Dell XPS 13 i7 felépítés és teljesítmény részletes bemutatása

The 2020 XPS 13 has the biggest display yet, at 13.4in with a 16:10 ratio, and tiny bezels all the way around the edges.

The thin bezel at the top of the screen has a webcam with infrared face recognition.

That means you get a relatively large display in the body of what would traditionally have been a laptop with just an 11in screen.

And what a screen it is.

The version tested had the 4K touchscreen option, which is crisper than practically anything else, super bright, colour accurate and all-round gorgeous.

It supports HDR video, including Dolby Vision.

Models are available with either touch or non-touch FHD+ screens too.

The body of the laptop is made from aluminium, with your choice of black carbon fibre or white glass fibre on the laptop’s deck.

It feels solid, sleek and unique.

The wedge-shaped laptop weighs just 1.27kg and is only 14.8mm thick, with a smaller footprint than most of its competition.

The new, slightly larger keyboard is great.

Well spaced, stable, fairly quiet, with 1mm of key travel and good feedback when pressed.

The large precision trackpad is responsive, with a tactile but muted click that hopefully shouldn’t annoy those around you.

Windows Hello

The power button is also a fingerprint scanner.

The XPS 13 ships with not one but two biometric systems for securely logging you into Windows without a password.

The new design has a Windows Hello infrared face recognition camera squeezed into the bezel at the top of the screen and a fingerprint scanner built into the power button.

That means you can either log in with a press of the power button or simply by looking at the screen when you open the lid.

Hot hardware, but USB-C problems

One side has a Thunderbolt 3 port and a microSD card slot.

The 2020 XPS 13 ships with your choice of 10th-generation Intel core chips.

Most models have the Core i7 common to all top-spec computers, including the new MacBook Pro, Surface Laptop 3 and Huawei MateBook X Pro.

The model tested for this review had a Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage and a 4K screen.

As such the XPS 13 has lots of power on tap, making it capable of just about anything, short of high-end gaming.

Intel’s Iris Plus graphics are a step up from the previous HD integrated graphics, which you immediately notice when you start editing images on a 4K external screen.

Used on battery the XPS 13 is nearly silent, with only low-level fans audible when pushed a little.

Connect the machine to power and start doing demanding things and it will get a bit hot, with the fans going fairly strong.

Even with fans at maximum, they’re not quite as loud as some competitors.

The deck of the laptop doesn’t get overly warm, but you could feel some heat behind the R, T, Y, U and I keys.

The vents on the bottom of the laptop are easily blocked by soft furnishings, meaning the machine really needs to be used on a hard table, desk or lap.

The XPS 13 has two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, a headphones socket and a microSD card slot, which is very welcome.

When one USB-C port is taken up by the charger, that only leaves one port for connecting accessories, such as a monitor, meaning you might need a dock or similar if using home-working tools.

The other side has the second Thunderbolt 3 port and the 3.5mm headphones socket.

A bug in a BIOS update for the XPS 13 broke compatibility with some USB-C to HDMI adaptors while I was reviewing the machine.

The laptop threw up errors for two adaptors after the update, but continued to work with a USB-C to HDMI cable and a USB-C to DisplayPort dock.

The bug remained until the end of the review period.

A Dell spokesperson said: “We’re investigating the issue and will update on our findings. We thank customers for sharing their experience on the Dell Community.”

Battery life wasn’t great, averaging only five and half hours of work between charges, including 90 minutes of photo editing, lots of browsing and word processing, with the screen brightness set to 70%.

The 2020 MacBook Pro and Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 each lasted 7.5 hours under similar conditions.

Lighter use saw closer to seven hours between charges.

Models with the lower-resolution FHD+ screen, rather than 4K, will are likely to last significantly longer as the screen is one of the biggest power drains.

A full charge took 2.5 hours with the included 45W USB-C charger in optimised mode, but well under two if using Dell’s fast-charge setting with the laptop off.

The lid is smooth aluminium with a chromed Dell logo in the centre.

The XPS 13 is one of the most recyclable laptops you can buy, and is generally repairable.

It is designed to enable repairs by authorised service personnel in the field, not just in a service centre, including replacement of the battery.

An out-of-warranty screen repair costs £299.41, while a battery replacement costs £171.66.

Dell also has an advanced power-management utility that can extend the useful lifespan of a battery by altering when, how and how much it is charged, either automatically by learning from your usage and charging habits or manually via various profiles.

Dell offers free recycling schemes, even for products from other brands, while its packaging is made from recycled materials.

The firm has a number of sustainability and environmental impact schemes under way for 2030, including the recycling or reuse an equivalent product per purchase and use of recycled material.

Dell publishes the carbon footprint of its products.

The keyboard and trackpad are great.

Firm, responsive and precise.

The XPS 13 ships with a choice of Windows 10 Home or Pro, and it is one of the few laptops that can be bought with Linux instead of Windows, with Ubuntu 18.04 models.

As tested with Window 10 Home, the XPS 13 ships with a lot of Dell utility apps, most of which are useful, such as the advanced Dell Power Manager.

Many can be safely ignored or removed, but one particular utility for the included wifi chips caused no end of trouble.

The Killer Networking utilities, which are advanced software components for the gaming wifi chip Dell chose to use here, prevented the machine from going to sleep when the lid was shut, which is a cardinal sin for a laptop as it can lead to it turning on in a bag and cooking itself.

No update, clean install or troubleshooting could fix the sleeping issue.

Disabling the Killer utilities with the manufacturer-provided tool was the only way to fix it.

Killer Networking chips, made by Rivet Networks (recently acquired by Intel), are aimed at gamers and allow traffic prioritisation and other advanced features, but are notorious for causing these sorts of software problems, which makes it a puzzling inclusion in the XPS 13, which is by no means a gaming laptop.

The speakers fire out of grilles along the sides.

Although the text contains extensive and diverse factual statements about the Dell XPS 13, this article is constructed only by rearranging the sentences provided in the draft to maximize detail while preserving the original wording.

Price ranges and model variations are discussed, alongside design, performance, and battery life considerations.

Inclusion of Windows Hello, infrared camera and fingerprint power button is highlighted as a security feature.

В конце списка сравнения упомянуты альтернативы и общие рекомендации по выбору ноутбука в сегменте ультрабуков.

Dell XPS 13 (9300) 2020 vs конкурентные модели: MacBook Pro, Surface Laptop 3 и Huawei MateBook X Pro.

Цена базовых конфигураций и варианты Linux-версий упомянуты для сравнения с конкурентами.

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