Intel Haswell availability?

I am a Debian user and just joined to comment on this. First things first: thank you Dell and George Barton for the project Sputnik. Two days ago, I had the sales person on the phone and was going to order the XPS 13. While talking on the phone, I noticed that the XPS 12 had already received the Haswell update, so I halted the order. I am desperately in need of a laptop, but have decided to wait for the Haswell update. With the new screen the XPS 13 is already a good UB. But the below config would make it a dream UB for me:

- a 4th generation Core i5--7 CPU

- At least 8 GB of RAM

- Integrated Intel graphics

- The option of a 512 GB SSD

- A screen usable in daylight, i.e. no gloss (I work with texts and travel a lot which means I use the laptop in daylight)

- And while we are at it: please make it light (goes with the travelling).

Many thanks again :)

Doesn't look like they're even doing a windows 13 inch ultrabook with haswell. Still waiting on that even, which I might try for a bit or even go to the trouble of running it dual boot for a while. Looks like the only one so far is the 12 inch convertable, meh. I don't want to lose any further screen size, and I'd rather up it just a bit to 14 inches even.

Still waiting Dell! Stop worrying about what the CEO is doing and deliver some mac kicking hardware.

So I guess one mystery is solved.

Looks like we may have a beefier cousin of XPS13 DE, maybe a XPS15 Developer Edition. I base this on the just previewed Precision M3800

www.dell.com/.../precision-m3800-workstation

This looks strikingly similar to XPS13 in design.

Wow, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't extremely pissed that I just purchased a 3rd generation xps13 after talking with our Dell reps about whether or not any new hardware is coming.

That precision M3800 looks nice.

I'd buy that.  It looks pretty sick!  Look at that resolution!  I wonder if the Unity Desktop could handle that sort of ppi.

Touch Screen? Absolulet no go

I'm still thinking...am I going to order the XPS 13 this week, or shall I wait a month or 2 and hope that there will be a Haswell version of it...

Looks like we may have a beefier cousin of XPS13 DE, maybe a XPS15 Developer Edition. I base this on the just previewed Precision M3800 www.dell.com/.../precision-m3800-workstation This looks strikingly similar to XPS13 in design.

Beefier indeed: 4.5lbs vs the XPS 13's 2.99lbs. No thanks.

I'm still thinking...am I going to order the XPS 13 this week, or shall I wait a month or 2 and hope that there will be a Haswell version of it...

My main fear is that they decide the developer edition isn't worth it and the current edition will be the last one. But, but, I want Haswell! D:

Let me check

Stay tuned Max, hopefully you'll find it worth the wait :-)

Barton, can you tell me whether or not the current Sputnik XPS 13 hard drive (SSD) supports hardware encryption (by enabling the hard drive password in the BIOS)?

On my Latitude E6510 with aftermarket Samsung 840 SSD, enabling the password does cause the hard drive to enable encryption.

I have the password enabled on Sputnik XPS 13, but have no idea if that enables encryption, or simply acts as a simple hard drive password lock.

Mr George, 

thanks for the reply. I well understand you cannot comment on yet unreleased products. 

That being said, the subtext interpretation is, well, interesting.

I intend to purchase a 13" Haswell Ultrabook/MBP Retina. Whoever comes first, serves first. :-)

I really like the Apple product lineup - however, I'd love to finally see a really well done Linux machine. 

Regards, 

Max

I too am interested in how functional the hard drive encryption is.  There have been many promises in the SSD realm of encryption, but many documented flaws and doubts of robustness.

I'm also interested in if VT-x and VT-d - from hardware to bios, is supported, as I do run QubesOS as well.  Although I'm likely to wait for a Haswell model.

Wishlist for next developer edition - 

Needs -

16gb ram

VT-x and VT-d support all around

6hr+ battery life

functional & robust ssd hardware encryption (AES256 or better)

Wants -

13inch FF

IPS display

8hr+ battery life

Thanks for all the work!

I'm also waiting for the next Sputnik iteration, having bought the previous 2. 

What I like to see is:

Haswell/improved battery

Ubuntu key

Shipping with an updated Ubuntu version.

My current sputnik is struggling with battery life on 13.04. So some updated settings would be great.