Wow, I cant believe its been over a month since I last blogged. Things have been busy but I also got to take some time off with the fam, which was well needed :). Here are a few quick updates:
Reviews
TechCrunch: Laptop Week Review: The Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition With Ubuntu
Dude, you got a Linux-powered Dell! In all the years I’ve reviewed laptops I’ve never been as pleasantly surprised by an Ultrabook as I was with the Dell XPS 13 Developers Edition. This ultrathin, ultralight SSD laptop originally came in Windows flavor but, much to my surprise, I far prefer the Ubuntu edition of this device. It is solidly built, acceptably priced given the solid state drive, and surprisingly powerful.
GoSaBe blog: Dell XPS 13 FHD Developer Edition
Well, I did something I never thought I would: I bought a brand-new, high-end Dell laptop. For full price. Me. Hell will be freezing over shortly…So, so far, two thumbs up. Way to go Dell. (There, I said it.)
ISO features now in 13.04
Kamal Mostafa, Canonical kernel meister for project Sputnik, recently pointed out on the forums:
…the Sputnik ISO is now over a year old and all of the kernel features it supplies have since been integrated into standard the Ubuntu kernel, making Ubuntu 13.04 a good choice if you’re planning to install Ubuntu yourself on an XPS 13.
OSCON
If you are interested in Sputnik and are heading to OSCON next month, you may want to check out the session Cote and I are doing:
Connecting the client to the cloud – The Sputnik Story
07/24/2013 11:30am – 12:10pm PDT (40 minutes); Room: F150 (capacity: 95)
Pau for now…
Barton's Blog 
Good work Barton!
It’s nice to hear that there’s 13.04 images out! I’ll give it a spin in a little while and see if it resolves my WiFi issues on my machine.
I’m very happy with my unit, which has the improved screen.
Sent from my Dell XPS 13 (Sputnik Edition)!
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Thanks Eric!!
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Hi Gordon,
When are you going to release sputnik third generation?Can you please give us some details about the major changing ?
Thanks
Thibault
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Could you solve some confusion? I’d like a Dell Ubuntu laptop.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/06/dell-xps-pulled-from-dell-website
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Arrggh, this was supposed to be fixed, let me check on it and get back to you.
Thanks for calling it out.
Barton
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All indications are that Sputnik has disappeared – did Dell cancel this?
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Hi Robert,
Sputnik is still alive and kicking, that being said we did have a major glitch with our web site recently and it got knocked off the site in a bunch of countries. They are working to get it back up. What country are you in?
thanks!
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Ireland, though I was looking at the US site as well. Thanks for the response!
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We fixed it in the US http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx I will follow up again with our UK/Eire team again. 🙂
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