I hope they fixed the awful coil whine. I had one so bad it was practically unusable.
Both my 9333 and my recently purchased 9360 have this damn coil whine. That means this issue has existed for over several years and several product generations. How in the world is Dell ok with this? Does anyone at Dell actually use their products?
I didn’t observe that whine with my 9350. But the touchpad is essentially useless. In fact, I should reimage it with an OS where mouse use isn’t necessary. It’s that awful.
My best theory is these machines are meant to be seen on a desk attached to a big monitor and usual desktop setup.
I run Linux (exclusively) on mine, and use tmux + i3wm + qutebrowser for pretty much everything so my hands never have to leave the keyboard! Maybe that's why I've never noticed the quality of the touchpad.. but now that you mention it, yea this is pretty awkward.
The touchpad is downright user abusive in windows. After a google, it looks like most people have to uninstall the default driver and install another driver - just to get it to usable. Two finger scrolling never seems to work right, amongst other things. i.e. sometimes it'll keep scrolling after I've lifted my fingers - other times it wont register at all.
Wow, that sounds terrible. I don't seem to have any of those issues on Linux with the libinput driver, though I seem to recall that something wasn't quite right with the touchpad a few years ago when I got the 9333 when using the older (now deprecated) evdev driver.
I have the XPS 13 and don't find the supposed "coil whine" that bad tbh.