Dell XPS 13 (9370)

Review: Dell XPS 13 (9370)

Conclusion

...we'd prefer Dell to offer the FHD screen with touch capability, but other than that, this is a highly polished Ultrabook that is well worth of recommendation.

Dell has a solid history of producing premium laptops under its XPS banner. The little brother, XPS 13, had a makeover at the turn of the year and now features 8th Gen quad-core, octo-thread processors from Intel.

Implemented better than most, the Core i7-8550U version produces chart-leading results without making a racket, which is all the more impressive given that Dell has redesigned the chassis to make the XPS 13 9370 even sleeker and sexier than before.

The super-thin profile does lead to Dell ditching ubiquitous USB Type-A, but that's no biggie as the machine has a trio of USB Type-C, including a couple with Thunderbolt 3 support.

Though very good in most regards, we'd prefer Dell to offer the FHD screen with touch capability, but other than that, this is a highly polished Ultrabook that is well worth of recommendation.

The Good		The Bad
Looks great Quiet at all times Class-leading Ultrabook performance Dual Thunderbolt 3 Solid battery life		Webcam location not great No touch capability on FHD panel

Dell XPS 13 (9370)

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Not bad, but I wonder;

- While CPU temps have been measured, what about the bits on the laptop that we touch in regular use? I find that laptops of this style can have overly hot keyboards, palm rests and bases, and it would be useful to know how hot these get under light and heavy loads, e.g. word processing vs. video encoding.

- What's the serviceability like? Which for machines of this type is typically quite limited for the average user. Useful things to know might be for example; does it use standard DIMMS, M.2 sticks, etc and how easily can they be accessed? Probably going a bit too far, but also how ‘glued’ or ‘taped’ down is the internal battery, screen bezel e.t.c?

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Not bad, but I wonder;

- While CPU temps have been measured, what about the bits on the laptop that we touch in regular use? I find that laptops of this style can have overly hot keyboards, palm rests and bases, and it would be useful to know how hot these get under light and heavy loads, e.g. word processing vs. video encoding.

- What's the serviceability like? Which for machines of this type is typically quite limited for the average user. Useful things to know might be for example; does it use standard DIMMS, M.2 sticks, etc and how easily can they be accessed? Probably going a bit too far, but also how ‘glued’ or ‘taped’ down is the internal battery, screen bezel e.t.c?

According to NBC the RAM is soldered.

Thought as much, good to know. While the capability to upgrade would be nice, the starting 8GB for this application is reasonable.

Also I see; properly reinforced ports, battery held down with screws and a modular SSD, nice.

Seems pretty decent to be fair - but I'd also like to see a touch FHD screen. But hey…. can't have everything

RAM has been soldered in the XPS13 for several versions now, since the 9330 IIRC