Beneath these is a quad-speaker arrangement that is by far one of the best we've ever heard in a laptop, going right up against the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro. Next to the keyboard on either side, you'll find two upward-facing speaker grilles.

And, the carbon fiber is back on the keyboard deck, and it's just as comfortable as ever, even if it may get a little grungy over time. Seriously, made entirely of CNC aluminum with clean edges and that typical Dell logo on the outside, this is a stylish laptop. With how gorgeous the laptop is, anyway, we'll easily look past this lack of legacy ports. The fact that Dell was gracious enough to include an SD card reader in a thinnish laptop in 2020 is more than enough to earn our praise, given that we're constantly on the hunt for our USB-C SD card adapter anyways. That does mean that folks that want to use a bunch of legacy peripherals will have to live that dongle life, but that's kind of the world we've been living in over the last few years anyway. Definitely not the lightest laptop in the world, but with this kind of hardware and a battery that lasts as long as it does, it's definitely more portable than it even needs to be.Īs far as ports, things did get cut back quite a bit, with it being narrowed down to three Thunderbolt 3 ports, an SD card reader and a headphone jack. However, this XPS 15 is just 0.71 inches (18mm) thick and weighs just 4.5 lb (2.05kg). Now we get it, not everyone wants to carry around a bulky 15-inch laptop, no matter what kind of performance improvements come with the beefier hardware. With all of these improvements, the XPS 15 has catapulted ahead of the 13-inch model to be the Windows laptop to get. It's thinner, lighter, has smaller bezels and brings the speakers to the top of the device.

In terms of year-on-year laptop improvements, we have literally never seen a glow-up like the Dell XPS 15 2020.

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