Hands-on review: Dell XPS 13

By Nick Pino

Dell XPS 13 review

Dell’s taken a page from Apple’s playbook with this year’s XPS 13 model – now offering its powerful 13-inch Ultrabook in gorgeous rose gold. Sure, some might still consider the XPS series a cheap shot on Apple’s MacBook Air, but this is a laptop even the team in Cupertino could learn a few lessons from.

Take, for instance, the InfinityEdge Display that almost entirely eliminates the bezel, or the UltraSharp QuadHD+ screen with a stunning 3200 x 1800 resolution, just two of the many smart design decisions Dell continues to offer on this year’s line-up.

Oh, and Dell’s got its own version of “one more thing” – the 2016 XPS 13 models are packing heat under the hood: a full range of Kaby Lake Intel processors.

If this isn’t the MacBook killer, I don’t know what is.

Design

If the XPS 15 series is a butcher’s knife – all business and cuts straight to the chase – the XPS 13 is the butterfly knife; it’s slimmer and sleeker, but no less effective in the right hands.

The non-touch version of the XPS 13 measures in at 0.33 x 11.98 x …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac