Jun 19, 2020 ·  The 2020 Dell XPS 15 is a near-ideal 15.6-inch desktop-replacement laptop. Its sleek design, fast performance, and robust feature set make it our top pick among premium Windows options at its size.... 

Mar 25, 2021 ·  About the Dell XPS 15 As a 15-inch laptop that measures.71 inch thick and weighs at least 4 pounds, the Dell XPS 15 isn’t as shoulder-friendly as another model in the Dell XPS line, the XPS 13. 

Oct 04, 2020 ·  The XPS 15 (9500) display is configurable with either a 15.6-inch UHD+ (3840 x 2400) touch anti-reflective or FHD+ (1920 x 1200) non-touch anti-glare. Both are rated for 500 nits of brightness,... 

May 13, 2020 ·  The Dell XPS 15 (9500) is back with a redesign that highlights a beautiful 16:10 screen and has excellent sound quality. Its webcam, though in the right place, still needs work. 

Familiar yet fresh. That’s how Dell describes the new XPS 15, and I have to agree. The look of the Dell XPS 15hasn’t changed for almost five years. A redesign has been a long time coming, especially with all the advancements the XPS 13 has received over the years. Nearly every aspect of the XPS 15 has been updated in some way. The only design elements that have remained intact are the black carbon-fiber weave used in the palm rests and the aluminum on the lid. The use of aluminum and carbon fiber keeps the XPS 15 looking like an XPS product, but that’s where the familiarity stops. The thing you’ll notice first is the display. The XPS 15 now has a 16:10 aspect ratio, for a slightly taller screen. I really like this choice. It made a difference on the XPS 13, and it makes an even larger difference on the larger XPS 15. The screen measures 15.6 inches and packs in 3,840 x 2,400 resolution. That’s more pixels than even a conventional 4K screen, and a higher pixel density than the MacBoo... 

Jul 06, 2020 ·  Timing is everything in the PC business, and the Dell XPS 15 9500, an overdue refresh to the company’s high-end workhorse, arrives just in time for it to be truly considered the “MacBook Pro... 

Aug 02, 2020 ·  Personally, I really want a ditch my Razer Blade 15 and switch over to the Dell XPS 15 9500 just because of that beautiful, bright color, accurate display, the speakers, the trackpad, and I guess the battery life too. And most importantly, the fact that it’s just built really well, it’s so refined. 

Jul 22, 2020 ·  The Dell XPS 15 9500 (2020) is a heavy laptop with a sturdy chassis. The minimal-bezel screen, at least on the UHD+ model I reviewed, is extraordinarily good. In this respect, Dell sets a ... 

Feb 11, 2021 ·  The Dell XPS 15 9500 really is a gorgeous-looking laptop from every angle – the XPS line has been wowing users and winning awards for years now, and Dell very much knows what it's doing with the... 

May 24, 2021 ·  Dell XPS 15 (9500) at Dell for $1,049.99 The Dell XPS 15 2020’s battery life could be better (at least on the 4K model), and it can get quite noisy under a heavy workload. 

The 2020 Dell XPS 15 9500 sent to us has the following features and specifications: 1. Processor:10th Generation Intel Core i7-10875H processor (16MB Cache, up to 5.1 GHz, 8 cores) 2. GPU:NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 Ti 4GB GDDR6 3. RAM:16GB DDR4-2933MHz, 2x8G 4. SSD:512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive 5. Display:15.6″ UHD+ (3840 x 2400) InfinityEdge Touch Anti-Reflective 500-Nit Display 6. Connectivity:Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2×2) and Bluetooth 5.0 7. Audio:Stereo top-mounted speakers 8. Battery: 6-Cell Battery, 86WHr (Integrated) 9. Keyboard: Backlit 10. I/O 10.1. USB-C 3.1 with power delivery & DisplayPort 10.2. Full-size SD card reader v6.0 10.3. 3.5mm headphone/microphone combo jack 10.4. Wedge-shaped lock slot 10.5. 2x Thunderbolt 3 with power delivery & DisplayPort 11. Dimensions 11.1. Height:0.71″ (18 mm) 11.2. Width:13.57″ (344.72 mm) 11.3. Depth:9.06″ (230.14 mm) 11.4. Weight:4 lbs. (1.83 kg) for non-touch with 56Whr battery; 4.5 lbs. (2.05 kg) for touch with 86Whr battery 

May 29, 2020 ·  After almost five years of using the exact same chassis from the XPS 15 9550 all the way up to the XPS 15 7590, the Dell XPS 15 9500 is the complete redesign that the series sorely needed. The... 

Apr 13, 2021 ·  The Dell XPS 15 is easily the best 15-inch laptop on the market, and in a lot of ways it's the best laptop period. It's extremely powerful, stylish and light enough to carry around town. We... 

The XPS 15 9500 starts at $1,258.99 (everything is $59 off, so these are actually priced more like $1,199.99, and $2,199.99 for the model that Dell sent me). That model comes with the FHD+ display, along with an Intel Core i5-10300H, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Also, the non-touch displays have a smaller battery, and are a half-pound lighter. The model that Dell sent me is not a pre-configured option on its website. I found a similar one that has a Core i7-10750H processor, and after instant savings, it actually comes out to the same price of $2,199.99 as the custom one with the Core i7-10875H. 

Oct 06, 2020 ·  The Dell XPS 15 2020 is one of the best 15-inch laptops you can buy, but one significant flaw prevents it from attaining a perfect score. ... Reviews; Dell XPS 15 (2020) ... XPS 15 (9500) 3840 x ... 

Jun 22, 2020 ·  Dell has released its newest 15-inch flagship, the 2020 Dell XPS 15. We tested a midrange model that includes a Core i7-10875H, 16GB of RAM (DDR4), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, and 512GB SSD. It ... 

Standouts from the specs sheet include the Thunderbolt 3 (via USB C) interface, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M graphics, the NVMe storage and the quad-core CPUs (i5/i7), which make this system a prime candidate for an eGPU system such as the Razer Core once they are available. 

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The new design for 2020 improves on its predecessor and strikes a good balance for photo editing, as long as you don't care about losing some connections.

Dell XPS 15 9500

Dell XPS 15 9500 review: The photo editor's new friend

Dell XPS 15 9500 review

Dell's XPS 15 laptops continue to be crowd-pleasers. With its eye-catching, slim new design and&nbsp;photo-editing-friendly performance, display and feature set, the latest 15-inch model can hold its own as a less powerful -- much cheaper -- alternative to a 16-inch MacBook Pro. It's well worth a look if that's how you roll, though you might want to consider the new 17-inch XPS 17 instead for the bigger screen. Both are still premium-priced, and likely not worth the money if all you need is a pretty work clamshell, not a serious workhorse.&nbsp;The configuration we tested runs about $2,255. If you don't need color accuracy, want better battery life and can live without the slightly-better-than 4K UHD resolution, you can save almost $300 by going for the lower-resolution option. The base configuration costs about $1,300 and comes with an Intel Core i5-10300H, 8GB RAM, a 256GB solid-state drive and the 1,900x1,200-pixel display. That's a pretty big range for a single laptop model.&nbsp;Something in me cringes at the idea of paying $1,300 for a system with only 8GB RAM and integrated graphics, though, so if you're leaning towards that I suggest you consider something like the Lenovo C740. The processor is much less powerful, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to pair a powerful CPU with so little memory. You can get an otherwise similar configuration of the C740, which is also sleek and about the same weight, for well under $1,000.If you're considering it for anything beyond casual photo editing, though, do yourself a favor and spring for 32GB RAM and an i7 CPU. My consistent experience is that if you need to multitask, then operations like mass thumbnail generation, which takes advantage of high core counts, can become bottlenecked by memory (at least on Windows). And applications like Adobe's Lightroom Classic will use all the cores you can throw at it for some operations.Dell redesigned the XPS 15 (and introduced a new 17-inch model) for 2020 to align more with the XPS 13, mostly. For one thing, that means the XPS 15 ditched its 4K&nbsp;OLED&nbsp;option. It gets a little complicated after that. The XPS 13's display has a 16:10 aspect ratio, which means both the XPS 15 and 17 follow suit. The problem is that standard OLED panels only come in standard 4K UHD 16:9 aspect, so the XPS switched to a nonstandard 4K "UHD Plus" (3,840x2,160 pixels) and a base "FHD Plus" (1,980x1,200 pixels).I like the UHD Plus screen more than the OLED, though, especially for photo editing, which is arguably the creative work that this system is optimized for. It has better color consistency and tonal range in the shadows, and as tested it covers 100% of Adobe RGB rather than P3, which is still a respectable 94%. (We test screens using using&nbsp;Portrait Displays' Calman 5 Ultimate&nbsp;and an X-Rite i1Display Pro Plus.) If you don't know what all this color gamut talk is about, this may not be the laptop for you.&nbsp;A wealth of pro photo-editing optionsOddly, Dell doesn't promote accuracy as one of the virtues of the screen, and out of the box it wasn't, despite the inclusion of PremierColor, Dell's color management software. But with some easy tweaks to the brightness and gamma settings in PremierColor, I was able to get it to to standard target values of 2.2 gamma, delta E for grayscale and color less than or equal to 2 and white point of 6,500K. It can't hit the effectively zero nits black (and therefore infinite contrast, since that puts zero in the denominator of the contrast calculation) but its roughly 1,560:1 contrast is good for an IPS (non-OLED) screen.&nbsp;It also supports HDR, though with a maximum brightness of roughly 465 nits it won't really wow you. And playback of 4K HDR content really taxes the integrated graphics; I couldn't successfully force it to use the GTX 1650 Ti all the time.More notably, unlike many consumer calibrated displays, Dell's factory calibrated profiles actually clip the gamut boundaries to the color space; in other words, even though the display can produce colors well outside sRGB, it won't if you've opted to use the sRGB color profile. That's really helpful if you need to check out-of-gamut colors. You can create custom profiles with a calibrator using PremierColor as well, but only with the popular X-Rite i1Display Pro; it doesn't even support the Plus yet, so I couldn't test it. (If you want to calibrate it using your own software and a different calibrator, remember to turn PremierColor off.)&nbsp;PremierColor gives you the standard set of color profiles, including Rec 709 (HD) and Rec 601 (SD), as well as settings for specific color temperatures and relative scales for gamma, contrast and black level. It also lets you choose from different viewing conditions, such as daylight or incandescent light.&nbsp;A downside to the ever-shrinking screen bezels is you have to be careful when adjusting the display. For instance, while trying to find the perfect angle I accidentally touched the touchscreen and closed Chrome. I think a touchscreen is unnecessary here, anyway. And I'd gladly trade a millimeter more of top bezel for a better webcam.Another trade-off of the new, thinner design is swapping USB-A and HDMI connections for all-USB-C/Thunderbolt 3. The XPS 15 has two Thunderbolt 3 connections, which is handy. But losing a display connection on the discrete GPU bus means you sacrifice some flexibility. It does (thankfully) retain the SD card slot, though. Dell grew the touchpad and moved the speakers to either side of the keyboard, both welcome changes. I don't like the unlabeled, unilluminated power button: It has a fingerprint reader built in, but in the dark it's just a blank spot and seems to scream, "Why do you want to turn me off?"One thing Dell didn't sacrifice is speed, sort of. It stuck with the Intel H series processor where a lot of slim competitors use the lower-power (and therefore slower) U series. But it also tops out with the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti; bumping it up to a 6GB 1660 Ti GPU, like the Surface Book 3 has, might have given it the extra 2GB memory needed to let it better run some professional graphics applications or a little extra needed oomph for video editing. It does let Dell differentiate between the XPS 15 and the larger XPS 17 for something other than size, though.The battery life is solid relative to the rest of its class at a little over eight hours, at least for streaming video. It also held up pretty well under my more punishing real-life workload, lasting about five hours of active use (though no imaging apps). That's a pretty long time for me, though it ran too hot to keep it on my lap for that long.The new design for the XPS 15 acquits itself well, and Dell didn't make any major mistakes with it (along the lines of the now-retired XPS 13&nbsp;bottom-dwelling webcam). But as a general-purpose work laptop, it's not super light, doesn't have a super long battery life, isn't super thin, super fast or super cheap. It's not a work laptop superhero, just a premium workhorse.