just ordered one, with a touchscreen and a 8gb of ram... $120. Pretty excited. It didn't have a ssd, so i ordered one for $50 on amazon. Gonna throw KDE Neon on it, and I am sure it will make a great little portable PC.
You should also be able to check the Service Tag in the BIOS/UEFI. However, I have had laptops where the Service Tag on the exterior label and the internal one don't match.
I have the 9360 with i5 7200u, 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. It sure is a well built device. Better built than my 7390, which has a defective headphone jack(dead, and beyond warranty repair).
Finding one of those in Indonesia is rather arduous job. Much easier to get something like Latitude or Precision here given (un)popularity of Dell notebooks in my area (majority of folks here using Asus/acer instead)
i had one of these which got me through high school and most of uni. of course i was naive and didn’t shell out for the 16 gig version, so it started becoming deprecated as zoom/online classes took hold during pandemic’s start. i still daily drove it until a bitlocker malfunction deleted all my data in winter 2020 though… sigh. to dell’s credit, the xps 9360 put up with me dropping it on almost a weekly basis. i had no tech literacy then so if the panel ever cracked i would have been very sad. although i wonder now if i can frankenstein in a 16-gig quad-core motherboard (9360 or 9370) without breaking compatibility, just for nostalgia’s sake.
Not an uncommon experience but what buggers me is corporates for whatever reason taking the bottom covers before selling off their retired machines so there ends up being a flood of machines on places like eBay missing parts. They love to take drive caddies and batteries for them to vanish into the void.
One of my Clevo (nh55) and my MSI ws66 also creak like the XPS's when you press on top, aluminium covers I guess... I've never played with the newer XPS but I did a data recovery job on a XPS 9570 now I'm doubting it was really a 9570. Everything is smoke & mirrors who I can trust?! Ahhhh
@@LaptopRetrospective Oddly a lot of older Thinkpads do have upgrade options like soddim slots (irony I know) but I am just the kind of guy that likes having options. As for this flattened burger of a laptop would be something one gives to their kid to use up over a summer playing minecraft.
@@FlyboyHelosim I got several XPS laptops including an engineering sample M1730 so I do make comparisons that the modern era of everything being thin actually sucks in the long run. No slots, no ports, no sockets, hell even the battery in a lot of modern laptops is an real issue, and the list goes on an on.
@@MrKillswitch88 Well then that's a comparison you can make for any brand of laptop in the ultra book form factor, it's not exclusive to Dell. Besides, the XPS line was always just a mid-range consumer-grade laptop that by definition doesn't warrant the ability to replace loads of parts. It's only really a step above the Inspiron line.
just ordered one, with a touchscreen and a 8gb of ram... $120. Pretty excited. It didn't have a ssd, so i ordered one for $50 on amazon. Gonna throw KDE Neon on it, and I am sure it will make a great little portable PC.
Cool idea with KDE Neon. 👍
You should also be able to check the Service Tag in the BIOS/UEFI. However, I have had laptops where the Service Tag on the exterior label and the internal one don't match.
I'll keep that in mind next time I look at a Dell. 👍
I have the 9360 with i5 7200u, 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. It sure is a well built device. Better built than my 7390, which has a defective headphone jack(dead, and beyond warranty repair).
Nice, what do you use it for?
Finding one of those in Indonesia is rather arduous job. Much easier to get something like Latitude or Precision here given (un)popularity of Dell notebooks in my area (majority of folks here using Asus/acer instead)
Yes, one thing we often assume is if it's available "here" it's therefore available "there" but regional sales and prices are a real factor.
i had one of these which got me through high school and most of uni. of course i was naive and didn’t shell out for the 16 gig version, so it started becoming deprecated as zoom/online classes took hold during pandemic’s start. i still daily drove it until a bitlocker malfunction deleted all my data in winter 2020 though… sigh.
to dell’s credit, the xps 9360 put up with me dropping it on almost a weekly basis. i had no tech literacy then so if the panel ever cracked i would have been very sad. although i wonder now if i can frankenstein in a 16-gig quad-core motherboard (9360 or 9370) without breaking compatibility, just for nostalgia’s sake.
Sometimes the board layouts don't change significantly and swaps are possible.
Not a bad little machine. Maybe someone swapped out the bottom cover, down the road? Great review!
I thought of that but the bottom cover design for the 9370 doesn't have the trap door. 🤷♂️
Not an uncommon experience but what buggers me is corporates for whatever reason taking the bottom covers before selling off their retired machines so there ends up being a flood of machines on places like eBay missing parts. They love to take drive caddies and batteries for them to vanish into the void.
I’ve always wanted to mess around with an XPS 13
Me too, they are often one of the industry standard business machines people compare other computers to.
there was another model dell XPS 9360r that came with 8th gen processor.
Well that could potentially confuse things further. :D
One of my Clevo (nh55) and my MSI ws66 also creak like the XPS's when you press on top, aluminium covers I guess...
I've never played with the newer XPS but I did a data recovery job on a XPS 9570 now I'm doubting it was really a 9570. Everything is smoke & mirrors who I can trust?!
Ahhhh
Trust your eyes, not the label. 😁
Extremely basic machine but typical of what 98% of the market has become.
I dunno, when I think extremely basic, I think plastic and lots of it. :-D
@@LaptopRetrospective Oddly a lot of older Thinkpads do have upgrade options like soddim slots (irony I know) but I am just the kind of guy that likes having options. As for this flattened burger of a laptop would be something one gives to their kid to use up over a summer playing minecraft.
@@MrKillswitch88 Older Dell laptops have upgradeable parts as well, so comparing an old ThinkPad to a modern, slim XPS isn't even a fair comparison.
@@FlyboyHelosim I got several XPS laptops including an engineering sample M1730 so I do make comparisons that the modern era of everything being thin actually sucks in the long run. No slots, no ports, no sockets, hell even the battery in a lot of modern laptops is an real issue, and the list goes on an on.
@@MrKillswitch88 Well then that's a comparison you can make for any brand of laptop in the ultra book form factor, it's not exclusive to Dell. Besides, the XPS line was always just a mid-range consumer-grade laptop that by definition doesn't warrant the ability to replace loads of parts. It's only really a step above the Inspiron line.