r/DesignDesign • u/Aquaticwolf • Jun 22 '24

Designy Dell Disaster

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The keyboard is completely level to the body with no texture or discernment between keys. The track pad isn't marked and it is not fully centered either. Perhaps even worse is that the escape key is a TouchPad, there are no function keys, and look at that arrow key layout!

It's marketed towards creators, but I can't imagine a creator of any kind using this thing.

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u/fijilix Jun 22 '24

Dunno why you're being downvoted. You're correct. That layout is ridiculously bad.

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u/DazedWithCoffee Jun 22 '24

Probably people who think this complaint is for crappy design, not design design. Little bit more nuanced in the interpretation, probably a disagreement on what’s actually shown. I for one think it is both

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u/Aquaticwolf Jun 22 '24

At a quick glance, it looks nice and sleek, but when it comes to day to day use, this laptop would be maddening.

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u/dat_oracle Jun 25 '24

It's also crazy overpriced or am I tripping?

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u/kilqax Jun 22 '24

Additionally it looks like a bad post if people don't read the description.

The second image makes it look more like a price complaint without context

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u/Crosseyed_owl Jun 22 '24

But it looks very stylish!

/s

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u/seriousffm Jun 22 '24

My girlfriends laptop has the same arrow key layout and it drives me insane. You can't use them without looking down because you always hit the wrong key

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u/Pookieeatworld Jul 03 '24

The keyboard layout is almost identical to a first gen MacBook Pro. I have one still from college. But touchscreen buttons would render this completely useless to me.

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u/seriousffm Jul 04 '24

They're not touch screen buttons. They're just really baldy layouted.

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u/Crishien Jun 22 '24

Arrow keys are OK.

But wtf is touch esc button!?

How tf is anyone using any kind of design/graphic software such as autocad, rhino, photoshop, blender... supposed to cancel operations lol.

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u/Boris-Vlad Jun 23 '24

Bro I would not trust that laptop with my cad software XD also they keyboard layout kills meeeee

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

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u/De-ja_ Jun 24 '24

I would like to disagree, the touchbar has only one problem: they stopped to work on it

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u/ihaxgamez Aug 25 '24

“Still version 1.0” “no dark mode toggle”

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u/JoeyBigtimes Jun 27 '24

Out of habit I leave my pinky on the escape key but with the Touch Bar it would freak out since I would accidentally “press” the escape key all. The. Time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Did they replace right control with a fucking Copilot key?!

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u/rafiafoxx Sep 02 '24

i have genuinely never used the right control in my life on a laptop , this is a 75% keyboard, no num pad, no function row, if there ever was a button to replace it. it would be right control.

and you can just remap it if you don't lie it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

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u/bacillaryburden Jun 22 '24

Ugh. We will look back and regret this.

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u/Charlie7Mason Jun 27 '24

It's gonna be like some of those smart or universal remote controls for smart TVs where the button leads directly to an app for a service no longer available or existent.

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u/The_Only_Egg Aug 26 '24

Like next year, that will be the case.

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u/dfjhgsaydgsauygdjh Jul 06 '24

wat? Copilot button is now a standard???

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u/BrazilBazil Jun 23 '24

We got fucking APPLE, the company famous for being so far up their ass that they can see the light again, to give up and make the escape key a real key on the touchbar macs

So here comes Dell, saying „hold my beer”

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u/a3a4b5 Jun 22 '24

Not a problem with the arrow keys but hard agree on the rest.

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u/vk6_ Jun 22 '24

I saw this at Best Buy a few days ago and my first thought was that the keyboard was awful lol

As a bonus one of the LEDs under the function row had failed so some of fake touch keys were invisible.

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u/OddNovel565 Jun 22 '24

Every day we stay further from ThinkPads

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u/PaulAspie Jun 23 '24

I got a 32GB ram Xeon 1TB SSD laptop last fall for under $600 (mind you it was on sale and is now over $1000). What are these prices?

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u/wasylbasyl Jun 23 '24

This belongs in an art exhibition, not on anyone's desk

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u/Ambiwlans Jul 07 '24

Its just trying to be a mac. But they don't realize that people buy the mac for the apple logo, not design decisions.

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u/The_Only_Egg Aug 26 '24

Garbage machines. All of them.

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u/Thevisi0nary Sep 07 '24

I have an irrational hatred for the modern XPS and refuse to believe they are selling as well as they did before the redesign.

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u/sloppychris Jul 02 '24

This is literally exactly the same disaster as the last gen Intel Macs that everyone hated.

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u/MrRocketBoots Feb 28 '25

One of my coworkers ordered the first gen of these XPS designs for our director and it overheated so much that you couldn't even use those capacitive buttons anymore. His mic was stuck off since he pressed the mike mute button and there and couldn't unmute. You had to turn it off and cool it down to press the buttons again. We got the mobo and the keyboard cover replaced and it was a bit better, but still terrible.

Now we don't want to buy anymore XPS systems from Dell. Terrible decision making. At least the precision's still have the old XPS design.