Comments on: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition

By: Talking about Project Sputnik and the importance of Devs to Dell | Christine's Blog

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:32:26 +0000

[...] World I was interviewed about Project Sputnik, the resulting XPS 13 Developer Edition we launched and the importance of [...]

By: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition | Christine's Blog

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:18:18 +0000

[...] For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://bartongeorge.net/2012/11/29/sputnik-has-landed-introducing-the-dell-xps-13-laptop-developer-e… [...]

By: Gurpreet Pal Singh

Gurpreet Pal Singh — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:46:44 +0000

same high-end config, with a bigger screen, more memory and an optional nvidia kepler and are there any plans for xps14 developer edition that machine sure packs a punch

By: Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe | Christine's Blog

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:32:37 +0000

[...] we launched the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition at the end of November we got a lot of great press. That [...]

By: Suresh Iyer

Suresh Iyer — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:37:46 +0000

Fantastic news, Barton. Thanks for listening and shipping a version so quickly. Can you confirm whether the display panel is IPS or not? Also, any plans for a India launch (and tentative price)?

By: Barton George

Barton George — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:13:37 +0000

Rashid,

Let me check in with the Dell Australia crew and get back to you.

thanks

By: Rashid

Rashid — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:25:15 +0000

Hi George,

Still waiting for the launch date and price for Australia.
Thanks,
Rashid

By: Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:46:22 +0000

Thanks for the response. I’m thrilled that they’ve updated the display, that was what stopped me from buying one before.

I’ve realized my confusion stemmed from comparing the XPS 13′s on the soho site at
http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd

with http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx

however the soho site is still showing the 1366×768 models for Windows. The 1920×1080 Windows version is now $1599 at http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd

I’ve been looking for an ultrabook with good performance, nice display, decent touchpad, and good Linux support (not to mention no patents on rounded corners); this update to the display has finally convinced me (though I wouldn’t complain with a matte option!) Good on Dell for making this.

By: Barton George

Barton George — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:45:41 +0000

That shouldn’t be the case. We have intended to price the Ubuntu version $50 less than same config running Windows. Every so often there are glitches so please let me know if for some reason this isn’t the case and we’ll fix it.

thanks!
Barton
Project Sputnik lead

By: Robert Lawson

Robert Lawson — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:12:23 +0000

It appears with the refresh it’s more expensive than the Windows one again- is this correct?

By: Andy Fundinger

Andy Fundinger — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:47:17 +0000

Any guess how to get the brightness to work without a full reinstall? Maybe I’ll call support. I have too much installed to want to break it back to factory-new.

By: Barton George

Barton George — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:51:40 +0000

I can neither confirm nor deny the High quality screens coming to the developer edition, nor can I talk dates re. said screen

Thanks for remembering Sputnik and stay tuned!!

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:14:36 +0000

[...] George, le directeur marketing de Dell, qui a piloté le projet Sputnik, écrit sur son blog que le XPS 13 sera disponible en dehors des États-Unis début 2013. Il ajoute [...]

By: JW

JW — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:08:46 +0000

Ah, so my hibernate problems were two-fold. The first was my apt-get update must have pulled in the following bug, which was a trivial tweak to the referenced script to fix: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/1007924. The second issue was something I did in my script to hibernate my VM when the laptop hibernates. All is now working as expected.

By: Michel S.

Michel S. — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:49:44 +0000

Perfect storm, I guess — with Windows 8′s launch, suddenly everyone is putting high quality 1080p screens on their premium laptops

Just checking, though — how long will it take between the Windows model’s refresh (ETA later this month) and the developer edition? Will have to order it via friends, and if none of them are in the US at the moment I might have to get the standard model.

And there’s no hardware difference between the two, right? (In the past I had to customize my Dell order to make sure I get one with Intel wifi instead of the Dell-branded Broadcomm).

Was almost resigning myself to getting a Macbook Air until I remember about Sputnik

By: Barton George

Barton George — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:36:31 +0000

thanks Mike!

By: JW

JW — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:53:27 +0000

I thought I replied to this already. Yes, my brightness controls are working fine. When I first got the machine, everything worked until I did a software update through the Update Manager GUI, which broke brightness, lid-suspend, and a few other things. I ran the recovery to factory, then did a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. After this, brightness still works. Some packages are held back though, so I suspect Update Manager did a dist-upgrade rather than just an upgrade, and there was something there that broke it. At this point, all is working as expected except hibernate/resume with the lid, but I am farily confident this is my own doing. I have my system set up to start/take down a bunch of stuff on boot, including virtual box VMs, rsync jobs, etc so I have custom pm-utils/sleep.d scripts that are probably a bit buggy.

By: Barton George

Barton George — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:53:14 +0000

Stay tuned

By: Suresh Iyer

Suresh Iyer — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:58:56 +0000

This news item, [http://goo.gl/nLFUc] assuming it is true, is simply brilliant – Dell is bringing 1920 x 1080 as an option to the 13 inch XPS, and I hope the price doesn’t go up by too much .

It is impressive that Barton and Dell managed to respond to the requests for a higher resolution within 3 weeks (by having the demo unit or the news out at the CES expo), and hopefully we will have the official news out soon.

Thanks, Barton and Dell. I just hope you would get the pricing right to allow us to be really wanting to buy this!

By: ciemaar

ciemaar — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:57:46 +0000

So you’re brightness is adjusting? I haven’t been able to get mine to adjust up or down, maybe I have an issue with my unit? Did you do anything to get it to start adjusting?

By: chf

chf — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:44:24 +0000

in fact, I will not buy even I am not in canada, because it is toooo expensive, 900$ more than in US

By: k

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:50:56 +0000

“Outside the US” – I hope this includes Norway!

(I guess that means Canada is inside the US?)

By: JW

JW — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:47:03 +0000

I am getting about 4.5 hours developing with the screen on full brightness. Developing in C++ & node.js. I have a VM running with my node.js directories rsyncing every 5 secs. Normal productivity apps running, such as browser with gmail & hotmail, thunderbird for corporate, a caldav service and skype. Have used it up to 6 hours in the same way with the screen at minimal brightness, but have not fully drained it this way yet.

By: Mike Stewart

Mike Stewart — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:12:45 +0000

Thanks for Replying Barton,

I’ve seen XPs 13 at Frys, and its awesome, just a tiny screen.

My must have specs:
USB3
Thunderbolt
Display: anti-glare: matte — my dream would be something that works well outdoors like cell/tablet — I’d pay premium.
Resolution: minimum 1080p
Size: At least 15″ 16:9 (more square is ok, too).
HDMI out
CPU: i7
HD: SSD 200GB+
RAM: 8GB+
Battery: 4hrs+ battery (conservative load)

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:05:09 +0000

Bring it to sweden asap.