anyone running linux on a new dell xps 9550
incredibly cheap powerful machine, a bit too new. Anyone here have any real world experience? Dave Cramer
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:11:43PM -0400, Dave Cramer via talk wrote:
incredibly cheap powerful machine, a bit too new. Anyone here have any real world experience?
Nice to look at and brag, then you return it. According to reviews, half the features don't work even on Windows. -- William
On 22/08/16 20:11, Dave Cramer via talk wrote:
incredibly cheap powerful machine, a bit too new. Anyone here have any real world experience?
I've used an XPS 9350 with Ubuntu 16.04 and it was superb[1]. Seriously great display on the 13", I'm sure the 15" is just as nice, especially with the 4K display. The NVMe storage option makes full disk encryption still perform faster than on regular SATA. If you want a system with i7/16GB RAM, compare with the HP Spectre 360. At that spec level, I think the cost/performance ratio tips in favour of the HP units. Last thing to note - if you're after battery life, get the non-touchscreen version. Cheers, Jamon [1] Ultimately, I sent it back. Mine had the infamous coil-whine issue, where I could hear anything CPU/GPU intensive causing the whine around 6500kHz and 15kHz. It was too much for me, but no one else around could hear it. If you're interested in one, but worried this might be an issue for you, try http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ with sawtooth waveforms.
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 18:09 +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
[1] Ultimately, I sent it back. Mine had the infamous coil-whine issue, where I could hear anything CPU/GPU intensive causing the whine around 6500kHz and 15kHz. It was too much for me, but no one else around could hear it. If you're interested in one, but worried this might be an issue for you, try http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ with sawtooth waveforms.
That sounds awesome.
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 04:55:43PM -0400, Loui Chang via talk wrote:
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 18:09 +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
[1] Ultimately, I sent it back. Mine had the infamous coil-whine issue, where I could hear anything CPU/GPU intensive causing the whine around 6500kHz and 15kHz. It was too much for me, but no one else around could hear it. If you're interested in one, but worried this might be an issue for you, try http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ with sawtooth waveforms.
That sounds awesome.
Thanks for the link. Bookmarked! -- William
On Mon 05 Sep 2016 18:09 +0100, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
If you open multiple tabs to that site set to different frequencies, such as: * http://onlinetonegenerator.com/?freq=439 * http://onlinetonegenerator.com/?freq=440 * http://onlinetonegenerator.com/?freq=442 you can have far too much fun with beat frequency interference. I do believe I paid good money once to hear Sonic Boom (ex Spacemen 3) play an hour's set of the above. cheers, Stewart
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, 13:09 Jamon Camisso via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
[1] Ultimately, I sent it back. Mine had the infamous coil-whine issue, where I could hear anything CPU/GPU intensive causing the whine around 6500kHz and 15kHz. It was too much for me, but no one else around could hear it. If you're interested in one, but worried this might be an issue for you, try http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ with sawtooth waveforms.
6500kHz? Did you mean Hz?
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