Comment by 650REDHAIR
7 hours ago
My top of the line XPS battery swole so much it broke the keyboard.
Repaired under warranty.
Less than a year later that battery was swollen.
No warranty replacement. No OEM batteries available through Dell.
I buy 4 replacements from Amazon and none work. The XPS line has battery DRM.
I have an i7 with a discrete card, 64gb of ram, and a 4k screen that’s worthless.
This post talked me out of buying the new XPS that is going to be released in a few weeks.
Never buy an XPS. Always been trash always will
Additional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.
My nearly 6 year old XPS begs to differ.
I've seen quite a few various laptops with swollen batteries, and their users don't understand that can't habitually store their laptops in the sun (well, in sun rays through windows).
Those people also don't even realize their battery is swelling, and that it's a bad thing.
The XPS line has battery DRM
Good comment to cc: to your Congressional reps. Only legislation can fix this.
I’d like to think congress is busy sorting out some of the more pressing issues. But maybe they can walk and chew gum.