Greetings
A few weeks ago I initiated a discussion on Dell XPS laptops of various vintages.
One thing I requested was information on people's experience (if any ) with Dell XPS 13 9380s (of 2019 vintage). I have since acquired a refurbished variant, and have installed F38 on it. It seems to be working very well. The USB-C comment was very helpful: the machine is rife with USB-C connections, so conversion adaptors from USB-A to USB-C are necessary for legacy/residual devices.
The motivation for the purchase was that my Dell XPS 13 L322X (of 2013 vintage) had been overheating and I wasn't sure what the proper remedy should be. Once I had the 9380 working, I did some research on the L322X and purchased a new fan for it. Not only did I install it, I refitted the CPU heat sink. As it turns out, the thermal grease had dried, some of which flaked away. After scraping the dried grease off, reapplying a new layer, reseating the heatsink, and replacing the fan, the L322X runs about 50-70 degrees F lower (using the lm_sensors package to verify), where before it had been breaching. (Also, the L322X's keyboard had become more difficult to use with some keys repeating whle other keys becoming somewhat unresponsive; along with the fan and heatsink I replaced the keyboard).
fyi, Max _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
