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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/12/15 10:54, E.S. Rosenberg
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<pre wrap="">2015-12-22 21:48 GMT+02:00 Omer Zak <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il"><w1@zak.co.il></a>:
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<pre wrap="">As I said few weeks ago, I am considering the purchase of a new laptop
to replace my current desktop PC and also serve me on the road.
It was suggested to me to consider purchasing the Dell Precision M3800
laptop.
Before ordering it, I'd like to know if anyone else bought it and if
yes, what is his/her experience. Specific questions appear below.
>From the reviews that I read, the laptop suffers from a battery life
deficiency (which does not bother me). Also, the 4K display option
causes a lot of software to display too small graphical elements.
(see, for example:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2897199/opensource-subnet/review-dells-ubuntu-powered-m3800-mobile-workstation-is-a-desktop-destroyer.html">http://www.networkworld.com/article/2897199/opensource-subnet/review-dells-ubuntu-powered-m3800-mobile-workstation-is-a-desktop-destroyer.html</a>).
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<pre wrap="">Usually the DE has somewhere where you can tell it how high the DPI is
for your screen and it will scale elements accordingly, however this
usually won't work across the board.</pre>
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Make sure not to have different displays on the same desktop with
drastically different DPIs. I've had a laptop with a fairly high
resolution, and connected a monitor that was both bigger and had
lower resolution. The result was that the DPI of the laptop display
was almost twice that of the external monitor. Things did not look
good. Things were either too small on the built-in display or too
big on the external one.<br>
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Also, in my previous email on the subject I said that almost
everything works with Linux, but was then hard pressed to say what
didn't. I have, since, remembered. Some Dell laptops have a built in
smartcard/fingerprint reader. That one is completely and hopelessly
unsupported on Linux. That was the only hardware component I failed
to make work.<br>
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Shachar<br>
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