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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.

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[–] addie@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Back when I owned an XPS, one of the driver options was 'compressed screen updates', which only updated the part that had changed. As far as I could tell, made no difference to battery life whatsoever - turning down the screen brightness even a notch did much more.

Daily driver laptop for nearly ten years, and the part that finally failed was the CPU fan, which wasn't easy to obtain replacement parts for, so treated myself to a new laptop entirely. Mind you, the power connection was a PoS, would have been as well keeping that on an annual reorder for how often it failed. Pretty good laptop otherwise.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Mind you, the power connection was a PoS, would have been as well keeping that on an annual reorder for how often it failed. Pretty good laptop otherwise.

Jesus fuck were those connections bad. I've got at least three dead Dell mobos in the parts bin because of them. it's like the engineer's thought the little smd USB/power ports would be enough to "hold it".