difference between the two SSD's were other than capacity

Dell's SSD OEM tends to be Samsung and its often the previous gen EVO SSDs. So I'm betting it'll be something like either an 840 EVO or one of their mSATA SSDs.

mSata ssds are more common in ultrabooks so I'm guessing there will be no speed difference, as that is the case with their 840 evo msatas.

(this is based on what i've seen Dell use in desktops and some further googling)

 

[ShaunB-91]

Its not a PCI-E SSD is it? Didn't know they existed until the MSI laptop was shown at CES.

 

[barnsley]

Its not a PCI-E SSD is it? Didn't know they existed until the MSI laptop was shown at CES.

Ultrabooks use tend to use mSata (well the nice, expensive ones do..) as they are tiny and save alot of space.


Quite a few companies tend to use Micron or Toshiba as their SSD oem brand of choice. I'm not entirely sure if dell are the only ones to use Samsung SSDs though.