Yan also walk "core" new Dell XPS 13 Reviews

[IT168 evaluation] Dell notebook has always occupied the sky with its perfect design and exquisite workmanship in the industry, especially the Dell XPS, as the representative product of its luxury notebook, once it is launched, it is highly praised, to the majority of users to stay A deep impression. At last year's CES 2015 in the United States, Dell introduced the use of micro-frame design XPS 13 light enough to make users eye, recently Dell XPS 13 performance configuration upgrade, if you have to use a word to describe, Xiao Bian want to say is: "As always, glamorous, but there is a more strengthened core."

Configuration, to participate in this evaluation of the new Dell XPS 13 equipped with the seventh-generation Intel Core i7-7500U, this can be said to be the biggest highlight of this Dell XPS 13 upgrade, in addition to the aircraft has 8G memory, 256GB SSD solid state drive, 13.3 Inch FHD HD display with a resolution of 1920×1080. Pre-installed Windows 10 operating system. Overall, it is worth noting, let's take a look at the specific performance of the new Dell XPS 13.

The advantages are summarized:

1, micro frame, light and stylish fashion value burst table;
2, the latest seventh-generation Core processor, the performance is more excellent;
3, good cooling effect.

Dell XPS 13 Appearance: Lightweight Fashion Face Value

It can be said that Dell laptop has always had its own style in appearance design, especially the representative product of luxury notebook XPS has its own unique charm. The Dell XPS 13 that participated in the evaluation has already let Xiao Bian feel a deep gas field from the beginning of packaging.

The simple all-black box water chestnut clearly matches the frontal classic Dell logo, impacting Xiaobian's optic nerve to give people a kind of high-level feeling of being loaded with things.

Open the box, we can see the real face of the Dell XPS, this is only evaluation XPS is a local gold color, have to say this is a very stylish color, with local gold products always give people a tall Gas field.

Under the local gold color, we can feel that the Dell XPS 13 has a strong sense of metal. The shell of this machine is made of anodized aluminum, and with the metal coating, the appearance value of the entire notebook is instantly increased. Grade. In fact, we are no stranger to this XPS 13 color scheme, can be regarded as a continuation of the classic color, in addition to the modified version of the notebook also has a silver color version.

â–²Smooth design for the overall corner

From the XPS 13's corner design we can be sure that it is a round-edged design, but we can still feel a sharp atmosphere on the whole, which is very much in line with its noble temperament.

â–² A face in the middle of the LOGO is a black color

Dell's classic logo is located in the middle of the front, in addition to this notebook's A side no more, simple reveals a spirit.

From the perspective of the Dell XPS 13 we can completely see the streamlined design of this machine, unlike the design of the popular laptop.

â–²B side of ultra-narrow border

Open the top cover, we can see a screen with ultra-narrow border, this is a 13.3-inch FHD high-definition display with a resolution of 1920×1080. It can be said that the ultra-narrow frame can visually give a wider feeling to the screen and at the same time can effectively reduce the size of the notebook computer.

â–² In addition to the bottom of the B-side dell LOGO camera is also designed to the bottom of the screen

For the B side, there is a more interesting place, that is, the location of the camera is designed in the lower left corner of the screen, this is because the ultra-narrow frame design makes the camera can not be designed in the screen is accessing the Internet. However, even if the camera is designed in this position, it will not affect the overall appearance of its B-side.

â–²C surface overall design is clean and simple

â–²Power switch located in the upper right corner

â–² Intel's seventh-generation Core processor logo

In addition to the keyboard, there is only one power button in the upper right corner of the C plane, and the lower right corner is the CPU tag. We can see that the latest XPS is already equipped with the latest seventh-generation i7.

On the keyboard side, because of the size constraints, there is no independent keypad area, but it is praiseworthy for the feel of the keys, the feedback speed is also good, and it belongs to the relatively labor-saving keyboard design.

The touchpad uses a one-piece design. Feel more lubricated, more comfortable to use. We can see that there is some texture in the palm rest position, the material is soft, the hand is comfortable on the top, skin-like material, which is one of the most favorite designs of XPS.

Next is the D-face design. Overall, in addition to non-slip foot pads, there is a row of heat-dissipation window openings, and the opening area is not too large. Later in the article we will conduct a detailed evaluation of the cooling capacity of the machine.

â–² Two long strips are very stable

There is also an XPS Ming Ming sign in the middle of the D side that can be opened. The device's information is hidden here. This also makes the entire back side look very clean when closing the nameplate.

â–² Nameplate on the back

â–² hidden device information

Careful friends may find that in our previous introduction, we did not see where the speakers are. Here we found that the Dell XPS 13's dual speaker openings are on both sides, symmetrically designed so that the sound will have a better propagation path. Actual sound effects During the playback, it was felt that the sound was clearly transmitted without being blocked.

â–² Speakers on both sides

The left side of the interface has a power interface, mini DP port, a USB3.0, headphone / microphone integrated interface and battery power light. The right side is an SD card reader, a USB 3.0 interface, although it looks very thin laptop, but there are so many interfaces can be considered good, and more recently than Apple's just released MacBook Pro interface to be more practical.

â–² left side of the interface

â–² Right side interface

In general, Dell XPS 13 in the design of the continuation of the previous generation, although little change, but still stunning, the latest configuration, noble temperament has brought its outbreak, while the various exquisite details also highlight its noble identity .

Thermal performance test

In the previous article, we showed the details of the Dell XPS 13 design. We found that the opening area of ​​the cooling window is not large, and there is no cooling fan design, so it will inevitably raise doubts about how the thermal performance of the Dell XPS 13 is as a laptop. ? Here, we will let the GPU and CPU work under a relatively high load for a period of time, then use the FLUKE infrared thermal imager to test the overall temperature distribution of the unit, so that we can more intuitively see the temperature rise of each location This includes the internal core temperature and the specific surface temperature of the fuselage.

â–²Front temperature

â–²Front temperature

Here, we see that the maximum temperature of the front face is about 52°C. The focus is on the middle of the keyboard. This should be the location of the CPU. The temperature near other heating elements is 42°C. The low temperature zone is on the right side of the body and the temperature of the touchpad area is on the palm rest. 22 °C or so.

â–²Back temperature

The temperature on the back side is similar to the front temperature, and the high temperature is up to 48 degrees near the heat dissipation window. The rest is kept at room temperature.

Dell XPS 13 Performance Test

As a luxury product of Dell, XPS 13 is far from enough if it has a tall appearance. In the previous article, we mentioned that the seventh-generation Intel Core i7-7500U powered by the Dell XPS 13 can be said to be the biggest highlight of this Dell XPS 13 upgrade. In addition, it has 8G memory and 256G SSD solid-state drives. From the configuration point of view is still very much looking forward to.

Below we have conducted a few tests let us take a look at what kind of performance it has.

CPU test:

First of all, we know that Dell XPS 13 is equipped with the latest i7 processor - Intel Core i7-7500U. This processor has a 4M cache, clocked at 2.7GHz and the highest core frequency can reach 3.5GHz.

The CineBench R15 can support up to 256 logic cores. In addition, the investigation of shaders, anti-aliasing, shadows, lights, and reflection blur was strengthened, and the detection of CPU performance was more accurate. The single-core processor used in the CINEBENCH R15 processor was 145cb, and the multi-core 323CB was in a good overall level.

Graphics ability test:

Because here is the seventh-generation i7 processor, so the core graphics code has changed from 520 to 620, where the Dell XPS 13 does not have a discrete graphics design, here we take a look at the graphics processing capabilities of the aircraft through 3Dmark.

In addition to the test scores, 3DMark also provides a real-time graph during each test period, recording the frame rate, CPU temperature, GPU temperature, and CPU power consumption. The new version of 3Dmark is also the first choice for graphics card running points. From the scoring point of view, the aircraft's graphics processing capability is good enough to run most of the current mainstream games.

Hard disk test:

Dell XPS 13 is using a 256GB solid-state hard drive, in addition to the speed increase, to deal with the daily office storage capacity is also sufficient, with the new seventh-generation i7 will be even more powerful. Let's take a look at the performance of this SSD. Here we use HD tune software, which is a very easy-to-use hard disk utility software, its main functions are hard disk transmission rate detection, health status detection, temperature detection and disk surface scanning.

In HD tune test of the hard drive to see this hard drive's minimum transfer speed of 156.5MB / sec, up to 916.3MB / sec, its average speed also reached 635.3MB / sec. The performance of the hard disk is outstanding, and it can be regarded as a leader in SSD solid state drives.

Here we also selected ATTO Disk Benchmark to test this hard drive:

ATTO Disk Benchmark is an easy-to-use disk transfer rate detection software that can be used to detect the read and write rates of hard disks, USB flash drives, memory cards and other removable disks. ATTO Disk Benchmark This software uses different data test packages. The data packages are read and written from 0.5K to 8192.0KB. The data is expressed in the form of a histogram after the test is completed. It can well describe the effect on the read and write speed of the disk when the file size ratio is not the same.

From the test results, the hard drive of the Dell XPS 13 really performed first-rate.

In summary, the performance of the Dell XPS 13 is still remarkable, as an ultra-thin notebook, this performance is sufficient compared to most of the opponents at the same price, on the whole satisfactory.

Evaluation summary:

Compared to the older models of XPS 13, the new XPS 13 continues its classic appearance and fully interprets what is called “fashion, thinness, and tallness”. In terms of configuration, the latest seventh-generation Intel Core i7-7500U, together with high-quality SSDs, can give people a quick experience that is amazing. If there are recent user friends who are interested in updating their own private laptop, the Dell XPS 13 is worth considering.