2024 Dell XPS 14 Review 

Whoever made the escape key touch only probably uses no program more complicated than Word, genuinly baffling design decision. Even Apple went back on it.

Dell has completely lost the plot

Hi, just wanted to say that I still use my XPS 13 from 2016, which I decided to buy after watching your review. And it's been an amazing machine. But after 8 years, lately I started considering an upgrade. I was convinced I would just buy the latest XPS and be done with it but after checking in and realizing how they massacred my boy I no longer consider buying a new Dell XPS. Thank you for your great work, as always!

I was an XPS believer for years. Not any more. I'm a GalaxyBook3 guy now and drooling over the GalaxyBook4 (except they are all touchscreens). Lisa nailed it! Give me back my internal HDMI and USB type-A ports DELL (without using an ugly add-on dongle that is prone to being damaged or lost).

Guys we've hired this awesome designer from Apple. You are not going to believe the idea they came up with for the function keys!

Lisa always has the best shirts 😂

Dell: Everyone hated that touch thingy function rows on the MacBooks. Lets put that on our top of the line laptops. I bet everyone will love it.

Love the Porsche 911 reference! Amazing review as always. That touchpad I could get used to, but I would rather have a thicker keyboard (with a real esc key) than this silly flat keyboard design. I'm tired of companies copying the WORST design decisions from Apple (touchbar), instead of the GOOD ones (modular USB-C ports). ESPECIALLY considering how the ports jut out and all that empty space next to the speaker. Disappointing.

Another great review Lisa!

As excellent as ever! Very good, concise, yet exhaustive review!

I haven't seen your channel pop up in my feed in a long time. Just the other day was wondering what had happened to you. Good to see you're still 'on the air!'

Another comprehensive and fantastic review from Lisa! Thank you for your hard work making the videos.

You rock, Lisa. Cheers.

You talked about the Esc key being mostly about getting out of unstable situations, but for me it isn’t about that. I press the Esc key all the time because the OS and so many apps use Esc as the shortcut for the Cancel button, and in a lot of apps Esc has other uses, such as deselecting focus from objects and text fields. For me it’s faster and easier to hit Esc than to move the mouse over to wherever the Cancel button is right now. Even Apple was eventually convinced that a touch-only Esc key was a bad idea, and went back to a physical Esc key. I use the Esc key so much that the way Dell did it here is basically a deal-breaker for this model, I would move on to something else. (And this is not even going into how other videos show this XPS 14 getting beaten by the cheaper, fanless M3 MacBook Air on many benchmarks.)

When form kicks function in the nuts... Smart one Dell.

Thanks for this review, I've been eyeing thin 14" laptops for quite some time.

Thanks for sharing! I gave it back after a few days. I couldn’t manage the border less trackpad and the terrible keyboard

Great review as always and where do you get your shirts from.

Thank you for posting.

I would rather have a thicker laptop with a better keyboard.

I still have my Dell XPS 14 from 2013 with i7, 8gb, 2 ssd and a GT630m, lovely laptop, keyboard and connections

Was finally thinking of replacing my XPS 9380 but will hold on till XPS is redesigned. Thanks Lisa

Hope you review the 2024 G14/16 as well!

I love the zero latice keyboard

Best information' I have been watching you since you were young (:

I'll be hanging on to my 2016 XPS 13 9360 for a few more years now.

I was thinking about the Dell Insperion 14 with or with out touch for under $800. Canadian?

Finally jumped ship! I always got XPS's until I finally figured out there's a lot more out there that's better priced. Just sold last year's 9530 and am currently loving my Legion Slim 7--and my trusty "old" 16" M1 Pro. In a word, Lisa's diagnosis is spot on! Too expensive for what you get!

I'm just curious if the layout didn't bother you much on the xps plus why does it here. The 14 has very limited power 45 watts total the 16 has 70.

The pricing makes the XPS 14 a tough buy, well, for the average premium laptop buyer. It is pretty, and if that is your thing, and you are rich and do not care about efficiency, performance or usability, then good luck. I am unconvinced that 2024 is a good year for buying Windows laptops per se, well, from a techie perspective, as it seems to be a stop-gap release from AMD and Intel, with the CPU being a sideways upgrade and the iGPU on the Intel side, it catching up only. If you can, wait for something better from the next cycle, do. If you must buy an ultrabook or semi-pro laptop, avoid the XPS 14. Although all Core Ultra premium ultrabooks are around £1600 in the UK for 512GB/16Gb, this equilibrium price for Windows is now in line with the MB Air M3 with the same specs. At least with the MB Air, you can downgrade the RAM and SSD and get one for £1000 (Amazon). You cannot get a premium Core Ultra 7 155H for below £1600 outside discounts. For a casual premium ultrabook for light use, the MB Air is priced at £1000 or £1200 for the 15-inch. There are cheaper mid-range and budget Core Ultra machines.

Hi Lisa. What are your thoughts on the Snapdragon X Elite? Do you think it's worth holding on and wait for it? It's seemingly faster than an M3 even, plus the emulation seems to be as good as the Mac finally.

Interesting to see another viewpoint on this; Lisa is always so diplomatic. Just Josh, for instance, destroyed this thing for its poor physical interfaces and poor heat management.

Will you cover the 2024 ASUS G14?

More than 10 years watching this channel

I really like the exterior design language of Dell laptops, My Inspiron 14 from 2021 looks nearly identical at first glance but has a more usable interior design and costs half the price at $1k 😅

Cant wait for butterfly key switches next year.

Bring back the netbook trend. I want small laptops.

Dell XPS 14 got their 14/15-inch Prosumer title taken away by M chip 14-inch MacBook Pros. Now Asus Zenbook 14 line and HP Spectre x360 14 line are moving into 2nd and 3rd place. Dell is a 4th best option now. Dell XPS 16/17 are still excellent laptops. Not a fan of the electronic F keys, but the rest of those laptops are excellent.

My XPS 13 has started doing the random shut down thing where everything goes off and it just restarts and carries on like nothing has happened. Don't fancy paying mega bucks for another Dell, the quality just isn't there.

with it's 2024 redesign G14 is simply the superior laptop compared to xps. Save your money (and sanity) and just get the Zephyrus G14

The most striking thing of this video is that MASSIVE watch Lisa is wearing. Looks like one of those ones the rich wrappers wear that is comicically oversized.

Pls review the 2024 LG Gram 😇

i feel sorry for xps users. can't believe dell copied apple's worst ideas. hated every minute of my macbook pro with glass function keys & no travel keyboard. apple users had no choice, but windows users do. buy a competing slim laptop (eg hp). punish dell with heavy revenue & market share losses to make them stop their madness.

This would be such a great laptop, if only it had normal function keys. They could have askes ANY semi professional user and they would have told them exactly this. Incredible

Great, straight-up review as always Lisa ♥️ Beautifully designed but not a great value prop, this... Sadly!

The Engineer and the business guy who decided to make it a touch ESC-F1-F12 must be on crack.

Cool shirt!

My daughter is going to college, studying engendering, what Laptop you recommend, she like a 13 or 14 inch size?

Dell need to remember they don't have m3 chips to put in these machines.

My thinkpad sh*t one of these last night

Cool T-shirt. Don’t know about the laptop

I like the xps series but would likely buy a Razer Blade for a similar price.

My XPS 15 9570 was the last Dell laptop I ever bought! What a nightmare. Overheating, throttling, issues with cracking audio due to bios issues (it took them a year to solve this issue), sleep mode never worked, resulting in overheating laptop and flat battery all the time, hinge issues, and the cherry on the cake, the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050i GPU stopped working all along. Now they even make a decission to get rid of the Function key row! And a power button next to the delete key, so you accidently turn off your laptop. What are they thinking. I won't spend my money any more on DELL. I now have a Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 and woaw, what a beast! Bye bye DELL. You won't have me as a customer again soon and I totally recommend everybody to STAY away from DELL. They are gone from hero to zero!

that keyboard though...

LISA #1.

I wanted then16 inch , but the keyboard...why

I think I'll continue to buy the Lenovo X1 Carbon, maybe a boring but reliable design!

I actually like the Apple implementation, it would have been great if it was in addition to the physical keys - they could have combined the Fkeys with the top number keys - but all the media controls etc... could have been in the capacitive screen. But this is an abomination.

Bought it and used it for a month ... using 3x Excel + Whatsapp + Chrome + Outlook makes it get hickups repeatedly. Any ideas on how to solve ?

Love the haircut. You look 10 years younger.

change the processor to AMD, fix the keyboard touch keys to real keys and it'll be great

I must be the offspring from an alien abduction because I like the capacitive touch bars. My only problem is the keyboard. My long skinny fingers with octopus like suction cups on my finger tips have difficulty .

I wonder if Linus Torvalds still uses these.

Need Gaming Laptops in Silver / White / Grey 👍🏼

I am rocking a 6-year-old XPS 15. It's a great machine, but it's time to upgrade. However, I'm not getting a newXPS. These new things are horrible. I have no idea what I'm going to get.

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In 2016 I bought Dell Xps 13 9350. It was great laptop, still workin. But I had to change the battery many times because the battery life is 300 cycles while MacBooks have 1000 cycles life span. It is difficult to get support from dell. typing now form MacBook Air I won't ever to back to windows again. it was bad decision to get dell in 2015 over MacBook . it has cool design but not practical and reliable. It really represent windows vs Mac. lots of features vs Reliability

Stick with the X1 Carbon, folks. What a shame.

Been using the new XPS 16 for a couple of weeks. Everyone has focused on the lower spec version, however this is one of the few Windows laptops you can spec up to 64GB RAM (which gives RTX 4070 at 60W). So far, its been an amazing laptop. Fast, incredible display, love the trackpad, and decent battery. Keyboard is okay, and the capacitive keys not as bad as I thought (I'm a developer, so I hammer the Fn keys).

Honestly, the ASUS you put it up against looks better and more functional to me. The keyboard is far superior in layout, IMO

The car industry seems to have touchscreen's number calling them out as CHEAPER alternatives to physical interfaces like knobs, dials or keyboards... are these capacitive touch "areas"on old MacBooks and now Dell a cost cutting measure that reads premium?! Do keys cost more?

I don't understand why Dell put nvidia gpu into this power and cooling limited machine. And its expensive. I just bought a Alienware x14 with bigger battery, better cooling and a rtx 4060, with a lcd screen some people don't like. But its a lot cheaper, only 1400 USD last month and this model you pay at least 1800.

I wonder if Dell went more to form over function.... :-/

Who looked at a laptop and said, hey you know what would make this better? A white keyboard! No one does. Not at that price range. Reminds me of 2009 MacBook.

Dell being 5 years behind copying Apple and still not being able to cherry pick the good stuff is really peak windows laptop market...

Wow, ma'am, I've been following you for the past four years, and you seem to age like fine wine! ♥

It's like dell only seeks out physical innovation

The XPS went from the best laptop to the worst, I really hope they bring back the old design.

Well i guess my next laptop will be a none dell.if i wanted solder parts i buy a macbook pro.time to look at other brands

Not first, not last, but damn this is such a bad lineup of laptops!

Laptop these day. There are no laptop like my Fujitsu Celsius H780 these days

I don't like the keyboard.

I work for this company and even I didn't know they came out with a new one lol.

damn psycho designs

I don't want to dogpile but the keyboard choice was just an epic blunder. Somebody should be fired for that. I'm willing to pay a premium for Dell XPS, but not pay a premium for less functionality. Swing and a miss. Advice: Put the Latitude keyboard in next year's model.

Finally, I found my FATHER.

No physical function keys is an immediate no-buy for me. Maybe I'm not Dell's target market here, but ... anyone using VSCode, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Eclipse or any other mainstream IDE *must* have function keys. Otherwise the machine is unusable. It's a shame, because I quite like the specs and Dell's reputation for quality.

Idk how dell dropped the ball for 6 years straight

Dell did a thing. lol dell does many things like design an alienware laptop with 2 full size usb ports

I've had two Dell laptops but I would never buy another. Both were loaded with bloatware and modified software and they were also very unreliable, failing in under a year.

Introducing the keyboardless, touchpadless, screenless, headphoneless and batteryless. Now everything is just in the air, we call this DELL Air. Its only weight 1 gram, and it can follow you anywhere in the world. Just close your eyes and imagine you are using your shapeless laptop. You don't need wifi, since everything will connect to your brain. And when you want to share a file, just write it down on the paper and take out your phone to take a picture and send it via your phone. We call this Dell ecomode.

you know what I never thought? "I wish I couldn't see the trackpad on my notebook". Wanna know another thought I'd have never could have imagined having? "Let's do away with the ESC key on the normal keyboard". Dell - Innovating stupidity.

I really think you were way too nice and diplomatic about how BAD THIS NEW DELL LAPTOP IS. It's horrible. I will DEFINITELY NOT BUY A NEW DELL LAPTOP. I cannot understand what they are thinking. Some people seriously need to lose their jobs! They basically took a winning design and removed everything that was appealing about it. I've had (2) XPS models and the power and freedom to upgrade RAM is a big deal. No new design compromise that solders RAM on the board is acceptable. The stock RAM, also, failed on one of my Dell XPS units and I had to replace it after warranty. All I had to do was order a replacement stick from Crucial. Imagine if it was soldered on the board!! The flexibility to change out and upgrade RAM and SSD's is a big deal. It's amazing they forgot to solder the SSD on the board, too! Bet that will be coming in 2025! This upgraded trackpad design being added to more models is just somebody being stubborn to validate the stupid idea and ram it down the throats of everyone. It was not a hit. It was not heralded as any kind of great innovation. It's not appreciated and does nothing, in terms of convenience or anything. I'll bet most people would agree it is stupid. If it was such a great idea, you'd see other manufacturers trying to duplicate it just like they did with backlit keyboards after Apple innovated with that, years ago. As much as people complained about the heat issues in the design of the old XPS, while it gets hot, it never failed. My old unit still works fine. Only issue, as mentioned, is one of the RAM sticks had to be replaced. Maybe that was from the heat. Don't know. I was ready to buy a new XPS this year. As you know, Dell has been late to the game in upgrading the cameras from 720p and it would be nice to not have to use an external Logitech camera to get 1080p resolution. But, now, Dell is off my list. As you mentioned, the price point on these new models is crazy. I think Dell has lost their mind. Even if the price of these models was more in line with the competition, I still would not buy it. To me, they have completely ruined what was once a very appealing laptop design. They have made everything worse and improved nothing. Maybe the 2024 chips are faster and the graphic card is faster and it now has a 1080p camera, but, it is a loser. No price point value, annoying changes like the keyboard (Escape key) and their mouse design and worst of all, no removable or upgradeable RAM. Bye, Dell. I won't be back!!

if you use Linux, the ESC key is a very big letdown. Not sure what Dell has been smoking lately. They just lost all thier linux users.

Dell fumbled the XPS line so hard

Did Dell lose a bet and the penalty was reviving a mistake Apple already made and walked back from?

the original xps 13 was such a great piece of design. Those designers have surely moved on from Dell because this thing looks pretty tacky and poorly thought out

A keyboard and borderless trackpad would make that laptop basically unusable for me. Completely blind computer user here I would most likely have to carry around a wireless keyboard to make this work. What a bunch of crap. This makes me almost wanna move over to Mack. At least I get, a discernible trackpad and click throughout the whole entire thing.

No miniled no buy!

So they went the Apple route......okay.