After an impressive showing with the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1, the original XPS 13 clamshell deserves some love, too. Dell is putting the XPS 13 back in the spotlight with the Intel Comet Lake-U Core i7-10710U to be one of the first subnotebooks shipping with a full-fledged hexa-core ULV CPU.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-7390-Core-i7-10710U-Laptop-Review-Faster-Than-The-Core-i5-XPS-15.440658.0.html
Very disappointing update:
Same chassis with thermal issues that plague many generations of XPS laptops.
Still 16:9 display instead of 16:10 or 3:2
Still no 2k option just like always.
Performance inferior to its 2-in-1 sibling.
If 2-in-1 deserves a 86% score, this clamshell version should be 85%.
Quote from: 4sofnature on November 06, 2019, 01:51:47
Very disappointing update:
Performance inferior to its 2-in-1 sibling.
If 2-in-1 deserves a 86% score, this clamshell version should be 85%.
Not sure why its disappointing?
The CPU is 30% faster than the 1065G7 after it stabilizes according to the graph. It's 20% faster at peak.
Sure GPU is slower but we all knew that. Not everyone needs the fastest CPU.
And despite using 4K screen, it achieves nearly identical battery life to the Icelake version on FHD. This part is a serious disappointment for Icelake. Not only the battery life didn't improve, it actually went down!
Waiting for the MSI Prestige 14 review. Same CPU but with dedicated graphics chip. If the XPS 13 with hexacore was in the 2-in-1 version, I might have considered it.
Agreed. All laptops should be 16:10 aspect ratio.
Hey, how about instead of a hexa-core CPU at 15 W you tell intel you want to offer a 10 W quad core in a FANLESS ultrabook.
Who the hell needs the extra 2 cores in an ultrabook? This isn't a gaming or multi-media laptop. There is no GPU. The most stress it probably receives for 99% of us would be running youtube.
Hotter than it needs to be. A lower wattage, quad core would help.
Another problem. Don't stick a poor color reproducing 4k screen on this laptop. Give me a much better color and brightness 1080p screen instead. It will also extend the battery life.
Quote from: DavidC1 on November 06, 2019, 02:21:31
Quote from: 4sofnature on November 06, 2019, 01:51:47
Very disappointing update:
Performance inferior to its 2-in-1 sibling.
If 2-in-1 deserves a 86% score, this clamshell version should be 85%.
Not sure why its disappointing?
The CPU is 30% faster than the 1065G7 after it stabilizes according to the graph. It's 20% faster at peak.
Sure GPU is slower but we all knew that. Not everyone needs the fastest CPU.
And despite using 4K screen, it achieves nearly identical battery life to the Icelake version on FHD. This part is a serious disappointment for Icelake. Not only the battery life didn't improve, it actually went down!
Improvement in Cinebench R15 Multi-core does not necessarily translate to real-word use, as indicated in PC Mark and other productivity benchmarks. Again the culprit is most likely the chassis and thermal design, which has become the FACT of a XPS laptop.
Plus, the clamshell counterpart is expected to perform better than 2 in 1 anyways, especially when it is priced and spec'ed against a Macbook Pro 13.
some of you may wonder why is there a need for a hexa (even octa) core on such a small device.
moreover, there is no GPU, so what's the use?
well, people like me are a niche market: databases, data processing, and so on.
I do a ton of workshops, presentations, remote work, you name it, and I can use every single available core, a gazillion RAM and, of course, a gazillion TB ultra-fast SSDs, all RAID 0, please. All of it under 1 KG, please!
Since that is not possible, we can either wait until everybody moves to the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP and alike), or take whatever is available on the market.
The only thing for me is thermal issues, I already destroyed a Precision 5510 due to thermals.
So, to conclude, I would LOVE a small and light package packing a ton of power without blowing up in one year. Since that is not an option now, Precision 7530 it is, thank you.
What is the battery model? it seems there are two kinds of batteries