| Four year plus owner of a Gazelle here. The only thing that is 'wrong' with it is the battery (dead). Since I use the laptop on power exclusively this doesn't bother me. I could have replaced it though. All in all it is a very powerful and very nice laptop. Every time I look at a future replacement for this one I get stuck with this dilemma: System76.com: + I know that the laptop I buy will work with Linux; no painstaking research needed + configuring the laptop the way I want it is a breeze. 32GiB RAM? No problem - Import tariffs and shipping costs (I live in the EU) - So-so build quality Dell: + Local representation, no tariffs + Easier to get support here in the EU - Minimal configurability - Actually finding an XPS with Ubuntu in their shop This last point seems trivial, but I just can't figure out why Dell's website is so completely unusable and stuck in the nineties! Searching for the XPS with Ubuntu gives me a list of XPS laptops that differ in subtle ways. Some I can configure bits of, some are a fixed configuration. There is no simple way to filter their offerings, and on-line I find references to XPS configurations that mysteriously aren't available in the Netherlands — what a mess. Compare that with System76 to see the huge disparity there. |
Problem is that you're looking for XPS, I think they only do XPS + Ubuntu under their Sputnik program. If you look-up the Precision line, Ubuntu 16.04 from the factory is an option with a $101.50 discount over Win10 Pro. [0]
[0] http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=xctop5...