Dell XPS 13 Review

Dell XPS 13 is back  with a new innovative technology. It is the first laptop which is virtually borderless and is considered as a powerhouse. Let us have a look on Dell XPS 13 review.

HIGHLIGHT

.Premium chassis

.Powerful performance

.No bezels

.Impressive battery life.

DELL XPS 13 DESIGN

The new Dell XPS has been provided with great looks both outside and inside . This laptop is available in two colours black and gold. It has lid of the laptop is frost white and it also has an anodized aluminium finish which steals the show. The logo of Dell appears glossy and sparkling which gives this laptop a stylish look. With the twin – coil hinge you can very easily open the laptop with one hand as if you are turning the page of a book. It shows the winter white theme and the stain – proof Arctic White deck once you open the laptop. There is enough space kept for the glass touchpad  by pushing the keyword towards the top of the deck. The laptop is 11.6 x 7.8 x 0.6- inches in dimension and it’s weight is 2.8 – pound. It one of the smallest and lighter than any other ultraportables present in the market. Dell XPS has it’s side bezels measuring 0.15 and 0.2 inches and the bottom bezel of 0.18 inches respectively. The panel of this laptop is 6.8 % larger than it’s earlier model. The webcam is in the centre of the top bezel.

DELL XPS 13 PERFORMANCE

Dell XPS 13 is a light weight laptop with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 (Ice Lake ) processor with 16GB of RAM. The laptop can transcode a 4k video to 1080p in 15 minutes and 10 seconds. It can also duplicated 4.97 GB of multimedia files in 8.3 seconds at 613.1 megabytes per second of transfer rates.  Laptop can also produce 59 frames per minute (fps) average. Even after running  a full screen video for long duration the temperature of the laptop stays cool.

DELL XPS 13 BATTERY LIFE

The Dell XPS 13 has got excellent battery life. It can last  up to 12 hours and 39 seconds including continuous web surfing at 150 nits of brightness.

DELL XPS 13 PRICING AND SPECIFICATIONS

The price of Dell Xps 13 laptop in India for gold colour is Rupees 140,070 and  for black colour is Rupees 199,000. The price of Dell Xps 13 in USA is $ 1,749s .The Dell XPS 13 is embedded with fingerprint reader. The laptop is short on ports. It has a thunderbolt 3 port and a headset on the right and another thunderbolt 3 along with a micro SD slot on the left. The laptop delivers loud and clear sound. It has Waves Maxx Audio Pro software. Thus this laptop is suitable for watching movies and for using it on a dance party. Talking about the keyboard and the touchpad. It has 9 % larger keycaps. The laptop also has backlighting so that you can make out every key character in a dark room as well. It has a webcam of 0.1 inch and 720p which is one of the smallest webcam available in a laptop till date. Recently the Dell company Dell Mobile Connect so now you can play it with your iPhone. Talking about the CPU, that includes 1.3GHz Intel Core i7 – 1065G7 (quad – core, 8MB Intel Smart Cache , upto 3.9GHz with Turbo Boost. It has Intel Iris Plus (integrated) graphics and a RAM of 16GB LPDDR4x (3,733MHz) The screen resolution of the laptop is 13.3 inch FHD (1,920 X 1,080) touch. A storage capacity of 512GB SSD (PCle, NVMe, M.2). It has connectivity of killer Wi- Fi 6 AX1650, 2X2, and Bluetooth 5.0. The camera of the laptop consists of 1080p IR webcam.

VERDICT

With it’s new technology Dell XPS 13 laptop is made more smaller and more impactful. However the laptop lacks in legacy ports. The laptop is compact, virtually it has no bezels  has a 10^th generation intel core processor, faster SSD, stylish display has excellent battery life with a good sound quality and a smart keyboard. Overall the Dell Xps 13 is a power packed laptop. The laptop is designed to deliver great performance. The only problem with the laptop is it’s lacklustre audio and it is quite expensive. It is indeed a luxurious and a great device that can’t be bought by every one.