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Unfortunately the comparison with the 9340 model is completely distorted since the previous model was tested in an Optimized (balanced) profile, with considerably lower power limits...

Quote from: PHVM_BR on November 06, 2024, 20:46:28Unfortunately the comparison with the 9340 model is completely distorted since the previous model was tested in an Optimized (balanced) profile, with considerably lower power limits...

Classic Notebookcheck. Never change!

Have a look at how much of a downgrade the 9350 screen is vs 9320 as regards colour gamut. Absolute garbage and something you would have to avoid for any serious photo editing. XPS used to be a good line-up until about 2016, where you could option a lot of stuff on the laptop even the NIC card. Now it's a one size fits all turkey. Only the Lunar Lake apu make it passable but far better options out there.

I am disappointed that there is no comparison to Snapdragon powered XPS 13.

Seriously, who decides which models to compare with?
It's ridiculous.

Ok, so the lead in offers a claim to the Apple Air 13" however in the 'competing models' there is no Apple Air (or 13" MBP), or any Qualcomm or AMD powered devices, only Intel powered devices.

So what IS the story? How does THIS product match up to competing AMD and Snapdragon powered devices?

(no need to show Apple as that is an entirely different ecosystem)

I agree that this needs to be compared to 14" AMD and Snapdragon laptops. Usually they are configured to draw more power that causes less battery life, more heat and noise under load, but can be configured at lower TDPs (manually or changing the power mode) to match this processor and can be compared in terms of performance and efficiency.

Quote from: markiz on November 07, 2024, 07:48:22Seriously, who decides which models to compare with?
It's ridiculous.

I think it's pretty clear that Intel makes these kinds of decisions. This "review" is a glorified ad.

Why not comparing to other laptops with AMD and Snapdragon CPUs? Also I don't think Lunar Lake is power efficient. If you disable all the cores in the AMD and Snapdragon, and leave them with only 8, I bet they will get much better battery life than Lunar Lake. There is no point if a laptop gets good battery life, but takes twice as long to get anything done.

Worst. Keyboard. Ever.

The bottom two rows aren't supposed to be exactly aligned. With enormous shift keys YOU WOULD IMAGINE THE DESIGNER WANTS SHIFT TO BE USED CONSTANTLY. Vim users will be disappointed that ESC is not a tactile key and that Ctrl is flush with the edge and with the surface and therefore cannot be palmed but has to be explicitly held with your curled pinky. Apple got rid of its touch bar for good reasons, but sure, Dell, give it a go!

The arrow keys are absolute trash: up and down have less than half the area as left or right, and all arrow keys are wider than standard keys. Not only that, page up and down require Fn. What about home, end, and insert? Dell inexplicably made backspace narrow and Tab nearly as wide as Enter. The text is grey on grey, while the touch bar is a light color on a light color. The text is unfathomably small for a keyboard.

The right angle edge of the aluminum housing is going to dig into your wrists while you type.

The trackpad is just ... somewhere.

This is such a poorly thought out design, and somehow it passed multiple rounds of internal discussion and testing.

I personally would never buy this device for the keyboard alone. It's the antithesis to the IBM ThinkPad keyboard.

Also, why did they reuse an old model number?

Ok, a quick look...

First while there is NO COMPARE's to AMD, ARM or even dGPU models (this was strictly a Intel CPU/iGPU compare) the GLARING issue is COST.

Given these are 'medium end' CPU's outfitted with one of Intels BEST iGPU's all stuffed into mostly medium/low grade chassis with equally medium/low grade screens, a quick peek at Amazon on the two DELL 13" models reveals pricing from $1300 - $2200 (with OLED Screens)!!!

So in a nut shell here's the market:
< $300-500 low end basic laptop with many design trade offs (NOT a Game player!)

$500-1000 medium laptop with iGPU powerful enough to play basic games or AAA games @ 1080P (or lower) on low settings

$1000-1500 medium/high end laptop with dGPU and few design design trade offs

> $1500 high end laptop with high end parts all around and few if any design tradeoffs

"Dell XPS 13 9350 laptop review: Intel Lunar Lake is the perfect fit"

In a laptop costing ~$500-700 YES, it is a perfect fit.

YMMV.