
The first thing that surprised me is the weight. Yet, they offer up a sleek, minimal, and clean updated design language. Both the XPS 15 and XPS 17 feel very familiar, and it is easy to get used to them. One of Dell’s marketing bits for the Dell says the XPS 17 has a fresh yet familiar design, and that just about encapsulates it. Weight: 5.53 lb (2.51 kg)* for touch with 97Whr battery What’s In The Box.2x Thunderbolt 3 with power delivery & DisplayPort.Battery: 6-Cell Battery, 97WHr (Integrated).Connectivity: Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2 x 2) and Bluetooth 5.1.Display: 17.0″ UHD+ (3840 x 2400) InfinityEdge Touch Anti-Reflective 500-Nit Display.SSD: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive.
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 6GB GDDR6 with Max-Q. Processor: 10th Generation Intel Core i7-10875H processor (16MB Cache, up to 5.1 GHz, 8 cores). The Dell has the following features and specifications: Let’s find out why 17 is greater than 15 in our Dell review. So much of what I’m going to say here I probably covered in my XPS 15 review, and some of it will be repeated, but with some minor add-ins for the higher specs. This review might be shorter than my XPS 15 review. There are a few more ports, the GPU is a bit more powerful, there is more RAM, and of course, the display is bigger. I wasn’t really sure how to do a full review of the Dell XPS 17 9700, considering it’s not that far off from the XPS 15 9500. The company sent their new Dell to me for review shortly after my XPS 15 review was wrapped up. Dell has revived and resurrected the mighty Dell XPS 17. The improvements aren’t limited to the XPS 13 and XPS 15.
I still believe that headline to be true because Dell has made some great improvements to the entire XPS lineup. A few months ago, I reviewed the Dell XPS 15 9500, where I said Dell’s best keeps getting better.