[Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 12/4/16, Wolfram Kahl <kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:15:20AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> wrote:
>> well-built, high spec'd and high-priced
>
> I am happy owner of an M3 from eurocom.com, which, together with
> most of their machines, falls roughly into that category, too,
> but comes (at your choice) without operating system pre-installed.

 yippee! :)

> (I'm running gentoo GNU/Linux.)
>
> Their philosophy is ``fully upgradeable'', so that may appeal to
> you.

 yes it does.

>  If I understand correctly, these are really Clevo machines;
> in Europe they are available under a different brand, which I forgot.
> (``Eurocom'' sits in Ottawa...)

 oo we like clevo.  they're "generic".

> If you are still in China, perhaps you can even find a direct way to
> buy a Clevo machine in Shenzhen or HK?
>
> (The 13.3 inch M3 and M4 are not listed currently on the Eurocom
>  main pages; I'd ask.)

 i will - it's a little awkward to operate on 10-15k/sec internet
connection (there's another couple of world-wide DDOS attacks ongoing
at the moment, f***s everything up here), what's the LCD resolution on
the M3 and M4?

>
> (You brought at least one of those ThinkPenguin WiFi dongles?  ;-)

 yehh :)