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They do have another linux friendly laptop that can upgrade to 16gb, though its name escapes me now...

Oh, here it is, the M3800:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/review-dell-m3800-dev...

This looks alarmingly like the 2014 XPS 15 with i7, 16GB RAM and the GT750m I had for a while last year. Endless GPU problems, coil whine and a Touchscreen that caused general system issues. unless you're prepared to deal with random issues, I'd steer clear of the 15...

It's from the Precision line, not a (Studio) XPS. Not sure if that helps or not.

Indeed, but they share the same power system, battery, several CPUs, heat management etc. and will likely have similar problems.

I don't like it. I really don't understand why they don't offer a 16 GB RAM version of the XPS.

My understanding is that the motherboard does not permit it. From what I have read they are marking the initial XPS13 as "EARLY 2015" units -- with Windows 10 and Skylake around the corner you may see another major refresh later this year.

Typing to you on a XPS13 "Early 2015".

Well that's better than nothing, but I'll note that my 2012 laptop is happy with 32GB.

The smaller dev edition is based on an ultra-book design, which unfortunately leads to such limitations, while a workstation design like the Precision will not.

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