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Duration: May 6, 2012 - Sep 16, 2012
Status: Archived
For those of you participating in Project Sputnik or simply interested in learning more, check out the Project Sputnik page on Dell TechCenter. The page is set up to provide information and updates on the project and contains a forum to discuss the project.
7/18/2012 Update:
Due to the fantastic amount and quality of input we have received on the Project Sputnik Storm Session, as well as the thousands of applications we received for our recently announced beta program, we have decide to take this project from pilot to product. This fall we will be offering an Ubuntu 12.04LTS-based laptop pre-loaded on Dell's XPS13 laptop. For further information you can view the press announcement, read Barton George's blog post and view the FAQ.
8/28/12 Update:
The Project Sputnik Beta Cosmonauts have been chosen. You can read all about it on Barton George's blog. A bug reporting system has also been set up for Project Sputnik by Canonical.
Hi !
For my development environment anything below 8GB RAM would not work
Status Update: The XPS 13 Developer Edition comes with 8GB of RAM. Thank you for posting!
When using cloud ressources with whatever virtual machines or dedicated hosts for testing web development or server side features it doesn't really mater because all is needed is a link a enough juice to run an editor/IDE locally.
But there are always time where it's more pratical to run some bit (or the entire project) in a local Virtual Machine.
As others have mentionned - Minimum is 8GB.
For the same reasons as above, virtualization features are important and the CPU such as Intel i7 must be present in the laptop line.
Eternal question of Mobility vs Graphicability depending on work style.
Bottom line is when XPS 13 laptop is released, the 14 and 15" cousins must be made available at same time with at least same specs.
Latest, fastest SSD must be present
Each project/work needs are different.
Keep things open and let us have the choice.
Dell has been pretty good with the online model offering choice - Please keep it this way and avoid pre-configured models.
No need to be locked down.
Dell must require/liase accordingly with hardware part manafucturers to provide support underneath. It includes Open Source/non Proprietary drivers.
No more out of the blue unknown/non documented hardware (i.e Latitute/Inspiron track pad issues for almost 2 years because Dell says it's the manufacturer fault's).
That doesn't means support for every new hardware but a road to get there. Can dell offer that flexibility?
By essence developers test, validate cutting edge technologies.
Means hardware must be released often with latest stuff.
And keep us informed. Not 6+ months later.
BTW where is Thunderbolt roadmap?
Hi guys! First of all I'd like to thank you for your effort, ultrabook class laptop supporting ubuntu sounds like a dream might come true, but I won't buy it untill there's no windows preinstalled on it.
Don't get me wrong though, it's not just that I can't pay extra 100$( or what is the windows price? ) for something I'm not going to use. It's just the fact that buying a windows laptop makes me feel like I contribute to windows monopoly, that already makes me suffer while choosing a laptop
Status Update: The XPS 13 Developer Edition comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. Thank you for posting!
Just wanted to post this as a seperate idea after seeing it mentioned 3x times as a small in between comment in other ideas: No CD/DVD drive even if a different basis than the xps13 is chosen (which is cd-less as far as I know).
Status Update: The XPS 13 Developer Edition is available with no CD/DVD and you can add an external drive if you wish. Thank you for posting!
Dell's main concern should be a seemlles integration between Ubuntu and the HW its running on. We as developers will take care of what packages to install on the box, after all we are software developers.
Here are what makes a great laptop:
1. OS and Hardware just work and taken full advantage of.
2. Display - Matte, High resolution (1920x1080) stare at the screen all day. Display port just works with projectors and extended monitors.
3. Specs - As high as possible in CPU (i7 ivy), Ram (most i can get) and storage (dual SSD and HD) for 6 hrs of batter on half dim screen.
3a - Hold the SD card reader and other useless ports and bays. Just give me the link ports.
3b - Serious front camera for conference calls.
4b - Hold the speakers! I don't know a soul that uses the speakers... everybody uses headphones.
3d - Back lit and spill resistant keyboard.
4. Support - time is money, if something breaks i want it repaired asap!
5. No bloat ware!! i don't want your settings and other worthless tools. Don't install anything other than bare bones OS.
We'll take care of everything else with regards to software. Just make sure the os works with the hw.
Today laptops are very strong at most of aspects, but 1366x768 is awful.
NO intel! cpu or video systems.
nVidia based chip sets
AMD DUAL or QUAD core only please
One 1Gigb Ethernet
802.11a wireless NOT 802.11n, but real support for 802.11a 5.8Ghz wireless IN ADDITION to 802.11b/g/n for 2.4GHz, Insipiron 9400 had 802.11a support. Less interference on 5.8GHz, but not all users in this band are 802.11n compatible.
CDMA 3G 860/1900Mhz and LTE 4G from VZW either as an optional PCIx card or built in.
nVidia 1GB VRAM on board graphics. And NONE of those dual mode hybrid cards either! They cause nothing but trouble.
Monitor output, prefer VGA, but DVI is fine, last and least favorite is HDMI.
DVD-DL with Lightscribe and DVD-RAM multidrive, no laptop should be without them.
Docking station to add PCIx ports, additional serial ports, USB, HD, DVD/CD-ROM bays
ALL PORTS on the BACK! Except for a couple USB ports, but otherwise all ports on the back, including power!
16GB RAM or 32GB would be better
15 or 17" screen would be the preference.. 13 is just too small... as for matte v. glossy, not an issue for me.
NO UEFI BIOS or Bootloader!
Linux YES! ubuntu, no thanks!
Please use or offer Kubuntu 64bit, KDE is what regular developer users want. NOT unity and gnome 3 which have been pretty soubdly rejected.
HPLIP full install including the GUI software
nVidia OEM drivers installed in the image ready to go. Work with the XSWAT PPA to get the best drivers out there.
All compiler requisites should be installed ready to go ie: build-essential, etc..
Eclipse IDE with PHP, Java, C/C++, Ruby setups
Netbeans IDE with PHP, Java, C/C++, Ruby setups - This may be an issue with the idiotic licensing nonsense certain company causes.
Do NOT install openjdk! It just has to be removed any way, as most Java programs are not compatible with it. And since you can *legally* distribute Sun(REAL) Java any longer.. just let the user install it.
Absolutely necessary:
A good Ubuntu-based developer laptop should have a minimum of 8GB RAM, solid state drive, i7 processor, integrated graphics, 1Gbps LAN port and a camera. That gives a good base for Linux and Android development and the camera allows for web conferencing. A low-glare matte screen for the display would be good, too. The software will vary greatly from one developer to another so just a basic Ubuntu 12.04 installation would be good. Having a place to share ideas for additional software, utilities and developer tools should be better than including software and tools with the laptop.
One of the goals of a system like this is to encourage "good behavior" by making it easy to follow good practices. Testing and automation are some of those good practices and Vagrant (http://vagrantup.com) is a tool to help them. By being able to quickly spin up and tear down VMs, Vagrant encourages rapid (continious) deployments for testing. Developers can also use Vagrant to maintain individual and separated development enviroments.
Would love to see this laptop positioned for large-scale deployment such as development teams. This would likely require network authentication on networks running MS.
Great idea, I really want something like this. I am in the market for a fully Linux compatible higher end portable system.
OS - Great that it comes with Ubuntu since that is the de facto Linux desktop. However, it is very important to me that the hardware is supported via open drivers so that distributions other than Ubuntu will be able to take advatnage of the same level of hardware compatibility. It's great to focus on the experience for Ubuntu, but please don't do it such that users are locked into that one distribution if they want full hardware support.
Hardware -
Deal breaker: 4GB non-upgradeable ram. I already have a 4GB developer system that runs out of memory and starts swapping when I am developing java applications with Netbeans and running a Glassfish application server and a database. My 6GB system has no issues. I would like the ability to upgrade the ram, or at the very least if it has to be non-upgradeable, give it 8GB minimum.
Disturbing: No lan port? I know it's one of the taller ports out there but it is really very important - sometimes you need to plug directly into a specific switch, or into a network that for whatever reason lacks a wireless access point. I see that there exist some USB to RJ45 connectors, so if something like that could seemlessly work in linux and be included with the system that could be a workaround.
Barely livable: The screen. Please provide the option for a higher resolution screen, and it would be excellent if it could be matte as well. I would gladly pay somewhere around $100-$200 extra to get a model with an fabulous screen.
Like: 1) Battery Life, 2) Small form factor for the screen size 3) Durable and pleasing design 4) Backlit keyboard 5) Large touchpad... as long as the clickpad works perfectly in Linux! My current HP clickpad doesn't like to let me drag/click while having 2 fingered scrolling enabled...
Thank you for your work, I eagerly await the results :)
A lot of folks have chimed in with things that developers need. I think there's also some value in discussing what we DON'T need, because as we all know, design is all about trade-offs.
On the hardware side, there have been lots of comments already about needing more pixels on the screen, more RAM and maybe at least options for more CPU.
Hardware that I think most developers would be willing to give up in exchange for more of the above:
Opensourcing the drivers and putting them upstream would be the make or break for this project. Also a tightly coupled integration between bugzilla and git (current plugins/hacks don't the job well enough, and I'm super lazy) would be enormously helpful. As well as putting things like a more current nodejs api (or any api) upstream would be useful so I don't have to go compile it manually from source (Laziness again).
As some others have requested, a matte screen is a must. It is, for many of us, one of the few features that could qualify as a "sine qua non" for any laptop to be used that often.
The last Dell I bought for development was an Inspiron 6000. 3 years later, I bought a MacBook Pro and have been holding onto it because Dell simply will not offer matte displays even as a premium option on XPS and Alienware systems.
Right now, if that 4 year old MacBook Pro died, I would likely buy a Samsung Series 7 laptop because they have good specs and come standard with respectable matte displays.
How much is this feature worth to me (and probably many other here)? Apple charges about $200 for it on all 2011 and 2012 MacBook Pros. I would gladly pay that much to Dell.
I understand that many home users are content to use a glossy display in a dimly lit room. What I can't understand is why so far Dell has dropped this on every system where it could be a premium add-on.
What programs do you need?
- gEdit is a must!
Specs needed:
- 8GB RAM as a minimum, preferably @ 1600MHz
- intel i7 Ivy Bridge dual core with power saving for better batterylife
- Improved battery - XPS 13 has good battery life, but it can be improved
- SSD with 256GB
What bugs me?
- Issues that are hard to fix myself, therefore I suggest you go with a LTS distro, like Precise Pangolin as it will get more support and faster updates
- Low resolution screens with bad colour accuracy. The XPS 13 has an okay screen, but if one was to use the laptop for CAD or artistic work, it would need better colour reproduction and higher resolution. Normal workflow is also hampered by low resolution, making 720p unattractive.
- intel GPUs, as they don't work properly with Linux as of yet. nVIDIA has traditionally had the GPUs with the least problems related to Linux. Everything seems fine when you're working with regular programs, but as soon as GPU power is needed, it's no fun.
Support needed?
- The support needed would be related to hardware, as the software issues are taken care of by the Linux community. It would be wise to have capable DELL represants to guide customers to the right place, though.
- Support for the drivers for touchpad, web cam etc.
So software isn't important to me as whatever you install on it a later version for something is going to be available by the time I get it. apt-get is my friend.
As long as the hardware is fully supported I really don't care about anything else concerning software as I con configure it myself.
Just checked the spec of the laptop being suggested, and it has no network connection, doh!
I'm not going to download heapdumps over a wireless link and my company bans wireless anyway for security reasons. Lack of a Gig ethernet would prevent me buying the suggested hardware, even with a promise that wireless is going to work. I dont have a wireless LAN, without internet its a brick.
I think Apple + Goolgle might have some interest in "consumers" having airbooks with extremely limited network connectivity, but not business users.
What are the basic, lowest-common-denominator tools that you would like to see pre-loaded.
git, because there is no better SCM out there.
gEdit. No, really. I love that text editor! You should also include the github gedit themes.
What profiles are most important to you to be available from Github?
For me, nginX, SQLite, and PHP. PHP 5.4.x takes care of SQLite as it's built in. nginX is a really fast web server software that I use in production. And of course, you'll be providing the linux flavor for me.
PHP 5.4.x, stand alone. Now that it includes a web server built in, I can pretty much start programming after just installing PHP. It includes a web sever, so I don't need to install nginx, it has SQLite baked in by default. It's my whole application layer, in one application. Crazy but true fact, using PHP 5.4.2, with PDO SQLite enabled, running the built in web server, I was using 2.4 MB of system memory.
What do you need in a laptop to do your job, how much memory, how powerful a CPU etc.
In most cases, I don't use that much CPU power when I'm devloping. But I do have some image editing to do, it would be useful to have a pretty fast CPU. Anything from the Sandy Bridge era should work pretty well. But if you can include an Ivy Bridge just for battery life sake, that would be a great option. But that's just me, I'm sure there are a ton of C++ devlopers that would love as many threads as you can give them so it does not take an age to compile their software.
I do use quite a bit of ram when I'm fidding with SQL data. So, obvisouly, the more the better. I can't see anyone complaning about haveing 8GB of ram as the default for this system.
What makes you more productive, what bugs you?
GET OUT OF MY WAY! Don't make me think about why my computer is not working. Because if it's not, then it's useless to me. I'm using it to program, not trouble shoot my linux install.
I really don't want it to have a terrible trackpad. Things like two finger scolling should work right out of the box, SMOOTHLY, or just don't bother. I should never have to think, "Right, I should not do this, because I don't know what the results are going to be" when using the laptop.
1366x768 is EVIL! I very commonaly have two documents open side by side on my computer. One is the text editor that I'm using, and the other might be the manaul. I need more space then that resolution affords me.
What type of support do you need/expect from an offering like this if it becomes mainstream.
Very little, really. Most people that use Linux in the first place don't require that much help.
Just make sure that your drivers work well with the system and we should be golden
Although, if you could open source your drivers, so that they can be pulled down by Ubuntu's update manager, instead of having to handle the 3rd party driver nonsense, that would be much better for everyone.
I have been reading all the ideas here and I am starting to get the impression Java developers need an entirely seperate model as the apparant requirements of Java are on an entirely different level from for example web developers (either php, node.js, coldfusion, phonegap etc.).
Java seems to need (according to the other idesa):
I am using Dell Inspiron 1545 with Ubuntu for 2 years and Develops web Application. Dell Must included software packages for Web Developers. Following are some tools that are must in Dell's Laptop. :
1. XAMPP (it makes laptop a choice for PHP developers)
2. FileZilla Client.
3. Firefox(with web Developers Tools and FireBug) ( Custom Build )
4. Eclipse( for Android and PHP Developement)
5. Web Developer Tools for Ubuntu ( https://launchpad.net/~petrakis/+archive/wdt-main )
6. Qt Creator( for Android and Cross-Platform Application Development )
and If you include some extra softwares like :
6. VLC Player.
7. Skype.
They are bounus to user.
Now that processing power and storage have exceeded minimums, the height of the screen seems to be the gating element for coding effectiveness on laptops. I would want a screen at least 900px tall in a 13" form factor.
I think this is a very attractive idea. Developers seem to be buying Macbook's in droves yet a well equipped Linux desktop is just as powerful and in many regards moreso. Most users simply don't know about the number of fantastic dev tools on the Linux desktop. A marketing effort showing the fantastic tools would go a long way to swoon the Macbook crowd. Not to mention the fact nearly all these tools are 100% free *and* open source.
Creating a single image to rule them all is obviously a difficult task. You seem to be making good decisions. I personally am a Fedora user so this initiative doesn't directly align with my preference right off the bat, but I understand your choice. I hold hope that this effort indirectly results in better upstream driver support for the Dell XPS 13 that Fedora and other distros can enjoy. I would be happy to vote with my dollar if that were the case.
For future hardware considerations, more RAM the better. I am a Java developer so it seems one can never have enough. Also as others have said +1 to much higher resolution displays, 1680x1050 is the minimum to be practical.
I think this would be a great idea. especially on the 13 xps system. sounds like it could have a lot of potential.
why not? i think its about time.
A good multi touch trackpad would be great too, similar to the macbook pro and the samsung series 9. i currently use a macbook pro and the touchpad works so well that i dont even have to worry about using a mouse. scroll gestures and 2 finger click for right clicking built on the touch pad ie clicking down on the touchpad like you do with the macbook pro and samsung series 9 (those stupid little buttons thats usually at the bottom of a trackpad really doesn't work well)
Honestly looking from a software development point of view:
When in my office I use dual monitors and NAS storage. I also like an external keyboard and mouse. Hence I'd also request that you consider other expandable platforms in addition to the XPS 13. (I currently develop on a Latitude E6500 with docking station.)
I'm a Java dev and I know how I like java installed and its not the same as any distro.
Java tools installed out of the box would not be a plus for me. I'd like the option in the repos but better to get a barebones box that you choose the tool you want installed.
I would install from the repo immediatly all the C and C++ tool set and kernel source but I'd like to tune the Java setup myself.
It would be cool to be able to apt-get ruby and get all you need to have a play with a new language ready setup, but my work has my requirements. So I need to be able to install work stuff (Java) myself. I'd imagine other people in the same situation with ruby but would be happy to apt-get eclipse-java out of the box if thats not their core money earner.
As a Java dev we spend a lot of time compiling fast CPU and lot of RAM are needed. A develeoper laptop is a tool not a toy so I'm prepared to spend some money on it.
But I totally agree with other comment that the box must cost less than the Windows version of the same spec PC. If canonical want to offer/hard sella license deal cool with me, I'll probably buy into ubuntu one, but it should be an option. I'll put up with handy tools (ahem adverts) for such things when I set the box up. But a markup for Linux is worse than the Windows tax.
I would not buy a virtual Windows thing, we deploy on Linux and I never touch windows in my day job I use Firefox QA have to install IE, FE devs deal with that kind of problem.
But VM support is critical, I'm happy to develop on Ubuntu but we deploy to RHEL, VMs not working is a show stopper for me.
Screen real estate is important for developers we use every pixel, fluff is not needed, cool and clean is best. I've no objection to Unity, HUD is better than a menu bar taking up space IMHO provided the graphics are so fast its instant, but the most important thing is that the graphics work and at the end of the day the reason to buy a dev PC like this has to be that it takes zero effort to setup the graphics card and the USB3 or the webcam or whatever. There is an overhead to setting up Linux on a laptop, I'd like to not have that setup overhead.
The Machine must come pretty bare with everything working. The most annoying thing about developing on Linux is having to dedicate time you dont want to dedicate to getting some bit of hardware to work as it should. Linux is cool for its tweakability, I install Jack-audio and mess with the sound and break things ocasionally, that's my problem. Dell's should be that the microphone jack works out of the box with whatever Linux audio is in the base system.
If I break it its my bad, I dont need support, but its really annoying to have a PC that after you install the OS stuff still needs attention. They key should be that you open the box and everthing works to start working the same day. First days work is dev-env setup installing that eclipse 18.104.22.1684.beta6 with xxx patches. It should not be fiddling with drivers.
In summary
Heres an Idea to keep everyone happy wiht regard to their OS preferences mentioned in the other ideas, unity is a moot point in the Linux community at the moment.
It would be really cool if the PC came with installed nothing on it yet but an installer,
You could pre-load some working distros.
When you first open the machine it said
Which OS would you like?
Ubuntu Unity
Ubuntu Gnome
Then installs the fully working Bare bones OS to the primary partition, deletes the unwanted distros, and do some disk partitioning magic to reclaim the space used from the unwanted distros.
As someone already tell it: the first thing you should do is to provide a better HW support. e.g., provide drivers for the kernel, so a developer could use it for his prefered distro. Or at least target Ubuntu, but for many of your machine. And all drivers etc are available in a repository for apt (and why not, for RPM etc), and updated for new versions of distros.
Don't target only one machine. For me, the XPS 13 machine doesn't fit my needs. I'm using a latitude e6520 (i7+8go+ssd 256). I'm a web developer but also a C++ developer. And probably this e6520 doesn't fit the needs of other developers. So try to provide drivers at least for one machine in each categories (xps, inspiron, latitude...).
I had bought a e6520 (one year ago), but unfortunately, it isn't supported at 100% by any linux distro:
- Optimus is not supported so only the nvidia card is used (and because of this missing feature, the intel card is not deactivated, although it is not used). So my battery life is tiny (2 hours, ouch). There is a project to support Optimus (Bumblebee), but it does not work very well (two weeks ago, I tried to install it, it crashes Ubuntu, X did'nt work any more etc, I had to reinstall the distro) and is not really friendly to use.
- The trackpad (multi-touch) is not supported too. It is seen by linux as a simple ps/2 mouse.
- The SD card reader and firewire didn't work at all.
- the suspend mode didn't work very well.
- the fingerprint reader doesn't work at all
I had to wait one year to see the SD Card reader, the firewire and the suspend mode to work out of the box into recent distro. Linux 3.3 seems to fix the support of the trackpad, but it is not yet into distros. For Optimus and the fingerprint reader, I'm still waiting... The support of Optimus, (so the support of hybrid graphics into linux), is a critical issue since the missing of this feature greatly reduces the life of batteries.
So, spend your energy in the linux support for many of your machine, instead of to target only one machine and only one category of developers with a single distro that will fit the needs of only a tiny percent of developers.
I don't think it is useful to preinstall bunch of developper tools, since each developer use different tools. For example, some of them prefer to use Eclipse, other only Komodo, or VIM etc... If you preinstall some tools, you could be sure that some of them will be useless for the developer, and some tools were missing. However, you could provide a software which will allow to choose and install easily different set of softwares. The user could choose between several sets of software, depending of its profiles. After selecting criterias, like "i'm a PHP developer", "I'm an Eclipse User", the software install the LAMP plateform, Eclipse and relating tools.
So, to summary, first of all, provide drivers at least for ubuntu, but for many of your machine. If you do this: the customer can choose the machine he prefers, and you can target not only developers, but also other kind of users. Doing a distro targeting developers with preinstalled software that the developer won't probably use, is useless. A developer is supposed to know how to install his prefered tools. But not the "lambda" user. So, for him, and for developers too, the distro (ubuntu), should work out of the box for the most possible dell machines. From my point of you, I don't care the tools you could provide. I want a laptop that works!
I am a software engineer who does a range of development on an Ubuntu desktop at the moment. I mainly work with PHP, Python, Ruby, Java (including Android dev), C, and different databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. I run a VM to do my IE testing when I am doing web development.
I need a fair bit of memory and fast storage more than a blisteringly fast CPU when I am working with IDEs and working with large database datasets. I also need a fair bit of space on the disk when I am working with large database dumps.
The packages I use would depend on what development I want to do.
Hello Dell,
first let me say: Thanks for giving people the chance to participate in your product development and for this great idea of a developer Ultrabook.
My idea is simple: Give us better display with higher resolution.
If I want to develop on a laptop with this lowcost 1366*768px resolution, I don't need to spend 900$+ to do this. So to make it short: PLEASE give us a matte display with a resolution of at least 1600*900px.
Thank you.
Status Update: The XPS 13 Developer Edition has been updated and now comes with a Full HD (1080P) screen resolution. Thank you for posting!
I work in multiple environemnts: python, php, android, mono. I won't have trouble setting up these environments myself.
But I would like sufficient power with compromise to battery-life. Virtual machines are important to my development so a multicore processor with virtualization features is a must.
I am based in Montreal, Qc and do mostly multilingual projects: French, English and Spanish. It would be nice to get the option of getting a multilingual keyboard and installation.
I currently run Ubuntu 12.04 on my Inspiron 1764. The battery barely lasts two hours with the brightness of the monitor turned all the way down when simply using Sublime editor and Chrome for development. The other gripe I have about the currently setup is the display...in any level of natural light I have a very hard time seeing the screen. I would love to see an anti-glare screen that would allow the use outdoors in natural light as I love working outside when the weather permits.
My two cents. Thanks for listening.
It would be nice to see an offering of other Distros of Linux. I am interested in Mono development, but implementing that on Ubuntu is a bear since some of the default functions of Ubuntu are dependant on parts of Mono and you have to configure around that. Suse Linux is a good choice for Mono development.
I was just thinking about how cool was going to be if I could buy a xps13z and use it for development, but then I'd have to format it, find drivers, etc...
Reading your idea I think that the best would be to have this image with not only drivers, but some predefined packages compiled for the machine, with apt-get -b source [package]. Some packages like vim, xorg, etc are default, but you could have a list of predefined packages like gimp, virtualbox, komodo, (other IDEs), window managers, etc. built specially for the xps13z hardware, on a nifty xps13z section inside Ubuntu's package manager.
The more tools available the better, because I would like to choose what I would use, but would be a great thing to have pkgs compiled for my machine instead to compile everything to get the most excellent performance.
Don't bother with too much support I think personally, being developers I doubt we need a lot of support from a company like dell to be honest, as we tend to know more than the people who are expected to help us often (at the very least that was the case when my boss called with dell last time). The only important thing is making sure that all legal warranties are met as far as hardware support goes (e.g. in the EU depending on the country 2 to 3 years), as I (and many other people) really dislike being spammed with all kind of hardware support options which I already have for 80% without paying for them*.
*which was part of the reason I didn't buy a Dell laptop last time I concidered it (although I am working on a Dell desktop right now).
As downvoting/disagreeing isn't possible I just wanted to submit a mostly opposite idea to one of the other idea's.
- No seperate buttons (as is the case on macbooks for example and the current xps 13), as this greatly increases the useable trackpad area.
- Two buttons at most (middle mouse button is /rarely used/).
- The bigger the better (trackpads are extremely useful when they get past a certain point where you can start using them as a one on one representation of the screen (rather than a relative moving device) which is incredibly useful in some applications).
- Two finger scrolling (or the circular scrolling which was popular on linux awhile ago) that actually works (I have seen a number of really really poor implementations)
A number of ideas here seem to suggest web developers need the horse power to do video analysises on their laptops which simply isn't the case. For the majority of developers most i5 processors are more than enough, although a fair amount of RAM is always useful. The reason for this is simply that IDE's + a browser are both fairly average applications and do not need that much processing power. Especially the fact that often faster processors come at the cost of battery life I would suggest battery life to be far more important than the cpu.
(Please note that I assume the reason for people asking for the i7's is mostly out of the concept that geeks (which most programmers) tend to want the best ignoring their actual needs (which is to some extend why apple and apple macbook airs are so popular: they create the best they can ignoring what the consumer thinks he needs (to best would be some balance between the two I guess)))
I currently use the top-range Thinkpad X220. Things I love about it:
- _matte_ IPS screen that works outside
- keyboard that you can type on forever without hurting in your fingers
- long battery life
- RAM upgradable to 16GB
- fast, quad-core cpu
- silent
However, the Thinkpad is also ugly and not very thin. The Dell XPS
beats it there.
I realize web dev's don't really need more than dual-core, but if you
want to catch 3D devs, big data analysts, researchers, people who do
lots of compiling, you should really offer more cores for the
top-range models. And make sure RAM is upgradable in these VirtualBox
But the most important point to me is this: make it available on your
web site! And sell it in all countries where you sell Windows laptops.
I don't want to have to call some foreign number and ship to a friend
in another country just to buy a Ubuntu-pre-installed laptop …
I am a Ruby developer working on a 14" TravelMate 8471 (Core 2 ULV, 4GB RAM) - I am looking for an ultra portable in the next few months. I'd wait for the Dell if it has:
- a good, bright and preferably mate screen with at least 1366px resolution
- Core i7 and 8GB of RAMs - a must have for my next machine
- fast SSD drive, preferably 256GB
- 7 hours of battery life must be possible (at least when I am turning off WIFI and make the screen darker)
... I'd care less about the software as everything is easy to install in Ubuntu. A virtual Windows7 preinstalled (ready to enter the license key) would be awesome.
Laptop for developer needs to be ergonomic, allowing for long hours workin with code without causing much strain on eyesight. Working with glossy screen in office environment is just terrible. Also, TN screen is subpar. So the ideas for the screen are:
- must have matte as option (or even default)
- must be IPS
- optional 14" model
- 16:10 aspect ratio (instead of current 16:9)
- should have better resolution (at least 1440x900 for 13", higher resolutions as options)
First, I am a C/C++-Developer, but I also do web-programming. With PHP/HTML/CSS and also with C/C++.
The first thing I am looking for is a high quality keyboard. It should be exchangeable. Even if I am satisfied with my Inspiron 9300 keyboard, it might happen that it got damaged. A laptop with a damaged keyboard is worthless. At next I need a high resolution on a non reflecting display panel. I loved my Inspiron 9300 (on Debian Linux) for it's screen resolution (1920x1200) but unfortunately I had to work in darker edges.
I need to read lines of code. I need overview. I want to buy a 27" 2560x1600 Monitor this year. Dell only offers a 16:9 display. Please stay at 16:10! For coding I also accept 4:3. 1440x1050 is a great resolution for coding on a 12 or 13" display. I would love to see 1680x1050 on a 13" 16:10.
I do 3d programming. If you ask for webdevelopers: There is XML3D which is close to OpenGL/WebGL. I am working on this topic. I don't want to have problems, so I really want nvidia graphics. That's why my Inspiron had the additional GeForce 6800 graphics card. NVidia runs well for OpenGL applications. The laptop had a gread gaming performance - but I am no gamer.
My laptops are usually plugged. So I do not need a big and heavy battery. But I always carrying the power supply which needs additional space in my bag. Please create a laptop with a power supply you can put into the laptop instead the battery. Or half the battery to two identical batteries. So you can select if you need more battery with an external power supply or less battery but power supply is included. To make the laptop cheaper, the main battery could be internal.
I love the trackpad of my Apple Macbook. I usually do not need a button, just tip with 2 or 3 fingers - great!
CPU power is not that neceassary for me. Of couse it cool, but a SSD is more important today.
I ike this idea a lot, the problem I have with it though is cost
In the US the XPS 13 starts from $1000 which is £625 (@ 1.6 USD = 1GBP)
In the UK the XPS 13 starts from £950 which is $1520
My question is why do I have to pay over 1.5 times the cost in the UK?
Would the developer laptop be subject to this cost increase as well (note that there should be no licence fees!)
Do not bother to pre-install dev software: Each developer will need a little bit different set and installation of software is easy and fast in ubuntu.
(e.g. in the blog post you list git and bzr, but I use svn and hg)
Instead, make sure the recent dev tools are available in the repositories. At the moment I use several PPAs to fetch recent dev tools. Maybe you could have one PPA for various DEV tools where tools are updated within a reasonable time frame.
Every developer I know which are using linux or mac os x, still have Windows VM: If you develop for web, you need to test on IE.
Personally, I would never buy an ubuntu pre-loaded because I would need to buy a windows license separately anyway - and this is costly. I would rather buy a notebook with OEM Win7, install ubuntu on it and run Win7 inside VirtualBox.
Providing a proper licese or VirtualBox image for Win7 would be the only option I would buy ubuntu pre-loaded.
Usually one of the worst thing about all laptops are their trackpads. Awkward placement or size can really ruin a beautiful product. How about using a glass trackpad like Apple? They are super sleek and wonderful to use. Lastly, on the size of the track pad, you should use something with the same aspect ratio. As a side note, I currently do a lot of my development on my Precision M4600 and one of my favorite features is the three buttons right below the track pad.
My wish list:
-Physical buttons (3 if possible/ give buyer the choice)
-Made of glass for perfect touch and feel
-Size ratio matches screen proportions
-Give the trackpad a "disable" button (tired of hitting the trackpad by accident when typing)
-As flush as possible (I hate having debris caught in between my trackpad and the casing)
Why don't you offer us a keyboard of the highest quality? Also, people always have different feelings about customizeable hot keys, but it's deffinitely worth taking a shot at. A specially designed dev keyboard that possibly has a couple of programmable custom keys.
Using Visual Studio and Windows Azure you can already build in the DevOps model by developing locally using Visual Studio & the Windows Azure fabric and then deploy to your cloud infrastructure. This works for Java, C++, etc.
To make the machine a real world DevOps machine you need multi-OS capability out of the box. Tool sets will help define most productive environments (NB/Eclipse for Java deployment, Visual Studio for Windows Azure & cloud-based Hadoop instances)
I would really love a trackpoint. I try to do as much work as possible with the keyboard and if I have to use the mouse I always use the trackpoint so i dont have to take my fingers off the keyboard.
For me, this is a really important feature and I can well imagine I am not alone with this sentiment in the world of linux power users and developers.
People using Eclipse IDE & Netbeans IDE as main tools for their development machine, would love to see those latter well integrated in Ubuntu 12.04.
- Latest version of Netbeans should be available in USC (repository) - version 7.1.2.
- Netbeans & Eclipse should be integrated with Unity Global menu.
Implement the smooth scrolling features like in Mac OS X. Also have good multi-touch features similar to those in macs.
No chicklet keyboard please. ThinkPad keyboards are close to perfection.
A complete ACPI table is important for booting windows
This isn't a new idea - apparently it was previously on Ideastorm, ignored then deleted.
1. Plug laptop into TV via HDMI port
2. Laptop tells TV to use it as input.
3. Laptop (video/presentation etc) can be controlled by TV remote.
This is something most laptops can't do, and none can do in Linux.
So it doesn't just send Win+P
There are two things I look for first in a laptop: Does it have a ~15" WUXGA screen, and does it have a trackpoint. After that look for CPU, battery life, etc.
I used to be quite happy with the D8** Latitudes, but when Dell stopped offering WUXGA I had to look elsewhere and opted for a Thinkpad W500 from a Lenovo outlet.
Screen resolutions meant for the average movie-watching consumer are not quite suitable for software developers. 16:10, 1920x1200 is needed for a ~15" screen.
Ok, so I don't know what a developer laptop is, but as a developer who lives in linux all day, I have a pretty good idea of what would make a good laptop for me.
For this to be a machine to do "real work" on, I'd need it to be offered with the same level of support you can offer with Latitude systems. That is, repairs next-business-day on-site, and a promise that you'll have someone on the phone who will not tell me to install MS Windows just to verify I have a hardware issue.
Status Update: The XPS 13 Developer Edition has been released with ProSupport options. Thank you for participating!
First of all, thanks for doing this - good Linux-support is very high on my list of required features, and has been a reason for buying Dell in the past.
You write "The image will come with the necessary drivers to support the HW" and I have to ask: isn't it possible instead to update the machine's firmware, so that it is sufficiently standards-compliant to work with a vanilla Ubuntu image?
If the machine requires a custom image, that leads me to worry that it will need customisation for every new version of the distro in the future, and that reinstalls might be a hassle every time. It also suggests that it might prove a hassle to install other distros, which lack your customisations.
Dell appears to have a fairly good track record of building laptops that "just work" with Ubuntu: at least quite a few are listed at http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/ - so please make this another one!
I used to love Ubuntu and had all kinds of scripts that would setup the box just the way I wanted it and then came Unity... Wow, did they completely hose this wonderfull OS or what. Completely unusable for a developer (IMHO). So if I would have one suggestion it would be to use Xubuntu instead. I think if you wanted to do Ubuntu/Unity for non-techies that might be alright. Unity has eliminated my ability to customize the OS the way that I want and I would not buy such a machine. Put Xubuntu (or Mint or anything other than Unity, really) on an XPS 13 and I will be the first one at your door with credit card in hand!
I bought a laptop from Dell back when they were still selling the Ubuntu option. I intended to run Ubuntu, but when I was selecting the options, I saw that (for some reason I don't fully understand) the Ubuntu version was more expensive. Maybe the extra cost was in assumed support, but regardless it strikes the brain strange to charge MORE for a free OS than for a paid one. I figured I'd save money and have a Windows license in case, so that's I bought it with Windows and then just install Ubuntu. Had it been the same cost or lower I would have bought Ubuntu. Don't shoot yourself in the foot here by charging extra for this stuff, especially when targeting developers. We still glorify the self-built, self-modded setup, so I wouldn't bet on being able to charge extra for "ease-of-use".
I would be interested in an XPS13 in 13.3, 14.1 would be better and oversized at 15.4 would be awesome. Anything less than an i7 for Android dev ( my day job ) is almost unbearable. I have had a 60GB SSD for two years now and it's all I've ever needed. 128 is more than plenty and 256 is just me paying for space I wont use. Memory is negotiable, 4GB is fine but we are developers, let us add more if we need to. Give us options, we aren't grandmas, we dont get confused by options.
The only problems I see with the current XPS Ultrabook are the underpowered specs in the following areas:
It really beggers belief Dell are still "experimenting" with Linux and Ubuntu. Dell sells Linux machines in Asia without issue. It sold Linux machines in the UK and USA before without even advertising them while doing it's level best to make them as hard to find as possible.
Please stop pussyfooting around and just get in the game already. Provide proper Linux solutions to developers, businesses and consumers. Ubuntu is more than capable of meeting their needs.
First, I think this is an incredible idea. Casual users are buying apple, powerusers who know better than to buy apple are buying dells, and dual booting them with a flavor of linux. The main problem is the hardware support. If you made all of your machines more linux friendly this would solve the issue. I just purchased an xps 15z a few months back and have spent much time dealing with compatibility issues with it. Backtrack, Ubuntu, and Arch all have some issues with the machine. If this xps 13 is much more compatible I might purchase it. Hopefully this idea stays strong.
Generally when doing development I try to place all the tiers of my webapp on my local box... it encourages me both take a devops/bootstrap mentality when doing development. On the plus side that encourages developers to know the whole stack, but on the downside it eats RAM. 8 GB of RAM is the default now on our developer workstations.
Also multiple cores within a CPU seems to count more than the actual clock speed - so four hyperthreaded cores are more valuable than four overclocked cores.
NVIDIA GPUs are also highly coveted within the development team, especially for those that run Linux. ATi's Linux drivers have always been horrible, especially with multi-montior setups. KDE4 has made configuring these and switching to projectors much easier, but NVIDIA seems to handle things better. The big test is always this: can I detach from my second monitor, walk to a conference room and connect to a projector without re-starting X?
As far as pre-installed stuff... if I have enough of a C/C++/Make toolchain going to re-build the kernel I generally can do whatever I need. I have yet to see a Linux distro actually bundle Java/Eclipse/NetBeans well, so I always prefer to download and install the latest on my own. Unfortunately OpenJDK isn't quite ready for prime time yet either... so I'm always using Sun's (yeah, I said it) JDK. If there was an easier way to install with updating /etc/alternatives that would be awesome.


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NEW DELHI: On April 19, we held our Sixth India Members Meeting in New Delhi. The meeting focused on climate change leadership opportunities in India, as business leaders shared the low carbon solutions we need to accelerate a Clean Revolution now.
Attended by senior level representation from Alstom, Mahindra Reva, Carbon Disclosure Project, RBS Foundation,Dell, CBRE, GE, IFC, Tata BP Solar, Philips and British High Commission, the meeting also highlighted the great opportunity for more parties to join the Clean Revolution Campaign.
The meeting was opened by Mark Kenber, CEO, The Climate Group, who briefed the representatives on the launch of the Clean Revolution Campaign that will take place at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012, and stressed the urgent need for strong climate leadership. Touching on the growing global climate concerns he said: "Even a country like Britain is facing shortages of water as there have not been any winter rains for last two to three years, and if the same continues, availability of water resources in Britain will be severely hampered."
Next, Aditi Dass, Director of Programs India, The Climate Group, informed members about the initiatives of the The Climate Group's India office, and shared insights from the LED street light pilots that are being undertaken to redefine public lighting in Indian cities.
The meeting featured representatives from all the major low carbno technology industries including LEDs, EVs and solar, all of whom expressed their desire to see a cleaner and more resource-productive, low carbon world.
Sunand Sharma, Country President, Indian and South Asia, Alstom, presented the various strategies that clean energy leader Alstom has employed, talking in detail about the company's energy efficient initiatives. He shared a core driver for Alstom taking steps towards climate care while maintaining its business pace, when he said: "We are gripped with tomorrow for a better future for us, and for everyone else in this planet."
Pavan Sachdeva, General Manager, Sales and Marketing, Mahindra Reva, focused specifically on the challenges and opportunities for electric vehicles (EVs) in India. He said: "There has been a paradigm shift in environmental awareness among people over the years and it's very clear that opportunities with EV are enormous. However there are major obstacles such as challenges in supply chain and distribution systems which need to addressed." He also mentioned the electric mobility roadmap which is under consideration by the Government of India.
Expressing further corporate commitment towards a low carbon world, Himamshu Prasad, President and CEO, GE Lighting - India added: "We are making high investments in energy efficiency and it is a part of the commitment to environmental protection."
Amit Kumar, Additional General Manager, Tata BP Solar India, spoke about the vast opportunities in India's solar sector. He commented: "From the year 2007 onwards, solar space has seen a major change in India and there is a tremendous opportunity in India for rural lighting and renewable energy."
The subsequent corporate engagement discussion saw participants debate key issues including energy efficiency in the telecom sector, financing barriers for low carbon solutions, and success and failures of carbon credits. During the course of discussions on mapping out a plan for cleaner and more sustainable world, Rajesh Kumar Miglani, Regional Climate Change Specialist, South Asia, International Finance Corporation, captured the meeting's overriding message and most critical call for action when he said: "We have enough low carbon solutions that have been piloted - it's time that scalable models come up and only then things can change fast."
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Wilderness Ridge
Wilderness Ridge offers a challenging layout while providing the Huskers with a convenient practice location.
Wilderness Ridge is a public course that opened in 2001 and ranks among the top courses in the area. In addition to a demanding championship layout, Wilderness Ridge features one of the top indoor practice facilities in state.
Wilderness Ridge offers a challenging layout while providing the Huskers with a convenient practice location. The clubhouse at Wilderness Ridge was also recognized by Golf Inc. magazine as one of the best new facilities in the nation in 2003.
Firethorn Golf Club
The Huskers also regularly practice at Firethorn Golf Club. Home to the 2002 Division III Men's Golf Championship, the Pete Dye designed course has been rated 36th among the top 100 modern courses in the country. Firethorn also hosted the 96th United States Women's Amateur. Firethorn is a "links" or target-oriented course with naturally flourishing shrubs and grasses.
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Located not far from Lincoln in Nebraska City, ArborLinks hosted Nebraska's Fairway Club Invitational for five consecutive years from 2008 to 2012. The Arnold Palmer designed course sits on a 330-acre parcel next to the Arbor Day Farm, a popular resort destination. ArborLinks plays off the natural landscape with hazards and bunkers that create an old world feel.


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Thanks for the honest opinion. We felt that centering the flat needed to be automatic and thats why we incorporated alignment pins from the very first design that we came up with. We are taking in all of the new ideas. That being said, we are also trying to keep the price down. The flats that have been bent on this jig so far look great. I have gotten some feedback on the bend radius not being as sharp as "factory" and we have tried to get them tighter but I'll be honest with you guys, I feel like we are putting a lot of time into a minor detail that doesnt affect the fit, form or function of the gun. The fit of the trunions is perfect as well as the fit of the furniture (as seen in sniper69's post). We have made one impovement that will add some strength to the sides of the "box"...the bolts that hold the forming block together are now gone. We are using countersunk allen head bolts and that allow us to keep the "box" sides solid (no slots cut out for the bolts to go down through). This should allow the box to take all of the pressure that you can apply as well it should help create sharper bends.
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Tess agrees to protect the boy's identity no matter what, especially when one of his friends is killed in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity. But with federal agents determined to learn the boy's name at any cost, Tess finds out just how far even official authorities will go to get what they want. Soon, she's facing felony charges, and Crow has gone into hiding with his young protege, so Tess couldn't deliver the kid to investigators even if she wanted to.
Time and time again, Tess is reminded of her father's old joke, the one about the most terrifying sentence in the English language: "We're from the government - and we're here to help."
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"Smartly plotted and paced." (Publishers Weekly)
"Lippman lets each character contribute a piece to the whole, which makes the story richer, and there's some nail-biting suspense as Tess faces off against what she thinks are the big guns of government." (Booklist)
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The best of the series yet, with excellent narration. This seems the most fully developed of a very well developed series & character study full of authentic, believable people. I'm now a full-on Laura Lippman fan.
"Good story, good narrator, obnoxious music"
I switch between print and audio versions, so I can continue with the book throughout my day.
The story, as with others in this series, was entertaining, and the narration was excellent. The periodic music interludes, however, were unnecessary and distracting. If other audio books by this publisher also have this "feature" I will stop purchasing them.
"This book had a garbled section in chapter 31"
I went back over and over to try to understand the story. Although the words were overlapped for only a short time, it was still disappointing. I urge somebody to fix the glitch.
Give me a good mystery and I am happy!
"I don't know what it is..."
I really enjoy this series. I finished this book in two days. I have been listening to these out of order, but there is no doubt in my mind that I will eventually get them all. I am going to start at the beginning. I can hardly wait for the next adventure with Tess Monaghan and friends.
"lose the music"
Whoever thought this random jarring music added to the experience was delusional. It almost ruined the book for me. I shudder to think of listening to another one.
"Irritating music added to recording"
Sections are separated by very irritating music. Why do they ruin good audiobooks by adding this stuff???
The other problem was that there is a section where the recording is corrupted.
"Not Elizabeth George..."
I liked Tess Monaghan, and I liked this story, However, the leading character wasn't as compelling as I would have liked her to be. Story line good and fast paced. I probably won't listen to another one, though.
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Urbana, Ill. - UCLA tennis players opened up play in the individual portion of this year's NCAA Championships on Wednesday, as the NCAA Singles Draw kicked off at the University of Illinois' Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex.
UCLA had two players advance to the second on the men's side, with Marcos Giron and Dennis Novikov both registering straight-set wins. Giron knocked off fifth-seeded Romaine Bogaerts of Mississippi State, 6-3, 7-6(2). He will face Michael Redlicki of Duke in the second round on Thursday. Novikov downed UNC Wilmington's Rafael Aita, 7-6(9), 6-2, setting up a second-round showdown with seventh-seeded Peter Kobelt of Ohio State. Kobelt recently lost to Giron in the deciding singles match in the Bruins' 4-3 victory over the Buckeyes in the semifinals of the NCAA Team Championships. Junior Adrien Puget was beaten in his opening round singles match on Wednesday, falling to hometown favorite Jared Hiltzik of Illinois, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.
On the women's side, third-seeded Robin Anderson advanced to the second round with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Nadia Ravita of Kentucky. Anderson meets Santa Clara's Katie Le on Thursday morning. Freshman Kyle McPhillps had little trouble in her first round match, beating Maria Belaya of William & Mary, 6-1, 6-1. McPhillips is scheduled to face 9-16 seed Petra Niedermayerova in the next round.
The Bruin men do not have any players in the doubles draw, however Anderson and teammate Skylar Morton will be representing UCLA on the women's side. The Bruin duo takes on Michigan's Emina Bektas and Brooke Bolender on Tuesday. The two teams faced off on Friday during the team tournament, with Bektas and Bolender winning 8-6.


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This is an official blog for the Marin County Free Library.
All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
This installment: an intimate, quotidian journal by a favorite writer; a delightfully weird New Mexican novel, and a true life story of hard times and redemption.
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
This is an odd, slim book but one that satisfies my endless curiosity about matters of daily life. Auster tells us about every address he's lived in, for instance, including apartment layouts. The girls and women in his life. His ailments, primarily panic disorder. The death of his parents. His bad habits. All tinged with increasing age and the poignant perspective it brings. He uses "you" throughout referring to himself, a peculiar stylistic effect I got used to eventually. I was glad to spend time in his company on the page, as it were.
A Million Heavens by John Brandon
A revolving cast of characters, all based in the benighted tiny town of Lofte, near Albuquerque. Very short chapters with an almost kaleidoscopic effect. A boy lies in a coma. A vigil gathers outside the clinic. The mayor, owner of Motel Javelina (on the skids like most of everything else in town), dreams of marrying his mistress, who's a pro. Cecelia's a kind of college student/musician who ends up channeling the songs of dead Reggie. We also hear from him in his peculiar limbo. And then there's the wolf, drawn to the music, making minor mayhem but not the carnage you'd expect. So it's a surrealistic yet unglamorous small world, and though the action or lack of it seems random at first, there are modest but gratifying resolutions for many. An unusual voice.
Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps with Larkin Warren
Subtitled Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time. I'm drawn to books like these because it's so amazing that out of what seems like impossible degradation, someone can come through with honor. Carissa grew up in Coalinga in a huge family with a bad stepfather. Tumultuous atmosphere, neglect and then repression, so she split at 12. What's out there? More brutality from sexual predators and then, when she was caught, nightmare placements in juvie or foster homes. But along the line a teacher's assistant saw her potential, brought her along, and now she's a lawyer helping girls like her. Wow! What an example of hope amidst the worst ever.
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Tax Issues for IRA & MLPs
Original post by Dale Bye of Demand Media
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) create businesses in which companies are considered to be the aggregates of their partners, rather than separate corporate entities. It might be tempting to include Master Limited Partnership shares, which often pack a solid dividend punch, in your individual retirement account (IRA). But pay attention to the tax implications. In some situations, the benefits of the high dividend can create a tax-filing headache.
MLP Definition
Corporations pay taxes on their incomes, and company shareholders pay taxes on the dividends, but MLPs are not subject to corporate income tax. All net income can be passed through to the unit holders of the business, who are personally responsible for the taxes.
MLP Dividends
Income payments from MLPs do not always generate taxable income. Most are a mixture of net income and a return of capital. The return of capital portion carries no immediate tax liability. Instead, it lowers the tax basis and shifts the eventual tax liability to capital gains when the units are sold. However, MLP units held in an IRA do not receive as much preferential tax treatment. Although income payments can be tax deferred, they will be taxed as ordinary income when withdrawn from an IRA.
Reporting MLP Dividends
Income from an MLP is reported on a K-1 form instead of a 1099-Div. The income received is broken down by category to determine how it should be treated when you file your taxes.
The tax code does not allow tax-exempt institutions and retirement funds to defer tax on income generated outside of their core businesses. MLP income payments are considered earned directly by the partners. Because IRAs are not in business to transport natural gas, for example, distributions from MLPs could be considered unrelated business taxable income (UBTI). This makes them immediately taxable. Usually only a portion of MLP income payments are considered UBTI. The K-1 form will split out the taxable portion.
UBTI Exclusion
There is a tax deduction for the first $1,000 in UBTI each year from all sources within your tax-deferred accounts. Any UBTI over $1,000 is taxed as ordinary income in the tax year it is earned.
Paying Double
Paying tax on UBTI earned in your IRA does not exempt the income from tax when you withdraw it from your account. Any IRA distribution will still be taxed as ordinary income. The bottom line is that you don't get a tax credit or a deduction for tax on UBTI, and the tax paid does not increase the IRA's tax basis.
Paying UBTI Taxes
Tax on UBTI within an IRA is not paid directly by the account owner. The tax actually is owed by the IRA administrator, who must file the tax return and pay any tax for each account. To make sure your account is credited, mail a copy of your K-1 to the client tax reporting department of the company that holds your account. Some custodians charge a hefty fee for processing UBTI taxes.
State Taxes
Your account can also be liable for taxes in every state in which the MLP does business. Check with your tax adviser, but you don't need to worry unless you're looking to generate tens of thousands of dollars from MLPs inside your IRA.
Avoiding UBTI Taxes
Buying shares in a mutual fund that invests exclusively in MLPs avoids hassles that can accompany owning MLPs in a traditional IRA. Mutual funds and exchange traded funds clear out potential tax-paying headaches. The downside is that you can't chase the MLPs carrying the highest yield.
- irs.gov: Publication 598 -- Tax on Unrelated Business Income of Exempt Organizations
- Natonal Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships: MLPs and Retirement Accounts
About the Author
Dale Bye has spent over 40 years in journalism, including 25 supervising reporters and editors at metropolitan newspapers and eight years as Senior Managing Editor at a national sports magazine. He directed five newspaper-sponsored personal finance fairs. His fields of expertise include business and personal finance, sports, fitness and theater. Bye holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri.


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"This recipe came from my mother-in-law, who gives a basket of homemade Easter candy to each of her children and grandchildren," says Robin Perry from her home in Seneca, Pennsylvania.
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup marshmallow creme
- 1-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 pound milk chocolate candy coating, coarsely chopped
- 2 teaspoons shortening
- Colored sprinkles, optional
- In a small bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and marshmallow cream until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Drop by level tablespoonfuls onto a waxed paper-lined baking sheet; form into egg shapes. Freeze for 10 minutes.
- In a microwave, melt candy coating and shortening; stir until smooth. Dip eggs into candy coating; allow excess to drip off. Return to baking sheet; immediately decorate with sprinkles if desired. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented journey from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back again. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. The tale of their incredible journey, meticulously recorded in their journals, has become an American classic. This single-volume, landmark edition of the famous journals is the first abridgement to be published in at least a decade.
This edition presents a more balanced account of encounters with Native Americans and, for the first time in print, corrects Lewis and Clark's famously bad spelling. This new edition presents the journey's impressive highlightsfrom first encounters with grizzly bears and meetings with the Sioux and Crow Indians, to the near starvation in the Bitterroot Mountains and confrontation with the Blackfeet Indians. Brief accounts from the editors seamlessly link connected passages and illuminate details of the expedition that are missing or obscure in the text.
William Clark, an army captain from Virginia, shared command of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Clark also kept careful records of the journey and created maps of the expedition's route. After Lewis's death in 1809, Clark became responsible for publication of the expedition journals.
Meriwether Lewis, Commander of the Corps of Discovery, was an army captain who became a private secretary to Thomas Jefferson in 1807. He also served a lead naturalist for the expedition.
Anthony Brandt is an expert in adventure literature. He is the book columnist for National Geographic Adventure magazine and was responsible for putting together its list of the ''100 Greatest Adventure Books of all Time.'' He has written for the Men's Journal, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has published several books including The People Along the Sand and Reality Police.
Herman J. Viola, former director of the National Anthropological Archives, is curator emeritus for the Smithsonian Institution and a historian of the American West with a special interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition. Dr. Viola has authored or edited more than 20 books on American history including the Smithsonian's Exploring the West and Warrior Artists by the National Geographic Society.
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Deputies learned of the first incident at 135 Owen Road in Southmont at 12:33 a.m. There, $35,000 in damage was reported to an ATM, and a DVR box valued at $1,000 was reported stolen, according to an incident report, which stated a door was pried open to an ATM.
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Attorney General Beau Biden announced Tuesday that more than 1,000 Delaware consumers are receiving refunds from Sketchers USA.
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Biden announced that the Delaware consumers who filed valid claims began receiving their payments last week, which will total more than $80,000 statewide.
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A disgraced professor with a history of mental instability rents an office in San Francisco's unsavory South of the Slot neighborhood. Because the walls are thin, he finds himself privy to the intimate psycho-analytic sessions of a young woman. His annoyance quickly turns into a compul-sion to participate vicariously in her life—particularly in her search for her birth mother, who abandoned her in the chaos of post–World War II Europe—and he grows increasingly unhinged as he assumes the roles of detective, protector and, eventually, stalker. "My dear patient," he calls her.Henever learns her name. We never learn his. But we swiftly become entangled in this complex psychological drama in which Ellen Ullman's characters struggle to overcome trauma inflicted by their families. By Blood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a mesmerizing tale that probesthe very heart of personal identity.
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Return of the Grown-Up Black Dress
If there is a woman over 40 who mourns the fact that the baby-doll dress is over, I don't know her. It was arguably the dumbest fashion trend for anyone our age. Empire waist, puffy sleeves, and excessive yards of billowing fabric placed directly at our midsections — too much volume! Good riddance to a style that made everyone look pregnant, no matter what her age.
Now that we're about to start shopping for perfect dresses to make the rounds of holiday parties, I'm here to tell you that it won't be such a challenge. In stores you'll now meet up with sexy little black dresses that show off your shape: You'll actually want to hand over your credit card. The silhouette of the moment is still swingy, trapeze-style, and voluminous rather than skintight and straight, but the latest crop of dressy dresses exercises more volume control than the baby-doll ever did.
What happened this season? It's as if the MORE crowd had sent an e-mail to the Council of Fashion Designers about dialing down the volume a bit so that women over 40 would be excited about shopping again. It must have read something like the following:
"Dear Donna, Vera, Michael, Isaac, et al.: There are 37 million women over 40 with money to burn, and frankly, there hasn't been much to burn it on lately. So if you want us to buy something new for the party season, you need to create festive frocks that celebrate, rather than disguise, our assets.
"Volume is the enemy of the grown woman. It's like a goopy, calorie-laden dessert: head to toe, it's just too fattening. If you're creating a dress that flares out to a swingy, full skirt, make sure the bodice is tight and fits close to the body.
"If you're designing a tunic, make it short to show off legs, but not so short that we also see the upper thighs.
"If you're making a trapeze-style dress, reduce the volume across the tummy so it looks cool and mod, not hot-mama maternity.
"If you're doing a shirtdress with a big skirt, cinch it tight at the waist so we can show the world we have one.
"Take those little poufy capped sleeves out of your repertoire and replace them with straight or three-quarter sleeves so even the buffest arms don't look like skinny sticks emerging from a shower cap.
"We want to look young, but not 12 years old. We want to look sexy, but not too sexy for a business cocktail party. We want to look classy, chic, sophisticated, rich, authoritative, powerful, smart, and fit. And we don't think that's too much to ask!"
No, I didn't send such an e-mail. But designers did follow every single one of these directives. There's such a great selection of party dresses out there that we could barely fit it onto these pages. All you have to do is decide which aspects of your figure you want to show off and which you'd rather keep behind the seams. Then print out this column, go forth, and shop — and let me know how it goes.
If You Love Your Awesome Arms
You'll want to go sleeveless. Calvin Klein's swingy matte jersey slipdress, with its draped bustline and sunburst pleated skirt, is a brilliant buy ($158). Kick up your heels in dressy chunky platforms, like Beverly Feldman's petal-topped slingbacks ($195).
If You Love Your Long Legs
You'll wear a mini, but not a micromini. Shoshanna's easy-to-wear silk retro tunic ($460, also available in ivory) has a wide boatneck with sophisticated black gemstones in all the right places. A pop of animal print adds drama: Go for a standout like Moschino Cheap and Chic's pony-hair peep-toe heels with bowtie ankle straps ($460).
If You Love Your Winning Waist
Celebrate your success in middle management by cinching your hourglass shape in a shirtdress. There's something very chic about dressing a workhorse silhouette in fancy fabric, such as Charles Nolan's crinkled silk taffeta ($498). Pair it with substantial foot jewelry: Kenneth Cole's leather and suede gladiator heels with buttons ($195).
If You Love Your Beautiful Bustline
You want a sweetheart neckline (not a deep V), like this wool column dress by Chaiken ($392, also available in brown). It reveals just enough so you can feel confident wearing it to an office cocktail party — or on New Year's Eve. Add some shine with Paco Girl's patent pumps with Lucite heel ($300).
If You Love Your Sexy Back
Flaunt it over cocktails in David Meister's stretch satin and matte jersey dress ($290), which sets itself apart with lingerie-like details — skinny straps and back seam — and covers you in front. Casadei's strappy patent sandals have a killer gold heel ($660).
Charla Krupp is author of the style manifesto, How Not to Look Old, coming in January from Springboard Press.
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