Review: Better GPU and 4K screen make the XPS 15 a MacBook Pro for PC users

Andrew Cunningham

PC companies are striving to make their 13-inch laptops ever thinner and lighter, a trend that has been good for our shoulders and backs but not as good for performance. Luckily, 15-inch laptops are there to serve as a counterweight, offering not just quad-core processors but increasingly powerful and desktop-like graphics chips.

Dell's XPS 15, much like Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro, attempts to straddle the line between svelte and powerful. It's not the smallest or most powerful laptop, but last year's model struck a good balance between size and speed even if the best configurations were on the expensive side. This year's version doesn't change a lot, but a new more power-efficient GPU, a Kaby Lake CPU upgrade, and a fingerprint reader all make it worth reconsidering anyway.

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