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Dell XPS 15 Review: The best 15 inch laptop
Dell's struck gold with the XPS 15 over
the past three years a lot of people who
typically may have gone towards a
macbook pro we're suddenly interested in
this XPS 15 specifically because it had
that slim sleek look and really good
performance and most importantly a
usable keyboard but now that the MacBook
Pro 16 inches out there the tables have
kind of turned again and we have this
the brand new XPS 15 in response to that
laptop and they basically redesign
almost every element of this laptop and
improve it in a lot of different ways so
here's what this is all about and
whether or not this is the best creative
professional content creation device
ever made familiar yet fresh that's sort
of the tagline that Dells been going
forward with the XPS 15 and I have to
agree so the design of this laptop
hasn't changed in the past five years
that's a really long time to stick with
the same chassis all those advancements
that were given to the XPS 13 over the
years have finally all come to the Big
Brother in this new XPS 15 we're talking
that bigger sixteen by ten panel thinner
bezels a larger keyboard and a larger
touchpad all those slight tweaks that
make this a modern and fresh feeling
laptop for 2020 now let's talk about
that display because that's really the
big star of the show here when you sit
in front of this 15.6 inch 16 by 10
display it really does kind of command
your attention of course you do still
have a top bezel air with a 720p webcam
and your IR camera for Windows hello
but really the bezel is here are as thin
as they get on laptops it really feels
like there's no wasted space it's just
all screen and the great thing is the
actual panel that Dell has chosen to use
on this laptop is one of the best I've
ever tested especially considering this
as an LED panel and not an OLED panel
the resolution is 3840 by 2400 and that
is a lot of pixels that's a higher
resolution than 4k it's certainly a
higher is
the 16 inch MacBook Pro and they really
haven't cut any corners here if you opt
for this 4k panel you're getting the
best color precision I've ever seen on a
laptop and as I mentioned earlier the
keyboard and the touchpad and even the
speakers have been redesigned and
refined in this year's version the
keyboard in particular features those
larger key caps with less space in
between them thanks for just a more
modern look but also a more comfortable
typing experience as well as a trackpad
below Della's expanded it to be just
about the size of the 16 inch macbook
pro which is really really large these
are some of the biggest trackpads you
can get on a laptop and just like in the
past is a really precise tracking
experience and really quiet click it's
really one of the best touch pads you
can get and then lastly the speakers
which are now located right up here on
the keyboard deck just like they are on
a MacBook Pro here's the thing Dell has
kind of boasted a lot about these
speakers and they they are quite a big
improvement over the past these are the
best XPS speakers I've ever listened to
but they are not really anywhere near
the type of caliber they're gonna get on
a MacBook Pro though this thing does
sound great and I think you'll be
pleasantly surprised by how good these
speakers are especially if you're
watching movies or videos now one change
here that I do like that I think some
people may have problems with is the
port selection because Dells kind of
switch things up here and made it a
little simpler basically what you're
getting is two Thunderbolt three ports
an extra USB 3.1 port and a full-size SD
card slot and that's basically it except
for of course the headphone jack that is
the universal standard for ports of the
future but for now you might be annoyed
here and there when you can't connect
directly to your TV or to a mouse or
keyboard
fortunately Dell does throw in a USB a
two USB C connection in the Box more
importantly than any of that is the fact
that they included the full-size SD card
slot here this is a really important
port to have for creative professionals
using a camera of any kind you really
want to have that on your laptop and I
could have seen them going the way of
the MacBook Pro and getting rid of it
entirely but I'm happy to say that it's
still here and it's still very useful
before I move on to pro
so do you want to talk about battery
life again real quick because you gotta
know what you're getting into here this
4k 15 inch laptop it's just not gonna
get the best battery life and honestly
we shouldn't really expect it to you has
an 86 watt hour battery this is a very
large battery to put in a laptop you
still really only getting around five or
six hours in light usage if you're
running any kind of heavy application
that's gonna be cut back a couple hours
from there so you know again this is
standard stuff it's right in line with
the 16 inch MacBook Pro but you should
know what you're getting into the
performance of the XPS 15 has always
been one of its most important features
because this is not just a bigger screen
unlike a lot of other 15-inch laptops
there you actually get more performance
more power to run those heavy
applications well it starts with just a
quad core option you can configure this
in almost any way you want up to 64
gigabytes of RAM and 2 terabytes of
storage so plenty of options there for
getting this machine to be exactly what
you want it to be while still staying in
your budget my review unit does though
come with 16 gigabytes of RAM and NVIDIA
discreet graphics card the GTX 16 250 T
I and of course that hefty eight core
Intel processor all of that costing over
two thousand dollars should be plenty of
power for most of what people are gonna
do this but I wanted to see just how
good this laptop was at things like
video editing because that's a demanding
task that really requires a lot of power
from different parts of this machine I
did kind of my typical test it's a
two-minute 4k clip in Adobe Premiere
exporting at Pro res 42 and the results
were that it took 8 minutes in 42
seconds to finish the render now that is
faster than options like a razor blade
with a 6-quart processor and an RT X 27
T but it's not quite as fast as the
ninth gen core i9 version
the MacBook Pro 68 the XPS 15 has never
been a gaming laptop but I want to talk
about graphics performance because if
it's got a discrete graphics card I
should be able to do some gaming and
this one can because it comes with the
GTX 6 250 T I which is a step up from
the 1650 that was used in last year's
model now the XPS 15 is never really
gonna be able to compete with a normal
gaming laptop but you can get some
really good gaming with the XPS 15 this
year and I think the slight bump up to
that new graphics card gives it just
enough to make this actually a really
nice gaming experience because you can
get most games to play at 60 frames per
second depending on what settings you're
at I'll light a game like fortnight or
civilization 6 can both play 60 frames
per second with the settings cranked all
the way up and it's a really nice
experience while it's something a little
bit heavier like battlefield 5 I was
able to get to 60 frames per second
really easily just by dialing the
graphics back a little bit and of course
this is all playing at 1080p you're not
going to play at 4k really any game so
I'll just put it out there this is the
best 15 inch laptop you can buy I think
in terms of its design there's really
nothing even in the ballpark of
comparing with it I think the MacBook
Pro the 16 inch one is a really nice
laptop still but I think this is a
better value I like the design of this
better and I think your performance is
going to be better too if you jump up to
that core I 9 version when it comes out
if you are a creative professional if
you spend all day sitting in front of
your computer you know trying to get
through those applications and your work
depends on how well it can render
graphics and work with large files
you're gonna need this type of laptop
and I still think the XPS 15 is the best
one you can buy
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