Now, what are the price differences? Also, the XPS 13" dev edition is 1080p, does the equivalent MBA?
The Dell can come with Ubuntu pre-installed and certified, and while they are both Unix there is the fact that Ubuntu is more-or-less FOSS whereas MacOSX is proprietary to some (most?) extents.
What I'm trying to say is that in listing the differences, you didn't list all the differences.
1) The touchpad sensitivity can be tweaked, and the config saved.
The "new" low end xps 13 looks like it starts around $800. Macbook Air is roughly in the same ballpark. For my purposes, the raw tech/price specs were not enough to matter.
My old xps 13 dev had a higher resolution screen, but it ended up being more of a problem than a bonus, mainly due to the inability of most of the ubuntu ecosystem to scale gui elements well. I could go on in more detail on this, but the fact is that Apple chose an even multiple for pixel scaling in retina displays (so non-retina apps can simply be displayed at effectively at twice normal size). In FullHD, some manner of fractional scaling must be employed on a 13" screen, and it needs to be done across the OS gui elements, as well as the rest of the app ecosystem in order for it to look right. I don't believe Ubuntu has this completely covered yet. In Ubuntu's defense, I haven't seen a fractional pixel scaling done "right" in a desktop environment (e.g. Windows 8).
Now, what are the price differences? Also, the XPS 13" dev edition is 1080p, does the equivalent MBA?
The Dell can come with Ubuntu pre-installed and certified, and while they are both Unix there is the fact that Ubuntu is more-or-less FOSS whereas MacOSX is proprietary to some (most?) extents.
What I'm trying to say is that in listing the differences, you didn't list all the differences.
1) The touchpad sensitivity can be tweaked, and the config saved.
2) I have no data on the wifi range differences.
3) Agreed
4) Is this true? I think Linux does do HiDPI?
5) Really?