SO CLOSE Dell... - Dell XPS 9560 

I still love my 9650. It runs linux now and is still my daily driver. It's been mostly eclipsed by my desktop now a days but when I do leave the house it's always in my bag. I did upgrade the wifi card though, the killer wireless one it came with was terrible.

Had one in college, the battery problems and loud fans always sucked. Still almost nostalgic for it.

My work uses Dells and I miss the ease of opening that era of laptop (we had Precisions that looked the same) and not having to worry about plastic clips feels so nice. I am a bit of a Dell fanboy and got hooked with the G series laptops, so much that I bought 4 of my kids their own lol. I have a Lenovo that I keep trying to find a use for and I end up back on my Dell

I also bought the Dell XPS 15 9560 4k used 18 months ago, I removed the Killer Wifi card as it disconnects too much and installed the Intel AX200 Wifi-6 card, problem solved. I resolved the majority of overheating by cleaning out the fans and then applying new thermal paste on the CPU / GPU plus applying thermal pads to the VRM chips as they get red hot. My rendering times went down 50% after the changes (video on my channel).

I have the 9570 with a 1080p screen, 97wh battery (not 97 kwh like yours 😥) and a 1050 ti. I feel like a lot of the issues you mentioned aren't as prominent even just one generation later. A slightly better gpu, a slightly better processor (6 cores as opposed to 4) and a 1080p screen solve the battery issue, and a lot of the performance issues. The 1080p screen gets brighter too. I agree that the keyboard is only ok though. My fans are also almost completely silent most of the time.

I've had the 1080p version for over 6 years now and I gotta say it's an amazing laptop. I just replaced the battery and battery life is amazing again. (8-12 hours of normal use) I agree that the soft touch after a while feels sticky and not nice at all so I took mine apart and literally scraped off the soft coating and very lightly sanded it smooth. FYI it is real carbon fiber, that's part of the reason why the deck is so stiff. All in all I did get a desktop for heavier tasks but as a laptop I still super love it and hope I can get it to last at least a decade but it's well on its way.

no joke this guy has a great energy in his videos

Be careful with those. I’ve seen so many of those come through the repair shop I work at with weird power circuit issues and dead GPUs.

I still got one. It costs 2k back then. Battery died 2 times over time and at least it is easy to access and change parts. The display is the best part but the lowest brightness settings is too high and the highest brighness settings is too low (touchscreen layers don't help with reflections and higher brightness would have killed the battery even earlier I guess). You nailed everything about this laptop. The only way to keep the fans shut is to disable the turbo boost. There is a quiet mode in the BIOS and Dell management settings but it basically caps the CPU at 800Mhz...It would be good for writing if there were a good keyboard. Build construction is super solid and it has lasted well so far. Linux support is excellent as is in most XPS laptops. Finally, using this laptop in the summertime is almost impossible since it starts throttling way earlier and everything starts to be super choppy.

My ears perked up when you said the display supports the full Adobe RGB spectrum. My pro art display only supports SRGB so I've limited my images to that color spectrum. This thing looks like a great deal for photo editing if you can stay near an outlet.

Ok, just for people who want to get the most out of their 9560 wihtout damaging it: -) The first thing you do once you've opened the laptop is disconneting the battery and removing the residual charges by pressing the power button once more. This RU-vidr was really lucky not to break his 9560 permanently. -) Remove the remaining old thermal paste/pads using alcohol. aChair Leg didn't clean the CPU properly, hence the overheating (this can easily make a 10°C difference.). -) Please, don't play at 4K with a mobile GTX 1050. Just don't, trust me.

I bought an 9570 new in 2018 with an 8th gen i7 and 1050ti. Since I mostly use it at my desk, the god awful battery isnt much of an issue. Havent really felt the need to upgrade

My dad got some Dell XPS's for a good price and I agree on pretty much everything- not a fan of the keyboard, it feels too small for the chassis like its from a smaller model. I think it actually would've benefited from a numpad since it has the space. He got two 1080p models and one 4k non-touch (which he kept) and the biggest difference was the colours, not necessarily the resolution for me. 4k is wasted in a 15" screen.

Thanks for the take. After watching this a few weeks ago I found the same 9560 you have for $350 and Windows 11 pro running solid. Throttling was pretty bad but cleaning the clogged fans and re-pasting with MX-6 and new thermal pads did wonders, Dell Power manager and drivers and the latest BIOS helped battery life and performance but I was still getting thermal throttling at about 80% CPU load until I added Arctic thermal pads to the Voltage regulators to transfer the heat to the case and Now it will run a pretty solid 3.2 GHZ and 100% CPU load without throttling. It came with a Chinese knock-off battery that shows about 95% capacity but will play YT vdeos for about two hours. I found a real DELL 97wh battery that's about 60% capacity and it runs the same videos for about 4 hours. BTW, do you have the 130w coaxial power adapter, and if so does it charge? I've tried two older DELL 130w chargers and a chinese knock-off an none will charge. only through the Thunderbolt port.

I have a Precision 5520 and it looks almost exactly the same. It has a 7th gen i7 and the quadro equivalent of a gtx 960m. I do believe that the cooling system needs a cleaning/repaste. Its a work laptop so I'm not taking it apart. But it sits at 100*C on the cpu with minor load and no gpu load. But after your *solid gains* with the clean I am even less enticed to. The screen is nice and the trackpad is quite usable. The battery live is abysmal (1h usually) I run throttle stop to keep the cpu at 2.2 ghz to prevent throttleing. So the cpu is even low wattage. As you say as well loud fans that never turn off. Overall its not bad just really wish it had more battery life. Oh yes also got that 800mhz system crawls for no reason bug. Really anoying when your trying to do anything time critical for work ant it takes 5+min to open anything. Another reason why I run throttle stop. 2.2 ghz locked plugged in 1.6 ghz locked on battery

as a financially challenged dude , im saving money so i can buy at least this old premium laptop as im a long time fan of Dell XPS just can't afford to buy latest brand new models ☺️

Nice video, but why bother playing games at 4k...? That would bring any system to its knees. You should have scaled down to 1080p, low settings with pretty passable results...

I’m such s sucker for glossy screens I love them especially indoor in the dark only reason why I bought a MacBook was this screen I must admit it sucks outdoor but anything matte makes me feel demotivated to use it

I understand that you compared the XPS to your ThinkPad as a matter of exposition, but the direct competitors to IBM's offering are really the Dell Latitude and Precision series. Today, the XPS only really has a place as a mid-range MacBook competitor, mainly in terms of looks. The original XPS line-up were chunky, over-the-top, luxury gaming/multimedia laptops... but since Dell's G series and Alienware acquisition, these new slim, modern, soulless XPS models just don't really have a purpose as far as I'm concerned.

Curious about your daily driver? Making a lenovo upgrade, and want your thoughts for sub $750 thinkpad. Sounds like you like the t14 and would love to hear your opinions. Recommend ryzen 5/7 over lenovo. lend me your thoughts! Thanks!

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Ah dell bad cooling design. here we go again

I was thinking of buying the slighter newer version, with the 8750h and 1050 TI, mainly because It can have window updates for longer, worth it?

7:00 why do you game using the arrow keys? 😭

maybe you just need some new thermal paste, I use a 2014 gaming laptop and noticed a massive boost in performance and quiet when I scraped off the old thermal paste and applied new. It only costs about 6 dollars on amazon so its a worthy investment

30fps on gta 5 !? Impossible it should be 100

How many laptops do you have in your collection , if you don't mind me asking ?

I have an old Dell Precision M3800 that looks a lot like this.. you have to dock it to use ethernet

the palm rest smudges because it’s physically melting. It didn’t do that when it was new.

I've never had one of these Dells but I always thought they were good looking machines because of that carbon fiber deck. Now that I've seen your review I'm glad I never purchased one.

Did you do a video on the T14?

Oh yes, love this laptop, 0.8GHz super speed CPU. Playing a game and want to switch to other app? Here is your 0.8GHz sir. Basically, if you want to load it with work it will 0.8GHz to you. DELL made wonderful cooling design here, so you will spend your time fixing it. I use mine as hackintosh machine and it has more advantages that way. Can update to ventura, can change amount of ram, ssd and wifi. And without Nvidia GPU i never have 0.8GHz problem. My screen is 1080p. With better cooling, this would be really good machine.

You have a quad core and all that power is seriously wasted! If you’re not into doing demanding tasks and playing intensive video:games, a dual core is fine 90% of the time and it runs cooler.

Whats your background music?

This was an unexpected one! Gotta hand it to dell

ive only been disappointed by dell laptops, bad keyboard, bad screen outside of resolution, bad dgpu(completely pointless for use) 1 stick of ram, bad opening experience, worse than lenovo at least. dell devices have no reason to be used in my house.

I hate number pads on laptops so so much

Budget ?? Okay

So gift it dell laptop for me if yoy dont like

Dude Get a new laptop/MacBooks

Could this run windows 11?