Dell XPS 13 – Developer Edition with 1080p and 16 GB RAM

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Does anyone know why Dell does not offer a combination of 1080p screen and 16 GB of RAM in their XPS 13 developer edition sortiment?

On Linux I feel it's still more convenient to have a 1080p screen.

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It does? The res is higher than 1080p and scales down to it.

I think 4K panels inherently suck more power than 1080p panels, even if you downscale. Not sure what the ratio is though.

How much battery time are you gaining with a 1080p screen?

Agressive ad blocking (eg: DNS throuigh a piHole) and using a more bare bones window manager instead of Gnome/KDE (I'm fond of XFCE) would probably gain a lot of battery back.

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