Dell XPS 7390 Developer Edition Announced - Intel Comet Lake With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dell XPS 7390 Developer Edition Announced - Intel Comet Lake With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Going along with Intel this morning announcing their 10th Gen "Comet Lake" processors, Dell has just announced their new XPS line-up with these new processors and it does include a new Linux-loaded Developer Edition laptop...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-XPS-7390-Developer-Edition

[anarki2]

No dGPU?

[jrch2k8]

Another Meh! from Dell

[dielectrics]

Why would they be using DDR3 memory? My XPS from 2 years ago is DDR4. Mistake in the Dell blog post?

[ThoreauHD]

It has a dual channel DDR4-2666 / LPDDR4x 2933 / LPDDR3-2133 memory controller. I guess they opted for the bottom tier.

[da_habakuk]

ryzen please? hopefully soon until then my 4yr old xps13 will do it for the next 4 or so...

[spykes]

I'll pass until Ice Lake models are ready.

[vitalif]

...and still with a shitty keyboard without adequately placed pgup/pgdown/home/end

[nh2_]

16 GB max RAM is limiting; as a programmer, I would like more.

My Thinkpad X220 from 2011 also has 16 GB RAM.

[Saverios]

What's the difference between a "developer-focused" laptop and a normal laptop with the same specs?