Review: Dell XPS 13 (2015)
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
It is the smallest 13-inch Ultrabook in the market and it features an innovative border-free Infinity Display with a miniscule 5.2mm border. Currently the thinnest frame on a notebook. With a slim bezel of less than 2% of the total display,
PC makers have been obsessed with contorting notebooks, creating strange and 'clever' new ways to meld tablets and laptops, as well as Frankensteining 2-in-1 or even 3-in-1 devices. With the XPS 13, Dell has done the exact opposite. It has resumed where the trajectory of subportable notebook design stagnated and pursued the quest to create the ideal Windows ultraportable.
The fundamental problem with many hybrid PCs is that very few have come close to offering the kind of structural reliability and ergonomics that even mediocre notebooks and laptops have to offer.