[fian]

I've had good service from the Dell XPS 15z I am typing this on. It is now over 3 years old.

I set it up to dual boot Win 7 and Kubuntu. I kept Win7 originally for gaming. I think I booted to Win 7 1 in the past year. There is even less need now with many Steam games working on Linux.

The Optimus(?) graphics system split between Intel and Nvidia was an issue initially. I played around with Bumblebee a bit but mainly have just used the Intel GPU as it provided better battery life and I haven't been doing anything graphically intensive.

The only unresolved issue is that the external HDMI port will only work if plugged in a boot and exclusive to the laptop screen. There may be driver fixes for this now but I haven't had the need so haven't checked.

I have also successfully run Ubuntu variants on Thinkpads (T series) and a couple of Asus Atom netbooks.