Latest Dell XPS 13 Laptop 2017 Specification & Features
13.3-inch Ultrasharp QHD+ (3200 x 1800) InfinityEdge touch display Windows 10 Home 64-bit Intel Core i5-6200U (2.3 GHz, up to 2.8GHz Turbo Boost, 3MB cache) Intel HD Graphics 520 8GB LPDDR3-1866MHz (max supported) 256GB NVMe Solid State Drive Wireless: DW1820A 2×2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth4.1 Built-in 720p webcam 4-cell battery (56Wh) 1-year limited warranty Starting Price: $799.99 Price as configured: $1,499.99. The Dell XPS 13 2017 edition features a bright LED-backlit keyboard which is helpful if you want to see what you’re typing in a dark room or on a dimly-lit airplane. The keyboard blacklighting has three settings (off, low, and high) and the LEDs are well centered behind the keys with minimal light “bleed” around the keyboard.The 6th generation Intel Core i5-6200U in our Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook review unit delivers impressive performance for a 15W processor. While we can’t quite call this best-in-class performance among 13-inch Ultrabooks at the time of this writing, the Core i5-6200U does an impressive job overall and is equally impressive when it comes to power management. The Dell XPS 13 Intel HD 520 integrated graphics are enough to handle playing 1080p video and up-scaled QHD+ video on the QHD+ display, but if you really want to make the most of the QHD+ resolution for 3D rendering or editing 4K video content then you probably want to spend the extra cash to upgrade to the optional Core i7-6560U processor with Intel Iris 540 graphics.The latest generation Dell Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook features a 56Wh battery which is slightly more capacity than the previous generation (52Wh). The extra battery capacity combined with the superior energy efficiency of the Intel Core i5-6200U helped the Dell XPS 13 deliver longer battery life despite the QHD+ display. Notebooks with Ultra-HD screens typically have worse battery life because all those extra pixels require extra power, but the XPS 13- managed to last for almost 4 hours in Futuremark’s demanding Powermark benchmark. If you set the screen brightness to 70 percent or lower and just browse the web a fully charged Dell XPS 13 should last for around 8 hours even with the QHD+ resolution display.The Dell XPS 13 2017 edition is a solid update to the Dell XPS 13 with several desirable improvements over older Dell XPS notebooks. The Dell XPS 13 chassis design is attractive and well thought out. The available hardware configurations make perfect sense for a premium 13-inch Ultrabook. The battery life is more than good enough for most road warriors and once you get used to the atypical placement of the webcam and the weak speakers this turns out to be a fantastic notebook for web conferencing while on the go.
13.3-inch Ultrasharp QHD+ (3200 x 1800) InfinityEdge touch display Windows 10 Home 64-bit Intel Core i5-6200U (2.3 GHz, up to 2.8GHz Turbo Boost, 3MB cache) Intel HD Graphics 520 8GB LPDDR3-1866MHz (max supported) 256GB NVMe Solid State Drive Wireless: DW1820A 2×2 802.11ac 2.4/5GHz + Bluetooth4.1 Built-in 720p webcam 4-cell battery (56Wh) 1-year limited warranty Starting Price: $799.99 Price as configured: $1,499.99. The Dell XPS 13 2017 edition features a bright LED-backlit keyboard which is helpful if you want to see what you’re typing in a dark room or on a dimly-lit airplane. The keyboard blacklighting has three settings (off, low, and high) and the LEDs are well centered behind the keys with minimal light “bleed” around the keyboard.The 6th generation Intel Core i5-6200U in our Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook review unit delivers impressive performance for a 15W processor. While we can’t quite call this best-in-class performance among 13-inch Ultrabooks at the time of this writing, the Core i5-6200U does an impressive job overall and is equally impressive when it comes to power management. The Dell XPS 13 Intel HD 520 integrated graphics are enough to handle playing 1080p video and up-scaled QHD+ video on the QHD+ display, but if you really want to make the most of the QHD+ resolution for 3D rendering or editing 4K video content then you probably want to spend the extra cash to upgrade to the optional Core i7-6560U processor with Intel Iris 540 graphics.The latest generation Dell Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook features a 56Wh battery which is slightly more capacity than the previous generation (52Wh). The extra battery capacity combined with the superior energy efficiency of the Intel Core i5-6200U helped the Dell XPS 13 deliver longer battery life despite the QHD+ display. Notebooks with Ultra-HD screens typically have worse battery life because all those extra pixels require extra power, but the XPS 13- managed to last for almost 4 hours in Futuremark’s demanding Powermark benchmark. If you set the screen brightness to 70 percent or lower and just browse the web a fully charged Dell XPS 13 should last for around 8 hours even with the QHD+ resolution display.The Dell XPS 13 2017 edition is a solid update to the Dell XPS 13 with several desirable improvements over older Dell XPS notebooks. The Dell XPS 13 chassis design is attractive and well thought out. The available hardware configurations make perfect sense for a premium 13-inch Ultrabook. The battery life is more than good enough for most road warriors and once you get used to the atypical placement of the webcam and the weak speakers this turns out to be a fantastic notebook for web conferencing while on the go.