You'll hear some cooling fan noise when the system is working hard, but it's so faint as to be easily drowned out by the speakers. Half volume is more than adequate for solo listening, and (except for a predictable lack of deep bass) features appealing instrumentals and vocals. The petite, side-mounted speakers pump out surprisingly loud sound-so loud that it's rough and raucous at top volume. Would-be gamers will note that the Thunderbolt 3 ports now deliver four instead of two PCI Express lanes, so the new system is compatible with external graphics-card boxes. On the right are a USB-C port, a micro SD card slot, and an audio jack.ĭell provides a USB-C-to-USB-A dongle (colored white, like the AC adapter that plugs into one of the Thunderbolt 3 ports) for connecting an older flash drive or other peripheral, but finding a DisplayPort dongle for an external monitor is up to you. Instead, on the unit's left side you'll find two Thunderbolt 3 ports, along with a Noble lock slot and a battery gauge consisting of a tiny button and five tiny LEDs.
So slim is the new XPS 13 that its USB Type-A and HDMI ports have disappeared. (We wondered if we could press the button just once to both turn the laptop on and log in, but holding it down that long turned the Dell off again.) The webcam works with Windows Hello for face recognition logins, and the power button at the top right of the keyboard doubles as a Windows Hello fingerprint reader. Each of these systems has a full HD (1,920-by-1,080) non-touch display. The $999.99 silver-and-black base Dell XPS 13 ($784.78 at Dell) (Opens in a new window) model carries an eighth-generation Intel Core i5-8250U processor and somewhat skimpy 4GB of RAM and 128GB SATA solid-state drive $1,199.99 gets you 8GB of memory and a 256GB PCIe SSD. The latest XPS 13 steals the crown as our favorite high-end ultraportable. Today's XPS 13 model recaptures the glamour of the original version with an even trimmer design in a gorgeous rose gold finish with a soft-textured white palm rest made of woven glass fiber. It's undergone numerous component upgrades, faced fierce competition (the HP Spectre 13 and the Razer Blade Stealth come to mind), and arguably even gotten a bit long in the tooth, yet the late-2017 XPS 13 (9360) reigns as our Editors' Choice. Since its debut at CES in 2012, the Dell XPS 13 (starts at $999.99 $2,049.99 as tested) has racked up rave reviews as what the company calls the world's smallest 13-inch laptop.
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