This is probably the first laptop from them that I could consider buying, judging solely on that small picture of it.
Still super-thick, and I don't know if I would feel comfortable buying that over the XPS, but at least it's got HiDPI, which for the price they sell their laptops for I feel should be included.
You make your laptops super thin and people complain about ports and only 16GB of RAM and no repairability. You make your laptops repairable with three different kinds of USB ports plus HDMI and 32GB of RAM, and people complain it's super-thick.
Absent from the page: "repairable", "three USB ports", "32GB of RAM".
Lifted the LCD to find it had some much flex, it felt like tagboard. Plastic housings were incredibly flimsy feeling. Those 10" netbooks that were popular for a while never felt as cheap.
We kept them as emergency backups and used one as a server, tucked in the server closet for a bit, but otherwise stuck with Dell.
Who knows, maybe the aluminum one will remove those problems.
It almost seems like they're showing how thick it is...