The screen’s ability to totally turn off individual pixels gets you nice, deep blacks and an essentially infinite contrast ratio.īut out-of-the-box color looks a bit too vivid and oversaturated, and the peak brightness takes a step down from to 400 nits from both IPS panels’ 500 nits. The difference between “true” 4K and this screen’s oddball 3456x2160 resolution is unlikely to be observable by the naked eye-the thing you’ll notice is the OLED panel, which has the typical benefits and pitfalls of the technology. We tested the “3.5K” OLED version of the screen, which sits in between the 1920x1200 IPS panel at the low end and a 3840x2400 IPS display at the top of the range. More symmetrical bezels also just look better. It’s not quite as tall as the 3:2 screens that Microsoft uses across the Surface lineup, but if you’re using an older laptop, jumping from 16:9 to 16:10 is a deceptively large upgrade in usable screen space. The biggest difference in more recent years is the introduction of a new 16:10 aspect ratio for the screen, cutting the bottom “chin” bezel and filling that area up with screen instead. The two ports on the laptop's left side are Thunderbolt 4, while the one on the right side is USB-C-any of the three can be used to connect an external display or charge the laptop, you'll just want to make sure you use any Thunderbolt accessories with the faster ports. The laptop has gotten marginally thinner and lighter, the trackpad has gotten even larger, and (with the exception of an SD card reader and a headphone jack) the laptop now uses Thunderbolt and USB-C ports exclusively, like the MacBook Pro. The under-the-screen, up-your-nose webcam has migrated back to the proper position above the screen. And as with the XPS 13, the changes in the years since have been incremental but significant. The design of the XPS 15 hasn’t changed much since 2016-ish, when Dell took the then-new slim-bezeled design of the XPS 13 and blew it up. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through affiliate programs.) Look, feel, screen, and ports Specs at a glance: Dell XPS 15 9510Ģx Thunderbolt 4, 1x USB-C 3.2 gen 2, SD card readerġ3.57×9.06×0.17 inches (344.7×230.1×18.0 mm)įingerprint sensor, IR camera, white or black finish But six- or eight-core Intel Tiger Lake processors and a new Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs with ray tracing capabilities make this version of the XPS 15 especially appealing for professionals and light gamers, even if updated competitors like Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 (and, when it’s finally released, an updated version of the 16-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon) give it a run for its money.
The latest XPS 15 (officially, model number 9510) is yet another iterative improvement for a laptop that has always looked and felt like a blown-up version of the XPS 13.
And if you want those things in a laptop that doesn’t totally disregard size and weight-and if you prefer or require Windows instead of macOS-that’s when you buy something like the XPS 15. Still, sometimes you need something larger and more powerful, whether it’s because you want a bigger screen to use away from your desk or you need extra processor cores or graphical power for editing videos or playing games. These laptops have reasonably powerful processors and integrated graphics that are good enough for an external monitor or two, but they prioritize a thin profile and light weight over performance. Most people buying a laptop these days will get by just fine with a 13- or 14-inch thin-and-light PC like the Dell XPS 13 or Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
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