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Base Skylake Dell XPS 13 Enough?

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FearoftheNight

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Hey guys. I just ordered the updated xps 13 in the base configuration. It's got the i3, 128 sata ssd, and 4 gb of ram. It's going to be my travel, school, coffee shop laptop. I'll probably mostly be using skype, Spotify, and lots of chrome tabs. I have a 15 in retina MacBook pro as my main home machine. Do you think I'll be disappointed by the performance of the base model? Would like some input! Thanks.!
 
The new i3 is not so bad. But maybe I would 8gb of ram to be sure. If I wasn't doing heavy work I would probably just go with an Asus ux305. Cheaper and a good performer unless you absolutely must have the xps.

If I'm going with an xps I would get the 15 inch model with the i7 but you have a macbook already for heavy work.
 
sze5003 said:
The new i3 is not so bad. But maybe I would 8gb of ram to be sure. If I wasn't doing heavy work I would probably just go with an Asus ux305. Cheaper and a good performer unless you absolutely must have the xps.

If I'm going with an xps I would get the 15 inch model with the i7 but you have a macbook already for heavy work.
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Ah you prefer the Asus? I'm a huge fan of the bezel on the xps and I had some dell gift credit expiring. I would have preferred the 256 ssd (pci based) w/ the 8 gb ram but that would have quickly upped the price from 800 to 1150.
 
FearoftheNight said:
Ah you prefer the Asus? I'm a huge fan of the bezel on the xps and I had some dell gift credit expiring. I would have preferred the 256 ssd (pci based) w/ the 8 gb ram but that would have quickly upped the price from 800 to 1150.
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I mean I like the xps but for just browsing and using it in a light manner the Asus is cheaper. But if you have a gift card yea I would use that.
 
Not really unless you have 15+ tabs open, excel running, and YouTube in different tabs all at once. 8 GB is standard now a days.
 
FearoftheNight said:
damn...that's actually me sometimes...ugh that broke life....
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Some more food for thought on RAM:

- if you run or are planning to run a virtual machine for Linux programming or whatever, you want extra RAM to devote to the virtual machine instance.

- if you do or plan on getting into any sort of video editing, like with Adobe Premiere, 4GB will disappear in literally 5 minutes. 8GB will tend to disappear as well but it's usable if you close other stuff. I have 12GB on my Asus UX32VD and it works well.
 
fuzzybabybunny said:
Some more food for thought on RAM:

- if you run or are planning to run a virtual machine for Linux programming or whatever, you want extra RAM to devote to the virtual machine instance.

- if you do or plan on getting into any sort of video editing, like with Adobe Premiere, 4GB will disappear in literally 5 minutes. 8GB will tend to disappear as well but it's usable if you close other stuff. I have 12GB on my Asus UX32VD and it works well.
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ah glad i got the mac for that 😛
 
FearoftheNight said:
Hey guys. I just ordered the updated xps 13 in the base configuration. It's got the i3, 128 sata ssd, and 4 gb of ram. It's going to be my travel, school, coffee shop laptop. I'll probably mostly be using skype, Spotify, and lots of chrome tabs. I have a 15 in retina MacBook pro as my main home machine. Do you think I'll be disappointed by the performance of the base model? Would like some input! Thanks.!
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I have a Broadwell XPS 13 basic config. It performs just fine. I don't see any hiccups doing daily tasks. I even watch 1080p movies on it. I usually have no more than 10 tabs opened, but more than that will eat the RAM quickly. The Edge browser also performs faster than Chrome. The XPS basic config offers the best bang IMO.
 
Seven said:
I have a Broadwell XPS 13 basic config. It performs just fine. I don't see any hiccups doing daily tasks. I even watch 1080p movies on it. I usually have no more than 10 tabs opened, but more than that will eat the RAM quickly. The Edge browser also performs faster than Chrome. The XPS basic config offers the best bang IMO.
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sweet. glad to hear this. hopefully there are some other incremental improvements that come along with skylake and usb-c 🙂
 
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