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The Dell XPS 12 is both a blessing and a bane. It is, on the one hand, a really fine laptop and convenient tablet. The screen is protected when rotated from tablet position into the normal laptop configuration and then closed; this is in contrast to Sony's excellent "slablet" whose screen is always exposed. The "tiles" of Windows 8 are a natural interface for a tablet, and speed with the 3rd gen i5 processor is adequate.
Anyone willing to pay for the admirable features of the XPS 12 should insist on buying one with the 4th generation Haswell chips. A web search shows claims of longer battery life and slightly faster speed. Furthermore, the 128 Solid State Drive seems only marginally adequate and is probably not easy to upgrade. (Amazon sold me a 256 G Crucial SSD which was easy to put into a 2 year old laptop, and that seems to be enough space. It boots up faster than my Android phone, and the XPS 12 is even faster (e.g. less than 10 sec).)
Price aside, my desire is for at least 256 G (or 512 G)SSD with Haswell i5 or i7 and probably 8 gigs of RAM. This is a rare purchase so should be satisfying for years to come. In the best of worlds, Amazon will offer a better choice soon.
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