As we all know, Dell is the world's largest computer technology manufacturers and distributors. Dell laptops offers right balance of business features and also provides impressive performance with variety of sleek design options to the customers. Dell's brands include Inspiron series which gives budget laptops, XPS series which gives high end compact laptops and Alienware series which gives high performance gaming laptops. New Dell laptops arrive every year with improved features and performance. Dell recently launched new 'Dell XPS 13 and Dell XPS 15' laptops refreshing XPS series. XPS lineup is one of the premium laptops which offers flagship experience and is mostly preferred for business and productivity purposes. Base variant of XPS 13 starts at ₹1,44,990 and XPS 15 at ₹1,86,072. Let's see what Dell XPS 13 brings to the table.
DESIGN
Dell XPS 13 is a sturdy laptop. They claim it to have build of durable aluminum. The inner side of XPS 13 has polycarbonate fiber finish which gives it a soft feel while typing. Due to bezel less screen, it is very compact and fairly light-weight. It weighs around 1.27kg.
DISPLAY
It has 13.4 inch FHD+ (1920 x 1080 pixels) display in 16:10 aspect ratio. Due to its 4-side infinity edge display, XPS 13 has a form factor of laptop with 11 inch screen where the screen is made of Gorilla glass 6. Higher variant comes with UHD+ 4K display. Both have touchscreen input.
PERFORMANCE
Base variant of laptop is powered by Intel Core i5-1035G1 processor. It comes with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Upper variant sports Intel Core i7-1065G7 processor and has 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
KEYBOARD AND TOUCHPAD
The XPS 13 laptop comes with edge-to-edge keyboard. Company claims it to have good comfortable typing experience. Trackpad is made up of glass and supports multiple gestures. Keyboard is backlit. As we have already said it has touchscreen input.
PORTS AND BUTTONS
XPS 13 comes with 2 USB type-C ports which supports thunderbolt 3.0. Also has SD card reader slot. It supports fingerprint scanner and also has IR face recognition system also known as 'Windows Hello'.
OTHERS
- Display looks impressive with 100% sRGB and 500 nits brightness.
- Supports Windows 10 Home OS and comes with MS-Office with one year subscription.
- Has 52 watt-hour battery and they claim it to have 6 hours of battery life.
- Supports 720p webcam.
PRICE
Core i5 model is priced at ₹1,44,990 and i7 model is priced at ₹2,10,990. XPS 13 9300 is now available on Amazon. Dell XPS 15 9500 as of now has not beenw listed on Amazon.
If you are thinking this to be a good gaming laptop, then you are wrong. This laptop is not suitable for gaming. As the motto of XPS series suggests 'more of what matters'. This is a laptop build for business personnel, for normal daily tasks and productivity.
Are you looking for a gaming laptop? Then check this out: The Era of Gaming Laptops .
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