I got a dell XPS 13 this week for work and its absolutely insane. Best laptop I have ever had and I have had macbooks. I'm running Fedora 29 on it and it works perfect. The battery life is amazing, I'm seeing about 10+ hours while running Gnome and a bunch of dev tools. Made sure to pick one without a nvidia GPU. The only thing I can fault it for is you can't open the hinge with one hand.
I have an XPS 13 with Linux too. One thing I notice that's not mentioned very much about battery life is how hybrid sleep works.
On macOS closing the lid is suspends to sleep i.e. it keeps RAM powered only. On Fedora 29 (and every other Linux I've tried) it's the same.
The difference is that after some set amount of time macOS is smart enough to stop powering the RAM and suspend to SSD. That's not the case under Linux and instead the laptop just goes completely flat.
Anyone with any suggestions on that I'd love to hear it.
(I should add that I see the XPS 13 as a competitor to the old MacBook Air 11 but with a quad-core CPU and a bigger screen).
Yes! Thank you. It's not working out of the box for me on Fedora but I've decided to play with an Arch install anyway so hopefully should be able to get this working.
Personally I like the 2017 model (9360) better than the 2018 model (9370).
The 2018 model notebook is thinner but it suffers from problems as a result of this: No USB A port. The SD card slot was replaced by a Micro SD card slot. CPU heat management is also an issue. Finally, it has a smaller battery (52Wh instead of 60Wh, 13% less!).
The display went from 3200x1800 to 4K which doesn't really make sense for a 13inch display anyway.
I got the 9360. It seems they updated it to have a 2018 version. I guess for the people who don't want to go all usb C. The specs seemed to be way better for the price as well.
