Treated myself to the New 2017 Dell XPS Laptop

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After many years of not having a laptop for photography travel and being schooled many times by trip leaders for not having one, I finally broke down and purchased a new laptop. I waited for the MacBook Pro 15 inch version but was not liking it.

After being with John Shaw for a couple of weeks last summer and lusting over his Dell XPS 15 inch and a co-traveler at Yellowstone last month same laptop, I decided what am I waiting for!

After a large sum of money I found what I wanted. Here are the specs:

Dell XPS 15 New version for 2017
  • 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Quad Core Processor (6M cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
  • Windows 10 Pro 64-bit English
  • 32GB DDR4-2400MHz
  • 1TB PCIe Solid State Drive
  • NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5
  • 15.6" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge touch display
  • Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1
  • Battery 97WHr

I feel good with the purchase and I hope it is all worth it and it last many years. It will remind me when I pay off the credit card bill next month.

Cheers :)
 
Congrats on the new laptop. Quite the specs!

I sold Apple products exclusively for the past 5 1/2 years. I got out of it last Sept. Apple has got outrageous on their pricing particularly on 15" laptops. As much as I like Apple products, their lack of features at outrageous price points and then needing to buy adapters makes one truly consider alternatives.

You should have a great laptop for years. You can always consider turning it into a Hackintosh as well.

Enjoy!!! Your pics will look stunning!!!
 
Nice. I'm pretty happy with my 15" MBP but the main thing that keeps me with Apple is OS/X. If I were to go back to the dark side, though, that Dell would be my choice. Having a good laptop on the road is well worth the expense IMO.
 
I'm like Charlie, I really prefer the Apple operating system. I can hardly navigate Windows anymore.

There's nothing wrong with a powerful Windows machine, it's just a matter of preference.
 
Congrats with your DELL! Sounds almost like an Alienware laptop, which DELL bought several years ago. Alienware laptops were in a league of their own.

I got fed up with DELL years ago after having to get up at 2AM in order to get through to their service support (which was overseas at the time) without holding for over an hour; .

I migrated to Apple products after about 2 frustrating years with Windows XP.

I hope your DELL experience is better than mine.
 
I recently downsized from a MBP 15 (2009) to a MBP 13. I bought a refurb so cost was pretty tame.
But, with 8 gigs of RAM and a SS drive it can run fast. I can run LightRoom or Photoshop without lagging, and it runs my CAD system very well. It's the little machine that could.

Susan has the MB Air 13, and it's even more svelte. The one thing we both don't have is the optical drive, but other than watching DVDs we don't have much use for a disk drive.
 
Wandering Sagebrush said:
I'm like Charlie, I really prefer the Apple operating system. I can hardly navigate Windows anymore.

There's nothing wrong with a powerful Windows machine, it's just a matter of preference.
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I hear you guys. I'm a huge Apple fan, but the price of their laptops has went through the roof, particularly the 15" models. Before a 15" model was $1849 CAD, now they start at $2999 CAD.
Give me a break. Yes they are nice, but how about making these things progressively nicer while maintaining the same price point or even coming down a little. Apple has got ridiculously greedy under Tim Cooks leadership.
 
Thanks for the comments.

I see it as there are good and bad mixed with either Windows or Apple. They are both good! ( and each have their problems.) And my Gal does have a MacAir 13 inch for many years and has worked fine.

I do like what Dell did with the size of this one I purchased.

The world’s only 15.6-inch InfinityEdge display: The virtually borderless display maximizes screen space by accommodating a 15.6-inch display inside a laptop closer to the size of a 14-inch, thanks to a bezel measuring just 5.7mm.

One-of-a-kind design: Measuring in at a slim 11-17mm and starting at just 4 pounds (1.8 kg) with a solid state drive, the XPS 15 is the world’s lightest 15-inch performance-class laptop.
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I have seen the screen already and it is stunning and will aid in fine editing of images on the road.

Dazzling detail: With the UltraSharp 4K Ultra HD display (3840 x 2160), you can see each detail of every pixel without needing to zoom in. And with 6 million more pixels than Full HD and 3 million more than the MacBook Pro, you can edit images with pinpoint accuracy without worrying about blurriness or jagged lines.

Industry-leading color: The XPS 15 is the only laptop with 100% Adobe RGB color, covering a wider color gamut and producing shades of color outside conventional panels so you can see more of what you see in real life. And with over 1 billion colors, images appear smoother and color gradients are amazingly lifelike with more depth and dimension. Included is Dell PremierColor software, which automatically remaps content not already in Adobe RGB format for onscreen colors that appear amazingly accurate and true to life.
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Looking to see all the new possibilities on the input ports for uploading images to external drives to pick up faster speeds.

This is the latest from Dell and I was going to get the 2016 model but I timed it right to get the latest.

Within a couple of weeks I will get it. First task is to remove all the Dell installed bloat wear programs among other things.



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Patrick, that does sound like an amazing display for a small footprint. That is definitely a gaming machine, which will handle all that you throw at it. Video editing is the next frontier. lol

Bloatware? HP is the worst, but I've gone through quite a few Dell machines in my day.


Bill D said:
I hear you guys. I'm a huge Apple fan, but the price of their laptops has went through the roof, particularly the 15" models. Before a 15" model was $1849 CAD, now they start at $2999 CAD.
Give me a break. Yes they are nice, but how about making these things progressively nicer while maintaining the same price point or even coming down a little. Apple has got ridiculously greedy under Tim Cooks leadership.
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RE: Apple folks

Apple has always been a higher price, but the hardware is rock solid and the OSX as good or better than the competition. I get five years plus out of a lapper. Check out refurbs direct form Apple, with factory warranty. I paid $1182+tx for my refurb MBP 13" (2015). I don't think I could beat that out by a lot and have a five year machine elsewhere.
 
I have an older version of the Dell that I use with a Thunderbolt Dock and it works great for travel as well as a good desktop replacement. Runs LR really well compared to my old desktop and Dell's customer service was great when I ran into an issue.
 
Lighthawk said:
RE: Apple folks

Apple has always been a higher price, but the hardware is rock solid and the OSX as good or better than the competition. I get five years plus out of a lapper. Check out refurbs direct form Apple, with factory warranty. I paid $1182+tx for my refurb MBP 13" (2015). I don't think I could beat that out by a lot and have a five year machine elsewhere.
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The 13" Apple lop tops are still decent value. At least the model without the Magic track bar and the Air.
The 15" models at $3000 are overpriced.

Apple traditionally sticks at given price points and continues to make better hardware every few years at those price points, but come on, who want to put out $3000 for a laptop when 4 years ago you could get a professional 15" laptop for under $2000 from Apple.

Apple has been doing the same thing w it's their phones and iPads. Price points keep going up with each revision. Apple is the only company on the planet that has been able to do this and long time Apple users and professionals like myself have had enough. For the longest time, I defended Tim Cook. I can't fault him for making insane money, but he's loosing some fans and long time users.


pvstoy, how are you liking your new Dell so far?

BTW, I don't know how tech you are, but the first thing I would do after getting rid of all the bloatware is to make a bootable clone of you harddrive onto an external hard drive or USB3 thumb drive. That way if your system get corrupt or needs a rebuild, you can always copy that image back over to the internal drive.
 
Looks like delivery could be on Friday . Making a clone is a good idea. My gals macair I use Superduper to make a clone that is bootable and pretty easy. Windows is a bit harder to make a bootable clone. I have not looked for a easy program like SuperDuper.
 
pvstoy said:
Looks like delivery could be on Friday . Making a clone is a good idea. My gals macair I use Superduper to make a clone that is bootable and pretty easy. Windows is a bit harder to make a bootable clone. I have not looked for a easy program like SuperDuper.
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It's been over a decade since I worked in the Windows world. Norton Ghost used to be a standard that techs used. I did a search a couple of years ago for a freebie equivalent. The only thing I could see at the time was a DOS based looking program. You had to type a few command lines etc. Not a big deal if you can follow instructions. That being said I don't think you will find anything for free that is as elegant as CarbonCopyCloner or Superduper.
 
pvstoy said:
Looks like delivery could be on Friday . Making a clone is a good idea. My gals macair I use Superduper to make a clone that is bootable and pretty easy. Windows is a bit harder to make a bootable clone. I have not looked for a easy program like SuperDuper.
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Macrium Reflect. Free for personal use. Also, Windows 10 lets you do a "refresh" -- essentially a clean re-install -- without losing anything, provided you are logging using a Microsoft account storing your profile in the cloud.
 
Vic Harder said:
Macrium Reflect. Free for personal use. Also, Windows 10 lets you do a "refresh" -- essentially a clean re-install -- without losing anything, provided you are logging using a Microsoft account storing your profile in the cloud.
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Does this create a bootable image on the external?

Meaning if you wanted to you could start and load the cloned operating system off of the external device.
 
Bill D said:
Does this create a bootable image on the external?

Meaning if you wanted to you could start and load the cloned operating system off of the external device.
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Bootable yes, if the USB key is big enough
 
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