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Let's be honest, Dell'south XPS xiii 2-in-1 has been the January Brady of the famed XPS family. Not anymore. The new Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390 finally steps out into the limelight with Intel's newest 10th-generation, 10nm-based Cadre i7 CPU, Iris graphics, much faster memory, and a fabulous 4K console.

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 10th gen Core i7 Ice Lake — The redesigned XPS 13 ii-in-1 still features a milled aluminum lid.

The darling of the new XPS 13 2-in-1 is Intel's 10th-gen Core i7-1065 G7 processor. Cynical nerds will desire to yawn at a quad-core in an ultra-thin laptop, merely the XPS 13 two-in-1 platform has always been built effectually low power, five watt dual-cores CPUs such equally the Core i7-8500Y. The Cadre i7-1065 G7 boasts Intel's new Sunny Cove cores with improved IPC and a smarter heave adequacy that improves performance despite running at lower clock speeds than the previous 8th-gen Whiskey Lake CPUs.

How much more? Dell said its new Core i7-1065 G7 laptop offers ii.5x the performance of the previous Cadre i7-8500Y-based version.

Faster Iris graphics

With the Core i7-1065 G7 comes faster graphics too. Prior Intel CPUs offered increased graphics performance based on the number of execution units within them. At the top-stop of Intel's graphics offerings were processors coupled with a small corporeality of on-die DRAM. With the 10th-gen chip, Intel ditches the embedded DRAM and instead clocks up the graphics cores to accomplish Iris levels of performance.

Brand new memory

Memory has been one of the major limitations of ultra-thin laptops. Unlike larger gaming laptops which utilize DDR4 RAM running at clock speeds from 2,400MHz to 3,200MHz, ultra-sparse laptops typically rely on much slower, only much more energy efficient LPDDR/2133 memory. With the 10th-gen Core i7, Intel has finally baked in support for LPDDR4 and the even lower power and college clocked LPDDR4X.

For the XPS 13 2-in-i, Dell will offer 4GB of LPDDR4/3733 and 8GB of LPDDR4X/3733 initially. Once higher capacity LPDDR4X chips are bachelor, Dell said it volition also offer 16GB of LPDDR4X/3733 and 32GB of LPDDR4/3733.

That probable means the newly equipped Dell XPS xiii will offer at least 50 percent more than memory bandwidth than was possible with LPDDR3-based ultrabooks.

XPS 2-in-1: Fanless no more

With the increased CPU and GPU performance comes a cost: more rut. The previous 8th-gen Core i7-8500Y featured a fanless design, merely Dell had to dump it to clasp in the 10th-gen CPU and its Iris graphics capabilities. Dell said that to keep the convertible laptop as thin as possible, it skipped using more traditional estrus pipe designs and instead opted for an etched copper thermal bedchamber design. In fact, Dell said, the laptop is slightly thinner than earlier, with a thickness of 7mm to 13mm compared to the 8mm to 13.7mm of the older version.

Likewise the CPU and cooling organization updates, Dell also beefed up the brandish, going abroad from the narrow 16:nine aspect console of the older design. The new XPS 13 two-in-ane comes with a bear upon-enabled thirteen.iv-inch panel (aye, 13.4) in 1,920 ten 1,200 and 3,840 x ii,400 resolutions. Both panels are rated to hitting a blazing 500 nits, with the 4K UHD+ panel offering 100 percent of sRGB and ninety percentage of DCI-P3 color gamut.

The new display includes a applied science called Eyesafe that greatly reduces bluelight emissions from the LED backlighting. Nigh phones—and fifty-fifty Windows—feature a "night mode" to lower bluelight levels, just they practise so past clumsily amping up warm colors and so much it looks like you're wearing a pair of brown spectacles. Eyesafe (which Dell says information technology has the exclusive lock on for the year) reduces blueish emissions without ruining the color.

Quieter MagLev

Dell first shipped its MagLev keyboard with the larger XPS 15 two-in-ane last year. MagLev uses magnets to repel the keys support after beingness pressed. In theory, it lets the keyboard offer decent action while requiring less travel. For the XPS 13 2-in-ane, Dell uses a second iteration of the keyboard that'southward slightly quieter than the original MagLev. The travel remains at 0.7mm compared to most ultra thin laptop's 1.4mm or so.

Storage upgrades? Fuhgetaboutit

We saved the bad news for the end. To cram a quad-core CPU, Iris graphics, and fans into the laptop while however keeping the battery at a decent 51 watt hr chapters, Dell said information technology had to solder the SSD onto the motherboard.

While most people are used to ultra-thin laptops shipping with soldered RAM (LPDDR3 requires it), some buyers appreciate the pick of eventually dropping in a big cheap SSD. That won't happen with the new XPS thirteen ii-in-one.

The photographic camera is finally where it belongs

Nosotros don't desire to end on a sour notation (for the 1 in 100 that look to upgrade a sparse laptop's SSD) and then we'll point out that the XPS thirteen 2-in-1's camera, once mounted on the bottom bezel and swell for people looking upwards your nostrils, has been moved to the top of the display lid.

Dell said the new XPS 13 2-in-ane will start at $999 (we'd approximate with the FHD+ console, 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD) and didn't specify when it would be available other than: Coming soon.