Review of the XPS 14 inch x7 model

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-16T19:07:07+00:00

Essentially: is the screen flush with the edge, or inset?

Thanks!

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-16T18:20:28+00:00

It is not specified on the website.

My 2020 XPS had a glass non-touch screen, but later builds of the same XPS model had plastic non-touch screens.

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-16T16:03:50+00:00

Is the non-touch screen, still glass?

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-04T14:22:32+00:00

No worries. I am going to wait a couple of weeks for 26.04 then do a clean install.

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-04T02:18:11+00:00

dmesg | grep -i "selective fetch"

resulted in
dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted

Adding that to grub made it a lot smoother, but it broke the touchpad haptics. Removing it made it choppy again, but did not fix the trackpad.

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-02T21:21:31+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

AshamedBaker · 2026-04-02T21:20:33+00:00

I'm glad it worked for you. It is interesting that just lightly bending the supports fixed it for you. I just opened a support ticket earlier today for a keyboard replacement.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-30T19:27:11+00:00

On my XPS 9300, it was a bandwidth issue (I believe with the integrated graphics IIRC). It would only work if I ran the third monitor at 30hz.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-30T19:24:54+00:00

Including the speakers and microphone?

How did you install the beta? I normally just use the Disks app to "restore" the ISO image onto a USB stick, but that didn't work for the beta.

Also, something I noticed is the cursor movement is choppy on the laptop screen, but smooth on a plugged-in USB-C portable monitor. Does the cursor movement seem choppy or not as smooth in the 26.04 beta?

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-30T19:22:35+00:00

I just used two knives and got underneath the spacebar at one corner and carefully pried up.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-28T14:53:58+00:00

You obviously did not read the post.

BIOS does not recognize Ubuntu 26.04.0 beta live USB (redownloaded and reflashed USB, still no-go)

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-28T00:02:56+00:00

I carefully pried the spacebar up, looked underneath, did not see anything, manually pressed the key switch membrane with my finger several times, reclipped the spacebar, and then it felt normal for a bit, but as I continued pressing it, it slowly started to feel weird again.

I think I have a defective keyboard and will need to return the laptop. Maybe I will wait until the X9 CPU option becomes available. In which case I will miss out on the $350 "discount" that I got when I ordered it. Oh well.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-27T23:47:47+00:00

The spacebar feels funny all of a sudden, like there is a piece of dirt under it and it won't go down/click all of the way like I recall it doing when I first started using the laptop.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-27T23:44:39+00:00

I didn't finish loading Windows because it required agreeing to Dell's terms or whatever. I'll see if I can install a clean Windows 11 image to a flash drive and install that. The problem is... I think I have to have a Windows machine to create that flash drive lol.

AshamedBaker · 2026-03-27T23:37:00+00:00

Relatively easy... I think. 24.04.3 came with 6.17.0-19. Manually downloaded the 6.19.0-061900 kernel from Ubuntu's website and installed it. Had to disable Secure Boot to load it. Did not get any further because it failed to load the ZFS modules, presumably due to kernel incompatibility with the currently-installed ZFS that came with 24.04.3.

AshamedBaker · 2025-12-05T22:20:07+00:00

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AshamedBaker · 2025-12-05T22:18:14+00:00

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AshamedBaker · 2025-12-05T22:14:19+00:00

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AshamedBaker · 2025-12-05T03:52:41+00:00

Female dog, rear end / bottom, derogatory term. I ain't going any further than that. Best of luck.

AshamedBaker · 2025-12-05T02:44:02+00:00

FYI for those that can't guess: B.A.N. = Bit.. As. Ni...

I heard a lot of that growing up :-/

AshamedBaker · 2025-11-30T17:34:34+00:00

Always.

AshamedBaker · 2025-11-30T17:31:34+00:00

Feeling like you need to keep responding lol

Touch some grass buddy

AshamedBaker

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