Dell XPS 17 2020 Review: A Large Screen And Lots Of Power

After years of being dormant, the Dell XPS 17 has made a big comeback. It comes with a workstation-grade power stacked in a slim design that isn’t much larger than a regular 15-inch laptop. Besides, featuring a massive 4-sided Infinity Edge screen, the laptop has one of the biggest, more immersive displays ever made for a laptop. In this post, we will provide you with a complete Dell XPS 17 2020 review.

Dell XPS 17 2020 price in India

Late last month, Dell launched the XPS 17 (2020) in India with a price starting at Rs 2,09,500. You can buy the laptop on Amazon or the company’s website.

If you are considering the price Dell XPS 15 (7590) vs Dell XPS 17 2020, the Dell XPS 15 (7590) costs Rs 3,32,990, which is much more expensive than the XPS 17 2020.

Regarding Dell XPS 17 2020 specs, the device sports a 17-inch screen with a resolution of 1920x1200 or 3840x2400. It’s powered by a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 processor, paired with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, Intel UHD Graphics, or RTX 2060 GPU. There are 4 RAM options, including 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB; as well as 4 options for SSD storage including 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB.

Dell XPS 17 2020 review: Design

This laptop borrows the design of the smaller XPS 15 and XPS 13, making it among the most elegant 17-inch laptops on the market.

It has all the outstanding design features of the XPS series, such as the silver aluminum exterior, a nearly bezel-less display, and a comfortable soft-touch deck. The interior is black, which is great, but it could be more beautiful if it were Arctic White color like the XPS 13.

The Dell XPS 2020 measures 14.74x9.76x0.77 inches and weighs 4.65-5.53 pounds. It feels heavy but impressively thin for a laptop at its size. It is just a little larger and heavier than Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro.

The laptop houses four USB-C ports that double as charging ports and offer DisplayPort compatibility. There are an SD Card reader and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The device is shipped with a USB-A adapter and an HDMI 2.0 adapter.

Dell XPS 17 2020 screen

The 4-sided InfinityEdge screen leaves out the thick bottom bezel to feature a seamless, nearly all-screen display. This design delivers a 93.7% screen-to-body ratio, which is ideal for multitasking and watching films.

The display of the Dell XPS 17 (2020) delivers satisfying deep black shades, making it easier to read on-screen text. With minimal bezels, you will have a better experience when working in the split-screen mode.

For film watching, you will be served with vibrant colors, great detail, and high contrast that make images pop out.

Dell XPS 17 2020 review: Performance

The laptop handles every task you want easily and smoothly without any lag or delay. Even when you apply the split-screen mode and open a bunch of tabs on a browser, it has no trouble doing its job, showing no slowdowns.

On Geekbench 5, the device gets a total of 7,740 points, much higher than the score of the 16-inch MacBook Pro (7,250 points). The 1TB SSD storage on this laptop is speedy, taking only 34 seconds to copy 26GB of files at a transfer rate of 789.6 MBps.

Dell XPS 17 2020 review: Graphics

A big advantage of this laptop over smaller cousins is the compatibility with Nvidia 20-series GPUs. Featuring the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card with the capability of ray tracing, this laptop registered strong results in graphics tests. Its graphics performance is so good that it can even double as a good gaming laptop. This makes the laptop suitable for music production, photography, and basic graphic design.

On the Pugebench Photoshop test, the XPS 17 2020 got 848.6 points, which is significantly higher than the 786.5 score of the XPS 15 with the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti. Pugebench Photoshop is a test that measures how well a device can open and modify a large image.

When it comes to gaming, the XPS 17 2020 smoothly handles various AAA games at 1080 pixels and impressive frame rates, including Shadow of the Tomb Raider (48 fps), Borderlands 3 (47 fps), and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (42 fps).

Dell XPS 17 2020 review: Battery life

For a big laptop with a 4K screen, the battery life of the XPS 17 is impressive. Battery testing shows that the device can last for 9 hours and 4 minutes when surfing the web non-stop over Wifi.

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