I’m thinking about getting a Dell XPS 13 from costco with a black friday deal. I’ve been watching the laptop for a while and it is very appealing, especially with the costco deal which is 16GB of dual channel, 512GB NVMe, and a 3200x1800 touch IPS panel for $1300+tax. It has a 8th gen quad core, and after Raven Ridge has been announced, I’m having some hesitation. The thing is this deal runs from Nov. 17-27 and I think it is too good to pass up. Is it worth it to wait for Raven Ridge and when a XPS 13 with raven ridge is released?
Also, about this laptop, I have some questions with Fedora.
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The touchpad. I know that the touchpad is great under windows precision drivers, but is it as good under Linux?
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Wifi card. I would be buying the non-developer edition, so I believe that means I would be getting a Broadcom chip. Should I just replace it.
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DPI with Gnome. It is really as bad as everyone makes it seem? I can live with some items small.
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Dual booting. This isn’t really a concern, but I have a few questions. Is GRUB good to go with NVMe drives now? Also, is there an easy way to add an option in Gnome to restart into Windows?
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Touchscreen. Is it good for Linux and Gnome, and is there a way to hot-disable it easily?
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Is battery life similar to Windows 10 (especially with the near-4k res)? And I’ve heard something about a Linux battery saver mode, what is that?