Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition – With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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8 points·eblanshey··5 comments

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.

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

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.

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....

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 =/.

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?

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