Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to set up. I had bought an Apple Macbook and returned it for this computer because i couldn't get past the voiceover set up. I watched YouTube videos but had to finally give up. This one was more practical and has the storage I need for video projects.

Amazing, light and portable laptop. Good for online games and work. Excellent display.

Very impressed with the speed and function of this laptop. Had to upgrade from surface pro.

It’s very fast… new technology to learn and Geek Squad made it simpler to survive..

I have owned Dell laptops for over 20 years, boy have they come a long way. Gone is the chunky design with large bezels and horrendous battery life. The Dell XPS 13 Plus 13.4" OLED is a slim, well refined laptop with a gorgeous, decently bright OLED screen. It is the pinnacle of all Dell has learned about making laptops; albeit not perfect as a result of pushing the design. I am not going to go into the detailed specs, there are plenty of reviews for that. What’s important is how it performs and how does it look. Let’s take a look at all the important categories: Display - 4k, 400 nits and OLED? There are only a few laptops of this size with comparable numbers. Colors pop off the screen and HDR movies look fantastic. With only a tiny bezel, the screen has a lot of realistic. Could it be a bit brighter? Sure, but at the cost of battery life. Design and build – A solid, well refined design build. Nearly all metal with perfect fit and finish. It is only .6 inches thick at its deepest point – very thin. I do get concerned about fl,ex on very thin laptops with OLED screens but that is not a problem. There is no flex – literally. This is one solid laptop. Keyboard and touchpad – I am usually not a fan on most keyboards on 13-inch laptop keyboards, but the XPS 13 Plus has an interesting design. The FN keys are gone and replaced with a touch bar. I know, I know – it usually not great when a company does this ( hello Apple,) but it definitely works for Dell. It looks like it enabled additional space to put a 3 / 4 keyboard with full size keys. The typing experience is excellent – just the right amount of tactile feedback with perfect key spacing. The touch pad might be another matter for some people. You are either going to love it or hate it. Dell decided to make the touch pad large but there are no lines to where it starts and ends. I found myself miss clicking or not hitting the touch pad in the correct place. It does have gesture capabilities and unique ways of clicking ( such as right click can be accomplished by tapping with two fingers.) It does take some time to get used to and I can see it be a turn off for some. It is not a deal breaker, but I would have liked something a bit more traditional. Speakers – The speakers are what you would expect from a laptop in this price range. Crisp, clean with no discernable distortion. It could be a bit louder; Apple does have an advantage in this category. Regardless, perfectly capable in most environments. Connectivity and camera – A bit disappointing for both. The video cam is 720P at 30 FPS, 10-year-old technology. For this price range, I would expect 1080P at 60 FPS. To compound things, the laptop has only two Thunderbolt 4 ports. Since you also charge from this port, it basically leaves only one to work with while charging. I know most manufacturers are moving to this minimalistic design but I think a third port would have been much better. Performance – Since this Dell does not have a dedicated video card , this is not a laptop for gaming. However, it does have the latest i7 chipset, a whopping 32 gb of ram and blazing 1TB SSD. There is nothing from a productivity standpoint that you can overtax this laptop. Web pages and apps open and close nearly instantaneously. I tested the system with some rather complex spreadsheets and there were no slowdowns. Very powerful. Battery life – Middle of the road. I got about 8 hours of mixed use. Perfectly usable, but I expected a bit more. Most of the competition in this price range does a bit better. In conclusion, the Dell XPS 13 Plus 13.4" OLED Touch Laptop is a great little machine. It hits most of the key points. The only negatives besides what I mentioned above is the laptop does get a bit hot after prolonged heavy use. Not blazing, but enough to notice. For me, it does not really bother me. However, that level of heat makes me wonder about the long-term durability. That is concerning since the warranty is a paltry 1 year. I wish Dell would separate themselves from the pack and start including 3 year warrantees. If they feel their product is so good, they should back it accordingly. Regardless, if you are in the market for sleek Windows laptop, you cannot go wrong with the XPS.

Great product. use it for studying and music. highly recommend.

All the power and portability you need for work or play.

This laptop is great. the screen is crystal clear. Very happy with my purchase.

Great product, made very well. The screen looks great

Light but powerful . Easy to maneuver. Good storage and an ok screen.

So far so good stays charged long moves fast easy to use for designing with my silhouette

Excellent, super fast, good quality, battery last all day, make my work easier.

Dell has refreshed their XPS lineup with Intel’s 13th generation CPUs. While the update alone doesn’t bring that much over the 12th generation, the XPS still represents a stunning machine in both performance and design. WIthout compromising functionality, or form, the XPS delivers a premium ultra portable experience that is hard to deny. Where it fails is battery longevity and port selection, but if you can live with these compromises, it’s an absurd package of power and portability. First of all, let’s talk about design. Before we even get into physical design, Dell is boasting low carbon aluminum construction (meaning the power sourced to produce the aluminum alloy is responsibly sourced), and it comes in packaging that is completely recycled and recyclable. In fact, the little boat that houses the laptop and it’s parts inside the main box is a curiosity. It successfully protects the laptop inside the box while the box performs the main duties you’d expect from foam. Once opened, you’ll find the XPS 13 Plus to be rather unassuming, but striking. The bead blasted surface of the aluminum offers a smoother texture than you’ll find on many metal chassis, and has a unique feel to it. The Dell logo is minimalistic and unobtrusive. Other than that small branding, the laptop is free from clutter. Gone is the carbon fiber wrist rests and other design flourishes of previous generations; replaced by embracing glass. Inside, the glass touch panel boasts an OLED panel that produces gorgeous colors. Below is the so-called zero-lattice keyboard, which provides a full keyboard experience that’s easy to type on, well backlit, and has good key travel. Flanking the keyboard on the top and bottom are precisely embedded panes of glass, each hiding touch sensitive areas. The top is a row of function keys which are interlaced with helpful functions (volume, playback, brightness controls, as well as print screen, home, end, insert and delete) with F1-F12 keys (underscoring a respect for the professional). These touch sensitive areas are capacitive and toggle between functions and F keys by pressing FN. Holding FN and pressing escape will lock the F keys on. Below the keyboard is the trackpad. Its borders are hidden beneath the glass, but intuitively it is large and stretches from the edge of the keyboard to the edge of the laptop and the width of the spacebar and right alt key. The trackpad offers haptic feedback that feels natural. Full windows gestures, and two fingered scrolling are supported creating a seamless experience for seasoned Windows users. The body of the laptop is CNC machined aluminum. The back cover is affixed to the body with 6 hex screws. Beneath this is a 55wh battery that is fairly easy to replace and 1 M.2 2280 slot. The inclusion of user upgradable and replaceable parts is a huge boon to such a slim machine in the age of more and more soldered componentry. RAM is configured at the factory only, and up to 32GB of LPDDR5 can be soldered on. This model comes with 32GB, underscoring its power user credentials. On either side of the machine are the sole ports: USB-C Thunderbolt 4. In the box you’ll find 2 adapters, one USB-C to USB-A and USB-C to headphone jack. Both ports support power delivery and displayport alt mode, meaning they can do it all. All these features are slipped into a 0.6” (15mm) thick laptop that weighs 2.77lbs (1.27kg). The laptop is so small it feels somewhat hefty due to the materials of construction. Glass and aluminum while light aren’t carbon fiber, or plastic light. The width is under 12” and depth under 8”, so it closely mirrors the size of a piece of letter paper. In fact, I found this laptop fit perfectly in my 10 year old fossil bag that was originally designed to hold a tablet/iPad (and housed my 12” MacBook from 2015). This laptop does have some features reminiscent of that laptop, but also has a bit more heft from the OLED screen and integrated touch panel. Speaking of the OLED screen, it is quite bright and offers Dolby Vision HDR. At full brightness, the screen hurt my eyes at night (peak brightness in HDR is listed as 617 nits). During the day, it was quite usable, even outside. The OLED screen has gorgeous contrast, true colors, and is nearly a 4k resolution (3456x2160, which is basically a 16:10 aspect ratio take on 4k). This screen also (as battery estimates from Dell’s product page illude) is the reason for battery drain, producing an abysmal 3h-4h in my mixed usage at 50% brightness. That said, it’s worth noting that this screen is the best I’ve ever seen on a laptop; from a color accuracy standpoint, brightness, and contrast. For lack of a better term, it’s perfect. Dialed in at 225% scaling it’s a nirvana I don’t often experience on laptops with IPS screens (and their horrible glow). It’s hard to tell because of the extreme resolution, but the subpixel arrangement of this panel seems to be quite compatible with cleartype text, and images are crisp, clear, and accurate. On top of the screen being gorgeous, it also boasts a 10 point multi-touch digitizer. This means you get all the benefits of a touchscreen as well. While it’s easy to wax on about the beautiful design, the real question is how does it perform. The reality is that the i7-1360p is Intel’s Raptor Lack refresh of Alder Lake. The reality is that this refresh boasts higher clocks, by a few hundred megahertz, which do translate into performance gains. The i7 1360p comes in with 4 performance cores (Golden Cove) and 8 efficiency cores (Gracemount). This yields 12 cores and 16 threads (performance cores have hyperthreading) in a fairly tiny machine. Also included is Intel XE graphics with 96 compute units - however this graphics subsystem hasn’t seen a refresh since Tiger Lake. While capable, don’t expect to play the latest high end games here. E-sports, older games, and lower settings should be playable in a pinch, but this is no gaming machine. For reference, Firestrike 3DMark yielded 5330 on high performance. All in all, the performance, especially if tweaked to high performance mode (which turns the fans up) is impressive. Plugged in on high performance mode Intel XTU recorded a 4164 score. However on battery and set to optimized a power limit of around 12w was imposed and the score dropped to 1464. That variance in performance is somewhat normal in power sipping ultraportables, but knowing that the MyDell console (and Windows power settings) have that big of an effect on performance is worth noting. High performance will see the CPU hit its thermal throttle limit of 100C in milliseconds and bounce off that rev limiter the entire time. Regardless, the common prosumer usage for an ultraportable like this is for bursty loads. I spent some time compiling some of my C# solutions, and general browsing and found performance to be excellent, especially plugged in. Another really nice feature of the XPS is the cameras. Up top (no longer below the screen for nose cam) you’ll find a color camera and infrared camera. The infrared is used for Windows Hello, which essentially is Microsoft’s FaceID. It works pretty flawlessly. What’s less flawless is the webcam, which is middling at best. In bright light it produces good photos/videos, but fails in lower light where other devices have better exposure. It’s a nitpick, but given the state of the world on remote work, it’s a consideration. The WiFi is provided by Intel’s AX211 chip. This 2x2 802.11ax offers WiFi 6E support (2.4, 5, and 6GHz spectrum). Unfortunately I only have AX routers that support 5GHz, so I wasn’t able to test the 6GHz spectrum. I was able to sustain around 46MB/sec from my NAS (about 350-400Mbps), but I haven’t seen the performance I’d expect from a 3x3 device. That said, I found the connection to be strong and stable with excellent range. Speakers in the XPS are fair to moderate. These aren’t on the same level as you’d find on a MacBook Pro for instance, but they don’t sound bad - especially considering the size of the device. The XPS 13 Plus is a sleek prosumer ultraportable. It can give incredible performance despite being thermally limited. The screen is the highlight of the show, and offers incredible visuals, great brightness, HDR, professional aspect (16:10) and flawless contrast. Middling webcam, WiFi, and port selection aside, the XPS 13 Plus is a high end contender for a prosumer laptop. The design is sublime, and the execution of the capacitive buttons is on point for flexibility and respect associated with professionals. This is a great little machine that can offer a solid platform for IT professionals, graphics designers, and any creative type. Highly recommended, even at the premium price point it commands.

Sleek, compact, functional, beautiful. It was all I wanted and more.

Fast and reliable computer exactly what was needed.

Product quality is good, feels like a premium one !

Works perfect and i have not had any since i got it.

Amazing laptop.. much better than the laptops I used in the past.

It was an open box at a 45% discount. Seemed too good to be true. But the XPS 13 Plus was flawless. Had only 11 hours on the SSD and had only been turned on 43 times. Dell support said there had never been a service call on it. Terrific bargain!

Very fast and good quality and so beautiful product