Instead of XPSs, we bought Precisions 15 5000 at work [1]. They are basically XPS 15, (virtually indistinguishable apart for the engraving on the bottom), but you can spec them to bits (you can even get a Xeon processor if you want,have them with no OS / Ubuntu). All of us are reasonably happy with them.
How's the screen like? Do you see pixels when reading text/code? If my calculations are correct, the Dell Chromebook has 169PPI, while the MBP 13 has a 227 PPI display.
I should probably point out that my personal machine is a Dell XPS 15 (infinity display), on which I run Arch.
Almost everything works, but I'm having trouble with a couple of things:
Graphics. It has switchable intel/nvidia but I get a better performance out of the intel chip still.
Battery life is about 2.5/3 hours.
I haven't tested bluetooth.
The fan sometimes comes up without any apparent reason. Palm detection and gestures don't work, but the trackpad is ok otherwise
The display is gorgeous, the machine is a beast and I'm very happy with it otherwise.
Since this was for clojurecup, we have decided to remove all references to Scala. :P
On a more serious note, we've only indexed ~25 courses and probably the ones you refer to weren't among them; if you have a particular course in mind, tell me, I'll fire up the scraper..
Am I the only one here who thinks that maybe a petition asking Mozilla to pressure Eich to step down may be a better solution to this?
I seems that all the years of contributions and sacrifices by the community to build a great product, fight for a better internet and all that mozilla has stood for could be very rapidly undone if we continue portraying it as a homophobic institution. All of this good, from so many people, undone for the views of one man.
Say we are successful with this, Firefox goes out of the picture. Mozilla is dead. Would that be something to aspire for? I'm creeped out by the state of the internet as it is already, mozilla seems like the last company that truly cares. Who would fight for keeping the internet open then? Google?
Let's direct the criticism to the man for his beliefs, lets let know mozilla that their choice is not cool and we won't accept it. Let's not bring the whole thing down with it please.
I'd really love to see that! So much of my undergraduate coursework felt like a complete waste of time since it was essentially throw away work.
As a plus, a teacher/TA is marking the work anyways, so you might have several people going at a problem from different angles and having the quality of the work evaluated by someone who (presumably) knows their stuff.
I bet this could work well for group works/final projects.
[1]: http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/precision-m5510-workstatio...