Dell goes huge with the XPS 17's debut: Everything you

With the debut of the Dell XPS 17, the corporate will convey its fashionable XPS model to a 17-inch laptop computer this summer time, with a bezel-less design, H-class 10th-gen CPU, and as much as RTX 2060 graphics. There’s an up to date XPS 15, too. 

While the laptops had been formally introduced Wednesday, we really received a sneak peek at prototypes of the XPS 17 in late 2019. We’ll stroll you thru every part we find out about it.

Dell XPS 17 9700 Price and Availability

Dell mentioned the XPS 17 9700 will go on sale this summer time with a beginning value of $1,499. Starting clearly means a model that doesn’t embody the top-end elements.

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Dell XPS 17 9700 Screen Options

The XPS 17 9700’s most distinctive characteristic is its 17-inch display screen, and never simply due to the dimensions. While most 17.3-inch shows have a large, 16:9 side ratio greatest fitted to video, Dell’s is a customized panel with a 16:10 side ratio, far taller and extra nice for individuals who must get work performed.

Two show choices can be found. The first is a 1920×1200 decision FHD+ display screen that may hit 100 % of sRGB coloration house. Although not precisely high-resolution, it’s a lot vibrant at 500 nits. The display screen comes with an anti-glare end.

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Those who worth pixel density will doubtless choose the touch-enabled 4K UHD+ display screen with a decision of 3840×2400. It’s rated to hit 100 % of the Adobe RGB coloration gamut and higher than 94 % of the DCI-P3 coloration gamut. It additionally complies with the HDR 400 spec for luminance and coloration depth, and may hit 500 nits of brightness. The panel options anti-smudge and anti-reflective options.

Anti-reflective isn’t the identical as anti-glare, which is usually a matte end. Anti-reflective screens are designed to be shiny or shiny to take care of picture crispness, however they usually have inner coatings to reduce reflections.

Both screens supply 178-degree viewing angles and help each the Dolby Vision HDR 4K video format and the Eyesafe customary for decreasing blue emissions from the display screen—with out that horrible brown tint that makes it appear to be you’re carrying As Seen On TV Blue Blocker sun shades. Eyesafe screens primarily look “normal,” however with out the blue emissions that disturb your sleep and damage your eyes.

RAM: All configurations are primarily based on customary DDR4/2933 modules in dual-channel mode with capacities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB. All designs use customary SO-DIMM modules so you may enhance capability at a later level. Obviously select the RAM primarily based in your wants, however we’d advocate 16GB except you’re on a good funds. Choose 32GB or 64GB provided that you already know they want that a lot RAM, or since you’re locked into it by a construct.

GPU: Graphics choices vary from utilizing the CPU’s UHD graphics to a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti or a GeForce RTX 2060. While neither of the GeForce playing cards is designated as Max-Q, usually that’s implied because of the thinness of the laptop computer. Both are good GPUs, however the RTX 2060 provides {hardware} ray tracing help and tensor cores for machine studying hundreds. It’s an enormous step up from the GTX 1650 Ti in gaming. If you’re selecting between the discrete GPUs for video modifying, each are primarily based on Nvidia’s Turing chip and supply the identical NVDEC efficiency, however the RTX 2060 has a barely extra superior NVENC engine.

You could be questioning why anybody would purchase a big-screen laptop computer just like the XPS 17 and skip the extra highly effective graphics chips? Dell doubtless needs to have a mannequin to hit decrease costs and make it extra interesting—and there’s a crowd that simply needs a big-screen laptop computer even when it’s not for gaming.

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