Specifications
Dell XPS 13 9350
Display
13.3 inch, 3200×1800 glossy touch
Processor
Intel Core i7-6500U (2/4 core/thread, a 2.5/3.1 GHz, 15 W)
RAM
8 GB, DDR3, 1866 MHz, Dual Channel)
The GPU of the processor
Intel HD Graphics 520 (300/1050 MHz)
Discrete graphics card
No
SSD
1x 256 GB (PCIe 3.0, NVMe, Samsung PM951 MZVLV256HCHP-000D1)
HDD
No
Ports and connectors
1x USB 3.1 Type-C
2x USB 3.0,
1x mini-jack,
card reader SD
Wireless interfaces
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 ac + Bluetooth 4.1 (Dell Wireless 1820A)
Battery
52 WH
Dimensions (WxDxH)
304x235x15 mm
Weight
1,29 kg
Price
101 000
Where to buy
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Appearance and ports
Dell XPS 13 9350
Compact laptop comes in a neat black box which is hidden in a typical brown box. Looks like Dell XPS 13 9350 heterogeneous as last year’s model: display cover and bottom panel made of aluminum, and the top-case and the frame of the matrix is black plastic. On the top cover exactly on the center is the logo on the lower two oblong rubber legs, the number of vents without any hint of dust filter and the traditional small cap that says XPS. Under it there is neither RAM nor storage, but only the sticker with the serial number and other service information. And one screw — don’t miss it, if you’re going to disassemble the laptop. This little cap is needed to information under it has not faded. However, where is the guarantee that she is will start to hang out?
Dell XPS 13 9350
Dell XPS 13 9350
Dell XPS 13 9350 looks solid, I would even say, manly. Its design is small rounded elements, so it seems serious and intense. The topcase as a year ago, looks not rough, not bumpy, but feels there is neither one nor the other — an absolutely smooth surface. Personally, I figure not very much, however, it is a matter of taste.
Dell XPS 13 9350
Dell XPS 13 9350
Comfortable keyboard, between the keys quite a distance in order not to miss. The course they are shallow, but if you compare only with deliberately thin laptops, it is short to call it just cannot be. Not without a backlight, it has two brightness levels and then off, you should think about for a couple of seconds. Click pad is wide and easy to manage, works well.
Dell XPS 13 9350
Thin a laptop is difficult to call: maximum thickness, in place securing the cover to the core is 15 mm and the minimum was 9 mm. the Weight is small — 1300 grams.
The back face of the blank, and on the front you notice a large activity indicator. Ports for connecting peripherals, like any other Windows ultrabook, Dell XPS 13 plenty. But lacks some of the traditional video — HDMI or Mini DisplayPort. But there is just part of the everyday life of the USB 3.1 Type-C, on which it will be possible to transmit the video signal. In addition to his at the Dell XPS 13 is present in one USB 3.0 on each side, audio Jack and card reader. Small, but useful feature on top — level indicator of battery charge. It is a button and five white LEDs. Their number and will indicate the approximate percentage of charge “batteries”.
The back face of Dell XPS 13 9350
The front face of Dell XPS 13 9350
The left side Dell XPS 13 9350
The right side Dell XPS 13 9530
Bringing to an end a Chapter that describes the appearance of the laptop, not to mention the original position of the web camera. It can be found not over the display in the middle, and underneath in the bottom left corner. Prepare yourself for the fact that the other person will be able to easily count all your chins, even if you think that you don’t.
The battery Dell XPS 13 9350
Display and sound
Dell XPS 13 9350, as you can guess from the name, has a 13.3-inch screen. Resolution can be as 3200х1800 pixels, as well as the usual 1920×1080, but the last option in selling is much rarer and is cheaper just a couple of thousand. There is also a configuration with a Full HD twenty thousand cheaper. However, you should note that it is different and CPU — for the worse.
Our sample also has a screen with a high density of dots per inch. Pile up it is still touch and glossy, which not everyone will like, unless you are a devoted fan of fingerprints and glare on the laptop screen.
Dell XPS 13 9350
sRGB
97%
Adobe RGB
73%
Gamma
1,8
Color temperature
6600 To
Brightness
310,6 CD/m2
Contrast
860:1
The color deviation DeltaE (lower is better)
1,66
Check with a colorimeter showed that the display is very good and, in addition, is configured to conscience, except for scales, which have a Dell XPS 13 slightly below the reference. Because of this, neighboring light colors can merge. Other indicators only please. Color gamut is almost identical to the sRGB standard, the color temperature is tuned perfectly, the contrast in height and the color deviation is so small that is not visible to the human eye. Brightness and above average even by the standards of laptops, but even in the cloudy weather to work for my laptop on the street becomes problematic.
The brightness of the display of Dell XPS 13 9350 in the sun
The sound is difficult to complain — he’s definitely no worse than other ultrabooks. Speakers located on the sides, so that play is not in the table. Built-in equalizer and different modes allows you to try to squeeze out of the sound system the sound will seem closer to “right”. Volume well enough to together with a Cup of coffee to Wake you up in the morning cheerful melodies of your favorite songs.
Performance and work offline
To choose stores the configuration of the Dell XPS 13 9350, suitable for your needs and wallet, will not have long — options on the select few. Installation of HDD inside this ultrabook, as is sometimes the case from ASUS, the impossible has no place, nor the right of the interface.
Under the “hood” Dell XPS 13 9350 meets one of the three contemporary low-voltage processor, designed specifically for compact laptops — Intel Core i5-6200U, Intel Core i7-6500U or Intel i7-6560U. The first has been repeatedly observed by us in tests, now it’s time to see how much “faster” his older brother, the Intel Core i7-6500U, which are installed in our configuration. According to the results of CPU tests, the difference is 12 about 23%, which, on the one hand essential, but on the other, is unlikely to be evident. If you are serious about performance, for example, the encoding rate of videos, it’s worth taking a very different laptop. But if you are willing to wait or do not plan to boot the laptop at one hundred percent, you can easily take the Dell XPS 13 is at least 9350 Intel Core i7-6500U, even with Intel Core i5-6200U. But the Intel i7-6560U has a more powerful graphics core, but the tests have not yet been, and in absentia to discuss its potential in games, we will not.
Proizvoditelnosti Intel Core i7-6500U in Cinebench R15
Proizvoditelnosti Intel Core i7-6500U in x264 HD Benchmark 4.0
RAM is not the DDR3, but with a frequency of 1866 MHZ vs typical for this type of 1600 MHZ. Accordingly located, and its results — between DDR3-1600 and DDR4-2133.
Test RAM memory Dell XPS 13 9350 in the AIDA64 Cache & Memory Benchmark
The GPU from the i5-6200U and i7-6500 is the same almost nothing, as virtually identical and the gaming potential of the laptop, on the sole basis of these systems-on-chip. Dell XPS 13 9350 though pulls ahead, and even ahead of Dell Latitude E5470, with a much more powerful processor, but the difference is a few fps that you won’t feel on the eye.
Test Dell XPS 13 9350 in the graphics benchmark 3DMark 2.0.2
Test Dell XPS 13 9350 World of Tanks
In World of Tanks can more or less comfortable to play in low resolution, for example, 1366×768 pixels, medium quality graphics. An attempt to repeat the same trick in Dirt Rally is a failure — an ultrabook with a scratch gives 19 frames per second. 4 more than compact and less expensive HP ENVY 13-d000ur.
Processor and graphics, everything is clear — Dell XPS 13 9350 wipes the nose visited us thin laptops, but to see the difference without measuring the benchmarks difficult. But what it really boasts of, is a fast SSD. Here our hero is ahead of even some gaming laptops. What, however, is not so surprising — the Dell XPS 13 is worth more than some of them. And yet the speed of his SSD made by Samsung is very high, so your program will not be for a long time “thinking”, waiting until all the files upload to the RAM.
The performance of the SSD Dell XPS 13 9350 5.1.2 consecutive in CrystalDiskMark, the sequential read and write
The performance of the SSD Dell XPS 13 9350 in CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 consecutive and random read and write
Unfortunately, overheating has not done. 85 degrees, which established the mark after 15 minutes of the stress test, not redistribution for Dell XPS 13 9350. Through the first half a minute, hot the CPU reduces the clock frequency of all cores, so the temperature rose past 90 degrees. In other words, the CPU works at full strength only for the first 30 seconds of any complex task.
The CPU temperature Dell XPS 13 9350 in the stress test
With each new line ultramasculine Intel while working laptops from a single battery charge nice increases. Dell XPS 13 9350 turned out to be among the most long-lasting laptops that have passed through our hands over the last couple of months. Watching movies in HD quality, Wi-Fi enabled and 53% screen brightness without recharging lasted almost nine hours. At full brightness — about seven and a half hours. To play the same, of course, will fail, the laptop will ask you to connect it to the network in two hours, which is also not bad.
The battery life Dell XPS 13 9350
Energoeffektivnosti Dell XPS 13 9350
Dell XPS 13 9350 worked without recharging for longer than the 13.3-inch HP ENVY 13-d000ur, but the latter less battery. At equal capacity “of the battery” HP would have been a little more persistent.
Competitors
Dell XPS 13 9350
ASUS ZenBook UX305UA
HP ENVY 13-d002ur
Display
13.3 inch, 3200×1800 glossy touch
13.3 inch, 1920×1080 pixel
13.3 inch, 3200×1800 glossy
Processor
Intel Core i7-6500U (2/4 core/thread, a 2.5/3.1 GHz, 15 W)
RAM
8 GB, DDR3, 1866 MHz, Dual Channel)
8 GB LPDDR3 (1600 MHz)
8 GB DDR3 (1600 MHz, Dual Channel)
The GPU of the processor
Intel HD Graphics 520 (300/1050 MHz)
Discrete graphics card
No
SSD
1x 256 GB (PCIe 3.0, NVMe, Samsung PM951 MZVLV256HCHP-000D1)
1x 512 GB
1x 256 GB
HDD
No
Ports and connectors
1x USB 3.1 Type-C
2x USB 3.0,
1x mini-jack,
card reader SD
2x USB 3.0,
1x USB 2.0,
1x HDMI,
1x mini-jack,
card reader SD
3x USB 3.0,
1x HDMI,
1x mini-jack,
card reader SD
Wireless interfaces
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 ac + Bluetooth 4.1 (Dell Wireless 1820A)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 ac + Bluetooth 4.0
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth 4.0 HS
Battery
52 WH
56 WHr
45 W*h
Dimensions (WxDxH)
304x235x15 mm
324x226x16 mm
326,5х226х13 mm
Weight
1,29 kg
1.3 kg
1.36 kg
Price
101 000
95 000 rubles
90 000 rubles
Where to buy
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ASUS ZenBook UX305UA
For a few thousand less you can find not less interesting laptop — ASUS ZenBook UX305UA. It also features a 13.3-inch display but with lower resolution — 1920×1080 pixels. It is bad or not addressed to the buyer, in my opinion Full HD for such a screen would be a good indicator. But this ZenBook can offer something more interesting — SSD of 512 GB, while the Dell XPS 13 with SSD 9350 such a volume already worth 145 thousand rubles. Perhaps the drive in ASUS less productive, but the difference in performance is hardly worth it to pay 50 thousand. Moreover, the processor is the same and RAM the same.
ASUS ZenBook UX305UA
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HP ENVY 13-d002ur
Here is a similar model — HP ENVY 13-d002ur. This laptop the display is also high definition, 3200×1800 pixel, and the volume of SSD of 256 GB. The HP laptop is cheaper by 10 thousand at the time of the article. Configuration easier recently visited us in the editorial and left mixed feelings. On the one hand, this is a great slim ultrabook, on the other hand, its processor begins to boil even faster than the Dell XPS 13 9350.
HP ENVY 13-d002ur
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Conclusion
Dell XPS 13 since last year has changed little. The same design, the same glossy display, are also inconveniently located webcam. But mostly, the laptop makes a very good impression. It is quite productive for its class, and is equipped with very fast SSD. The narrow frame around the display looks fine — it is strange that other manufacturers haven’t adopted this feature (probably because it is not MacBook). Yes, the processor is slightly overheating, but nowadays difficult to find an ultrabook that that does not sin. Although this does not justify anyone.
Dell XPS 13 9350
Dell XPS 13 is quite comfortable keyboard with well executed lighting and the HP ENVY 13-d000ur). Quite sane and well-tuned sound matrix. However, working with the ultrabook on the street it lacks brightness. I would like that the laptop is worth 5-10 Grand less, but a business card Dell was never cheap. And if the tested configuration is still justifies its 100 thousand rubles, the same model, but with twice higher capacity SSD already over 145 thousand — no, no, thank you.
For
Against
- Thin frame display
- A very “fast” SSD
- Very quiet
- The web camera is positioned badly
- The glossy finish of the touch screen glare and fingerprints will spoil the impression of the image