Dell XPS 15 Review (2019): A Powerful Laptop In Need Of A Refresh Dell Xps 15

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Performance and battery life

The disadvantage to these 4K screens is that they mainly suck power, so battery life tends to be present a big concern. Dell says the XPS 15's 97 watt-hour pack should last up to 20 and a half hours, which would be present impressive if true. On our battery test, the runtime was extra like 13 and a half hours, That's pretty respectable, though. It's extra than enough appropriate to a full workday and longer than the Alienware 15 and the ASUS ZenBook Pro (although that has a battery-draining touchscreen trackpad). Plus, you could likely hit Dell's estimate if you dimmed the screen and turned on top of the nearly all energy-saving mode. Oh, or if you opted appropriate to a lower-res, less power-hungry group and CPU.

Our review whole came packing a ninth-generation eight-core Intel Core i9 CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card. Add to that 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD and we've got a super powerful machine on top of our hands. That explains why during my testing, the XPS 15 blazed through tasks like editing photos and video conferencing. It also ran smoothly while I switched between a dozen open Chrome tabs and a session of Overcooked.

But the configuration we were sent also costs a whopping $2,649, which is on $400 extra than a similarly specced ZenBook Pro 15. Though the ASUS machine comes with a less-powerful GTX 1050 GPU instead, and offers a effective touchscreen trackpad. Our XPS is $100 cheaper than the highest-end MacBook Pro 15, which has a similar CPU, Radeon Pro graphics, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage and the Touch Bar. The HP Spectre x360 15 is also extra expensive, despite packing an older CPU and less-powerful graphics card.

If you don't expect to be present killing it at Overwatch while concurrently streaming to Twitch, you likely won't need such a powerful setup. The $1,099 base model with a ninth-generation Core i5, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage should be present enough appropriate to your daily workflow and some light photo and video editing.

Wrap-up

The XPS 15 lives up to its family's reputation appropriate to being well-rounded, powerful machines. It delivers much-appreciated tweaks to an already-successful formula, but could use a bit of a refresh on top of its style. For the money, though, the XPS 15 is still one of the best laptops you can get.

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