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Posted by Luke7 - Tue 29 Sep 2020 10:31
Go on Dell, whack a Ryzen cpu in there lol
Posted by Zhaoman - Tue 29 Sep 2020 11:23
Luke7
Go on Dell, whack a Ryzen cpu in there lol

What? You haven't got the Intel brown envelope in the post yet?
Posted by ik9000 - Tue 29 Sep 2020 11:24
still no full SD slot and only two thunderbolt ports I see. Step backward Dell. XPS13 used to ship with 2 full size USB-A, a thunderbolt USB-C and a full size SD. Now that was a sensible spec. I can work on photos on a plane with that. Having to dongle and hub everything is not practical.
Posted by crazy95 - Tue 29 Sep 2020 16:05
could of got this, but I went AMD and got more cores for less money
Posted by samuraiweasel - Wed 30 Sep 2020 10:09
I have a feeling that the XPS line will never have a Ryzen cpu in it because that would cheapen it (Intel wouldn't like it)
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Wed 30 Sep 2020 11:30
samuraiweasel
I have a feeling that the XPS line will never have a Ryzen cpu in it because that would cheapen it (Intel wouldn't like it)

I would hope after the “best friend money can buy” roasting they got last time that Dell wouldn't want to have to weather that again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/technology/companies/05chip.html

There are at least Inspiron laptops with 4000 series APUs in them and some Alienware gaming rigs, but no XPS desktops or Threadripper based Precision workstations.
Posted by ik9000 - Wed 30 Sep 2020 11:48
dell would have to design a new mobo for it, but given the dominance of amd chips atm it would seem worth it IMO.
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Wed 30 Sep 2020 11:58
ik9000
dell would have to design a new mobo for it, but given the dominance of amd chips atm it would seem worth it IMO.

If they had designed one for the 3000 series, they could probably re-use it.

OFC it may not fit nicely with their awful Thunderbolt “docking stations”.