I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows with no issues. When I contacted customer care, they said since this is an ultrabook, this is expected and that they couldn't do anything. Besides the stability issues the screen and the keyboard are quite good. I had two blue screens the first couple days I had the laptop. I wanted to test the Dell factory restore options and this is how I tried and tested it. One-of-a-kind design: Measuring in at a slim 11-17mm and starting at just 4 pounds 1.
Do you have any advice? Dell Inspiron's hinge breaks usually after 1 year, so you better buy an extended warranty. Have us do a clean reinstall of Windows and we will setup your system from scratch with only the pure essentials. Being mobile means that every ounce counts! I absolutely won't go back to Windows, my workflow is so far beyond it- so what're my best resources for finding a high spec laptop that will be compatible with a modern Linux distro? A few months old laptop in perfect condition that is still on warranty. As for Apple, it's a shame they don't ship 32gb laptops with touch screens. If this is reproducible and you can demonstrate it, I would call Dell. It'll happily play games and crunch whatever data you throw at it, without any thermal issues. There are no updated versions and the download process is a crap, they force you to use Dell System Detect, no direct link to iso or bittorrent.
You do have to wear headphones to game because the fan is so loud. Now I do not understand if my Windows 10 Pro is activated or not. There are some things that I think could be better. After draining power I then see the Dell logo and am able to get into the F12 boot menu. I've replaced the hdd because he was damaged. My experience with a similar fully maxed out 9560, but no touch display. This is my current laptop and I love it.
. Now, last thing before we wrap up the Nvidia graphics driver part is screen tearing issue. Go going to bail on the Samsung 960Pro m. That and the webcam are my only complaints though. The touch bar is an interesting idea for the casual user, but for anyone who uses any software professionally, it provides no value as it is much slower than keyboard shortcuts. For more information about this process, please visit. As for the drivers, never had an issue allowing windows update to add in the up to date drivers nor have I had the inclination to troubleshoot it, the more important part was to have network drivers pre installed so people can install and get online with minimal fuss.
They had to be disabled to actually boot. The active partition should be the recovery partition for this to work. Not even a reboot will fix it, only a pulse restart. It couldn't display any video in the browser without freezing. It's something like pressing ctrl+F12 or another key early in the boot process and thus booting into the recovery partition.
I haven't had any other problems but the fact that they won't allow end-users to replace such a simple part as the battery will make me think hard when I replace this laptop. Now, onto the final part of the Nvidia graphics driver installation. I can work without a mouse on a Macbook without missing anything, but not on the Lenovo. Recently picked up one of these as well. First had a bad screen, second had sticky keys, and third had faulty video card.
It seems like I was right. I don't know why Dell didn't do that themselves. I don't want to use Windows 8 or 10 because of telemetry, nor do I want to spend countless hours trying to figure out how to disable all telemetry, and worry about future updates that introduce more telemetry. I do know, if you have one of the later Win 10 installs, you can get back to a factory configuration using the Win 10 recovery media. But in any case, imagine in 3 years, it will require tons of updates both version so with time there will be less and less difference.
I had to send it back to dell. This is not just bad manufacturing, it's really bad marketting. My current Laptop is an old Vostro 3750 I paid 500 quid for new stacked discounts on the Dell site and it has a better keyboard after 5 years of abuse. Windows trackpads arent any better than they were 10 years ago. One should always keep in mind that this procedure will forever erase all data including photos, contacts, messages and any other information. Just do not feel like it should have this kind of defect on such a high end machine.
Gnome hidpi support is crap no fractional scaling , Unity is going away. Posted in · Tagged , , , , ,. The biggest issue is the power throttling. I had to buy another Wi-Fi card for my router as it couldn't connect, but with others routers that it connects it works quite good. I'm then given the opportunity to Install or Repair.