Thanks MrBuzzKill and Pressing,
Quick question for both of you. I just got my XPS 15 9550 Scratch and Dent from Dell today, there are some minor scratches on the bottom, but no where else, some of the standoff rubber had been worn down too. I don't mind the scratches, as like a new car stressing about with the first scratch, now that it's scratched to begin with, I don't / won't have that stress moment
Anyways, on to the question: On the keyboard (which I really don't like, it's a joke compared to the Dell M4400 esp. since I paid double+ for the XPS compared to the M4400):
1. The "B" key is unusually very stiff, like something is pressing against it from the bottom up.
2 The Backspace key barely moves a fraction of a mm. Literally, there is no motion to the Backspace key, it registers with a space, but no motion to it, it feels like when you try to press it, you're pushing into fabric about 1mm inward, but that's it, no push down/up motion. Is this the issue where some tape is holding onto it that I read somewhere?
3. The other keys look off...hard to explain, like when you know something is off, but it's difficult to explain what, my impression is that the keys all look out of uniform orientation, like some are fractionally angled left/right.
Other stuff:
1. Display is near perfect, no imperfections except for when looking top down, the left side of the panel about 1/2 inch from the left, has a slight purplish tinge. But straight on, it's white (with a white screen)
2. Will setup throttlestop and push this thing during the return period. Will not let Win10 download any crap to interfere with the stability of the machine (that includes installing candy crush...) If all is well, I'll install Win 8.1/Centos.
3. Will open it up and check for anything unusual and check if the battery is part of the recall in case if they missed that.
4. Will consider buying another if all goes well and return this for a certified refurb unit if they wont send me a new keyboard and let me do it myself, just send the KB and I'll return the defective one in the same box (I don't want a tech messing with the machine as getting to the keyboard looks to be a PITA and tech may not be patient and def. wont treat it like it's his own.)
5. I miss native ethernet. This laptop could've been thicker, no reason not too, esp. to include ethernet/better cooling. This laptop from the side looks like a crappy anorexic ultrabook. If I could, I'd just replace the M4400 panel with this one and call it perfect.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
