Dell XPS 15 9500 Review - Big Refresh! 

:( thanks for being honest

thank you for true review ) could I ask you for showing in next videos a charging cable and brick? for gaming stationary laptops its doesn't matter, but when it's laptop for work/studying people have to charge anywhere and care bricks all day

Great suggestion; I'll try and remember to show the charger for portability minded laptops for future videos.

in the bios, you have more control over thermals and fan speed

you can edit that in the dell powermanager

and also faster

and cheaper

Correction: a lot more efficient, hell of a lot battery life.

Don't think it's gonna happen, the XPS 13 is part of project Athena/Intel Evo and the XPS 15 design is based on that. This is the reason why every manufacturer releases their best laptops on Intel.

@@hugevibez not "the best". It would've been the best if they had amd chips in them. OEMs intentionally put amd chips in cheap laptop because intel pays them to.

me too but at least it wasnt like razer support

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Eh, you can always put a Dbrand skin, and put a soft touch, and it’ll be the samw

@@furkanuner8989 haha

@@iMapleCreator True, but it won't be as seamless. And some of those skins don't look great on laptops (xps or mac).

That was under the high performance profile, I never bothered testing the default profile. Performance slider in the battery modal on the taskbar was high performance as well.

@@InfinityLabsTech There are actually BIOS settings that are great to manage fans and core usage!

The screen is a real gem; had to turn it down to one notch above lowest brightness to film it without being over-exposed. I felt like I could have benefitted from better performance in Blender, but DOOM Eternal ran fine for the most part at 1080p low minus some lag spikes when the CPU started choking. Literally 17 watts on the CPU in the gaming thermals omegalul

I'm a developer and was wondering whether it heats up while running multiple apps/servers on the laptop?

Mine has the issue with not staying closed when held vertically. Did the replacement at least stay closed?

Yep, that’s why I went with a Macbook Pro 16 instead, and will use bootcamp and Shadow PC for my Windows/gaming needs. Shame to see after the mountain of issues I experienced with my old 9560, Dell still hasn’t gotten their shit together. Shame, otherwise it would probably be the best MBP alternative.

@@TwistedFootGaming the replacement didn't have that issue, just the trackpad. I got a third one, and it also didn't stay closed when held vertically.

@@TMWT To be honest the MBP quality is not great at times either. I work at an AASP and we are constantly repairing factory defective parts.

@@NoahBraun21 ugh, that worries me. I haven’t contacted them yet about my lid issue but was going to open a ticket with them about it. That really sucks cause the laptop is a great laptop otherwise and I really need a Windows laptop for school.

I'd probably pick the XPS 15 solely for its screen. Personally, I would be willing to sacrifice the keyboard for that screen if all I did was photo and video editing.

@@InfinityLabsTech the HP envy 15 has significantly better performance for an almost identical screen

@@jay-5061 isn't envy 15 a 16:9 compared to xps 16:10 which will be a huge difference in photo and video editing I feel

I play big games on this like watch dogs 2 and borderlands 3 with no problem. Medium/ high settings with 60fps

I am a photographer. The screen is whats all about. The 19x10 screen is gold. I don't put too much into performance. I used to have a decade old computer and still do photo editing.

Yes everything is expected

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thats because it is sold for businesses here.. It comes with premium support or something

Taiwan feel for ya...

$3600 here in Brasil and and Dell doesn't officially sell it, so we don't have support

This is my opinion btw. Check multiple sources for an actual overall review

Yea linus and others said this has a really good keyboard..although not the best..thinkpad probably has the best

At the end of the day, whether or not someone likes a keyboard is generally a subjective issue. There'll always be someone out there that likes a keyboard, except it's one that's objectively bad and unreliable, like the butterfly keyboard. Even that, had people that loved it. So it's all down to personal preference. It's why I don't really pay much attention to laptop reviewers and their thoughts on keyboards. I worked somewhere for a while sometime last year and had to use a ThinkPad, and couldn't see what all the fuss about the keyboard was for. It didn't feel special to me

@@__osinachi I played with ThinkPad keyboard at local store, I had no idea what the fuss about it either.

@@__osinachi Ye that is true. Btw which switch does this keyboard use?

To mitigate the performance loss with better performance per watt HAHA. But yes, I hope Ryzen sees better adoption with premium laptops in 2021 now that reviewers have been overwhelmingly positive with Ryzen 4000 laptops.

Ryzen runs too hot with loud fans...

@@chltmdwp Bro what? Intel chips are flaming hot 24/7 it seems like in every laptop, including the MacBook models which is why I'm glad Apple switched.

This is not bad, but I would recommend the ROG G14 if you can wait for a second generation of that, or gamble on your one not having issues, its cheaper and more powerful,.

I got the 1600 Dollar non touch one with the GPU and its decent when playing games, i tried COD Warzone (okay at mid/low settings) Fortnite (the same) BF4 high-med and everything else is decent but it is a bit pricey for the components but part of that is for the build quality. I recommend it but there are still cheaper options with similar performance

Keep your eye out for Black Friday deals. Plus if you give Dell a call you are able to negotiate the price with them for the model you are looking for!

@@MassiveDick im wondering rog g15 is better? and what are your though on the asus zenboook duo with the double screen? I want this

@@ayecee4107 I actually got to try out the zenbook duo at a store, the trackpad was complete shit. The ROG G15 is cheaper, but it is more bulky and has less battery life than the G14. Up to you which one is more important, price, or portability.

I researched this one...they said this, hp and of course max book pro are good for music and photos

Just watched Hardware Canuck's video to see what you were referring to. Something about wobbly trackpads? If so, no; my trackpad doesn't wobble whatsoever. They also claim that their trackpad doesn't have that issue, so probably early units.

@@InfinityLabsTech check out r/dell, users are still reporting issues with the trackpad. Some people have received 3 replacement units and then dell then just gave them a refund. The amount of cases has reduced tho

Had the touchpad wobble issue with a model that was shipped in August (Non-4K) and one shipped in late September (4K) (returned both). Dell is saying they fixed these issues months ago, but that’s obviously not the case.

They fixed it back in June

@@squirreldemon3506 Nope, read the posts above.

@@melc311 I can literally wash and dry my hands and still leave fingerprints touching the laptop material. I've never had this problem on any other laptop or device.

It's big for me too, but I can see that some people who use it for video editing etc might love it!

I’m glad you aren’t the dell engineers, bigger trackpad is 103792 times better than those trash ass small trackpads

@@iMapleCreator bigger is good, what i wanted to say is that a little smaller wud be nice

Yes, you are correct. I instinctively put 1080p, forgot to compensate for 16:10. I think it's obvious enough which screen I'm reviewing, of the options available on Dell's website

GeForce Experience is a resource hog.

@@viktorhellstrom7504 so if I uninstal geforce experience, would the game run smoother?

@@kennysu3736 You can give it a try. I'm on the 9500 and League runs just fine maxed at 60FPS.

@@viktorhellstrom7504 i uninstalled geforce experience, and there's still stutters. They are more like microstutters. I have a desktop pc quite old actually with an i5 and a gtx960, and league still runs smooth. Yet the XPS is still having microstutters

@@kennysu3736 That's really weird. I have the 8GB RAM version too so I'm really not sure why you are stuttering so much. Oh but I do have the 10875H CPU so not sure if that makes a huge difference or not.

It's not noticeable unless you look really close and does not affect my coding so I'm sticking to 1080p for a lower price and longer battery life

No

Did you receive it yet? And if so, does it get as hot as most people say?

oh common dude how much more pwerfull do you want it to be, it is pretty powerfull

I think dell is better

@@iwaleed7 Thank you. I grabbed an XPS.

@@catyannapfeiffer9877 how does your Xps 15 hold up performance wise from your experience?

@@kendallalston504 It works really well. The processor is fast and it's pretty quiet. It hasn't overheated either. I'm glad I grabbed one for Black Friday.

@@catyannapfeiffer9877 thanks for the heads up. Glad you're enjoying your XPS.

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@Askar Dubbed So I apologize then. I only watched the video briefly until he complain about the keyboard. Frankly, I always go to big electronics store, so I had opportunities to compare laptops of different branches. The keyboard on Dell XPS has a lot more travel than Apple's butterfly keyboard, and is comfortable to type on. I have no idea why he expressed his opinion like that.

@Askar Dubbed Thank you for your feedback. I apologize if I made bad judgements.

So true.

Why?