Dell - 16S - 16" 2K Touchscreen Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 7 355 2026 - 16GB Memory - 512GB Storage - Copilot+ PC - Celestial Blue

I've never owned a Dell computer, I've had the chance to use this for about a week and it runs smooth and fast. The touchscreen is a nice feature that I've used once and has no lag. A lot of the ports are useless to me, and I'd prefer more C ports as there's only 2 and one gets used up by the power cord additionally it has 2 USB and 1 HDMI port. Start up from the box takes a while, bit once it's done it has some nice features, such as being able to dim the screen if someone else is looking over your shoulder, turning off when you walk away and turning on when you come back. I use this for work, which involves design using programs such as illustrator and Photoshop, the screen is a perfect size for this. I'm happy overall

Less than one month old, this is the 2nd computer that has same issues with the Cirrus driver. Many hours on the phone with Dell Support and repair sent out to me but no one can get it fixed. Will find out tomorrow what Dell is going to do with it now.

It's fast perfect for the video editing I need. Just don't like all the popups when going on the websites I know it's not the computers fault.

This product is good as far as speed and running high graphics gaming and also for good performance during the AI agent execution locally.

I've used quite a few Dell laptops over the years, and overall I'm pretty impressed with the 16S. I wanted something with a larger screen that I could actually get work done on without immediately feeling like I needed to connect an external monitor, but I also didn't want a massive laptop that was a pain to carry around. This strikes a really good balance between the two. The 16" 2K display is probably my favorite part. There's noticeably more usable space than you get on a typical 13" or 14" laptop, and the higher resolution makes text and everything else look extremely sharp. I tend to have multiple browser windows open alongside Outlook, Teams, Excel and other applications, so the extra screen real estate is genuinely useful. The touchscreen is also responsive. I'm still primarily a mouse/trackpad person, but I find myself reaching up to scroll through pages or quickly tap something more often than I expected.
 Performance has been excellent. The Core Ultra 7 and 16GB of memory have had no problem keeping up with normal work, even when I have an unreasonable number of Chrome tabs open along with several other programs. Everything feels quick and responsive, waking from sleep is almost instant, and I haven't noticed any significant slowdown when multitasking. The 512GB SSD is one of my bigger complaints. It's enough for what I'm using it for since most of my files live in the cloud, but with the rest of the specs on this machine I really would have expected at least a 1TB SSD. Storage is expensive right now but 512GB just feels a little out of place on a laptop with a Core Ultra 7, 16GB of memory and a 2K display.
 I really like the overall design. The Celestial Blue is much more subtle in person than the name makes it sound, and the aluminum case gives the laptop a much more premium feel than a typical plastic chassis. That aluminum does come with a downside though: keep a microfiber cloth nearby. This thing collects fingerprints and smudges like crazy, and they're especially noticeable on the finish. It can go from looking brand new to looking like it needs to be cleaned after about five minutes of handling it.
 There's also one small fit-and-finish issue that I can't unsee now that I've noticed it. The punchout for the webcam isn't perfectly centered over the actual camera lens. It doesn't seem to affect the camera at all, but on a laptop that otherwise looks and feels this polished, it's a weird little quality control detail. Most people probably won't notice it, but once you do…
 The keyboard has been great to type on. There's enough room that it doesn't feel cramped, which is something I really appreciate on a laptop I'm actually going to work from for several hours. The trackpad is large and accurate, and the larger case gives you enough room to comfortably rest your hands without everything feeling squeezed together.
 Despite the large screen, it also doesn't feel like you're carrying around an old-school 16" desktop replacement. It's wildly thin and portable enough that I don't mind throwing it in a bag. That's probably one of the biggest strengths of this laptop… you get the workspace of a larger machine without giving up too much portability.
 The Copilot+ features weren't really the reason I chose this laptop, but I do like having the newer hardware as Windows continues adding more AI functionality. I'd rather have that capability built in now than buy something that's already a generation behind.
 Overall, the Dell 16S is a really good laptop with a few annoyances. The 2K touchscreen is excellent, performance is strong, the aluminum chassis feels premium, and I really like having a 16" display in something that's still reasonably portable. I just wish Dell had included a 1TB SSD, found a finish that didn't show every fingerprint, and paid a little more attention to that webcam cutout.
 None of those would keep me from recommending it but they're worth knowing about. If you want a larger laptop for productivity without carrying around something that feels like a brick, the 16S gets a lot right.