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by dreistdreist 3475 days ago
Did they fix the coil whine?
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I sure as hell hope so. Typing this on a 2015 XPS 15 as we speak, and the incessant "chirp chirp chirp" any time it's in a non-horizontal position (such as when docked) drives me insane.

Finally convinced support to take it in for warranty (expires in a few weeks), which means I'll be without it for a while, but hopefully they at least can swap out the mobo with a non-chirpy version...

They did not fix that either. You might be lucky to receive a device that doesn't exhibit it, or you may not notice it, or you may not even bother about it.

Dell doesn't really care - they still sell loads, and as long as the online reviewers don't complain loudly enough so that their sales are affected it is just not worth the cost.

Wow how lame of Dell. That was the reason I went with a Lenovo T460 (which I do not regret btw ;))
Lenovo is much worse than Dell though... They deserve to go bankrupt after superfish and all that other crap they did.