Update on XPS 13/15 2016 Developer Edition availability

@DELL-JARED while i'm eager to see the 2016-DE-XPS13 devices being available for order it just broke my heart that there won't be a 16gb + fhd combinatiion (i5 would do for me).

non-glare display is mandatory for me and with this size i really don't care about touch/4k as i want to work with that fine piece of hardware so it looks like i have to live with non-upgradeable 8gb...

+1 for the sticker!

that would indeed be a very nice community project, maybe someone is connected to printing industry and is able to have a relatively small batch of high quality sputnik stickers in the size of the dell-logo produced at a reasonable pricepoint =)

anyway, i'm happy to hear about the efforts being put into linux-driver-support and wonder if the patches are flowing upstream so debian itself and other distros might benefit from the extended support and allow users to use a wider range of linux-distros on their dell sputniks.

I'd like to second BELETTE's desire to gain more knowledge about the drivers and its restrictions. even if i wouldn't say that i can't live without a working hdmi-adapter it would be good to know what we'd have to expect if we don't want to stick to the pre-installed linux.

as it's pretty clear that dell cannot guaratee that the drivers will work with a wide set of linux-distros i see enough reasons to aim for having the drivers available for integration into other distros as there are several reasons for wanting a custom installation (full-disk encryption and bloat-removal being some of the very relevant ones for me).

We are working on it as we speak! there will be a 16GB config and i7, we are getting the configs nailed down right now.  Thanks for checking in, stay tuned!

Will it be 13 or 15? And will it be available in EU in the next 10 days? I need to get new laptop for work, and i don't want to buy new MacBook.

Thanks for the response. Could you be more specific? And do you have any concrete dates?

Phil

Hi George,

Thanks for the update, can't wait to get my hand on the new edition !

Do you know if there's any chance you'll do the i7 / 16GB build with the full HD display ? I got no use for QHD and would rather get a longer battery life. 

Best regards,

Romain

we dont have concrete dates yet, we're working as fast was we can :)

that being said, i doubt it will be w/in 10 days :(

Thanks for the reply, and for the love of gods don't force me (my employee) to buy MacBook. :(

I just convince them them that i need Linux box  XPS DE.

If you need any help to speed up the process just ask. :)

I won't lie. Y'all making noise helps us to drive the point. :)

That's great, but still i have like couple of days to give them link for my new laptop. :D

Alas, we have to work within the constraints of our product lifecycle process, so even though our Ubuntu image is ready to load onto systems in our factories, it takes us some time to make the XPS 13 Developer Edition available for sale.

Great to hear there will be 16GB version.  Can you give any info on whether the 15'' version is the XPS 15 or the Precision 5510 which was hinted at earlier in another thread?

I sent an email out earlier today asking about when the Precision 5510 will be available online with Ubuntu. I believe it should already be available for sale with Ubuntu offline (phone or account rep).

16gb i7 with QHD vor FHD?

Thanks in Advance!