![]() ![]() Dell XPS 17 review: Design and build quality The keyboard is a bit of a letdown but then something has to give if the result is a 17in laptop that weighs only a little more than a MacBook Air. BLUETOOTH NUMERIC KEYPADS CRACKERIt may run on 11th generation Intel chips but the 2,560 x 1,600 IPS display is a cracker and the battery life is good. LG’s Gram 17 (From £1484) is incredibly light for a 17in notebook weighing just 1.35Kg. Go for the version with the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti, UHD display and 64GB of system RAM and you’ll have an awesome machine that can do anything and quickly albeit one with a short battery life and eye-watering £3,949 price tag. The Dell Alienware x17 R2 is more gaming-focused than the XPS17 but it's a massively powerful and truly beautiful machine. The only fault we found with it was that it’s a bit heavy for a 16in machine. The mini-LED display is superb as is the battery life and it’s pretty powerful even if the latest Alder Lake Intel chips have stolen a march on Apple’s M1 silicon. No discussion about large-screen laptops for creators can proceed without the mention of the venerable Apple MacBook Pro 16 ( £2,399). ![]() I’d say the optimum model runs i7, RTX 3050, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD and the UHD+ display with a price tag of £2,699 – essentially, that's the combination I’m testing but with a larger capacity SSD. At the top of the range, you get a Core i9 chip, RTX 3060 GPU, 64GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD and a UHD+ touchscreen for a sobering £3,749. BLUETOOTH NUMERIC KEYPADS FULLThe Alder Lake XPS 17 range starts at £2,099 for a Core-i7 and RTX 3050 machine but with only a Full HD display and 16GB of RAM. READ NEXT: The best laptops you can buy Dell XPS 17 review: Price and competitionĬonfiguration tested: Intel Core-i7 12700H CPU, Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU, 32GB RAM, 4GB vRAM, 512GB SSD, 17in 3,840 x 2,400 IPS touchscreen (no stylus support) Price: £2,359 The basic design may be getting a bit long in the tooth, but I can fully understand Dell's policy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." The XPS 17 also comes with dedicated Nvidia GPUs, but not the latest Ti models so you have to choose between the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060 models, both with low 60W TGPs.īeyond that, the XPS 17 is very much as it was but that’s not necessarily a bad thing as the XPS range has long been regarded as one of the most stylish and well-made notebook lineups on the market, boasting solid aluminium bodies and soft-touch keyboard decks. These 14-core components are a huge leap forward from their 11th generation forebears with upwards of 25% performance improvements and support for DDR5 memory. BLUETOOTH NUMERIC KEYPADS UPDATEThe 2022 XPS 17 is more of a refresh than a redesign with the most significant update being the introduction of Intel’s latest 12th generation Alder Lake Core-i7 and Core-i9 processors. That’s partly why laptops with 16.1in displays like Dell’s Inspiron Plus are becoming more popular, but for its flagship XPS model Dell still wants you to have it all: a 17in screen in a machine barely any larger or heavier than the average 15.6in laptop.ĭell XPS 17 review: What you need to know Of course, this feeling is usually offset by the size and weight of most large screen machines. Suddenly, you wonder how you ever managed to work with a cramped 15in screen, let alone a tiny 14in or 13in affair. It’s hard to disagree when you look at a 17in laptop display like the one on the Dell XPS 17. Space, they say, is truly the greatest luxury. ![]()
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