Dell XPS 9360
- Year introduced: April 2017
- This is my day-to-day laptop and it's excellent.
- Super small and light and comfortable.
- Everything the old macbooks used to be - physical security lock, escape key, external battery power check…
Hardware
- CPU: 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7560U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
- Ethernet: use an external USB for wired ethernet
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620
- * WARNING: some users report a “coil whine” from Intel GPUs. Either this won't bother you (mine's periodic and quiet) or you may need to replace the unit.
- Memory: 16GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
- Screen: 13.3“ FHD AG (1920 x 1080) InfinityEdge display, Non-touch
- Storage: 512GB NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
- Wireless: ?
- At the time there was no Atheros support in CURRENT for the Killer Wireless, which has since changed. I'm using an after-market Intel 8265 and haven't switched back yet.
Support overview
| Component | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | Graphical sessions | ✔ | yes |
| Backlight (brightness) control | ✔ | yes | |
| Input devices | Keyboard backlight | ✔ |
| Touchpad | ✔ |
| Media keys | Brightness keys | | |
| Volume keys | | ||
| Network | Ethernet | ||
| Wi-Fi | | ||
| Other | Battery | ✔ | Excellent - 8-10h. The touch-screen versions of these laptops apparently use a lot more power. |
| Bluetooth | (/.\) | Not tried | |
| CD/DVD drive | |||
| ExpressCard reader | |||
| Fan | ✔ | ||
| Fingerprint reader | |||
| PC card reader | |||
| SD card reader | ✔ | yes, in base in 13.1-RELEASE, via ports for 12.3-RELEASE | |
| SIM card slot | |||
| Smart card reader | |||
| Suspend & resume | ✔ | beautiful | |
| Webcam | ✔ | functional | |
| Ports | DisplayPort | ||
| FireWire | |||
| HDMI | ✔ | HDMI + 2nd screen works perfectly | |
| Thunderbolt | |||
| USB | ✔ | yes | |
| VGA | |||
| Sound | Headphone jack | ✔ | functional |
| Microphone jack | ✔ | functional | |
| Speakers | ✔ | functional | |
| Last update: 2017-12-03 01:42:29+0200 | |||
- Legend
- ✔ OK
Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected
Present, but status unknown or untested
- ✘ Does not work