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by gessha
468 days ago
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I have the same problem, trying to find a new laptop upgrading from a maxed out 9-year old XPS 15. I was hoping Dell would come through with their new lineup but it hasn’t even been released yet and honestly their website is garbage at marketing it. I might just bit the bullet and get a Mac but I’d hate the lock in. Alternatively, I can just stick with my current setup… |
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Dell's latest offerings aren't particulaly inspiring, especially wrt pricing (absurdly expensive for what you get). Seems that PC laptop manufacturers have taken a page out of Apple's playbook and charge through the nose for memory and SSD upgrades.
To put in context, I paid $1,100 USD for this machine in October, 2019, and around another $200 for 2 X 512GB SSD and 32 GB RAM. So, $1,300 all-in. These days you're looking at least double the price.
And if you're going to blow $3K on a laptop, might as well go with a MBP; at least there you're getting high end hardware. Giving up Linux after 15 years is a bitter pill, hopefully Asahi Linux will come out with M3/M4 support in the next year -- in the meantime I'll migrate my current machine to a Fedora VM on the Mac.