<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>conradfr</author><text>I was very interested because of the 16&amp;#x2F;10 display and the general design but besides the Intel CPU being apparently not that great compared to current AMD chips (including thermals and battery life) and the 32GB not available in my country (and not upgradable) it seems there is currently a great lack of QA at Dell that is really off-putting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>I seriously hope Dell finally found a way to make more solid laptops because half of the ~30 XPS laptops I&amp;#x27;ve seen around me needed to be send back because of issues with the device freezing or with the display.&lt;p&gt;I started out in November last year with an XPS and after multiple freezes I requested an repair that would take my laptop out for multiple weeks. Having seen my previous company send multiple laptops back multiple times I didn&amp;#x27;t have much trust in the certainty of resolution for my issues with the xps. My coworker at the time didn&amp;#x27;t have any issues with her XPS but I gave up on Dell and switched to Mac. Sadly my coworkers XPS broke down after 2 months and it&amp;#x27;s still being repaired after 5 weeks...&lt;p&gt;The specs of the XPS certainly are the best and the feel is great and I so hoped it would be a succes but it just sucks the experience is so bad. I often hear others still raving and reading about non problems so somehow I still think I might have seen a really bad batch enter the Netherlands over 2 years time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed</title><url>https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brianwawok</author><text>We have bought 7 or 8 for my startup in the past 4 years. Only one failure that happened at like month 3. Seems at least average reliability?&lt;p&gt;In the same time we have had 2 of 4 appple laptops need a new motherboard &amp;#x2F; some drastic problem</text><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>I seriously hope Dell finally found a way to make more solid laptops because half of the ~30 XPS laptops I&amp;#x27;ve seen around me needed to be send back because of issues with the device freezing or with the display.&lt;p&gt;I started out in November last year with an XPS and after multiple freezes I requested an repair that would take my laptop out for multiple weeks. Having seen my previous company send multiple laptops back multiple times I didn&amp;#x27;t have much trust in the certainty of resolution for my issues with the xps. My coworker at the time didn&amp;#x27;t have any issues with her XPS but I gave up on Dell and switched to Mac. Sadly my coworkers XPS broke down after 2 months and it&amp;#x27;s still being repaired after 5 weeks...&lt;p&gt;The specs of the XPS certainly are the best and the feel is great and I so hoped it would be a succes but it just sucks the experience is so bad. I often hear others still raving and reading about non problems so somehow I still think I might have seen a really bad batch enter the Netherlands over 2 years time.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed</title><url>https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available</url></story>