Not Your Typical Small Cheap Computer: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition at Robert Pogson

Not Your Typical Small Cheap Computer: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

Published by Robert Pogson February 18th, 2013 in technology. 4 Comments

What’s with this? Dell is improving the display and increasing the already high price.
“To reflect the upgrade to the improved display the new price for the solution will be $1,549.”
see Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe

At least it has GNU/Linux. That’s worth some money and they are pushing it to half the world.

- Robert Pogson

4 Responses to “Not Your Typical Small Cheap Computer: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition”

Feed for this Entry

1 MK Feb 19th, 2013 at 7:43 am

Not too shabby.
2 bw Feb 19th, 2013 at 8:01 am

“At least it has GNU/Linux. That’s worth some money and they are pushing it to half the world”

You could save $50 by buying the Windows 8 version and adding the Linux stuff yourself:

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=cwxps13e&model_id=xps-13-l321x-mlk&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
3 Der Balrog Feb 20th, 2013 at 1:48 pm

Not too shabby.

LOL. An overpriced Ultrabook with a special premium Linux extra charge? Sure, not too shabby.

But you see (to continue from the UEFI entry): vendors ARE free to offer computers with Linux.
4 oiaohm Feb 20th, 2013 at 5:25 pm

Der Balrog there is a problem of course. Dell Linux offering cost is more than there Windows offering.

Reality

“But you see (to continue from the UEFI entry): vendors ARE free to offer computers with Linux.”

Are vendors free. MS Windows is meant to cost a licensing cost. So where is it.

Archives by Month

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.