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Title: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: Redaktion on August 12, 2026, 18:25:58
The XPS 13 is now a fraction of the price to attract users on tighter budgets. Do the inevitable cut corners tarnish the XPS name or is this the new sub $1000 laptop to beat?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-Wildcat-Lake-review-Redefining-the-budget-Windows-category.1356646.0.html
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: Robert Ct on August 13, 2026, 00:10:51
Author of this article must hit his head pretty hard!!!!!! Whole thing sound just wrong even as paid promotion!!!!! And he waste all that time for absolute s***,he supposed to stop right away w first fact!!!!!! compact, low end notebook w 8gb of ram ( that specs been s*** 3 years ago)!!!!!! From that 8gb of ram just windows consuming 5gb!!!!!! Wtf you like to do w 3gb ram what left!!!!! Your cell phone is probably double strong than that!!!!this is not suitable even for stupid office work!!!!! Stop embarrassing your self and start doing something usefull!!!! Really!!!!
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: What. The. H... on August 13, 2026, 08:49:33
Quote8 GB of single-channel, non-upgradeable RAM limits versatility
Even if I was poor, I would take a hammer and destroy this out of rage or probably try to control my rage and sell it.

AIDA64 RAM score: 16289 MB/s..WHAT. THE. HE...
Even with single channel this shouldn't score this low.
It should score something like:
41.8 GB/s = 64-bit * 7467 MT/s / 1000 / 8 * ~0.7 (theoretical -> practical).
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: X on August 13, 2026, 23:25:50
2242 SSD (2280 are more popular), 8 GB ram, throttling CPU and touch increasing price. Well done.
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: X on August 13, 2026, 23:26:20
And single channel ram...
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: toto1234 on August 15, 2026, 08:02:35
Quote from: X on August 13, 2026, 23:25:502242 SSD (2280 are more popular), 8 GB ram, throttling CPU and touch increasing price. Well done.

Welcome to 2026

Lord Jensen, first of his name, clearly said that peons don't need powerfull computer.
All you need is a crappy terminal to reach cloud resources.

And don't forget to Praise the AI God
Title: Re: Dell XPS 13 Wildcat Lake review: Redefining the budget Windows category
Post by: Woozy on August 20, 2026, 05:14:00
I bought this and returned it literally the same day.

The screen is very good.
The keyboard is acceptable, not great but just OK.
The fan noise was not so bad really but I question whether they used any thermal paste at all.
The 16GB of fast RAM should be just enough.

Two issues:

In a year, if they put a haptic trackpad on this, I may buy again.