Dell XPS 15 (9500) Review - Everything YOU Need To Know!! 

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"Please Manufacturers start putting Ryzen CPU in high end Laptops" - couldn't agree more

These videos are so good it’s starting to piss me off that I only just discovered your channel. Great work.

Thanks for the deep reviews and for include the screen flickering test. Eyes health Is very important and seems nobody cares

Your reviews are incredibly detailed. I really appreciate how you dedicate time to the issues with a laptop as well as the performance. Keep up the excellent work

Awesome review love how you mention things like opening with one hand and the circumstances that it gets hot/loud in. Also appreciate the comparisons!

Long waited for your review on this. Thanks ;)

Such a great Chap. Can't wait for him to review the 17 before I'll finally get it

You do a great job with your reviews, the feedback and data I need clearly presented without all the fancy nonsense other review videos are overloaded with 👍

I like that you talk fast and not wasting our time everything is on point , just subscribed !

Thank you for your honesty! This is why I watch your reviews. :)

These are by far the best laptop reviews in RU-vid I just wish you can do more of them.

Just subbed, I can't believe I just found your channel. you literally go over all my OCD points when deciding on a laptop. god bless.

That specific touchpad register is one of my greatest pet peeves. I feel reviewers often miss such an overlooked component when discussing comfortability of any laptop. So far only found you and Tek Everything caught that issue. Great review Josh!

"But" you're an honest reviewer 👍

Man, you are my colleague! The Javists! I'm your new subscriber now, thanks for the review! (and I usually never thanks for reviews)

Man what a great reviwer! This is what every review should look like! Keep doing this amazing work Josh!

Josh I’m happy I found your channel a couple months ago. Your reviews are fantastic.

Great Review... 👍👍👍 When other Reviewers unashamedly praises the manufacturers & models, you give the real-time facts & figures moreover I can feel the unbiased review... This is the only one reason I subscribed this channel...

The long waited review, thanks Josh!

Great review, concise and informative, keep up the good work!

First time checking out the channel and I gotta say the video was amazing and quite detailed. Great work keep it up.

Dell even made all-AMD Alienware desktops recently, so all hope is not lost. I hope we get some Renoir options, especially where Renoir is available with 8 cores in the "U" series for the 13".

Great vid as usual. Tons of info packed in here

12:31 "yes smash it". People teasing you about using the word smash? I guess it'd be like saying "root that like button" in Australia lol

Hey man just discovered your channel and wanted to say that you’re videos are quite amazing and extremely thorough! I was wondering if you could please do a review on the hp Spectre 15 2020 model? I haven’t seen any reviews with your level of expertise online anywhere. Keep up the good content my man!!

Great review! Thanks for mentioning fan noise. Many reviewers just skipped that.

OMG...This is what i was waiting for. You are always a pleasure to watch.

Great video man, incredibly detailed and informative, keep up your amazing work.

Hey Josh, love the asthetics and presentations of your review. Really looking forward to seeing more of your vids in the near future.

Love your reviews, awesome job, very informative. For me you are one of the best reviewers in youtube.

Thanks for the review and pointing out the issues! Hope mine shows up with few issues..

Thank you for this video. I found it very valuable and it helped me make my purchase decision.

Hey Josh! Thanks for the comprehensive review. Did you experience any throttling while gaming? I have to limit my XPS 9570 really hard in order for it to run cool enough not to thermal throttle.

You are great ! Thank you so much.

Fantastic Laptop but i cant overcome myself to buy a Laptop with an Intel CPU which gets destroyed from a any 1000$ Laptop with an AMD Renior CPU. I would be happy with the 4800H without discrete GPU. Not a Gamer but a worker..

Excellent video Josh - your use of graphics and markers that are legible, integrate and support your commentary are perfect. LinusTechTips and all other tech tubers should take note!

Again, very good and helpful!! Thanks!

Finally a review that covers the trackpad issue!

You’ve heard the other reviews - but here’s the one to actually listen. Amazing stuff!

These are my favorite reviews for laptops. Thanks Josh for the content! Could you please review the new 2020 HP Spectre 360 15 inch? Thinner bezels and 10750H i7 processor. Stuck between HP Spectre / MacBook Pro / Dell XPS (this review helps!).

Great video bro 👍

I can't think of something I want to know about a laptop that you didn't touch on this video, excellent work!

Good review. If I paid that much for a laptop, I'd expect everything to work flawlessly, including the touchpad.. I'd definitely send it back too.

Great job.👏👏 Wauting for the review of precision 5550!

Hi. Thanks for the honest reviews. You are the only channel that I turned the notification on :)

Really appreciate the audio latency test! You are the only one that does it. Best laptops reviews I've seen!!

The review we all wait for! All hail Sir Josh!!!

Great review as usual...You are definitely one of the top Laptop reviewers on RU-vid...Keep up the great work.

I just want to share my experience - just over 6 weeks in - of the XPS 15 9500. We bought 4 top-spec versions of these, at a total cost of almost £10k, for our business partners. They look and feel great, at first... but the aluminium is very thin (nothing like a Macbook) and dents incredibly easily. There are SO MANY calibration issues with them. Thermal regulation is a joke; you need to completely shut them down before putting them in a bag, or they overheat to a dangerous degree. The trackpad and keyboard randomly glitch, and the process management is shot - we each have to restart at least once or twice a day, just to get the computer functioning again. The list goes on. They feel very much like pre-release prototypes, rather than high-end or even market-ready machines. Having switched from a 7-year old Macbook Pro with Windows 10 running on Bootcamp, which was otherwise flawless but no longer powerful enough, I'm severely disappointed and frustrated with my experience of Dell. Apparently we are far from alone in these issues - many of which apparently even existed with previous models and were never resolved with drivers / BIOS updates.

Thanks for pointing out these issues, Josh. I was going to upgrade from my old XPS but am now holding myself back till they fix some of them.

Do you think that the fan noise/heating issues are 'over-hyped' on this laptop? It's seems from the tests you've run that it's competitors (e.g. Macbook Pro 16 inch) run comparably hot and make comparable levels of noise.

What exactly did you do to fix the complete lockup issue after connecting the ethernet? Mine is having the same problem and just won't turn on.

SUCH A GREAT REVIEW! Subscribed! You've covered every important point that I look for in every review. Fan noise, coil whine, and everyday runtime speed. What laptop would you recommend for yourself?

Would you take a heavily discounted XPS 15 (last model) or the new one Josh? I have 30 days to return mine.

Probably the best and most thorough review on this laptop. Great channel.

Phenomenal review - subscribed

Good video Josh. I have experienced the same issue with the trackpad. At times it will have the "two clicks" defect and then at other times, it works as expected. An odd experience for sure.

Pleade do a very different review on asus rog g14, something that the other reviewers haven't done.

Felt like honest and 'to the point' review. Glad that you shared lots of information within a 13 min time period. Thank you Josh!

Is the dell 17 inch dimensions not comparable to 16 inches or 15.6 on many other laptops and this would for in 15.6 inch sleeve As for weight, yea it weighs in a new higher category

The "Everyday and Coding" section is such a nice touch. Really appreciate it. Would love to see the Asus zephyrus g14 and/or HP Spectre x360 15' 2020 reviewed in such detail

Please review the base model. We need to know how good they are. We can't afford this

Hey Josh. Thanks for the excellent review. I love the way you work to emphasize the value of use case and user experience. Personally, I totally opted out of purchasing this unit as I found equivalent performance in HP laptops, which also come with a Numpad, a reasonably good if not equivalent screen with optional toggleable sure view privacy, better port selection, better ventilation for better thermal performance and their suite of intuitive HP apps like Sure Start and Sure Click. For me, sadly, Dell isn't on the table as an option until they can provide equivalents at the price to performance ratio that HP offers🤷🏾‍♂️. I've worked with 4 HP systems over the years, 1 Toshiba, and 1 Lenovo, and HP hasn't let me down yet. It's sad that the XPS's track pad is a dud, given how much effort went into optimizing its size🤦🏾‍♂️. I share your sentiment that that is simply a deal breaker for me.

thanks perfect review Josh. Subbed ofc

You are the best doing laptops reviews! Very imparcial and honest about pros and cons. Can't wait till you review the XPS 17, specially thermals. I would like you to talk about the importance of thermal in the long term, talk about whether it might damage the motherboard or other components in the pc.

Thanks for the review, I'm also very sensitive to high pitch noise. Do you think this is a good buy over the XPS 13 2 in 1? It has so high pitch fans that i have to return it.

Hi Josh How is trackpad holding up now? is it running hot? and how it holding up now overall? I considering to buy this for data science, web development, Gimp, OBS studio. Second laptop in my list is Thinkpad P1 Gen 3. which one should I buy ? Please suggest.

Will you review the new Thinkpads with AMD CPUs when they come out? (T14, T14s and X13)

Hi Josh. Wonderful review, as always. I found your channel about a month or two ago, and I'm slightly gutted it took me that long. Best laptop reviewer on RU-vid!!!!

5:40 how did you undervolt a 10th gen intel cpu? Can you please share how? And any tips to keep temps low as much as possible without sacrificing performance?

it is difficult for a windows user to switch to MAC OS so can we buy dell xps 2019 13 inch ..with core i7 , 16 GB RAM , 2T storage ? plz answer i need to buy new laptop

Hi thank you for doing this video, just got my XPS 15 9500 512 SSD, 16GB i7, the webcam, however, is really grainy and very disappointing. Is there anything I can do to improve it? It is the one thing that is missing for me at the moment and it is annoying to pay so much and not get a decent video feed :(

How were you able to undervolt this at all? The 10th gen chips are locked from undervolting due to the plundervolt bug.

Amazing review! But we will shout for more ryzen laptops :) Try importing redmibook from China

I got a 2017 mpb, which I might change for a laptop like this one with Manjaro on it. How does this hardware work in non Windows environments ?

Touch screen versus non touch screen what should we opt for? Is there any future problems related to display screen on touch screen laptops dell9500? Plz ans my que coz no one is making any reviews regarding it.

Awesome revieuws Mister. Thanks so much! Dont forget to breath now and than. 😉

Tanks a lot for this video !!!

Great review as always, Josh! I have a request for you to review - there’s a budget laptop on Amazon called the Acer Aspire 5 that’s about $350 right now - I would love to see you review it and see why it’s so cheap. Thanks!

Great review!

I smashed the subscribe button :D When I want to watch quality reviews, I always check this channel first.

Is it safe to buy one open box from bestbuy? I saw a deal for the xps 17 9700

I am planning to buy the base model and upgrade it on my own(as it is a lot cheaper) but the only thing in my path is the trackpad. Josh, is the trackpad really that bad or after you get used to it, it isn't that big of a problem?

Great review!!!

Is it worth getting the 8 core one or is it not worth it with the throttling die to heat issues and 6 core would be better for money/performance ratios

JOSH IM WORKING WITH REACT/VUE/JS/MONGODB/ .........SO WOULD YOU Recommend me to this please

Do you think by next year they will put the Ryzen CPUs on their next iteration?? I'm really torn at the moment. I bought my current Dell XPS 15 9560 in Nov 2017 (i7 7th gen). Its still running fine but I've been meaning to upgrade this year due to the major refresh in the XPS line up. I don't know if I should wait another year for a possible AMD upgrade or just buy this 2020 model.

well god damn, that was a great review. subscribed.

Thank you for this review ! i hope they check my trackpad i get mine June 26 !

Thanks for the deep dive. It’s really appreciated. Ignoring gaming and price (in my country. The cheapest XPS15 w 4K costs USD100 more than the base MBP16) would you recommend the MBP16 over the XPS15?

I just would like to praise the "issues" aspect of your reviews. Notebooks these days easily lasts 5 years of confortable usage and can be critical to work/study routines, but most tech youtubers approach laptops as something that you buy a new one every year and have a closet full of spares in case of problems. This is why the new MacBooks problems were outrageous. MacBooks were machines you can trust and that's really important for a "Pro" user . I easily pay more for a reliable machine even if the specs/design are not the best. Bonus: I'm a programmer, so it's really cool benchmark of things like IDE launch and other developer applications.

Hey Josh I really love your in depth reviews but I'm waiting for you to review the Lenovo legion 5 and 5i AMD and Intel variants. Any word on the same ?

Really? the ssd in the 13" 9300 is underwhelming? Can you honestly tell the difference if you're not looking at benchmark numbers? Can you tell me what application will struggle?

After two weeks of getting my XPS 9500, the start up process stuck at the Dell logo, Win10 OS not launched， very bad experience

Maybe this is an il-informed question but, does battery life suffer a lot if you opt for the 4K version?

Hi josh could you pleaese help me. seriously iam in confusing situation now .Can you tell me which one is best laptop for programming. I have two choice in my mind 1) core i7 8th gen ssd- 516 gb(model:ASUS VivoBook 15 x509fj) 2)10th gen core i5 ssd-256 gb (model :lenovo idea pad s540) .could you please tell me which is better laptop for programming?

excellent review, thanks.

Im really interested in the thermal performance on the inspiron 7501, would you review it? Thanks.

What model would be right for me when I want to get one that's like Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15" but with more color accurate display and metal chassis? Excellent video like always, thanks!