Dell Studio XPS 13 Review

[Jerry Jackson]

No offense, but since much of this review was copied verbatim from NBR's earlier review of the XPS 16, I think there should be some sort of disclaimer, at minimum clarifying just how similar these two laptops are.

No offense taken. These notebooks are pretty similar ... which is why we also included a link to the Studio XPS 16 review in the "related articles" section and we referenced the Studio XPS 16 multiple times.

[MidnightSun]

I was actually considering this laptop at the beginning of my laptop search, but the heat issues and super-glossy display turned me away. A shame, though, since this laptop does look quite nice.

Other than a small typo in the "Performance and Benchmarks" section,

The big news with the Studio XPS 13 is the inclusion of Hybrid SLI graphics in the form of Nvidia GeForce 9500M GE graphics. Without getting too technical, the Studio XPS 13 essentially includes both low-power integrated graphics and high-performance discrete graphics. When you need the best possible battery life you can use just the integrated graphics, and when you want to play video games you the integrated graphics and the discrete graphics combine forces to provide as much video processing power as possible. The synthetic benchmarks listed below will give you some idea of how this system performs compared to other systems on the market.

it's a great review, as always

[Guntraitor Sagara]

Is it just me or are the newer offerings from HP and Dell a let down these days.. overall that is? The only consumer system that catches my eye is HP's HDX with hi res screen and it only comes with the infinity dust collector.

lol. I feel you man, its a big letdown. Dell should get some leather off their brains and stop slapping useless design features which aren't even cool. The leather's a big dealbreaker for me. And with HP, Jesus christ HDX16 would've been a perfect rig but hp not offering a non infinity display just plain stupid. I prefer the non infinity display rather than turning my display into a dust bin. Glossy displays are one thing, and how about an infinity dust collector?

[boypogi]

too expensive and ugly IMO

[Bronsky]

The New Alienware Mx11 is rumored to be comming with an I5/335M GT combo. The XPS 13 is not even close to highperformance anymore. When will Dell be refreshing this series to make it competitive. It needs to be I5/I7-335(or better)/ssd/4gb ddr3 and ultraslim. Cmon Dell, its time for a refresh of this and the Latitude 13 series.

Bronsky