Well spotted: 1600 for only 16 GB (soldered) RAM. Soldered would be fine, if it was 9600 MT/s and 32 GB RAM (tho, in times of LLMs and data privacy, it's time for 48 and 64 GB RAM configs). Not saying it's an alternative for everyone, but a MacBook Air 15 (15.3") with this config is available new at just a bit more or at even lower price directly from apple.com/Apple Refurbished (Air M4 32 GB RAM).

Also, it's 1600 for no GPU and only a slow 4-core Intel Arc iGPU.

Not sure what's worse, the soldered 16 GB RAM or this iGPU.

NBC, switch to Steel Nomad, it's the official successor to Time Spy and makes the performance comparison to the Air directly possible:
3dmark.com/search:
2026 Air M5: score: 1070
Intel Arc Graphics (same 4-core, only the 12-core is allowed to have Arc in name): score 660
The Macbook Air is 60% faster while having no fan (and is lighter, slimmer, arguably a better display, ..? The XPS wins in battery life by the looks of it?).

From the article:

"The base Core Ultra 5 325 is somewhat slow for an H-series CPU as it's only 10 percent faster than the ULV Core Ultra 7 258V when it comes to multi-thread performance."

Both the Core Ultra 5 325 and Core Ultra 7 355 are absolutely no H processors. Those are the cpus ending on either 6 or 8. Please correct this in your review otherwise it will mislead people.

1. Core thermal throttling in 16 inch? Really?

2. xps14 in idle 1.6w/3.7w and 14,5h on wifi. Xps16 from the same company 1.3w/4.5w in idle and 26,5h on wifi. Battery quite the same & CPU probably cannot explain difference. And now - why?

"very warm under load" (25W CPU!!!!) and 16GB SOLDERED RAM in 2026 and that all only for 1600 = There's nothing in this world that Dell can't "f"up! :)))