Dell XPS 13 : 22:00 of autonomy for this ultraportable. A record in sight ?

The standard bearer of the ultramobility of Dell will adopt the new platform Intel Kaby Lake as of October. And, for the occasion, XPS 13 offers a news and luxurious color of case.


More power and an endurance record 22 hour old, here how is characterized the new version of XPS 13 of Dell. This portable, from which marketing will begin on October 4th in the United States, benefits from the imminent arrival of the new processors Intel (Kaby Lake) to place the bar even higher. Indeed, one of the current versions of this portable screen PC 13.3 inches occupies the first place of our Top 10depuis maintaining several months! And, with the arrival of this model this autumn in France, there is extremely to bet that the Texan manufacturer does not go down from so early from the first walk from the podium.

Other technical improvements

This change of generation of Intel processor should be also accompanied by an evolution on the level of the random access memory: good-bye DDR3 and hello DDR4! And, by the same occasion, to make some additional energy saving.
Moreover, Dell announces to have changed the battery present in XPS 13 by a model 60 WHr, more powerful than the precedent. Thus, a XPS 13 equipped with a flagstone IPS Full HD would offer a 22 hour endurance, against 13:00 for the models equipped with a screen QHD+ (3200 by 1800 pixels) tactile.

Lastly, if the connector industry always misses telegraphic catch network (or in the absence of the delivery without overcost of a USB/Ethernet adapter), one will note the appearance of a catch USB type-C (Thunderbolt 3).

The starting price of these new configurations is of 799 dollars. Dell specifies finally that he adds a new color to the catalogue: Rose Gold. On the other side of the Atlantic, only two versions of XPS 13 will be available in this colour, whose starting price is given for 1499 dollars. Lastly, Dell could not assure us the prices in euros per hour when we write these lines. The availability is estimated for mid-October.