I love my 850 Evo and it's 5 yr warranty. I am also a fan of the latitudes but want a different nvidia chip than they tend to use.
On Sep 17, 2016 1:55 AM, "Michael Butash" <mich...@butash.net> wrote: > The xps 15 with nvidia is nice, though it is bigger than I like. That, > and they don't put docking station pads on the xps line. They put those > screens on the latitude line as well I'm noticing, which is better aside > from the intel-only gpu, but no nvidia for latitude it seems. > > I just wish they'd give more love to the people that like small laptops. > I love my 12.5" latitude, but that intel gpu is useless for anything, and > even compositing takes a hit with the cpu. Boo. Razor puts an nvidia 1070 > in their 14 blade that is marginally larger only by a bit. > > Then again, I used to rock a 3" sony android phone every day for a few > years, and miss it terribly in the age of giant 5-7" phones. I like > small/light. > > Side note, I noticed with either new xps or latitude with kaby lake arch, > those only have 1x m.2 ssd/nvme slot, which is a problem and > disappointment. It does have a dock though on the latitude model. Embrace > cloud, yeah, but I like some local redundant disk for critical data. > > My older latitude e7240 I upgraded to have 2x msata's in that works great > with software raid, only downside was a lack of a gsm/lte radio internally > for the extra disk. Power-out events (suspend, power runs out) > occasionally cause a resync when it sits in my travel bag too long, but > always recovers/resyncs perfectly in 2 years of use. In extenuating > circumstances, I can/do trust it with my livelihood. I've dropped it > several times, no problemo. > > Samsung 840 evo msata ssd's ftw in it, every other ssd 2.5/different > vendor has failed me. Horribly/sadly. > > -mb > > > On 09/16/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > > the XPS15 however is wonderful.... > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> > wrote: > >> Ohh, pretty. >> >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3120815/hardware/windows-10-h >> aters-try-linux-on-kaby-lake-chips-with-dells-new-xps-13.html >> >> Shame they still leave only an anemic intel gpu in it, and no real >> docking station. >> >> -mb >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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