I have an XPS 13 at home from several revisions back, and at work I have another XPS 13 that is current_revision - 1. In Padova, we had an Inspiron from ~10 years ago that had been turned into a computer for the kids to use, and was still working well. My wife is using another Dell Latitude laptop I got a while back, before the XPS 13. All with Ubuntu. It's probably time to upgrade my wife's computer, but the others are all working great.
I've continued to update Ubuntu on all of them without reinstalling.
Thank you, from your account it looks like this hardware is lasting at least as much as Apple hardware. Recently I had 3 Macbook Air laptops failing in a row... with things that are not easy to fix like motherboard, charging circuit, and so forth. After 2 years the warranty is gone so all they said was, we can change this for a new one for <unreasonable-amount-of-money>. All in all the switch back to Linux looks very interesting.
The thing that most impressed me is when the hard drive failed in the Inspiron when we were living in Austria. I had purchased the computer here in Oregon and brought it over there. I called up the local Dell number, expecting to have some huge hassle where I'd ship the computer to the US or something and wait a month for it to work its way through the system.
Instead, a guy showed up at our door the next day with a new drive that he installed.
It was definitely within the warranty period, but I was really impressed.
They're not perfect computers, and I do tend to be pretty careful with them, but so far so good.
Completely off topic, but I follow your blog about redis for quite some time,and thanks to HN, I just discovered that you're from ~Catania, I was there few months ago and I plan to come back, when I do I would absolutely love to pay you a beer (or a coffee if you prefer that :))
Hello! Sure, please send me an email at antirez/gmail, only condition is that I pay :-) Cheers. Trivia: I'm not actually from Catania but from a different place in Sicily, (Campobello di Licata in the province of Agrigento). However I live here in Catania for several years.
