I also believe the 4K model has a slight edge in terms of battery life, although I'm comparing last year's 4K model to this year's OLED here. While the base mode with the i5 chip is fine for basic computing needs, I would suggest the OLED screen and faster chip if you can afford it.
It's a wonderfully bright screen, and the razor-thin bezels give it an immersive quality that's unmatched in the rest of the inch laptops I've tested. Editing photos and video on this machine is a real pleasure, to the point that I found myself out taking photos just so I could process them in Darktable on the XPS The nit screen here was fine in all but direct sunlight.
The main problem with direct sunlight is that the high-gloss surface picks up fingerprints like crazy. If you keep it nice and clean, the sunlight and glare won't be an issue. I happened to be testing this alongside the new Surface Laptop Studio , and in test after test which was mostly real-world rendering in Premiere the XPS came out ahead. As noted above, Dell hasn't changed much other than the screens. The form factor is likewise unchanged.
It's still the same slim, sleek chassis with the same thin InfinityEdge bezels. It's worth noting that the XPS 15 does weigh in at 4. That's not too bad, but when you lug it around for a day, your shoulders will definitely know it's there. Keyboard and touchpad are the same, I find the touchpad a bit too big, but I am primarily a keyboard-and-mouse person, so I may be alone in that criticism which I could also apply to half a dozen other inch laptops.
So, if you plan on just binging Sailor Moon while lying in bed and trying to drown out reality for just a little bit, you might want to plug the laptop in. Dell unfortunately is one of those laptop manufacturers that loads up a bunch of its software even on its premium laptops. Fortunately it does stay out of the way, but with the entry-level version of the laptop coming with such a small SSD, we would love to see companies start making this software optional. Before you go ahead and uninstall all of it, however, we would advise keeping Dell Update and Dell Customer Connect, especially if you aren't comfortable going on the hunt for driver updates whenever necessary.
Yes, you can do everything these programs do yourself, but having these convenient programs isn't so bad. The rest of the programs are entirely optional, like Dell Cinema Color, which will balance the color profile of your display around a few different presets.
However, right out of the box, the XPS 15's display is pretty much perfect, so we don't see any reason to do this. Dell knocks it out of the park when it comes to security features, however. This new XPS 15 features both Windows Hello flavors, allowing you to either log in with your face or your fingerprint.
This might sound like overkill to some, but if you typically wear glasses or makeup, Microsoft's facial login isn't great, making the fingerprint scanner more reliable. It's going to be exceedingly rare that anyone uses both of these options, but we love that Dell is giving folks the choice. You want a powerful laptop Packed with Intel's latest Comet Lake-H processors, the XPS 15 will absolutely chew through pretty much any workload you throw at it.
You want a stylish piece of kit The Dell XPS 15 is probably the most profound year-over-year glow-up we've ever seen in a laptop. At this point, it is probably the most stylish Windows laptop on the market, and definitely even gives the MacBook Pro a run for its money. You want a gaming laptop Because the laptop is packed with just an Nvidia GeForce GTX Ti at its highest configuration, we wouldn't recommend this device if gaming is one of your top priorities.
You want something smaller While the Dell XPS 15 is definitely portable for a inch laptop, it's still a inch laptop. If you want something ultra-portable, we'd recommend checking out the best Ultrabooks and inch laptops. She is fat, queer and extremely online. Computers are the devil, but she just happens to be a satanist. If you need to know anything about computing components, PC gaming or the best laptop on the market, don't be afraid to drop her a line on Twitter or through email.
North America. Home Reviews Computing. Best in Class. Our Verdict. TechRadar Verdict. My test machine included what I consider the best option: a 3. The deck looks just as smart as the display. But in low light, the backlight is awesome. You have two options for Windows Hello biometric security; the top-right power button with an embedded fingerprint reader and the webcam that offers facial recognition. Whichever you prefer, they work more or less instantly. When it comes to connections, the XPS 15 is a thoroughly modern laptop, which is something that not everyone may appreciate.
All of this adds up to 4. Dell gives you a lot of processor and memory options, from an Intel Core i5 through and Core i9 and memory that ranges from 8GB to 64GB. That said, the 11th generation Intel Core i7 configuration I tested was buttery smooth no matter what task I threw at it—and I ran the gamut from word processing to Photoshop tasks and even podcast audio editing with Audacity.
Those are respectable numbers, but are easily bested by laptops tuned for gaming. Speaking of podcasts, the top-firing speakers are one of my favorite improvements over older XPS 15 models which shot sound into the tabletop. Kudos to Dell for getting the audio right. Of course, one of the highlights of the test unit I had was the 3. The display is, to be blunt, amazing. To my eye, the display is essentially indistinguishable from a true 4K display.
And the anti-reflective nit panel is highly readable in a variety of lighting conditions, including in my front room with afternoon sunlight streaming in the window. My system came with the RTX —a dramatic improvement over any 2xxx-series RTX chipset which made playing Microsoft Flight Simulator and Cyberpunk on a laptop practical for me at 60 fps.
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