Now that it is February I've been eagerly checking for the availability of the new XPS 2020 dev edition , but I haven't seen it appear yet on dell.com/linux . Do we have an estimated date on when it will be available?
It appears to be released now, but there's no 32gb ram version? Should we keep waiting for that one? The whole release process around this laptop has been awkward... first windows laptops appeared, now a few ubuntu ones but not the really powerful ones I read about earlier... and we're at the end of Feb. I'm considering just waiting for the mbp 13 with a functional keyboard now.
I decided to give Dell's online chat a go and the representative said that they expect the 32GB option to be released in the next couple of weeks. So it seems that the option is just delayed a bit, not canned entirely.
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 Processor (8MB Cache, up to 3.9 GHz)
Ubuntu Linux 18.04
16GB 3733MHz LPDDR4x Memory Onboard
2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
which comes to a total of $1,849.99 USD, before tax. Still not the 32GB they promised (beginning to think that was some vaporware), but it is something.
32GB RAM is finally available, but not with Ubuntu!!! only the very weakest configuration is available with ubuntu: laughable 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, i5 CPU... that's like my config 11 years ago... you will not see my money ;-]
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Posted February 21st, 2020 12:00
Looks like the 2020 XPS (9300) is now available on the Dell store:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/sr/laptops/xps-laptops/10th-gen-intel-core?appliedRefinements=18402,10673
However, RAM configurations are still limited to 16GB and a paltry 256GB disk space.
Separate discussion on this happening on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/f6ywd8/dell_xps_13_9300_developer_edition_available_on/