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amazon Dell XPS 13 reviews
Design
Version Dell XPS 13 (2013) is not much new in terms of design changes compared to 2012. Air version maintains the advantages of the design highlights of last year’s version as the whole of the machine with the lid on aluminum, the center is a prominent chrome Dell logo, the underside of the machine is made of carbon fiber, the whole rounded edges with light aluminum rims. All create an attractive design with a unique blend style and stand out from the other ultraportable laptops on the market.
Inside, there is a magnesium alloy frame structure similar to previous versions. A thin aluminum strip is designed to run along the outer edge makes the highlights.
The right side of the Dell XPS 13 includes mini Display port, USB 3.0 port and a row of five small LED lights on the side, used to measure the battery life of the machine with a button to turn it on.
The left side includes power connector, USB 3.0 ports and a headphone jack, mic jack.
Front edge also includes an array of LEDs to inform status of the hard drive, sleep and standby battery is low. Unfortunately, the machine lacks an SD card slot, a feature still is essential to many users.
Dell XPS 13 has 314.96 x 205.74 x 6,09-18,03mm size , weighing 1.36 kg. Similarly the size of the Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch (313.69 x 218.44 x 19.05 mm). Asus Zenbook UX31A a little bigger with 337.82 x 222.06 x 11.17~16.76 mm size, but with the same weight. However, Acer Aspire S7-391 with touch screen, 322.58 x 223.52 x 11.68 mm size and weighing only 1.27 kg.
Keyboard and Touchpad
Like the 2012, the 2013 version of the XPS 13 is equipped with island-style keyboard with large keys, slightly concave surface keys down a bit, the keys have depth, good bounce allows users to exercise work easier and more comfortable.
Users often have to work in conditions of low light environments will see a backlit keyboard of the machine is extremely necessary.
Sized touchpad 99 x 61 mm, glazed surface should touch sensitive operation. Operations with Windows 8 gesture correctly. The two mouse keys left / right easy to press.
Screen and webcam
For version 2013, Dell has increased the resolution on the XPS 13 from 1366 x 768 pixels on the 2012 version to 1920 x 1080 pixels. The screen is also capable of showing 93% of the sRGB color gamut while maintaining deep black levels and contrast are good, all help to display images sharp and colorful.
Besides the display of a technology also uses edge-to-edge and is protected by scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass toughened glass.
The average light sensitivity measured XPS 13 is 329 lux, 100 lux brighter than the XPS 13 (2012) as compared to the average of ultraportable laptops. Sensitivity on also higher than the Acer S7 (215 lux) and MacBook Pro 13 inch (313 lux), but not by Asus UX31A (423 lux).
Integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam of the machine can shoot 720p video using camera apps of Windows 8. While the video quality is suitable for video chats, the photo lacks detail, even in a well-lit room is quite noisy images.
Sound
Dual speakers XPS 13 is enhanced audio quality through technology integrated Waves MaxxAudio 4. Thereby providing a powerful sound audio with quality completely physically received.
Through Dell Audio function, which allows users to control and select one of the default audio settings for the user needs, such as music, movies, voice, gaming and MaxxSense, through which the program auto selects the best audio setup. Also through functions, users can choose presets for dual microphones.
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Efficiency
Check the machine’s overall performance in PCMark 7, the Dell XPS 13 is equipped with an Intel Core i7-3517U processor speed of 1.9 GHz, RAM 8GB and SSD 256GB scored 4780 points, higher than the average level (3436) compared to ultraportable laptops, but less than 200 points from the Acer Aspire S7-391 (4948) and Asus UX31A (4989).
Geekbench test results in evaluating the performance of the machine, the XPS 13 scored 6822 points, 1100 points higher than the average but slightly lower than the Acer S7 (6824), but only 100 points less than MacBook Pro (6760). Asus UX31A still impressive when scoring 6903 points.
XPS 13 boots into Windows 8 in just 12 seconds, this is partly due to high-speed SSD 256GB Samsung 830 Series comes. However, while on still lower than the Acer S7 (10 seconds), the machine is configured RAID0 with two SSD 128GB. MacBook Pro uses SSD 128GB only takes 12 seconds to complete the test.
With Laptop File Transfer Test (copying 4,97GB multimedia files), the XPS 13 takes 31 seconds to complete the task with 164.2 MBps speed, almost twice faster than the average speed (83 MBps) than any ultraportable. However, Acer S7 even more impressive with a faster speed to 318 MBps almost 2 times. MacBook Pro also completed tests with 196 MBps, unfortunately Asus’s SSD scored only modest speeds of 51 MBps.
In addition to daily tasks such as watching video and playing games popular, user Dell XPS 13 also should not expect too much for the Intel HD Graphics 4000.
Overall points machine graphics when using 3DMark 11 test scored only 670 points, 50 points lower than the average (725), but higher than the Acer Aspire S7 (657) and much better than the Asus (594).
Real test for World of Warcraft, the XPS 13 playable with an average speed of 33 frames per second with the settings in the game is autodetect and display resolution is 1366 x 768 pixels. Acer S7 works slightly better with an average speed of 41 frames per second, equivalent to an average of 42 frames per second compared to the type of ultraportable. Asus UX31A at a speed higher than 52 frames per second. MacBook Pro with Retina display and integrated graphics using only the average speed is 36 frames per second at resolution 1432 x 894 pixels.
When changing the setting in the game World of Warcraft to the maximum and the screen set to 1080p. Frame rate in the game on the XPS 13 and dropped to 25 fps is still capable of playing. In the same setting, Asus UX31A with frame rates of average game 36 fps and Acer S7 also scored 30 fps at a resolution (2560 x 1600), MacBook Pro has an average speed of 21 fps.
Battery life
On the Laptop Battery Test (web surfing via Wi-Fi), the XPS 13 battery can last up to 5 hours 50 minutes, 10 minutes less than the average for the ultraportable laptop (6:02). But nearly equal to the average is 5:46 when tested on Windows 7. For comparison, the MacBook Pro battery can last 7 hours 38 minutes, accompanied by Acer S7 battery can only work in 4 hours 10 minutes, with optional extended battery, the machine can work for a period of 9 hours 17 minutes. Also running Windows 7, Asus UX31A battery can work continuously 6 hours and 28 minutes.