The Dell XPS 15 is lengthy overdue for an improve, and on Wednesday it’s lastly, formally getting one.
Dell mentioned the brand new XPS 15 9500 will probably be accessible for order beginning Wednesday, with costs beginning at $1,300. We’d guess that’s for a base model with FHD+ show and built-in graphics solely. For extra in regards to the upgrades and all of the configurations, preserve studying.
The show’s the factor
As with the newly introduced XPS 17 9700 and its two 13-inch siblings, the show upgrades are a spotlight. Like its siblings, the XPS 15 9500 sheds its bezels. The display nonetheless measures 15.6 inches, however the side ratio strikes from a squat 16:9 to a taller 16:10.
Both panel choices are fairly beautiful. The FHD+ model has a decision of 1920×1200, options 100 % of sRGB shade gamut, and may hit 500 nits of brightness. That’s above customary for many FHD-class screens.
DellThe new XPS 15 is all display.
The high-end model takes the decision to 3840×2400 and may hit a really brilliant 500 nits. The contact panel can attain 100 % of Adobe RGB and 94 % of DCI-P3 shade gamut, meets HDR400 specs, and comes with a shiny however anti-reflective coating. Both screens additionally function built-in Eyesafe know-how, which reduces blue-light emissions whereas nonetheless sustaining “normal” colours. Most blue-light modes at present aren’t all that totally different than slipping on a pair of 1990s Blueblocker glasses, giving all the things a heavy brown tint.
Inside the Dell XPS 15 9500
Internally the XPS 15 9500 steps as much as Intel’s latest 10th-gen Comet Lake H chips, with CPU choices starting from a quad-core Core i5-10300H to an eight-core Core i9-10880H. The GPU ranges from an built-in graphics-only choice to a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti.
RAM is DDR4/2933 in capacities from 8GB to 64GB, whereas storage choices go from 256GB to 2TB. Speaking of storage, Dell mentioned the laptop computer does away with the laborious drive bay of the earlier model, lastly—lastly—providing two M.2 slots inside.
DellThe new XPS 15 9500 options a regular dome keyboard with 1.3mm of journey and a Precision Driver-compliant glass touchpad.
While the XPS 17 and the XPS 13 2-in-1 function fancy copper vapor chambers to chill their interiors, Dell mentioned it was capable of match customary (albeit barely thinner) warmth pipes inside whereas nonetheless making the laptop computer simply 18mm skinny. As we mentioned earlier, Dell options two M.2 slots within the XPS 15 9500, with one occupied from the manufacturing unit with the working system. The firm mentioned there are additionally two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots, which will probably be occupied from the manufacturing unit. Dell officers mentioned the M.2 and RAM slots are accessible from the underside of the laptop computer with out eradicating the motherboard, as is the case with some competing designs.
DellThe XPS 15 is for creators, too
As with the XPS 17, Dell is providing Creator Editions of the XPS 15 to assist aspiring creators (however {hardware} neophytes) know what to purchase. For the XPS 15, the Creators Edition will function a Core i5 or larger CPU, 512GB SSD, and 16GB of RAM. If the particular person does music manufacturing, graphic design, or video, Dell is recommending the discrete GPU possibility.
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