Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Review & Owner's Thread

[SoundsGood]

I ordered a Case Simple sleeve from Amazon that works great for this.

How can it fit correctly when the Dell is smaller than other 13" laptops?

[slopokdave]

I have a feeling that his case is not a perfect fit? But it of course still fits. I picked up a 13" Macbook case from Best Buy, leather, made by Golla. It has a little extra room up top but it's snug. I like it when they have a bit of extra room up top because it gives you something to grab on to since there is no handle or strap.

[noced]

And yes you can restore this partition at any time later if you decide to do so. In Windows Disk Administrator, you can shrink the main partition by 8Gb without destroying the OS install. Then use diskpart to make this new 8GB space the special partition for hibernation.

Oh, oh no, I think I misunderstood your original post. In my haste, I mistook "restore" to mean similar to "reclaim". I actually don't want the hibernation partition, and I want that space in my main partition. Sorry for any confusion!

Anyway, I was on the Dell support forum with this question and someone told me that to do anything of the sort (claim the 8GB partition for main use) will affect the recovery partition as well. That, in itself, isn't much of a problem because I don't want the factory image with its bloatware, and I've saved and used system images before. However, I've been getting an I/O error when saving the system image to my external HDD.

Update on the Dell XPS 13: Wifi's still a bit wonky on my machine. It tends to drop the signal very frequently, perhaps at least once an hour.

[SoundsGood]

Not sure if this review was mentioned:

Dell XPS 13 review | The Verge

[pdagal]

From personal experience, i's true: if you delete the 8 gig hibernation partition, which I did to install Windows 8, then the recovery app complaints that the restore partition is missing. It thus won't make recovery DVDs, so make them before you remove this partition if you even want a full factory restore. I actually recreated the hibernation partition and the recovery app still complained about the missing or damaged partition!

If you boot using F8, Dell's recovery does work, just the Windows app complains.

On another note, I used diskpart to delete the hibernation partition and then used Windows Admin tools disk management to resize and manage the remaining partitions.

[alphadog00]

I didn't re-install the recovery app - I see no need. So I never ran into the issues described.

[pusta]

For those that kept the T-Mobile Hotspot, have you received your codes yet? It has been 12 days since my system shipped, and no codes.

[heavyharmonies]

For those that kept the T-Mobile Hotspot, have you received your codes yet? It has been 12 days since my system shipped, and no codes.

Nothing here yet.

[GordyM]

Now I am kind of glad I held off on purchasing a XPS 13. Check this out....

ASUS Zenbook UX31A and UX21A revealed with Ivy Bridge - SlashGear)

[brinky]

Quote:
Originally Posted by pusta
For those that kept the T-Mobile Hotspot, have you received your codes yet? It has been 12 days since my system shipped, and no codes.


Nothing yet. Still waiting. I have the hot spot and account all setup, I just need my e-pins.