Dell’s latest XPS 13 has a new design with a bigger display and Ice Lake chips – Circuit Breaker, The Verge

Dell’s XPS haslong been one of the best Windows laptopsaround, and at CES (****************************************************************, the company is updating it yet again with a bigger (**************************************************************************************. 4-inch display that also shifts to a (*************************************************************************************: ************************************************************************************** aspect ratio. By adding the taller display, Dell has also completely cut out the bottom bezel to make the new XPS 18 look better than ever, too.

Despite the larger display, the new XPS 16 is actually 2 percent smaller overall than its predecessor. As part of the redesign, the 2020 The model also has a larger keyboard (which now stretches across the entire device) and a larger trackpad. It’s effectively all of the changes thatDell made with the XPS 18 2-in-1 last year, but they’re available on the non-2-in-1 model.

                                 Those changes may not sound too impressive, but compared to the old XPS 18 design, it’s like night and day. The new model looks smaller, sleeker, and better than the old model by a huge margin. The taller display is also a welcome trend that will hopefully start to crop up in future laptops, too.

In addition to the new physical design, Dell is also upgrading the internal specs, offering Intel’s latest nm Ice Lake *************************************************************************************** th Gen processors in Core i3, i5, and i7 options. Dell also offers a plethora of configuration options: 4GB, 8GB, (GB, and) ****************************************************************************** (GB of RAM and ******************************************************************** (GB,) ************************************************************************ GB, 1TB, and 2TB of SSD storage. There are also three display options: a standard (x) FHD panel, an FHD display with a touchscreen, and a 4K (x) **************************************************** touchscreen with HDR HDR .

  

         

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Dell is also offering a Linux-based XPS Developer Edition, which will be sold preloaded with Ubuntu (***********************************************************************************. ********************************************************************************** LTS. Some things are still the same from the old XPS (****************************************************************************************, though, like they keyboard. Dell’s opting to use the same switches on the old model instead of the more divisive low-profile keyboard on the XPS 2-in-1. The (XPS) still uses the impressively small top-mounted camera that was introduced on last year model, too.

              

      ************************                     (**********************************The new XPS (will start at $ when it comes out on January 7th, while the Linux-powered developer edition will release on February 4th starting at $ 1, 119.************************** (Correction:) ********************************** (Dell has previously sold Linux-based XPS) developer editions. This article originally claimed that the new model was the first time Dell has done so.************************ (******************************Read More