XPS 13 Developer Edition: Specsheet and a short overview
On Monday, we announced the new 1080p display for the XPS 13 developer edition and its upcoming availability in Europe and beyond. To support that launch, here is the official spec sheet as well as a brief presentation on the project and resulting product.
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thank you for all your efforts on this matter, I’ve been (and I think a lot of people around the world too) waiting for a linux ultrabook for a while and Dell’s one is really a nice machine.
I’m from Europe and I’m having a lot of difficulties on finding the Sputnik on Dell sites (I’ve looked for it on the France one, Spanish and Italian…)… is there an easy way to find it or it is still not avalaible?
How would you describe the keyboard? (That and lack of wired nic – to let it act as pxeboot server – are the primary cons right now as I consider this for my next laptop)
A USB3 dongle can be configured for a wired Gig-E network interface. I am surprised Dell didn’t provision one for the “developer” model. Details on how to do this:
The setup is on an XPS13 running Debian Wheezy 7.0 and CentOS 6.3, but I am sure it can be reproduced on Ubuntu. Obviously, you need to have an OS already installed to compile and load the Asix kernel module, so it will not work on bare metal.
My comment wasn’t aimed at whether BlueZ supports BT 3.0 or 4.0, but at the inconsistencies in your technical specs.
The tech specs of the XPS 13 in the DELL shops list BT 3.0 everywhere, while the PDF provided in your blogpost lists BT 4.0 which seems to be correct when comparing it with the specs at Intel.
Barton: first, congrats to Dell for being to first company to seriously support linux in a top end laptop for developers. This is a long overdue machine.
Looks like you are off to a promising start, but definitely have more work to do to make it really polished. Please do not leave this project half baked.
Some features that really matter to me are:
1) ECC RAM. There is no excuse: every serious box shoudl have it, not just servers.
2) wired ethernet port. Wireless is insufficient.
3) very fast yet reliable SSD (the 256 GB that you ship with is fine as far as capacity goes). And have it plug directly in (e.g. on a desktop, be a PCIe drive, not go thru the crap SATA interface).
Hey Barton the above spec sheet link shoots only a “Public Error”.
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Hi Barton,
thank you for all your efforts on this matter, I’ve been (and I think a lot of people around the world too) waiting for a linux ultrabook for a while and Dell’s one is really a nice machine.
I’m from Europe and I’m having a lot of difficulties on finding the Sputnik on Dell sites (I’ve looked for it on the France one, Spanish and Italian…)… is there an easy way to find it or it is still not avalaible?
Thanks a lot,
mik
Hi Mik,
Sorry for the confusion, the XPS 13 developer edition will be available online in Europe later this week. (Right now its available thru reps).
Thanks!
Barton
Thank you a lot… I’ll keep looking for it… I’m really hoping to finally buy a pre-installed linux laptop (and a cool one as this one… great!!)
mik
How would you describe the keyboard? (That and lack of wired nic – to let it act as pxeboot server – are the primary cons right now as I consider this for my next laptop)
A USB3 dongle can be configured for a wired Gig-E network interface. I am surprised Dell didn’t provision one for the “developer” model. Details on how to do this:
http://debian.netside.net/xps13_linux.html
The setup is on an XPS13 running Debian Wheezy 7.0 and CentOS 6.3, but I am sure it can be reproduced on Ubuntu. Obviously, you need to have an OS already installed to compile and load the Asix kernel module, so it will not work on bare metal.
–Mitch
Thanks Mitch!
The specsheet PDF lists Bluetooth 4.0, while the regular Win8 XPS 13 on the DELL website lists Bluetooth 3.0.
I’d really love to have Bluetooth 4.0 due to the way better powersaving features, but I fear it’s only a typo.
Care to enlighten us?
Yep, I confirmed, Ubuntu 12.04 does include BT 4.0 protocol support.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/134538/is-ubuntu-compatible-with-bluetooth-4-0
My comment wasn’t aimed at whether BlueZ supports BT 3.0 or 4.0, but at the inconsistencies in your technical specs.
The tech specs of the XPS 13 in the DELL shops list BT 3.0 everywhere, while the PDF provided in your blogpost lists BT 4.0 which seems to be correct when comparing it with the specs at Intel.
Ahh, got it, thx for the heads up. Ill fwd to the team.
Barton
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Barton: first, congrats to Dell for being to first company to seriously support linux in a top end laptop for developers. This is a long overdue machine.
My fave IT news site, El Reg, just gave your box a preliminary review:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/11/dell_sputnik_review/
Looks like you are off to a promising start, but definitely have more work to do to make it really polished. Please do not leave this project half baked.
Some features that really matter to me are:
1) ECC RAM. There is no excuse: every serious box shoudl have it, not just servers.
2) wired ethernet port. Wireless is insufficient.
3) very fast yet reliable SSD (the 256 GB that you ship with is fine as far as capacity goes). And have it plug directly in (e.g. on a desktop, be a PCIe drive, not go thru the crap SATA interface).
Thanks for the input Brent.
Barton
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