▲ 263 ▼ Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 10 months ago by faizalr@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world 147 comments fedilink hide all child comments A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 10 months ago (2 children) And those are… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Framework for one, but just about any other computer maker is better by that metric. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 10 months ago While I agree, I’d like Apple (and others) to make repairability better (or even exist), but as an owner of quite a lot of Apple tech, it’s very well made, usually. Until it breaks, obviously, but it breaks less than a random cheap brand. At least for me. Any other computer maker is rather unable to lock down the devices the same way. I bet they’d happily do so, if given the opportunity. Plenty of modern laptops with non-swappable memory and even SSDs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) Framework for one, but just about any other computer maker is better by that metric. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 10 months ago While I agree, I’d like Apple (and others) to make repairability better (or even exist), but as an owner of quite a lot of Apple tech, it’s very well made, usually. Until it breaks, obviously, but it breaks less than a random cheap brand. At least for me. Any other computer maker is rather unable to lock down the devices the same way. I bet they’d happily do so, if given the opportunity. Plenty of modern laptops with non-swappable memory and even SSDs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 10 months ago While I agree, I’d like Apple (and others) to make repairability better (or even exist), but as an owner of quite a lot of Apple tech, it’s very well made, usually. Until it breaks, obviously, but it breaks less than a random cheap brand. At least for me. Any other computer maker is rather unable to lock down the devices the same way. I bet they’d happily do so, if given the opportunity. Plenty of modern laptops with non-swappable memory and even SSDs. permalink fedilink source parent