Dell XPS 16 Review: Well-Rounded, Big-Screen Laptop With Spiky, Big-Time Price
8.0
Pros & Cons
- Stylish design with solid feel
- Beautiful 16-inch 3.2K OLED display
- Good balance between performance and battery life
- Physical keys in Function row
- RTX-level price without RTX GPU
- Seams along the edges and below the keyboard are debris magnets
- Few ports, no SD card slot
- Can't upgrade RAM or SSD
With the XPS 16, Dell seemingly has two objectives: re-establishing the XPS brand, which it shuttered last year before bringing it back at CES in January, and positioning it between heavier, pricier, but more powerful content creation laptops such as the Asus ProArt P16, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i 16 Aura Edition and Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro and cheaper, thinner and lighter 16-inch models like the Asus Zenbook A16 and Acer Swift 16 AI.
I’d say Dell succeeded on the first mission: the XPS 16 is a fantastic laptop befitting of the premium XPS name. Like...
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