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When I reviewed the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, I concluded that it was the ‘best’ Linux laptop ever. I just found the big sister of that laptop - the Dell 5220, one of . five new Linux-powered systems that Dell recently announced. I have been using the Dell 5220 for over a week now and I have totally fallen in love with it.
And it is not mmerely love at the first sight or just specs deep.
Before I talk about my hands-on experience with this laptop, let’s get the specs out of the way. This unit comes with Intel Core Xeon E3 1505M v6 (Quad Core Xeon 3.00GHz, 4.00GHz Turbo, 8MB 45W, w/Intel HD Graphics 630, Nvidia Quadro M1200 w/4GB GDDR5, 15.6" UltraSharp UHD IGZO (3840x2160) Touch Wide View LED backlit, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and M.2 PCIe 512GB SSD.
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It is the most powerful laptop I have ever used. I have been using a beefy assembled PC as my main computer and keep a 13" laptop purely for travel. But this one is a 15" laptop. So where does it fit?
It’s a lucky fluke that Dell announced these new laptops two weeks ago because currently I’m running an experiment where I have exclusively been using my laptop and haven’t turned the PC on for over a month now.
The reason is that I am so conditioned to working on my PC all the time, whenever I use my laptop my productivity goes down. Using the desktop PC also affects my mobility even if I work from a home office. So I wanted to rewire my brain. It has been working...