A:Answer6 hrs easy.
8 hrs if turn screen brightness down and enable battery saving and you're doing light browsing and some videos.
I played 9 hrs of Netflix video series continously ( 14 videos, 45 minutes each, back to back auto play ) and still had 1.5hrs left.
If screen is full brightness then battery life will be less.
If you're playing intense game may get 3.5 to 4.5 hrs.
I love it as I code, browse web, watch few videos... and it last at least 6hrs. I charge my laptop where ever I go so it's only when I did initial testing that I observed times above.
If I go mall I find outlet and charge while using. If I go resturant I find outlet. So I've not been in a situation where I used it until it drained.
When I was testing playing Netflix videos, I started videos, went to bed and it was finishing 14th and last video when I woke up. I muted sound which may have helped prolong times, but good thing is it proved system could stream videos continuously without any issues or incidents over wifi and I had 1.5hrs left bases on computer stats. I ran videos with brightness set to 40% or 50% which is bright enough in room...
A:AnswerThe SSD is a PM951 with est 1000mb/sec read and 700mb/sec write. It's roughly two to three times faster than traditional SATA SSD's. There is in fact an M.2 pci-e port in this laptop that can support the new SM951 SSD which is blazing by offering performance of over 2000mb/sec read and 1550mb/sec write! Swap the current SSD out for this and get nearly 5 times the performance of traditional SSD's. Incredible laptop.
A:AnswerYes, it really is a SSD drive. I was also skeptical because of the price. Dell does now offer the 1 TB drive option, but at an additional cost of $600.
A:AnswerThe maximum memory is 32GB see this link for the specs. http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_xps_laptop/xps-15-9550-laptop_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf
A:AnswerI believe there is a newer version now with the newest processor. When I bought it in December 2016, some of the xps models had the newer processor, but this model did not. After 7 months, it is still performing well. I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be a big difference between current and previous model Intel processors on the mid to higer end unless you are doing intense gaming or scientific computing. I start noticing small performance differences after 2 generations of processor improvements. Of course, your experience may vary.
A:AnswerGood catch NA for time being at BestBuy. Differences include somewhat enhanced processor and video card. Detailed differences at ;
http://www.windowscentral.com/dell-xps-15-9550-vs-xps-15-9560-whats-different-and-should-you-upgrade
A:AnswerDude, stay away from this computer. It's a waste of money. The screen flickers. I spent $2000 on mine in 11/16. In 4/17 the screen began to flicker. I have tried everything to resolve. Wasted 10 hours at this point on the phone with Dell (in the Philippines - super frustrating). Honestly, my advice is buy something else. They do not have the bugs worked out on the 4k touch screen. The flickering is endless. Gives me a throbbing headache. For a computer I spent so much money on that is such a bummer.
A:Answertouch screen YES. Changes into a tablet NO. Is a bit pricey for a student. Mine was $2K. The $700 will do just as well and you can buy the other two kids one at that price and come out the same.
A:AnswerIt only has 1 TB of Hard Drive because is a solid state drive and those get real pricy real fast as you go larger. But the 1 TB drive leaves about two thirds of that for storage of user data after windows, Office, Adobe DC and a good anti virus. If you need more than that, use an external hard drive or get cloud storage. The screen resolution is ginormus at 2560 by 1920 so you have all sorts of real estate especially if you add an external monitor capable of handling that kind of resolution.
A:AnswerI can't say much for gaming but I ran this laptop through a stress test of several CPU heavy applications while simultaneously playing 4k video from YouTube for 4 hours and the laptop was bearly breaking a sweat. Would think that things would heat up a little more for gaming but all in all the cooler is dead silent and keeps the laptop below 30c on most applications.
