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I'm interested in the Dell XPS "Developer Edition" but the fact that you can't upgrade the RAM to 16GB puts me off the whole thing entirely.

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I too wish that they had a 16 GB edition. It was the only spec that made me pause and say "Huh what"?. I was running 8bg prior to this but generally I want to max out that ram and they should offer it as a spec option.

They do have another linux friendly laptop that can upgrade to 16gb, though its name escapes me now...

Oh, here it is, the M3800:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/review-dell-m3800-dev...

I don't like it. I really don't understand why they don't offer a 16 GB RAM version of the XPS.

My understanding is that the motherboard does not permit it. From what I have read they are marking the initial XPS13 as "EARLY 2015" units -- with Windows 10 and Skylake around the corner you may see another major refresh later this year.

Typing to you on a XPS13 "Early 2015".

Well that's better than nothing, but I'll note that my 2012 laptop is happy with 32GB.

The smaller dev edition is based on an ultra-book design, which unfortunately leads to such limitations, while a workstation design like the Precision will not.

This looks alarmingly like the 2014 XPS 15 with i7, 16GB RAM and the GT750m I had for a while last year. Endless GPU problems, coil whine and a Touchscreen that caused general system issues. unless you're prepared to deal with random issues, I'd steer clear of the 15...

It's from the Precision line, not a (Studio) XPS. Not sure if that helps or not.

Indeed, but they share the same power system, battery, several CPUs, heat management etc. and will likely have similar problems.

Lenovo X250 is an option

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