![]() ![]() That’s a marked drop from last year’s XPS 15 OLED, which lasted for 10 hours and 5 minutes. On the Tom’s Guide battery test, which involves continuous web surfing at 150 nits of screen brightness, the XPS 15 lasted for 8 hours and 58 minutes. Unfortunately, that’s not the case with the 2023 model. The 2022 XPS 15 OLED offered respectable battery life. Dell XPS 15 OLED (2023) review: Battery life and heat If you frequently participate in video calls, I recommend using one of the best webcams so you can appear more presentable. In our test photos the image looks grainy and washed out even in our well-lit office. Don’t expect this camera to present you at your best. The XPS 15 has the same 720p camera as its predecessor - which is a major disappointment if you frequently partake in video calls. Despite the touchpad’s size, I never once swiped it by accident. It accurately registered all my gestures and felt smooth to the touch. The large smooth trackpad also gave me plenty of room to work with. The cursor always went where I wanted it to, making this an effortless experience. It registered all of my swipes and gestures without a hitch. The snappy and responsive keys feel good to type on, with satisfying travel that allowed me to type almost as fast as I do on a full PC keyboard.Įqually, the large touchpad gave me plenty of space to work with. Typing on the XPS 15 was a pure joy thanks to its roomy keyboard and the soft textured carbon fiber covering the palm rests. Dell XPS 15 OLED (2023) review: Keyboard and touchpad While the XPS 15 isn’t marketed as a gaming laptop, it can hold its own against low- to mid-range competition in that field. However, bigger, more expensive gaming laptops with beefier GPUs (like the Razer Blade 18) will crush the XPS 15 in terms of performance. This isn’t too surprising given how the latter has an RTX 4050 laptop GPU compared to the XPS 15’s 4070. How does the XPS 15 stack up against dedicated gaming laptops? As you can see above, Dell’s notebook can run games at higher framerates than the MSI Cyborg 15. These results put the XPS 15’s gaming performance above the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, which has an RTX 4050 Ti GPU. As you can see in the chart above, every game ran well above 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution. In our lab testing we ran Borderlands 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI through their respective in-game benchmarks. ![]() Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm PC game benchmarks (in FPS, or frames per second) Row 0 - Cell 0 And despite all the colors splashing across the screen, I never had a problem identifying what I saw. I was especially impressed with the scenes featuring sepia tones straight out of the comic books. The XPS 15’s screen accurately captured the lush and vibrant colors seen in the second trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The 15.6-inch 3.5K OLED 60Hz display is one of this laptop’s best features. I just wish the XPS 15 weren’t so cumbersome to open. It doesn’t wobble or creak, no matter how much you jostle the laptop. Thankfully, the lid itself is rigid yet easy to move when it’s open. ![]() While I like the XPS 15’s design, opening the laptop is a chore since there’s no lip on its lid - which has always been my main gripe with the XPS series. Front-facing speakers flank the keyboard and the thin bezels deliver plenty of screen real estate. The all-black interior offers a nice contrast to the silver chassis. Except for the Dell logo on its silver lid, the laptop is free of adornments. ![]()
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