Fastest XPS 13 thus far. We've run most of our usual benchmarks and the preliminary data looks promising. Processor performance is a significant upgrade over dual-core Kaby Lake SKUs even if Turbo Boost performance is very short lived.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-i7-8550U-QHD-Laptop-Preview.257650.0.html
Throttling behavior looks almost exactly the same as this XPS 13. I've got the Inpiron 13 7370 with the same CPU 16Gb Ram and 512GB NVME SSD
One notable difference is the PL2 Power limit. On my notebook it is 44W, and on this one its 51W which explains the slight increase in Cinebench scores. You can look here for my initial benchmarks
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/quick-and-dirty-core-i7-8550u-throttling-behavior-on-dell-inspiron-13-7000.809595/
Why battery test for WiFi v1.3 is missing?
ayyy my estimation of the sustained clocks of KBL-R were spot on
Holy Jeebuz!!
This is already out and as usual Another Major Delay from AMD. Cmon, AMD, we need competition in mobile PC market as well.
THX ffor great review
Does this model has content adaptive brightness control in its panel?
Any coil whine during ac power and battery ?
thx
On my Inspiron with the 8550u no coil wine when the cpu is used, however when there is lots of HDD activity you can hear it a little bit.
I would really appreciate knowing something about DAW audio performance on the Dell XPS 13 i7-8550U.
Could someone with this model of XPS 13 please run LatencyMon and let me know the results.
Ideally, I would appreciate knowing the DAWBench results as well using Cubase (there are free trial versions available).
Thank you.
Lawrence
Great review as always! Do you consider testing the headphone output in the future? i don't use the speaker that often as headsets have better sound than normal laptop speakers, but the lack of info on the audio output is annoying. Since companies like EVE V has started to emphasize their DAC, maybe this is worth testing?
@Visitor:
Dac and Amp on laptops are generally assumed to be all low quality apart from Apple and a few gaming laptops. For any decent audio experience you will be better off by using a portable amp dac combo like Dragonfly or a wireless headphone with built in chips.
Hi.
Is there any recent BIOS (Intel ME update perhaps) for DELL XPS 13 9360, that can switch OPI interface to full GT4 instead of GT2? It's not acceptable, that until now DELL cuts off SSD speeds in BIOS, and people only get crappy 1800MB/1300MB speeds with Samsung 960 PRO/EVO drives.
Maybe we should start a petition? Or could someone dissect Intel NUC's BIOS v0042/v1142 and prepare a patch for DELL XPS 13 9360r, that can do the same?
How can this re-heated leftover get an 89 rating ? Soldered-on DDR3 and crippled T'bolt3 are deal-killers, then we have heat, crummy mechanicals & KB. Face reality - this is an OLD xps13 design re-spin, that fails to address the serious long-standing problems. Dell needs a serious re-design, not a CPU upgrade.
Hi everyone!
I would like to know If I can use a msata SSD with this computer? I got a Crucial MX300 1To msata SSD, can I replace de stock SSD by this one?
Thanks!!