all these years Dell has not learned that the minimum brightness on the Display cannot be 34.3 cd/m² , it is impossible to look in the Display in the evening without Dimmer for Display :((((
compare only to the MacBook Pro 15-16 or Thinkpad X1 Extreme, P1 or Zbook Studio, Elitebook 1050... and from Notebookcheck I am waiting for a reaction but nothing for years ;)

The reviews on the website started to smell fishy to me when I compared the reported noise for 3 laptops from different makers (Dell, Razer, Asus) and in different class - ultrabook, gaming and multimedia.
All of them apparently idle at 28 db and do 46-48 db at load.
I have 2 of those next to me and the gaming one (Razer) always spins the fans and if you google it you will find out that Razer doesn't switch the fans off. So how is it possible to record idle noise of 28 db if the fans are spinning at 3k rpm?
Also I can't hear the TV 3m away when the Razer is on unlike when the Asus is on.

I switched to AdobeRGB and it was perfect.

Hello,

I'm reading everywhere how great the screen is.
However I just received my 9700 units and the colours are horribly oversaturated.
I switched to sRGB in Dell's PremierColor app, but now the colors look somewhat faded and still off.

So when the article says the screen is well calibrated out of the box, I'm wondering which settings your chose.

We should not have to pay for a monitor calibration tool when the laptop costs between $2000 and $4000.

Anyone is having the same issues ?

How is it possible that the XPS 15 gets a lower display rating than the MacBook Pro 16 while having higher brightness, better contrast ratio, higher resolution, no PWM, better colour gamut? Strange.

Hi,

Do you think if we add thermal pads on the CPU and GPU and laptop cooling pads, we could use the full potential of the CPU?

Thanks for the help!

Great review as always! that will be nice if you can also review the XPS 17 9700 top model as its getting out there with doubts on the power adapter issue (not being able to output rated 130W) under heavy load.

Quote from: S.Yu on June 12, 2020, 02:20:16

You're right, I think 16:10, small form factor, and the sleek design are the biggest selling points.

Quote from: Ark on June 22, 2020, 11:00:27
I don't understand. Isn't dell claiming that the 4k display is covering 100% of adobergb ?

Yes, it does actually get 100% RGB. The reason the benchmarks don't report it is because of the blue light filter Dell uses for the eye health of the end user; it throws off the reader

I don't understand. Isn't dell claiming that the 4k display is covering 100% of adobergb ?

Quote from: RicoVIking9000 on June 11, 2020, 07:33:30

Quote from: S.Yu on June 10, 2020, 22:05:08
1060 in 2020 is...in a word, bad. Why would anybody choose this over Blade 15 again?

One's a gaming laptop, one isn't
The XPS gets far better CPU power. Longer battery. Quieter fans under everyday tasks. Thinner, smaller, better speakers. Better keyboard and touchpad. Better configuration options.

Comparing apples to oranges, these are targeted to completely different people. The XPS can be considered more of a jack of all trades.

Did you just make that up? You just made that up. Because this XPS is 0.2mm thicker than Blade 15, the CPU is ~20% faster in single core and ~10% faster in multicore, much smaller than the GPU difference and partly because the Blade 15s are a year old; "everyday tasks" will hardly get the fans spinning in either model while the XPS fans are actually a few dbs louder under load. Regarding the input devices, I find XPS 13 2N1's(not a gaming model) keyboard with very shallow feedback yet still perfectly usable, while the previous Razer Pro had a mechanical keyboard, so it's not an issue of whether it's a gaming laptop or not, there's also personal preference here as I can't get used to keys with really deep travel either. The trackpad on the Razer seems perfectly fine. You do correctly point out that the XPS has longer battery life and that it has surprisingly good speakers for a notebook, I thought Blade 15 had 99Wh but that may have been a previous model, now it only has 80. I suppose that battery life would be the strongest argument for the XPS, but it's not a feature known to fetch a premium, neither is an advantage in integrated speakers. In that sense, the XPS still seems overpriced for the specs.

Quote from: S.Yu on June 10, 2020, 22:05:08
1060 in 2020 is...in a word, bad. Why would anybody choose this over Blade 15 again?

One's a gaming laptop, one isn't
The XPS gets far better CPU power. Longer battery. Quieter fans under everyday tasks. Thinner, smaller, better speakers. Better keyboard and touchpad. Better configuration options.

Comparing apples to oranges, these are targeted to completely different people. The XPS can be considered more of a jack of all trades.

1060 in 2020 is...in a word, bad. Why would anybody choose this over Blade 15 again?

Quote from: Muhammad Anhar on June 10, 2020, 14:31:32
XPS 17 just came out and it has better specs than XPS 15, but $2600 for RTX 2060 and "forced" 4K option? Ouch

Correction: $2850. Still expensive.

XPS 17 just came out and it has better specs than XPS 15, but $2600 for RTX 2060 and "forced" 4K option? Ouch

Quote from: Ankit on June 10, 2020, 02:16:17
Like the XPS 13, can the touch model of this new XPS 15 be used in tent or tablet mode? I've been looking for this answer all over the internet but couldn't find it anywhere.

No, this device does not support 360 degree hinges, and neither does the XPS 13 9300. The XPS 15 9500 does not even have pen support like the previous models did. if you would like a 2-in-1 XPS, the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 came out late last year and was the first device with ice lake chips. Since it's a few months old, it's quite a bit cheaper than the newest clamshell XPS 13.

And just a tip, if you have questions about Dell in general, their subreddit (r/dell) is pretty popular and will help you out.