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I only ever owned an XPS 13 9350 (~2015) and it suffers from really horrible coil whine, regardless of whether anything is plugged in or not.

I really wonder whether they’ve fixed this issue, as I’ve heard that some models after this one still suffered from the same.

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I have the current model (9300 ~2020) running Ubuntu 20.04. I do not have coil whine, and I couldn't find anyone else reporting coil whine when I bought it 2 months ago (I bought the Windows version and installed Ubuntu myself).

I heard there were problems with build / coil whine when I last bought a laptop back in 2018.

I wanted to run Ubuntu as the primary OS .. ended up choosing a ThinkPad. Still certified for Ubuntu, and the fact it came with a Window's license was a benefit for the few times I've needed to use Win10.

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