Fedora on a Dell XPS 15?

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I have a XPS 13 that came installed with Ubuntu (btw, cheaper than
buying with Windoze) which I stripped off and put in Fedora. It weighs
only 2.99 pounds.

I love it! Only 2 major irritating features: 

1. Occassionally, after a period of inactivity, the screen turns dark
greyish black with no chance of recovery. I hibernate and wake up and
it is back to business.

2. The other major complaint is the two-button mouse cut-out which
cannot be made to mimic the middle button of the mouse (at least I have
not figured how to do this). 

And a minor irritant: the design of the Home, PgUp, PgDn, End Buttons
(with the arrow keys, but using the Fn button which is on the other --
left -- end of the keyboard) is ludicrous.

However, other than this, I am a pretty happy camper.

I know that you asked about XPS 15 which has higher resolution (mine is
only 1920x1080). One other possibility that I would consider is the
Toshiba Kira which has a 2560x1440 resolution but that only comes with
an i5 unless you also get a touchscreen (which I could not care less
for).

HTH.

Ranjan



On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:53:52 -0700 CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com>
wrote:

> Hi All;
> 
> I'm looking for a replacement for my 15" macbook pro retina, I tried to 
> switch to mac but Linux is just too good.
> 
> Thinking of buying a Dell XPS 15 (specs below), anyone have any thoughts 
> on if Fedora will run on this machine?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Specs:
> 
> Note that this laptop has ONLY a Mini DisplayPort for an external monitor
> 
> *
> Processor*
> 
> 4th Generation Intel® Core^(TM) i7-4702HQ processor (6M Cache, up to 3.2 
> GHz)
> 
> 
> *Memory*
> 
> 16GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx2)
> 
> 
> *Hard Drive**s*
> 
> 1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive + 32GB mSATA Solid State Drive
> 
> *
> Video Card*
> 
> NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 750M 2GB GDDR5
> 
> 
> *Display*
> 
> 15.6 inch LED Backlit Touch Display with Truelife and QHD+ resolution 
> (3200 x 1800)
> 
> 
> *Wireless*
> 
> Intel® Centrino® Wireless-AC 7260 + Bluetooth 4.0
> 
> *External Chassis Connections*
> 
> USB 3.0 w/PowerShare (3), USB 2.0 with PowerShare (1), mini DisplayPort 
> (1), HDMI (1), 3-in-1 media card reader supporting SD, SDIO, SDXC, 
> headset jack (1), Noble lock
> 
> 
> *Keyboard*
> 
> Full size, backlit chiclet keyboard
> 
> 
> *Touchpad*
> 
> Glass integrated button touchpad
> 
> 


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