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The Dell XPS 13 has been a force to reckon with some years, but this isn’t one of them. It’s performance lags behind its cheaper competitors, and it doesn’t lead them in the battery department either. It may be thin and light, but by a narrow margin that doesn’t make up for its shortcomings.

$1,399 Dell has refreshed its line of XPS laptops, introducing a new XPS 16 and XPS 14 and changing up the sizes we’re used to. But we still get the , which keeps the diminutive, portability-minded dimensions of its predecessors. For the sharp-eyed XPS fans, this model will look strikingly similar to the earlier XPS 13 Plus, as the entirety of this new lineup has adopted the design language introduced with the Plus models.



What this means for elegance is one thing, but for utility, it’s another thing entirely. And with performance leaving something to be desired next to cheaper competitors, the best days for the XPS 13 may be well and truly behind us. Dell XPS 13: Specs and features The Dell XPS 13 comes in a handful of configuration options.

Ours is near the bottom, with only a memory downgrade to 8GB available for a $100 savings. However, 8GB on a machine that has a base price over $1,000 feels incredibly unwise, especially as it’s non-upgradeable LPDDR5. At the time of writing, all configurations come with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor.

Storage can be upgraded to 1TB or 2TB, and memory comes at 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB. Dell offers three display options. The most .

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