2018 Dell XPS 9570 Laptop, 15.6 UHD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge Touch Display, 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8750H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, GeForce GTX 1050Ti, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 Home, Silver

After careful reviewing the Razor 15 and Surface Book 2, I decided to go with the XPS 15 9570. This machine does what it says. Ill get to the point with the pros and cons. Note: I did apply new thermal paste, updated bios and drivers, and use Intel XTU and Dell Power Management to get my results. You may have different results than mine. XPS 15 9570 4k, 500 NVME m.2, 16 DDR4, I78750H, GTX 1050 TI, Intel Wireless AC-9260 Pros: Powerful for everyday use and heavy loads. Aesthetically pleasing KEYBOARD (probably on par with the best MAC keyboards pre-2017) Video editing and photography (enable CUDA) 4k Screen is the best in the industry for laptop Fast and responsive Fingerprint reader in power button All ports you need Can game casually (Total War @ max settings >120 FPS; Dying Light @ max settings > 70 fps; Skyrim SE @ max setting >60 fps; Rise of Tomb Raider @ high settings > 60 fps (all these settings are dependent on your own preferences) Heaven benchmark @! ultra 1080 >60 fps. Neutral: Fan noise. Combination of power management, undervolting, and thermal paste greatly reduced fan noise almost completely from everyday tasks (office, web, emails, Netflix, etc.) It will come on very minimally (2 of 10 loudness scale) when using Thunderbolt 3 port to connect dock or multiple monitors. I believe this is due to the heat built in the area which cannot dissipate properly. Another tip is to make adjustments in the Nvidia control panel to only allow certain apps to use the discrete card, which reduces heat. It seems the fan comes on more if you use the discrete graphics card. The intel integrated graphics can handle everyday apps. Cons: Fan noise can be loud while gaming and video editing (4k) Fingerprints on the dash Lid is tight and will require two hands at times Battery on full performance mode with 100% brightness only lasts about 4 hours or so; higher when performance is decrease. Setting dell power manager to quiet mode throttles CPU Screen automatically dims at times even with dim function off. The awful camera placement Thermals could be better (hence all my adjustments Ive made to make it better) Conclusion: The XPS 15 9570 is almost a perfect laptop. Thought Dells quality control seems lacking, I got my self a full working version and it doesnt not disappoint. Out of all the laptops Ive owned, Ive best pleased with this unit. Ive owned Macbook Pro 15, Surface Pros line, other Dell laptops. If you want something that works, dont mind the Apple Tax, and dont mind some level of a closed system, I would get a Mac. (Avoid the last two models, look for a pre-2017 model) Think of it as an automatic transmission car, you press the gas and it goes. If you want something that is powerful and customization at a competitive price, get a windows machine, specifically XPS 15 9570. Think of it like a manual transmission car, you have more control of the car output of power. But you have to know what youre doing. Dell is coming out with an OLED version of the laptop, if not in a hurry, I would wait for that. But its the best bang for your bucks for a machine that will do everything you throw at it with great performance, unless youre a heavy gamer then there are better options.

Im going to start with what I did NOT like about the laptop, which I bought a month ago in the Microsoft Store. -The first and most important is the keyboard, there are keys that do not work like the others, they do not have the same level of sensitivity. Many times you have to press them hard and right in the center to make them work. There are people who took the trouble to record it and upload it to YouTube. Normally those who bought this notebook have to be correcting what they write. Additionally when you stop using the keyboard for 30> minutes, in my case two B and Space keys. They stop working properly and I have to press them repeatedly and quickly until they work again. I write this after Dell launched the update where they correct a skipping problem with the keys, when the laptop just woke up. The point is that this did not solve my problem with the keyboard. -I do not care about the position of the camera, in fact the fingers look very little when you write. What really matters to me is that the camera has violet and red lines as interference, especially when you do not have a strong light. -Something I did not know existed until I used this notebook. It is known as Coil Wine, it is a noise (electric buzzing). close to the E - R - T keys. Many people have asked me why this laptop has that noise? What if it is not damaged? I plan to send it to support, but they tell me its about 20 days. The good -The battery life is excellent, lets say it lasts about 4 hours, in my case Im a developer and there are programs that are a bit heavy and I never use it in energy saving mode. If you choose an intermediate configuration of energy it will last much longer than 4 hours. -The quality of the materials is very good, the best is the 4k display. and also has much more brightness than other laptops. -The tactile is good too. -I like the sound, they improved it with an update. -The mouse is great, at the level of the macbooks.

Simple the best laptop I have owned - working in the tech industry I wanted a powerful laptop with GPU but light weight. The performance is amazing and I am getting 6 hours from the battery.

The hardware is among the best available and the build quality is amazing. Thats the nice things. The frustrations have been firmware / driver support. Dell has add on drivers for audio, power management, wireless, etc. Many of their competitors due the same, but I havent been able to use windows default drivers to supplant them and the crash rate for some of them is outstanding. Pair that with bi-monthly firmware updates that I suspect are the cause of many bugs (machine has been failing to resume from sleep off and on for over 3 months) and you basically ruin the pros. Previously I had a 16 GB memory rig that caused me to kill and load VMs constantly. More cores + memory should have been a significant time savings, but instead all of the time saved and then some has been spent with Dell support or trying to troubleshoot machines myself. If the end user is not tech savvy, I would expect these frustrations to be compounded several times over.

Jammed, stuck not working properly

I finally caved and spent almost $2000 on this laptop. I’ve been using Blender lately, and my old laptop couldn’t handle it. When it runs, it runs great! Super fast rendering. Clear screen with vibrant colors. I love it. What I don’t love is what’s in the attached picture. I have no idea what that is or how to make it go away except rebooting and losing my work. This laptop also gets VERY hot, as well as the charging dock. To the point that I can’t leave it plugged in unless I’m with it because I’m worried it might burn my house down. If somebody could tell me what that glitching is, I’d really appreciate it.

I’m not leaving a full review, because I can’t unlock the XPS’s capabilities. I can not download the programs I need due to the WiFi chip. From previous reviews, I knew this was an issue before I bought it and I kinda thought Dell would correct the issue for PR reasons. So, as others have done, i’ve ordered the Intel chip to replace the Killer chip. I really was hoping I wouldn’t have this problem because it’s supposed to be an awesome computer. I also don’t want to wait on Dell for the easy fix.

WORST EXPERIENCE EVER. I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO EVERYONE WHO TOLD ME TO BUY AN HP. THIS COMPUTER OUT OF THE BOX WAS SLOW AND FELT LIKE IT WAS INFECTED WITH A VIRUS. I HAVE BEEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MY WHOLE LIFE SO I CAN INTELLIGENTLY GIVE DELL AN F- DELL SUPPORT WAS HORRIBLE. SAID I NEEDED TO BUY A SOFTWARE WARRANTY FOR A BRAND NEW COMPUTER. DO-NOT-BUY-THIS COMPUTER!!!!!!!! I GUESS I AM OFF THE PC GEEKS AT BEST BUY TO GET MY BRAND. EW LAPTOP FIXED. THANKS DELL.

The description says Windows 10 Pro, but I got it with Windows 10 Home. :-/

Reported to ship with Windows 10. It comes with Windows 10 Pro pre-installed. The computer crashed after installing some updates which failed, so I ran a system restore, which also failed. The built-in OS recovery tools all failed. Downloaded the USB OS Support Assist / Recovery tool from Dell official website and it installs W10 Home, not Pro. Spent 2 hours on the phone with Dell support, Dell claims this is because this is an unofficial 3rd party seller and the description is incorrect. They are unwilling to provide an upgrade back to W10 Pro, which the machine shipped with, because in their support database it is listed as a W10 Home machine. Buyer beware. Like the computer otherwise.