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Great display
Excellent Design
Great mix of ports and connectivity
Fantastically designed Windows laptop
Solid performance
Great price
Awesome display
Good battery life
Excellent 1080p Display
Stylish Metal Accents
Well Priced For Features
Trouble-free Linux on good hardware
Price is competitive for the hardware you get
A nice CPU
A quick SSD
And enough RAM to do most stuff with
Excellent screen with good resolution
Dell is doing its part to be a good FOSS citizen with its additions
Sleek
Elegant and practical design
Great keyboard and touchpad
Beautiful display with good color reproduction and color gamut coverage
Excellent battery life
LOVE the nobezel QHDdisplay
Excellent performance
Fast bootup
Fantastic build quality w/ carbon fiber
Great battery life
The size
The weight
The screen
The design
The battery life
The starting price
Ubuntu 14.04
Factory-preconfigured to just work
Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don't have to
High-quality build
No squeaks
No rattles
No shimmies
16GB of RAM
The potential for a large SSD
And a
It's sexy and lightweight – a total head turner
Packs in a 13-inch display inside of what would typically be an 11-inch body
Smart accessories
Excellent build quality
Very good performance and battery life
Excellent keyboard and trackpad
Beautiful I
Compact. Sturdy construction. Comfortable
Backlit keyboard. Responsive touchpad and touch screen. Large solid-state drive (SSD). 802.11ac Wi-Fi. All-day battery life.
Dell's revamped XPS 13 has a nearly borderless display
A very small body for a 13-inch laptop and the latest Intel CPUs. Battery life in this lower-end configuration gets a big boost
Attractive
Compact design
Gorgeous
Bright high-resolution screen
Solid battery life and performance thanks to new Intel "Broadwell" CPU
Good battery life and performance
Thanks to new Intel "Skylake" CPU
Addition of USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port
Large screen in small real estate
QHD+ resolution screen
Entry-level model is $800
Superb battery life
Good 7th-generation Core performance
Excellent Wi-Fi range
More ports than on competing laptops
Comfortable
Soft-touch
Carbon-fiber deck
Attractive rose-gold color option
Thin profile
Weighs less than 3 pounds
Great graphics and performance
Quick startup times
More than 5 hours of battery life under mixed conditions
Consumer testers found it easy to use
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Dell
Linux
Ubuntu
XPS
Trim
Efficient design
Comfortable keyboard
Speedy performance
Ridiculously beautiful display. Makes all bezels everywhere look huge and pointless. A 13inch laptop in the body of an 11inch laptop. Dell didn't try to do anything insane
It just did everything well
This updated XPS 13 has a stunning nearly edge-to-edge high-res display
And an upgraded processor and graphics
Beautiful
Sharp screen
Ultraportable
Super quiet.
IPS QHD+ touchscreen
Thin bezel
Good performance
Build quality is high
Attractive and robust chassis
Good input devices
Stiff hinges
Beautiful QHD+ Touchscreen
Impossibly small bezel
Fast system performance
Impeccable build quality
Aluminum casing that's both rigid and attractive
Sturdy hinges
Excellent thermal management
CPU manages m
Bright & matte Full-HD display
Very narrow bezel
High-end parts and superior build quality
Very small chassis for the given screen size
Ports are all the way at the back and won't get in the way
Very good overall performance
Nearly bezel-less display allows it to be more compact than other 13-inchers
Vibrant screen
Strongaudioto match
Attractive design
Well-built
Fast performance
Lots of configuration options
Awesome form factor keeps the laptop slim
Light
Portable and nearly bezelfree. Great use of aluminium and carbon fiber. Intel delivers the goods from a performance perspective. Bright
High quality 1080p display that's upgradeable to QHD. Excellent batt
The editors didn't like
Battery doesn't live up to promises
Windows 8.1 oddities
QHD+ model renders text too small
Left side of keyboard gets warm
Below Average Battery Life
Heavy to Use in Tablet Mode
Trackpad Surface Could Be Better
One-handed opening leads to whole laptop lifting up instead of smoothly opening
Glossy-only screen will lead to some complaints
8GB of soldered RAM isn't enough to make everyone happy
Distros other than Ubuntu might still require some fiddling to work
PWM across all brightness levels
Too low maximum brightness
Too pricy for the offered hardware
Highend SKUs are pricey
The year is 2015. 8GB of RAM should be the baseline
With 16GB as an option. 4GB is barely enough to run Chrome
The starting price is the price of a system that you probably don't want to buy. The options are worth it
But expensive
Thunderbolt port doesn't really work in Ubuntu
Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
If all you're after is Linux on a laptop
You can do it for cheaper than the M3800's starting price
I kind of hoped the Dell logo on t
Display doesn't hold up very well under direct sun light
The webcam is located in an awkward location and its images are grainy
Not able to support 16gb of Ram
Buy it
Prev7 of 7Next
Somewhat pricey. No SD card slot or Ethernet port
Dropping the higher-resolution screen and edge-to-edge glass overlay means the look is not as slick
And losing touch makes Windows 8 harder to use
Touch screen only offered on expensive
High-res models
Noticeable
Near-constant fan noise
Ethernet
HDMI
And VGA connectivity require an extra dongle
Ethernet and video connectivity require dongles or new cables
Oddly placed Webcam isn't ideal for video chats
Compressed keyboard
Weird placement for camera
Awkward webcam placement
Not as thin and light as some competitors
Prone to tip over
Limited ports for connectivity
Poor WiFi performance. Only two USB ports. No way to upgrade the hardware. A little too rich for what you get
Clumsy trackpad
Awkward webcam
Poor battery life
The webcam is always looking up my nose. Battery life could be better. You want to play games on this screen
But you shouldn't even try. Trackpad is finicky until you tweak its settings
This gold edition is very expensive
And battery life isn't as good as some other 13-inch laptops. The touchpad is tricky to use for some multitouch gestures
Mediocre battery life
Not super powerful
Comparatively dark display
Not very generous port selection
Somewhat constrained port selection
Average wireless performance
Noisy fan on rare occasions
Touch configurations are relatively expensive
Color accuracy not that great
Minimal expansion options (RAM is soldered on)
128 GB SSD might not be big enough for some
Only 2x USB 3.0
CPU throttling under maximum load levels
Merely average battery life
At least on the touchscreen model
Touchpad could use some fine-tuning
Doesn't come standard with a touchscreen -- and is expensive if you do opt for that feature
Trackpad needs some work. Touchscreen isn't standard.
Sleek, elegant and practical design, Great keyboard and touchpad, Beautiful display with good color reproduction and color gamut coverage, Excellent battery life
PWM across all brightness levels, Too low maximum brightness, Too pricy for the offered hardware
The new XPS 13 from Dell is a truly astonishing device with minimal design flaws, whatsoever. It has a sleek and elegant aluminum chassis with carbon fiber inner frame making it really durable and light at the same time. Also, the display has really thin ...
The Dell XPS would be remarkable enough if its only unusual feature were its compact size and tiny screen bezels. But as one of the first laptops with a Broadwell U series processor it also offers strong performance for most tasks, passable performance ...
Published: 2015-03-02, Author: Paul , review by: technabob.com
I'm very impressed with the XPS 13. It packs a lot of capability into an incredibly small and beautifully built package. Prices for the Dell XPS 13 start at $799.99(USD), with the QHD+ touchscreen model reviewed here starting at $1299.99. You can build...
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Published: 2015-02-26, Author: James , review by: mashable.com
Fantastically designed Windows laptop, Solid performance, Great price, Awesome display, Good battery life
QHD+ model renders text too small, Left side of keyboard gets warm
With a beautiful display, great performance and big battery life, the Dell XPS 13 just set the bar really high for all other Windows laptops...
The XPS represents the pinnacle of laptop design in 2015. It's also the best bang for your buck out of any laptop I've ever seen in the $800 price range. However, if users purchase a higher spec'd model, the XPS's price advantage begins to erode, relative...
IPS QHD+ touchscreen, Thin bezel, Good battery life, Good performance, Build quality is high, Attractive and robust chassis, Good input devices, Stiff hinges
Comparatively dark display, Not very generous port selection
With the XPS 13, Dell introduced a very compelling mobile 13.3-inch Ultrabook - but of course at a price. The input devices are very good and the notebook with its fast SSD is capable of very good overall performance. In addition, the temperatures are wel...
Abstract: For background's sake, my main computer is a 15″ MacBook Pro retina, and when I travel I bring along a 11″ MacBook Air. The Air is a great portable size that I enjoy toting, but I'm getting older, my vision isn't getting better, and the Air's non-retina s...
Published: 2015-02-24, Author: Dan , review by: cnet.com
Dell's revamped XPS 13 has a nearly borderless display, a very small body for a 13-inch laptop and the latest Intel CPUs. Battery life in this lower-end configuration gets a big boost
Dropping the higher-resolution screen and edge-to-edge glass overlay means the look is not as slick, and losing touch makes Windows 8 harder to use
Taking a second look at the new XPS 13, this lower-end version costs less and has better battery life, but isn't as tightly designed....
Published: 2015-02-23, Author: David , review by: wired.com
Ridiculously beautiful display. Makes all bezels everywhere look huge and pointless. A 13inch laptop in the body of an 11inch laptop. Dell didn't try to do anything insane, it just did everything well
The webcam is always looking up my nose. Battery life could be better. You want to play games on this screen, but you shouldn't even try. Trackpad is finicky until you tweak its settings
Published: 2015-02-23, Author: Tim , review by: techspot.com
Awesome form factor keeps the laptop slim, light, portable and nearly bezelfree. Great use of aluminium and carbon fiber. Intel delivers the goods from a performance perspective. Bright, high quality 1080p display that's upgradeable to QHD. Excellent batt
Trackpad needs some work. Touchscreen isn't standard.
I could write this conclusion in just a few lines, it's that easy to summarize my thoughts on the Dell XPS 13: simply put, this is the best Windows laptop you can currently buy . As far as I'm concerned, if you're after an ultraportable 13-inch Windows la...
