Dell XPS 9500 Laptop 15″ | 10th Gen Intel Core i9 / 1TB SSD – 64GB RAM – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti | Touchscreen – Windows 10 Home (Renewed)

Dell XPS 9500 Laptop 15″ | 10th Gen Intel Core i9 / 1TB SSD – 64GB RAM – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti | Touchscreen – Windows 10 Home (Renewed)

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• Dell XPS 9500 – 15″ Touch Screen
• 10th Generation Intel Core i9 i9-10885H Octa-Core Processor, 2.4 GHz (5.3 GHz with Turbo Boost)
• 1TB SSD hard drive and 64GB RAM
• 3840 x 2400 4k touch resolution with an integrated webcam and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti graphics card
• Wireless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

The XPS (9500) is a premium, workstation laptop with a powerful 45-watt Intel 10th Gen processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650Ti (Max-Q) for graphics. While those sounds like gaming laptop specs make no mistake, this is aimed at creatives, video and photo editors, multimedia whizzes, and engineers who need serious discrete localized processing.

What makes this XPS 15 (9500) interesting is it is the first complete redesign in five years. Dell takes its time figuring out an overall chassis and adds minor iterations for years. That strategy has worked well as the XPS line is widely considered one of the best for Windows PCs.

This year’s changes mostly focus on the display, which is now 16:10 instead of 16:9, along with those razor-thin Infinity Edge bezels, on all four sides. This display choice mirrors the recently revamped XPS 13 2-in-1 (7390) and XPS 13 (9300), both of which won critical rave reviews from us.

Build quality is excellent. While the new XPS 15 is not any more substantial than last year’s model, which had a larger footprint, it weighs nearly the same at 4.5 lbs. (2.05 kg). That’s not light, and the first time you grab the XPS 15 (9500), you’ll be surprised at how dense it is compared to its size.

But what makes the XPS 15’s display so amazing is the overall experience. The super-thin bezels are now even more pleasing due to the afforded symmetry on all sides (vs. the previous version’s disproportional chin). Those bezels result in a record-setting 92.9 percent screen-to-body-ratio. Compared to the original XPS 15 with a 16:9 display aspect, the new 9500 provides a 5 percent larger screen, but a 5.6 percent smaller footprint.

• 8 percent thinner
• Keyboard keycaps that are 9.7 percent larger
• The trackpad is 62 percent larger
• Quad speakers: two top-firing, two underneath
• The soft-touch finish is more resistant to fingerprints
• New fingerprint reader
• Shift from 4K OLED (Samsung) to 4K Sharp IGZO

All these features, at least on paper, add up to dramatically change the overall experience. But Dell is also stressing that this XPS 15 will feel familiar, which it does. Between the CNC machined aluminum chassis with carbon fiber inlays, this does not feel like a whole new laptop, which is a good thing for fans of the XPS line.

Dell has finally dropped the Type-A and full HDMI ports from last year’s model, a letdown for some, but rewards others with thinner chassis design. There are now three Type-C ports, with two supporting Thunderbolt 3 (4x) and the other 3.1 with Power Delivery. To make up for the missing ports, Dell tosses in a nice Type-C dongle with both a full HDMI and Type-A connector. Dell is also keeping the full SD card reader, which is popular for video and photo editors.

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