Dell XPS 13

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Pros & Cons

Moving the webcam position, adding facial login and a four-mic array, giving Intel’s chips more headroom to perform even better and adding a 4K screen have all evolved the XPS into an even more formidable flagship laptop. In directly addressing the concerns of users, the Dell XPS 13 laptop is refined further than ever before.

Pros Cons
  • Centered IR webcam
  • Gorgeous new design
  • Beautiful optional 4K display
  • Impressive performance
  • Steeper starting price
  • White option is pricier
  • Still gotta’ move that webcam

Review

Refined. Enlightened. Empowered. If we had to pick three words to describe the 2018 Dell XPS 13 in all its Alpine White glory, it would be those. On paper, this is the type of notebook you would expect to appear plain and inconspicuous. Rocking a quad-core CPU, three USB-C ports and even a microSD card port, it’s more powerful than it looks. It’s also light, weighing just 2.67 pounds (1.21kg0, so not only does it weigh less than Apple’s MacBook Pro, it’s more powerful and costs less, too.

Simultaneously, it has a surprisingly more contemporary look. You can just look at all the recent flagship smartphone releases, and you’ll understand that bezel-less displays are all the rage – Dell understands this too. The next-generation InfinityEdge display found on the Dell XPS 13 has bezels so narrow, you’ll forget they’re even there – it’s just futuristic. If you can look past the strange camera placement, it just might be the best laptop you can buy today, a sentiment that’s echoed across the internet.

All told, we’re intensely impressed by the new XPS 13, thanks in part to that dazzling new color option. In fact, we’re so impressed by Dell’s design revisions that it’s once again earned TechRadar’s Best in Class award for laptops. That said, if you want in on the deepest revision on the XPS 13 design in years, you’re going to have to pay up – more so than in the past.