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Although it's based on Intel's fastest new Ivy Bridge CPU for Ultrabooks, the Dell XPS 14 at 4.7 pounds hovers perilously close in weight to the all-purpose laptop category. But Dell gives you several reasons to lug the extra ounces around, especially if you value good multimedia features.
Sitting in between the XPS 13 and the XPS 15 on the consumer-focused XPS laptop continuum, the XPS 14 we looked at boasts an exceptionally bright high-res (1600-by-900-pixel) 14-inch widescreen display and discrete nVidia GeForce GT 630M graphics with 1GB of memory to help with games and video.
Waves MaxxAudio technology, meanwhile, contributes to the full-bodied audio from two built-in 2-watt stereo speakers, and the high-def (1.3-megapixel) webcam captures smooth video for Skype calls and YouTube clips. As an added bonus, battery such as dell J399N battery , dell Inspiron 1440 battery , dell Inspiron 1750 battery , dell Inspiron 17 battery , dell Inspiron 14 battery , Dell RM791 Battery , Dell Studio 1735 Battery , Dell Studio 17 Battery , Dell Studio 1737 Battery , Dell MT342 Battery life in our tests was a praiseworthy 7 hours, 37 minutes.
But the XPS 14 disappoints in a couple of its features. The brilliant, LED-backlit display suffers from a somewhat narrow field of vision, especially when viewing videos from above or below.
And the XPS 14 isn't inexpensive. Our review unit, which also included an Intel Core i7-35178u processor, a 5400-rpm 500GB hard drive with startup assistance from a 32GB mSATA solid-state caching drive, and the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium, goes for a somewhat pricey $1500. Dell does, however, offer less expensive configurations starting at $1100, as well as a version with a 512GB SSD for (gulp) $2000 (as of July 20, 2012).
Performance, meanwhile, is a mixed bag that skews to generally good. Although the excellent battery life helped lift our XPS 14's overall performance score to a respectable 79 (on a par with scores for the current ultraportable chart-toppers), the 5400-rpm hard drive did drag the XPS 14 down on some components of our WorldBench 7 benchmark, most notably hard-drive operations and video encoding.
While the XPS 14's overall WorldBench score was a bit shy of recent averages, it had some bright spots, including an above-average score on the PCMark 7 Productivity Suite. Gaming results were also mixed--some slightly higher than average and others a bit below--but the overall gaming score of 84 out of 100 (slightly above recent averages) is certainly within the ballpark for a laptop with discrete graphics.