Dell XPS 15 9560 Review: Still King of the Hill 

LOL "You either love the XPS's keyboard or you don't... I don't hate it, I don't love it."

WTH!!! I paid 2200$ for the Dell XPS and was shipped the model with a POS Toshiba drive which barely approaches 1/2 the speed of the samsung model!! It was this review that help me make my decision on what to get. I think that what dell did was dirty shipping the samsung based SSD's to the reviewer and leaving the Toshiba drive for the consumers. Reviewers need to start calling dell out for doing this!!

I must've gotten a lemon when I received my 9560 last week. Sooooo glad I returned it! Screen flickering (after updating drivers), ridiculously slow boot time, freezing, not recognizing fingerprint and/or pin, etc. The only thing good I can say about it is that I like the design aesthetic and the screen (when it wasn't flickering).

Just placed my order with Dell for this laptop (9560) with i7 7700HQ, 32gb ram, 1tb ssd, and a fingerprint scanner! Can't wait to unbox and unleash this beast! I will do an unboxing video of my own but thank you for the great video it was very helpful to me in making my final decision!

I have one of these on order, it should be here in a week and a half... but this video is reassuring - it's the first 9560 video I've seen that has detail on which SSD was used. I was worried it'd have something cheap and rubbish in there but if it's better than a 960 Evo I'm more than happy :) Gread video!

I bought a 9560 with HD screen just last week, and as soon as I booted it, went through the setup screens, it starts going into the windows blue screen. In 8 hours it went blue screen 6 times. I let it sit for two days, fired it up to try and do some Fusion 360 work, and lost all my work as it crashed before I could save it (5 mins in). I really need this laptop to work for me, the form factor was crucial as much as the processor due to the amount of CAD/CAM I do. Right now I am working off a Dell Studio 17 with the original I7 processor, and it may be a bit slower, but it just doesn't crash, ever on windows 10. It is just too big to carry every day so it gets left at one place, when I really need it with me.

Just got mine 2 days agho and LOOOOOVE it. Beast of a computer and looks amazing

Bruh what camera did you use, the quality of this content is a beauty

great review, Thanks. Just got my 4K version and I am already having trouble with the Killer wireless card. running 4K videos for sometime on RU-vid using Chrome browser, the Wi-Fi just freezes and restarts itself in a minute. Strange that running RU-vid on Microsoft edge browser doesn't do that often. Looking forward to your video on changing the wireless card.

I've been hearing screen flickering and wireless issues. I'll wait before pulling the trigger.

I just bought one of these thinking I was getting a 7590. Because I just look up xps 15 , and dont know about computers. I drive 2 hours to get this 9560. Thinking I screw up. But i apparently paid half off and this review makes me feel better about it.

now this is a review

After ton of Dell XPS 15 videos I think this is the single most informative and effective video ( for me 😉) that i've come across in ages. If you'll excuse me, now I'm gonna buy it for real.

“But hey, it’s a keyboard and it works” is more than anyone said about the MBP 2017!

Have you got a link to the wallpaper?

"Bezzel-less mean no space for the camera at the top." Say it to LG G2. I searched for this strange battery limit that I wasn't aware of, it says 100Wh PER battery (up to 160 with the company authorization), I didn't find anything about 100Wh total split into cells (which are separated batteries).

Just bought this laptop. I love it. Yes the keyboard is not the best, but it is not bad either. Overall an excellent machine.

I'm seeing a lot of negativity regarding backlight bleed on the FHD model. I'm ready to buy, but this has me concerned. Any thoughts on that?

Funnily enough I experience the same driver issues you stated you have on the XPS 15 with my MSI M9 ACK motherboard that also has the 1535 chip in it

Can't wait till it is finally available at my retailer of choice! I want that thing so bad :)

Wireless performance is absolutely critical so I look forward to the wireless card replacement tutorial. Aren't these things usually soldered to the motherboard? Good thing they aren't in any case... As for the SSD, you probably got a 256 or 512 GB SSD, which is why you got a Samsung. The few 1TB ones I've seen so far are all Toshiba, which is what I feared would be the case due to the increased price premium for Samsung SSD:s at and and above 1TB compared to low-end brands of the same size.

Can you please please please upload a video showing how to upgrade the wireless card in 9560?? Please!!

I been playing with this laptop for two days now and I do love it but it has one flaw. Never raise the volume using the Maxx pro program. It will rattle and maybe blow out a speaker. I was testing how loud it gets and started hearing the left speaker rattling with high bass. One more thing the 4K display has IPS glow from viewing angles. I have to go to a Best Buy and see if the other units they have displayed if their display is defective.

Where did you get that cool wallpaper from? I like it! Also, any idea when your going to do another video on changing out the wireless, i would be very interested to do the same (after your lead!)

That guy has a good sense of clothing. Bodyshape, so you can see he works out, but still classy and not over the top. Gj man. The xps 15 is perfect on paper but a shitload of customers seem to have problems with the wifi-card, blue screens and the 4k panel flickering. And apparently they send out review units with the Samsung SSD's and the regular ones ship with Toshiba SSD's.

When I edit pictures using lightroom on my 4k 9560 they looks so perfect but the pictures looks heavily undersaturated once I view them on other screens. So lately I've been exporting the pictures first to my cellphone and then going back to lightroom on my laptop to see how much more saturation I need to add

Wow, what a great and balanced review. Great job

Great review! Have you or anyone reading this experienced any problems with the bezels on the 1080p display XPS 15? Some people have said they experienced their bezels to lift off the display, bump up or warp a little. Has this happened to you?

HP Spectre x360 (2017) VS xps 15 9560 Please

i like the spectre 360x 15'', I am thinking to use it for business presentation, but i will do some light video editing sometime, should i switch to XPS 15? is it necessary to pay more for the processor and gpu? please i need help, thank you so much! T.T

Cheers Dan. With those stats comparing the Dell to the Surface Book, is that the original SB, or the 'SB with Performance Base'?

Buy Lenovo Yoga 720 15" guys!! Much lower price and no issues with screen, coil whine, chrom, wifi, no bugs and freezings!

I just hope that you can talk about the coil whine. It is such a big issue for me.

This is the best overall laptop. I wish I could have it or change my Dell Inspiron 7559 for this one. It's perfect for me but I'll never be able to have it. Maybe 5 years later when my laptop dies or if I won the lottery xD. Simply amazing, yeah it looks the same but I love the way it looks and with great power is stupid good

Still waiting for your dell XPS 15 (9570) review

Great review

Nice review and overall great video!

Gaming on the XPS 15 has been an inconvenience for me due to the slow monitor response time. Ghosting is noticable even during regular usage. I will be returning mines unfortunately.

I order d the 4K version. Hopefully it's not too crazy on my eyes.

Dear friends, two days ago I received my xps 9560 with core i7, 16 gb of ram and 512 of ssd. Sadly I'm experiencing quite annoying and frequent micro lags even doing the most basic things like surfing the net or going throught windows. From the task manager I see that there are no spikes in cpu/ram/disk/net usage when those lags happen. Have you had the same issue? I'm lost about how to fix it since I can't really see anything going wrong... Thank you so much, Roberto

Hi there, which screen would you recommend for photo editing? Is there a big difference in colour matching between the 2 versions ? if so how much accurate is the 4k display compared to the hd one?

how is the xps 15 different from precision 5520 ? I don't know the detailed differences but they look very similar. I am now confused which to get.

Great video thanks for sharing. It's a strange request but could you tell me what make the millitary over shirt is you are wearing please? :)

Hi nice review, thanks for pointing out about the wifi card issue. I'm planning to buy the same config, Can u tell me, what was the delivery time of ur xps ?

With the specs, they are somewhat similar to Apple Macbook Pro 2016 15". However, the huge huge difference between these 2 is the price. Looking for a laptop that will cater to my needs as Ill be in a course that requires a lot of picture and video editing. Would gladly appreciate any advice.. Thanks

Would you recommend the 4k UHD over the FHD? This is coming from a Mac user. I like the glossy finish of the 4k version and it reminds me more of the MBP's screen. However, I don't see myself talking advantage of the touch screen.

great review but... where's the wallpaper URL?

No words on ghosting? It was clearly visible during the movie's action shots. Such an expensive laptop with such a crappy high response time screen (50-60 ms). Sad.

Hey, i just got a Dell XPS 15 9560 16gb ram and 4k display,. while working with it, it shutdown and tried restarting itself but couldn't, it kept display blue screen error and I tried recovering but it couldn't recover also because of the bluescreen error, so tried reinstalling the operating system but it keeps going to the bluescreen error, please could you help???

Hi guys i just bought a 9560 but got some trouble with the bluetooth function. My Bose Revolve speaker does connect to the Dell but it only gives out a very quiet sound even at full volume (around 40% what i got from my old Macbook or my iPhone). Any suggestions to solve it? Thanks

how to calibrate the color since mine XPS Full HD color is also too warm to me?

I got a Toshiba drive that had relatively poor performance 170MBs read and 600MBs writes. Did you get the 1tb drive? If you got the 1tb Samsung 961 could you reply with the part number I am trying to get Dell to swap mine out as my drive performance is poor and for my work it is too slow.

weird results you have with PM961.... 3289 read and 1607 write here...

Confused between XPS 15 9560 and Precision 5520.I am into 3d animation and video Production Industry and confused between these two Worksataion Please help me out or you can suggest me other laptop that fits to my profession

how did you get a 97 Whr battery on a FHD model? on their website the bigger battery is only on the 4k touch model. it didnt give me the option to configure the FHD model

Hey guys should I pick up this or the Microsoft laptop. I'm just a student that wants a good resolution, I'm not doing anything fancy on it

What kind of battery life am i looking at with the 57whr and 1080p? 7300hq/1050 combo. Went with the 500gb 7200rpm drive, despite it being old i'm still running a 10,000rpm raptor on my main. Figured i'd move to an SSD down the road and save the money now.

Hey dude I'm considering to buy this Laptop but I have seen on the intenet pretty bad reviews about the display and the "ghosting" but i'm not sure what it means ao can you explain me please and also su you have the same problem?

How did you make the screen a cooler color via calibration?

first thing the machine is costly, then why don't they try a full 1TB SSD 960pro?

I got my Dell XPS 15 9560 delivered today. I have ordered the same configuration as of you with Full HD Display, GTX 1050, I7, and 512 GB ssd. But i got Toshiba THNSN5512GPUK NV instead of the Samsung 961 Pro. The customer care is not helping with the issue. Any help!

This or Acer Predator Helios 300 for college? I am a softcore gamer that cares about graphics.

If this xps 15 can touch screen It's the best!

Thanks!

can we charge the device via its type c thunderbolt port using an external battery pack which also has a type c charging capability

WHAT IS THE WALLPAPER?

Have had my xps 15 9560 4k display 512gb ssd version about three weeks now and its giving me a hard time and not to mention with the adobe creative suite 2017. Experiencing UI lag both in photoshop and adobe premier pro even though I have all the updated drivers, changed the power management settings and nvidia control settings. Anyone having this problem?? :/

so its just as good as a 970m ? since that one was between 965m and a 980m ?

where do you get the dell wallpaper

how much battery life 56wah xps 15 will provide?

Want to know if anyone can help me on this one, am looking to buy a laptop for university i'm gonna be studying for Systems Engineer but thing is i dont know if i should get a gamer laptop (Dell Inspiron 7577) or maybe this one since i have a a pretty decent gaming desktop at home i really don't know what to do

My XPS 15 IS FREEZING RANDOMLY IN CHROME!!! any suggestions?

18 gb RAM???

this is the FHD version yeah?

will the 4k effect the gaming performance

I just got the hp spectre x360 15 inches which u did a review before. Which one do you like better??

Has anyone else noticed black vertical lines appearing on 4k screen on white background? They flash for a split second but so quickly you can hardly notice! Other people must be getting this? I have also been getting scroll pad lag in some applications. I am guessing these are driver related issues but haven't had the time to research and fix. First impressions on 4k 1GB SSD / 32 GB ram ok but not perfect. A bit like my Alienwares which were all faulty. Thanks Dell

I thought killer is better than Intel AC card... Guess it's not the case here

anyone know the name of the second movie.. with the asian joker lady and fighting etc.

so how much for full spec without 4 k display ?

what is the brand of rams ?

These things are made to break I refuse to buy mainstream brands! Also what happens is the battery dies out and the charger stops charging after a few years

5:47 wallpaper link plzzz

Are they ever gonna fix the coil whine?

5:04 "you'll either love the XPS 15's keyboard or you don't....I don't hate it I don't live it"????? Hmmmm.......I see..........

Does anyone reckon the next Dell XPS 15 will use Ryzen instead of Intel for their CPU? If so, I may wait.

rev it up then!

What about the coil whine bro?

dell inspiron is i7-7700hq 8g ram 1050ti and is 950..

good laptop

which is better glossy or matte screen

Any coil whine experienced with the device? Anyone?>

The best laptop!

It is this or Alienware 15 r3 !?!?

@4:55 what's that movie ?

What's the watch that you are using ?

Gonna replace my XPS 9550 with hopefully... a mobile Ryzen base XPS yahoooo!

The Dell Inspiron with 4K display is a better buy.. Better speakers better webcam and cheaper

can I get with gtx 1060?

dell xps 15 9560 vs hp spectre x360 15 ☺!!!!!