On its right side are a USB 3.0 port capable of charging handheld devices, an SD card slot, and a Noble (not Kensington) lock slot. The laptop is crafted from machined aluminum with a soft-touch carbon fiber composite keyboard deck and palm rest. While the 2.7-pound system is no burden in a briefcase, we can't say the same for the couple of books you'll want to carry to stack beneath it for Skype conferences. The Dell's claim to design infamy is that the top bezel has no room for a webcam, leaving the latter awkwardly placed below the bottom left corner of the display for a looming, unflattering image of your nose and chin. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Microsoft Surface Laptop Review Slim and TrimĮven if you've never seen one, you're probably aware of the XPS 13's claim to design fame: The InfinityEdge display that pioneered today's trend toward ultra-thin screen bezels, letting Dell squeeze a 13.3-inch laptop into a frame (0.6 by 12 by 7.9 inches) smaller than 12.5-inch models like the Lenovo ThinkPad X270 ($734.25 at Lenovo) (Opens in a new window) (0.8 by 12 by 8.2 inches) and barely bigger than the late 11.6-inch MacBook Air (0.7 by 11.8 by 7.6 inches). The processor has a lower base speed (1.8GHz), but higher turbo speed (4GHz) and numerous internal enhancements from the previous generation. The version reviewed here packs 8GB of memory and a 256GB PCIe SSD, but its main attraction is the Core i7-8550U, the first quad-core (rather than dual-core chip) in Intel's 15-watt family. The base model of the XPS 13 ($799.99 at Dell) (Opens in a new window) comes with a seventh-gen Core i3 and a skimpy 4GB of RAM and 128GB solid-state drive. We won't be able to make a final call until we see a Stealth with the new CPU, but you won't likely go wrong with either one. We're eager to see it, but this latest XPS 13 (starts at $799, $1,299 as tested) is more than enough to keep us satiated, with its upgrade in the form of Intel's eighth-generation 'Kaby Lake R' processor, blowing away laptops based on seventh-generation silicon and reclaiming the ultraportable Editors' Choice that the previous model lost to the Razer Blade Stealth. Online gossip (Opens in a new window) has it that Dell will launch a new XPS 13 in early 2018, with a white case and with three USB-C ports replacing the existing ports.

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