Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed
A few semi-relevant notes:
* We&#x27;ve bought multiple Dell XPS 13 laptops with Windows off Amazon because the same spec there was roughly $400-500 cheaper than buying the XPS Developer Edition from the Dell website.
* We tried running Linux on a Dell non-XPS Skylake Core i7 laptop and it was having many kernel panics. A quick Googling revealed people with a Skylake chipset having a similar issue.
* I noticed just a couple days ago that Dell has updated their XPS Developer Edition laptop to Skylake. One difference I see on the site is it ships with Ubuntu 14.04 SP1. I haven&#x27;t read much about SP1, other than it looks like it&#x27;s about a year old.<p>So yeah, I&#x27;m still buying XPS laptops with 5th gen chipsets because we&#x27;ve had issues with Skylake.