{"id":4047,"date":"2017-11-17T08:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2018-07-03T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:13:26","slug":"my-current-laptop-choice-dell-xps-13-late-2017-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/my-current-laptop-choice-dell-xps-13-late-2017-model\/","title":{"rendered":"My Current Laptop Choice: Dell XPS 13, late 2017 model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nov 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the months before Christmas each year I often report on my current laptop choice for productive travel work, and here&#8217;s this year&#8217;s choice: the brand new late-2017 release of the Dell XPS 13 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dell.com\/en-us\/shop\/xps-13\/13-9370\/spd\/xps-13-9370-laptop\">model 9370<\/a> is the one I am referring to). Here&#8217;s why I am recommending it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like a 13 inch screen for travel laptops, which it has.<\/li>\n<li>My current work patterns no longer call for a tablet and I now prefer a regular clamshell, which this is. And I like a <em>compact<\/em> clamshell laptop if traveling a lot. Due to the Dell&#8217;s infinity screen, this is still the world&#8217;s smallest 13 inch laptop. (I still use my XPS 15 for more stationary work like desktop replacement with monitor). And it&#8217;s very very light.<\/li>\n<li>The main reason for choosing this laptop over other small and lightweight 13 inch ones: this is one of the first laptops to come out with Intel&#8217;s brand new 8th generation processor, which is a quad-core processor in a dual-core footprint (called Kaby Lake R). So you get XPS 15 quad core performance in a tiny, battery-saving, footprint, and the reports are\u00a0that it has blazing performance.<\/li>\n<li>But don&#8217;t get this if you routinely use a webcam on your laptop&#8230; like on the XPS 15 the webcam is positioned wrong. I don&#8217;t use laptop webcams, so no problem for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have one of these yet (still using my Yoga 900 for travel and no need to upgrade yet), so my recommendation is based on third-party reviews, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/reviews\/laptops\/dell-xps-13\">this one<\/a>. For detailed benchmarks on this new processor, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3235813\/laptop-computers\/intel-8th-gen-core-i7-review.html?idg_eid=e95bc9bfaa341d36e8681c449343dd86&amp;email_SHA1_lc=26ad7895f607fffcaba622788d60b0fb94288235&amp;cid=pcw_nlt_pcw_bestof_html_2017-11-10&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Best%20of%20PCWorld%202017-11-10&amp;utm_term=pcw_bestof_html\">this article<\/a>. Also, most listings for this laptop are for the older model, so be sure to find a listing for the new one like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dell-i7-8550U-Machined-Aluminum-Display\/dp\/B076V8M6VZ\/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1513261893&amp;sr=1-3&amp;keywords=dell+xps+13+8th+gen\">this listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 17, 2017 In the months before Christmas each year I often report on my current laptop choice for productive travel work, and here&#8217;s this year&#8217;s choice: the brand new late-2017 release of the Dell XPS 13 (model 9370 is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/my-current-laptop-choice-dell-xps-13-late-2017-model\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}