XPS 15 offers fair amount of ports, including pair of USB 3.1 Type-A ports, Thunderbolt 3 port, full-HDMI 2.0 port, SD, jack and Noble lock slot...
Dell XPS 15 edged MacBook Pro on our productivity test, 000 names in Excel spreadsheet, completing the in 44 seconds and 0 52, respectively..
On our video transcoding test, XPS transcoded 4K video into 1080p 10 minutes and 14 seconds.
Outfitted with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU with 4GB of VRAM and Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU, XPS 15 notched whopping 189 frames per second on Dirt 3 benchmark.
On our other gaming benchmarks, XPS 15 scored 22, 27 and 27 fps, respectively.
The $999 base model has 2.3-GHz Intel Core i5-8300H chip with 8GB of RAM, 1TB 5,400-rpm hard, Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU and x 1080 display.
Our $1,499 review unit features 2.2-GHz Intel Core i7-8750H with 16GB of RAM, 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU with 4GB of VRAM, Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU and x 1080 panel.
extra $300 will get you 4K touch screen, while the $1,999 model bumps up RAM and storage to 32GB and 512GB, and ditches 4K panel...
For $4,699, we got bona fide powerhouse complete with Gen Intel Core i9-8950HK CPU, 32GB of RAM, 2TB SSD and AMD Radeon 560X GPU with 4GB of memory..
But even the $2,399 base model is more expensive than XPS 15.
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