This is my third XPS laptop and it's by far the least impressive. The first two were two of the best computers I've ever owned. I'm not a laptop guy but they were really great, reliable machines.
This one has been fine but I've had a bunch of issues:
- the power management and hybrid sleep stuff is just crazy. You have to power it down fully before putting it in a bag because you can't rely on it staying asleep. It will sometimes just power up randomly and if in a bag will overheat. I feel lucky it hasn't burnt my house down.
- the keyboard is almost useless, many keys have stopped working. I have an almost 10 year old XPS on the shelf behind me on which the keyboard still works flawlessly (battery is dead though).
- Bluetooth doesn't work when it comes back from sleep. Needs to go back to sleep and wake up again before Bluetooth comes back.
- Performance is weirdly average for such a high spec machine - i7 with 32GB. I have an 11yo desktop with only 16GB and a much older CPU and SSD and it feels so much nicer to use.
Some of these are possibly Windows problems? Either way I'm not surprised this line is ending. It felt like they just started putting average hardware together but trying to position it as a more premium offering. By comparison the Latitude laptops we get at work seem way more solid, if not as "cool-looking".