Dell announces XPS 15 and XPS 17 2020

Finally it's official! Dell announced 15 inch and 17 inch XPS series laptops. They will be made available for purchase from May 13, 2020. Redesigned XPS 15 starts at a price point of $1300 and you can lay your hands on XPS 17 if you have $1500 (exclusive of taxes of course). Lets see what these two laptops have to offer.

XPS 15:

Looks like Dell finally heard what their customers want. XPS 15 was almost untouched without any major redesign from last 4 years. Now they have upped their game by adapting four sided razor thin bezels increasing screen to body ratio significantly compared to its predecessor, we are talking about 92.8% screen to body ratio looks almost magnificent border-less panel. XPS 15 comes with Infinity Edge display offering 16:10 aspect ratio. You have a choice of picking up the laptop with 4K resolution or FHD, both include top mounted 780p front facing camera. It's fair to say they pulled this off without disturbing aesthetics that signature XPS lineup offered till now which is pretty impressive. Starting at $1300 Dell XPS 15 is packed with some serious hardware as well. You can configure XPS 15 with up to 9th gen Intel's i9-10885 H processor, upgradable RAM from 8 GB to 64 GB, storage up to 2TB Pcie NVME SSD. Laptop comes with 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports, 1 USB-C 3.1 and an SD card reader. Unfortunately you don't get to see any USB-A ports this year on this laptop. Coming to graphics, users have an option to choose between Intel UHD integrated graphic or Nvdia GeForce 1650 Ti. Talking about battery there are two options, 86 watt hour battery and 56 watt hour. Dell says 86 watt hour battery can have your laptop running up to 25 hours with FHD+ configuration. We will have to wait and see on that. Overall that's broad range of options within "ok" price point in my opinion.

XPS 17:

This big boy is definitely in-charge of XPS 2020 lineup. But not many realize or does not know that this is the smallest 17 inch laptop in the market. You ask how! Remember the screen to body ratio that we were talking about with XPS 15, Dell went with the same form factor for XPS 17. It's astonishing to see that XPS 17 looks smaller than few other 15 inch laptops on the market. This one comes with similar screen specs as that of XPS 15 i.e. 16:10 aspect ratio and with an option of 4K res or FHD. If seen under the hood, you will be pretty happy to find upgradable RAM up to 64 GB and Pcie NVME storage of up to 2 TB. Starting at $1500 XPS 17 is jacked up in terms of graphics options. You can choose between rock solid Nvdia GeForce 1650 Ti-Max or monstrous RTX 2060. Another huge step up from it's smaller cousin XPS 15 is it has improved air-flow and custom vapor chamber to keep thermals of the laptop at check. XPS 17 houses 4 Thunderbolt USB-C 2 ports and an SD card reader.