Dell refreshes the XPS 17 with Intel Tiger Lake-H CPUs, RTX 3000 GPUs and improved touchscreens

[Redaktion]

Highlights for the 2021 Dell XPS 17 9710 models include the new Tiger Lake-H mobile CPUs up to an  i9-11980HK, up to 64 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, up to 4 TB PCIe 4 x4 NVMe SSD storage, Nvidia RTX 3050 / 3060 mobile GPUs, 4x Thunderbolt connectors, and 4K HDR touchscreens with 16:10 aspect ratio.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-refreshes-the-XPS-17-with-Intel-Tiger-Lake-H-CPUs-RTX-3000-GPUs-and-improved-touchscreens.537985.0.html

[Peter Z]

The spec sheet says 1200p (not 1080p) and the same 97 battery for all models.

[Maciej Eckstein]

Yess, and adding like a dedicated pg-down and pg-up keys and  proper cursors would like kill them. They reuse that trash keyboard from xps15 (that I now type on) also in 17" model leaving all that unused space.

[Dell]

It says in the article the termal solution has been improved? Anyone has more insight about it?

[Huh?]

Still no AMD Ryzen 5900HS (35W) and no 80-100W RTX 3080, 16GB option...

Compared to the Lenovo ThinkPad P1/X1 Extreme, Dell XPS keyboards have always been a bit disappointment, but then again Lenovo silently removes important features in their laptops via BIOS update for German, European and even Indian models.