I'm impressed that Dell have created a laptop aimed at developers, but I've stopped buying Dells completely as I've had an endless string of issues going back ten years with their power supplies.
And it isn't just me either, everyone I know has had similar issues with the power supplies splitting (and eventually failing) right at the bend as it enters the laptop... Then the replacements are $100.
I'm buying laptops to last. Dells simply do not. Even their "high end" Latitudes and XPS laptops are cheaply made.
I won't buy another Dell until I see an improvement in the quality of the power supplies and ideally a single universal power supply across their entire range (why does one range have two new incompatible PSUs a year?).
Apple and Thinkpad/Lenovo both have much higher quality power blocks and both have universal power supplies within the same range. I buy two Thinkpad Txxx or Macbook Pros I can interchange the power supplies!
And it isn't just me either, everyone I know has had similar issues with the power supplies splitting (and eventually failing) right at the bend as it enters the laptop... Then the replacements are $100.
I'm buying laptops to last. Dells simply do not. Even their "high end" Latitudes and XPS laptops are cheaply made.
I won't buy another Dell until I see an improvement in the quality of the power supplies and ideally a single universal power supply across their entire range (why does one range have two new incompatible PSUs a year?).
Apple and Thinkpad/Lenovo both have much higher quality power blocks and both have universal power supplies within the same range. I buy two Thinkpad Txxx or Macbook Pros I can interchange the power supplies!