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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 05:12 PM EST |
Canonical Blog
I’d like to call
out the drive and energy of Barton George and Michael Cote at Dell for making
the XPS 13 launch possible. And of course, the team within Canonical for the
fine tuning of this great product (mine ‘cold’ boots to desktop in under 11
seconds!) I’d also like to call out the dev community for their incredible
support, helping us getting this from drawing board to factory ship – get
buying!
Combining Ubuntu with the power of Dell hardware gives developers the
perfect environment for productive software development, whatever their sector.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is available from http://www.dell.com/us/soho
/p/xps-13-linux/pd in America and Canada today.
http://blog.canonical.com/2012/11/29/sputnik-dells-ubuntu-based-developer-laptop
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 06:03 PM EST |
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| Authored by: kg on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:06 PM EST |
You'd think that you'd be able to select at least a few
options, such as memory, SSD size, etc. That's what made Dell
successful in the first place. Gorilla glass is nice, all
right, but particularly developers will want customization.
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IANAL
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| Authored by: stegu on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:12 PM EST |
I have had similar experiences with previous
Linux laptops from Dell: you can't find them
unless you know where they are, and sales reps
don't recommend them. Sometimes they don't
even know it exists until you tell them.
Once I even got the response that "it wasn't
available in my region" even though I was
looking at a web page that clearly stated the
opposite, and another time the sales rep told
me that I didn't really want that laptop
because it wouldn't play well with our corporate
network (which, unbeknownst to him, was entirely
Linux-based at the time).
There's a strange and uneasy beating-around-the-bush
attitude from Dell when it comes to selling laptops
with Linux pre-installed, so much so that I suspect
they are struggling not to violate some sort of
agreement with Microsoft, or at least trying to
keep Microsoft happy by not really pushing their
alternatives to pre-installed Windows on laptops.
At least they are selling Linux, and not on a low
end crippled machine. This looks like a solid and
competent tool which I would consider buying if I
needed a new laptop right now.
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| Authored by: say_what on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:54 PM EST |
| perhaps due to a poor search engine used for intra site searches? They wouldn't
be using Bing by any chance? :P
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A cheap solution that doesn't work
is neither,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 12:53 AM EST |
1) I can't buy a desktop, any form factor, for under $500 with Ubuntu from Dell.
In fact, I cannot find any Ubuntu desktops at all. Where do they hide them? I
highly suspect the Microsoft contract has a restraint of trade clause in it
against Linux forbidding Dell from offering a Linux desktop.
2) Is it just me, or is this "ultrabook" ultra expensive for a lower
resolution 1300x768 laptop (with a display from 2008!!!). $1500 for the basic
machine. My Macbook pro has a better vertical resolution and cost me $1200.
Why is the Dell costing me more than the Macbook. The SSD I don't need, nor do
I need the superthin form factor. I would take it, but I want a $999 machine if
I am doing without mainstream consumer support.
I need to buy a 4 core (8 with hyperthreads) i7 desktop or microtower for a
compute server. Dell doesn't have it. I need to buy a cheap supported box for
my wife to internet surf and word process. Dell doesn't have it.
This developer Laptop is good for professional developers who have a company
paying to buy their machines. What about the rest of us.
Come one Shuttleworth -- surely you can do better. I'd rather give you the $40
licensing fee than give it to Microsoft, but these prices just stink.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 04:25 AM EST |
"Our first project officially launches today for customers in the United
States...We loaded a super sleek Dell machine with Ubuntu to give developers the
essentials they want," Dell said in a statement.
Now that's a blatent lie, as they've done exactly this before: Claim to sell a
linux computer, and make it impossible for anyone to actually find it.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 10:20 AM EST |
IMHO, this is a dead duck.
768 Vertical Pixels
Glossy Screen
If this is aimed at Devs then I'd sure like to know what they were smoking the
cobbled this together.
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