New Kaby Lake XPS 13, developer edition timeline

And a followup, on the UK website there's an option to change the keyboard to the US variant for the Windows version of the new XPS 13, but when I do so I get a "Compatibility error" with the text:

The selection - Palmrest for Belgium, Czech/Slovak, French, German, Italian, N-EEUR, Portugal, Spanish, Swiss, Turki is incompatible with Keyboard

I asked the online support, and I just got the response that the US keyboard was not available on those models. I was counting on this option, does anyone know of a supported way of getting a US keyboard XPS in the UK?

Cheers,
Chris.

Hi Chris,

Regarding the launch of the kaby lake developer edition all i can say is soon.  I would say that unless your current systems breaks down I would wait a little bit. :)

Let me check on the US keyboard, it should be an option.  I gather you are in the UK?

thanks!

Thanks for the quick response Barton. I am indeed in the UK, having the US keyboard option is a big deal for me, I appreciate you looking into it.

I've actually been laptop-less for weeks waiting for a 16 GB model restock here, so I'll be hoping soon is really rather soon :)

Cheers,
Chris.

One thing i can say is the the Euro launch is scheduled before the US :-)

Is the hardware between the developers edition and the windows one exactly the same though?

Thanks ^_^

Hi Barton, anything further on whether the Developer Edition is going to be available with the US keyboard in the UK?

Once the next gen comes out the US keyboard will be available.  And the next gen will be out very soon in Europe :)  We announced that the North America release will be Oct 4

Fantastic, thanks Barton!

Hi Barton,

I'm also keen to know if there will be any hardware differences between the regular and developer edition. (and roughly what those are, if there are any?)

you just made me very very happy.

does Euro/European mean mainland europe or just the UK?
sorry if this sounds silly...i just want to make sure that I'm on the same page as you :)

Thanks for keeping us in the loop Barton :))))))

We will be sharing the same chassis so the HW will be the same :)

Both the UK and continental Europe :)

thanks for the suport

Hi,

The new XPS is prominently displayed on the Swedish Dell website and the description says it is available with both Win10 Home and Ubuntu 16.04, so of course, I wanted to place an order on a 512GB/16GB QHD+ DE version. In gold, if possible. :)

However, there is no way to actually select Ubuntu when ordering (or gold, for that matter), and when I've tried to call Dell directly to ask about this, I am then redirected to a Swedish Dell partner, Dustin, who have no info on DE availability and can basically only help me order the Windows version offered on the Swedish Dell website. If I try a direct chat option, I am redirected to UK Dell and no chat agents are available.

I also tried the email option, but so far nobody's contacted me to answer my queries.

I have to say that Dell makes it very difficult to buy their hardware.

Thanks,

Ari

Hi Ari,

Thanks for letting us know about this.  It looks like web team jumped the gun on this.  

The developer edition is on its way but it will be a week or so before its actually available

thanks!

Hi Barton,

Thanks for letting me know. I can't wait, it's just such a gorgeous piece of hardware. :)

A question about the new DE: What kind of modifications to the standard Ubuntu distro are needed? I am really tempted to just go ahead and order the Windows version since I'm probably going to need to dual boot anyway and repartitioning a disk is usually trivial these days.

Many thanks,

Ari