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Ultra thin laptops look cool, but suck in almost every other way. If you need thin then get a MacBook Air.
Dell laptops like the XPS 13 and 15 are recommended on many compatibility lists including the official Ubuntu certification page. Not only do they look fantastic but they are highly compatible with Ubuntu which is what drew me. The whole point of my purchase was compatibility remember.
Yeah, I'm sorry to say that is a result of good marketing. I work at a university and we have experience with a good number of XPS laptops.
We saw at least a 60% problem rate, and Dell's support was dog slow. Batteries being the weak spot. Because it's thin it is more fragile, we saw a number of broken screens, and keyboards. One survived a Gatorade spill, but another failed after a water spill. Go figure
A three year warranty helped, but we were out of a laptop for months at a time, more than once on the same laptop.
Partly because of you I ended up returning the Dell XPS 13 and getting a System 76 Lemur Pro instead ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ💻
When you have battery life beyond 5s next year you'll be thankful
I love how easy it is to replace things on System76 machines. They have a website which shows the internals and repair/replacement process for every model and generation of their computers.