This laptop is clearly not built for that. However, when it shines, the XPS 15 absolutely glows. The CPU performance here is extremely strong across the board, scoring a GeekBench 5 multi-core score of 7,, which not only beats the Gigabyte Aorus 17G, a laptop with much more robust cooling, but comes within reaching distance of the AMD Ryzen 9 HS in the Asus Zephyrus G14 - color us impressed.
In such a thin and light chassis, the Dell XPS 15 provides workstation-level performance that won't weigh you down on your subway ride to work. Sure, the GPU could be stronger, but that would likely come with added bulk, as it would necessitate a more robust and heavy cooling system. The Dell XPS 15 we reviewed here comes strapped with a 86Whr battery, which is beefy for a laptop that's this thin. For the most part battery life absolutely reflects this, with the device getting 9 hours and 44 minutes of battery life in the PCMark 10 battery life test.
This test basically runs the laptop through a variety of workloads that you might encounter every day, and repeats those tasks until the battery is depleted.
For office work, this laptop will easily last all day and a bit when you get home and are scrambling to find the charger. However, our movie playback test tells a different story. In that test, we only saw 6 hours and 16 minutes.
This ultimately comes down to the 4K touch display. 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. I measured it up to nits, but even at low settings in bright light, there was almost no glare.
Colors were also spot on and quite vivid. The screen covers percent of the Adobe RGB gamut. But the metal bottom plate now also covers the edges and corners, which were black carbon fiber before. Dell has also placed speaker grilles on each side of the keyboard.
There are two tweeters in the base. Music sounded good, and the 3D feature made a noticeable difference. Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. Final tally: there are six mandatory agreements and nine optional agreements to use the XPS XPS keyboards and touchpads have always been among my favorite laptop peripherals, and Dell has made tweaks to both. The keycaps are 9. I could maintain over words per minute with very high accuracy.
The redesign is the main reason to buy this XPS 15, but the new processor and graphics card inside are both upgrades as well. Multitasking performance was as good as expected from an eight-core 10th Gen processor and healthy amount of RAM. I was able to run around a dozen Chrome tabs plus Slack, Spotify, YouTube videos, and some downloads in the background without a problem. But the Ti can lend a hand in creative work and other demanding productivity tasks.
In my first few runs through our battery test, which involved using the XPS 15 as my primary work driver on the Better Battery profile with the screen around nits of brightness, I was only getting between and of juice. The inch model will also allow you to pick an eight-core iHK processor, which offers up to a maximum clock speed of 5.
According to Dell, this particular configuration makes it "the most powerful XPS laptop ever. But "powerful" doesn't stop there.
Dell's new XPS laptops will feature Nvidia's latest generation of graphics cards. Display-wise, you will have the option to pick between either 4K or full HD panels, though the inch model will also be offered with an OLED panel.
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