@OCHEKURISHVILI  your wait will be over soon, 4th gen coming to Sputnik this month :-)

Truly a great news for me :)

Good that I postponed buying ASAP and decided to ask here. Any other upgrades alongside?

Sold my OG Sputnik a few weeks ago, I'm having Linux withdrawals, so this is good news, thanks for the update Barton.

Barton, is there a rough release date? I'm currently trying to decide whether I should wait for the refreshed XPS 13 or go for a Lenovo machine (which historically run very Linux-friendly hardware).

Thanks!

@WILDLYINACCURATE

All I can say is "this month" and "very soon" :-)

I would wait if I were you

Hey Barton, I assume there will be a big announcement? Will you also post a link here in the forums, or should we watch the tech blogs for updates? I'm hoping to be in the first few people to order. :-)

Barton, thanks for the info.  I appreciate that you are sharing what you can.  If you ever get asked for feedback from the marketing "geniuses", here are my thoughts for them:

Why is Dell botching the release for what can be the biggest laptop of the year?  It is driving me nuts that Dell REFUSES to tell anybody *ANY* information on the release date for these laptops (not referring to just the DE of the XPS 13, this entire Haswell refresh in general).  I don't care if it is Nov 30th, just give us a date!  I know at least 3 people that were waiting to buy some of the Haswell base XPS laptops and take the lack of information as a sign that the laptops are never coming so they bought other laptops.  It is amazingly frustrating to have a huge announcement and then not tell anybody any information for months after that.  It really seems like Dell marketing is saying: "Hey.  Wait.  What is this Haswell stuff everybody is talking about?  We should announce that we are doing it too.  Oh yeah, and get those engineering guys to start working on it."

 * mlorimer wanders off to look at the X240/T440s again......

@seanblader

Thanks for the support!  The best place to watch for the release announcement is on my blog:  bartongeorge.net

Matt,

Duly noted :)