Dell XPS is really an awesome laptop and today it has become even more awesome. Earlier this year, Dell announced their "Project Sputnik", intended to produce a developer-focused Linux laptop using their popular XPS-13 Ultrabook as base hardware.
Dopo la presentazione del Sable Complete, prodotto dalla System76, un altra ditta ha annunciato la commercializzazione di un nuovo PC desktop all-in-one con Ubuntu 12.10 preinstallato.
A novembre scorso Dell ha lanciato il primo ultrabook della linea Sputinik, ovvero quei notebook con Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installato.
After months of testing and refining, Project Sputnik has finally matured and Dell has launched developer friendly XPS 13 Ubuntu Ultrabook in US and Canada.
Priced at $1449, XPS 13 has following specs:
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3517U (4M Cache, up to 3.0 GHz)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
13.3" HD 720p
8GB2 DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
256GB Solid State Drive
Intel HD 4000
2.99 lbs in weight
XPS 13 De
Ubuntu fans are going to have a gala time ahead of them, and even more so, if you are a developer. Dell is planning to bring in the Ubuntu experience to laptops, and it wants to do things in the proper way. That is why, Dell has a beta-testing program in place for the Dell XPS 13 Ultraboook, with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton George, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall.
I recently purchased a Dell ultrabook XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I really like this ultra but I am having problems getting used to its quirkyness.
There are no RJ45 connectors since this is a thin ultrabook. So I have to use one of the USB 3 ports for ethernet. I have a 100BASE-T USB2-to-ethernet that works OK, but I want to have a 1G connection.
Linux fans in Europe have reason to celebrate this week with Dell’s announcement that its “Sputnik” XPS 13 laptop powered by Ubuntu, which the company released in the United States in December 2012, is now available on the other side of the ocean as well. As a bonus, Dell has added some hardware upgrades to the laptop for all markets.
Few days back we reported that Dell has announced Project Sputnik, a six month research effort to explore the possibility of creating an open source Ubuntu laptop targeted directly at developers.
Dell has now announced that the experiment was successful and they were surprised by the amount of interest it has generated.
“Since we announced project Sputnik a lit
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