XPS 13 Out of Stock

@monprin,

The systems are on temporary stop ship. 

bartongeorge.net/.../xps-13-developer-edition-on-pause

They should be back up soon.

Stay tuned!

I need to buy my son a new laptop for college.  If I buy a Windows 10 XPS 13, will the Ubuntu images be available later to convert it?

you don't need a special Ubuntu image - most if not all of the necessary tweaks were provided for upstream inclusion,  and what's needed for the XPS basically is just firmware for the broadcom  bluetooth.

If you wan to run Ubuntu 14 on int, you find the required driver/firmware packages on dell's support/download pages.

Thanks.  I looked on the support page for the drivers but must have overlooked them.

Thanks for all your work.

I was really hoping to support you guys in this effort by directly buying the dev edition, but I need a new laptop sooner rather than later so I too have ordered a Windows version with the intention of putting linux on myself. 

Put me into whatever count you need to for your superiors to keep sputnik flying.

Thanks again,

Joe

If you have the time, can you try out Windows on the XPS? I'm curious to see if the Windows version is more polished than the Dev Edition. Perhaps a separate thread would be better for that. Thanks.

Yeah I will be using it for a little while with windows till I have some free time to get ubuntu working, I'll report back.

It is more polished than the dev edition, from what it sounds like, software wise, but holy ***, I must have spent 30-45 min just uninstalling dell stuff and the dreaded McAfee. I decided since I was doing a ubuntu install anyway, I just did a fresh install of windows 10, god only know what dell did to it deeper down. It is nice though, had to tweak some settings and what not. One surprising thing I noticed, I have a FHD one and some of the apps and older microsoft stuff still was not updated for higher resolution, little disappointing considering how good the superficial windows 10 stuff is.

Let me know if you have other questions, I am keeping Windows 10 on a partition should I need it for anything.

That is relieving to hear. Unfortunately, bloatware is par for the course for almost any OEM Windows install. Even business machines anymore are sent with too much stuff, but not nearly as bad as consumer/home devices.

I've taken old machines at work and did fresh installs of Windows 7, and they are blazing fast even on 5 year old hardware but with solid state drives.

Imagine the scaling problems with QHD, 1080 is almost too many pixels as it is.

The Ubuntu install should be fairly easy. The catch for my upgrade to 15.04 was to enable UEFI and safe boot after installing. It kept trying to do a legacy boot, which doesn't work. If I'd have known that before, I may still be running the Dell image.

Hopefully with the DE being out of stock, Dell is re-compiling their image and drivers. These things should be shipping stock with 15.04 and Intel wireless, not Broadcom and a pieced together kernel.

CCBEALL,

If you're in the US, I need to check Europe, the XPS 13 developer edition is back on line! 

www.dell.com/.../pd.aspx

thanks!

Thanks for the support Joe!

I see that the XPS 13 developer edition is back in stock, however the price appears to have increased from before and there is now price parity between comparable XPS 13 hardware configurations with Ubuntu and Windows (save for the silly and immaterial $1.99 discount that is applied to the developer edition).  Is this new pricing correct?

@mmirg,

the ubuntu and windows versions should NOT be the same price.

Thanks for catching this.  I will flag to the web team.

For more specific reference:

CAX13UBUNTUS5131V:  Developer edition QHD+/i5-5200U/8GB/128GB SSD $1299

CAX13W10B5131:  Windows QHD+/i5-5200U/8GB/128GB SSD $1299

Similarly CAX13UBUNTUS5122V and CAX13W10B5122 are both $1599.

The prices for the Windows models appear to be the same for their corresponding listings in "for work" and "for home".