Update on XPS 13/15 2016 Developer Edition availability

Barton or Jared please provide info for the UK as well if possible. Jared has noted that he had emailed after I had posted about difficulty ordering in the UK. Would be great to know if he received a reply.

Thanks

Hi Barton and Jared,

To stay with the original topic of this thread could you please provide some status or ETA on XPS 13 DE availability??

Since the HW is already available it cannot possibly be a trade secret when you are going to launch the Developer Editions. Furthermore it is in nobody’s interest that people give up on the seemingly endless waiting, just to buy some other laptop the day before you announce availability. We all understand there is work to be done and schedules may slip - it is however frustrating having no end in sight. I guess most readers of this thread want to support you, so please be a little transparent with us :-)

You may tell your European team that they are holding up or possibly diverting Dell revenue, if that helps driving your point :-)

Thanks for doing this!

@aalotia,

I just sent an email (following up on Jared's) to our Euro team asking for a status.

stay tuned!

Hi Barton,

We know you are working hard! Can you provide an inexact date? :-)

(one week, two weeks, one month, two months??)

Thanks :-)

PS: availability for de customers..

Is the Euro release actually holding up the rollout to the rest of the world? How is the, say, US release contingent upon the Euro release?

I sure hope your reply in the other thread, "should be available in the next two months," isn't realistic. :)

Yep, loads of passion. And impatience. We're like 9-year-olds on Christmas Eve.

I'm choosing to read your "less than two months" comment in the other thread like "Yes, the XPS 13 DE will cost less than $150,000." Accurate, though cagey. ;)

There is a fine line between building expectation and building frustration.

Being so coy makes it feel like waiting for Godot.

Europe, Canada and the US launches are all separate and all being worked.  Id rather be conservative in my guesstimates rather than being aggressive and then missing them :)

thanks for all the passion :)

I can only give encouragement (& urge a little patience) to everybody.  I still love my 2014 XPS 13 (9333).  It worked great out of the box (it had Ubuntu 12.04 preinstalled).  I have since upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 (although with some pain....) and it now works great with the D3100 dock and extra monitors.

I am sure the new 15" model will be even better (and I'm sure I'll need an upgrade at some point!).

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,

Alan

Romain and Axel, Let me check with our folks in Europe.  My understanding is that the 5510 w/Ubuntu should be available in France. Thanks for the heads up and stay tuned!

Thanks a lot for your hard work Barton !

Is there anything else we can do, anybody we can get in touch with, to make 5510 w ubuntu happen in Europe ?

rcatajar Do you know what will be the differences between the regular precision 5510 and the dev edition ? (price? specs?, something else?) Price, Ubuntu 14.04, Type C driver functionality, official support (via ProSupport).

When you say 'type C driver functionality', I assume that you will supply drivers for that to linux. Am I wrong? What then would be the difference between a regular XPS and installing linux on it, and the DE XPS ?

I agree with you ! It is an important point to get clarification on...

For example, I am planning to install Archlinux / Parabola on it so would be important to know if the drivers will be available somewhere and if we will be able to install the Linux flavor of our choice, or we have been wiating for the DE version for nothing as it will only support the pre-installed version of Linux.

My fear is particulary on USB-c and muli adapter (ethernet-VGA-HDMI) where I can't live without it and mandatory for me that this will supported on my Linux flavor.