The film’s bright colors range from green and purple holograms to red cyborg eyes and a blue cityscape, and they all looked great.ĭell’s screen covers 121.6% of the DCI-P3 color gamut, easily surpassing the MacBook Pro (80.7%). Our review unit was extremely bright and showed vivid colors when I watched the 4K short Tears of Steel. We reviewed a version with a 3840 x 2400 touchscreen (slightly over 4K), though a non-touch version closer to FHD (1920 x 1200) is available. Most laptops go with 16:9, but 16:10 allows for slightly more vertical space to work, which is very welcome. The 17-inch display on the XPS 17 uses a 16:10 aspect ratio. The GPU’s average clock speed was 1308 MHz and the average temperature was 71.2 degrees Celsius (160.2 degrees Fahrenheit). Most runs ran at 37 fps, while some ran as low as 34 or as high as 38 fps.ĭuring this test, the CPU ran at an average of 3.1 GHz and measured 76.6 degrees Celsius (169.9 degrees Celsius). The game ran at an average frame rate of 37.4 frames per second. We also ran our gaming stress test, which runs Metro Exodus on the RTX preset 15 times. The XPS 17 ran it at 35 fps compared to the Aero’s 43 fps. Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, medium) is punishing, but still playable. On Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, ultra), the game ran at 66 fps on the XPS and 76 fps on the Aero. Next, we ran Grand Theft Auto V (1080p, very high), which the XPS ran at 64 fps compared to the Aero’s 77 fps. The Aero 17, with an RTX 2070 Super, ran the game at 61 fps. On Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, highest), the XPS ran the game at 48 fps. There’s plenty of room on the left and right sides of the keyboard for speaker grills, which are far larger than what the 15-incher offers. Dell XPS 17 (9700) at Walmart for $1,390.64 (opens in new tab)Īgain, like its siblings, the XPS 17 has a carbon fiber palmrest that is smooth to the touch and comfortable against the wrists when typing.The hinge connecting the screen to the rest of the chassis feels extremely sturdy, even heavy. Like the other recent XPS notebooks, the XPS 17 has a 16:10 display, which provides slightly more vertical space on screen over typical 16:9 displays (this screen is 17-inches flat, rather than the more typical 17.3 inches). That means its lid, just like the others, is made of silver aluminum with a Dell logo stamped on top. The XPS 17 does that as well, just on a bigger scale. The XPS 17 follows in the footsteps of the Dell XPS 13 (9300) and Dell XPS 15 (9500), each of which launched earlier this year with slimmer profiles than ever before, as well as extending the InfinityEdge display to reduce the bottom bezel. Dell has followed in Apple’s footsteps with the XPS lineup, making each laptop look largely the same.
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