Funny thing is, even Dell themselves know very well that these touch function keys suck, which is why they didn't include them in their business lineup, like Precision and Latitude.
And yet they keep trying to double and triple down on it despite nearly every reviewer and consumer criticizing it. It's worse than Apple's Touch Bar, which Apple famously killed, and now Dell thinks that the Touch Row was a good idea. Ffs, they really don't know what makes a good laptop anymore!
@@RagnarokBW well before design refresh, even xps has real keys, not capacitive ones. Funny thing is, in recent latitude they use same style keyboard without gap between keys that used in latest XPS, but they have real keys on function lines, not shitty capacitive one like XPS
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is better than this: It has much better performance, being lighter and thinner than this. It has better battery life, keyboard, speakers, and ports. It also costs less.
Heck,the ROG Flow x13 is better than the XPS 13. And the fact that the Razer Blade 14 is CHEAPER than the XPS 14 while having better performance, ore ports, better battery life, two RAM slots, and a higher refresh rate screen just make it impossible to recommend the Dell XPS 14. I mean, when even Apple's MacBook Pros have more ports than the XPS lineup and is simuarly priced, you know Dell screwed up big time. I cannot recommend the XPS lineup this year at all.
Great point! The G14 is such a no brainer if you uninstall armory crate and use G-helper to reduce temperatures and fan noise. Also the Lenovo yoga pro 9i will also be a great contender when it's updated to the ultra 9 processor, heck A RAZER BLADE 14 is better and somehow CHEAPER than any usable configuration of the XPS (ones with the OLED screen and dedicated GPU)!
Summed up perfectly as "too many compromises for the price" I was really excited to see the XPS returning to the 14" form factor, the equally disappointed to see the keyboard and Dell's instance on not offering these with AMD processors as a option either. Having been a long term XPS user for the last 8 years with various devices at work from the XPS 15 and 13 lines I've become less impressed with them over time, we've recently taking the plunge back into Thinkpads, and I have to say Lenovos keyboards on those are miles more comfortable to use and I've found my self heavily using the function keys again. I've found the AMD chips we went with a perfect balance of performance, a decent amount of GPU grunt and the battery life excellent, the only downside really is less flashy appearance.
in reality nobody cares about the dGPU in a laptop like this, the problem is other stuff. a 4050 at 30W is just a bonus, with or without it this laptop has issues with price, performance, functionality etc
I don't know if I can quite explain it (or if this is the core reason), but I sense the main reason people are (IMO rightfully) piling on these new designs is that we collectively know Dell is just posing these as luxury. In reality, it's a facade of copying apple 5 years too late - with HALF the battery life and equal pricing ... plus I'm sure there's a hundred major and minor issues and annoyances that will still happen because it's infected with the same standard dell bios and bloat-ware (rage-ware?) like Maxx audio (oh boy, I'm about to start ranting), Premier color (I'm sure it works JUST as well as color management on a Mac), etc... P.S. I say this as an XPS 9500 owner... if you dare buy this, get 3-5year extended warranty. Thank me later.
I just posted by comment and read yours. People reading OP's comment, do as she/he as mentioned, buy the extended warranty (i'm not a dell employee). Try to get it included using discount codes. You will need it.
Maxx audio has been the bane of my existance ever since I got my XPS 15. I came from a macbook so you can expect how much it makes me rage that everything doesn't "just work". Sadely I'm stuck to windows now so I'm hoping the new Asus G16 or the Lenovo yoga pro 9i will give me an experience closer to that of a macbook, Dell is just the worse and keeps getting worse with every generation.
The craftsmanship and material design on the new XPS line is really top tier stuff, but the functionality is terrible. For this price point I would want a more robust heatsink cooler design with much higher TDP (power) limits on the CPU/GPU.
You are talking about video editing - but my experience shows that DaVinci sometimes crashes due to lack of video memory even on a 6GB video card, but here it is 4GB (in the requirements for 4K video says need 8GB)
We use Resolve as well and in my experience it does not crash when running out of VRAM, which does happen even with a mobile 4090, but rather gets super slow, which only a restart can fix. I cut down the entirety of the talking head for this video on the XPS 14 without a problem tho. But your mileage may vary depending on your footage.
@@NotebookcheckReviews I do quite a bit of my on the go editing with a 780M and have very few issues, It can get super slow after a long session but a restart quicky fixes that, and tweaking the settings to with the lower quality previews also solves a lot of that too.
@@NotebookcheckReviews In my comment I didn’t talk about the work in the program itself, but about rendering in 4k. When rendering in DaVinci resolve 18 at 4k60Hz in h265, it filled 6GB of video memory on my rtx3060m and crashed. In the 19th version the situation improved - in most cases it was limited to 4-5GB of video memory... p.s. some time ago I replaced my Asus g14 (r9 5900HS + rtx3060m) with a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro - working with DaVinci on it is much more pleasant (although I can’t say that I’m completely satisfied with the MacBook - there are a lot of things that frustrate me, starting with scratching screen on keyboard)
It's a design functional monstrosity, dell and alienware make shit laptops recently with poor design decisions on and bad product ie crap dim screens in alienware what why?
@@NotebookcheckReviews Even the 16" is poorly priced. The ROG G16, Lenovo yoga pro 9i and even the razer blade 16 are MUCH better options at the same price range than any XPS 16 with the OLED screen and dedicated GPU (the 1080p ips is literal trash and an unusable spec.)
I hate that they cap their 4070 at 60W for the 16". I would love to be able to spec out a 9i, 4070, 64gb memory, 1TB ssd of that machine if they would kick it up to 90W for the dGPU
"Hated for no reason?" Terrible keyboard due to touch expensive Long term, bad quality control for software and hardware (this is based on owning several XPS 13s up to last year) No AMD option thermal management not the best mediocre battery life
Also: - An unusable touchpad if you have vision issues. - A port selection that makes Apple look generous. And you know you screwed up when Apple is the one with more ports. - Extremely low power limit on the RTX 4050, and worse than even the Asus ROG Flow x13, a 13.4 inch laptop that absolutely obliterates this one. - Useless touch row that only serves to cause programmers and people using the escape and delete keys massive headaches. - Soldered Wi-Fi 6E when the 13 & 16 get Wi-Fi 7. What the hell!? - Way too expensive for what you get. So yeah, I agree. This laptop deserves all of the hate it's getting and honestly even more.
I don't know why I seem to be the only one who thinks this, but I think it looks unfinished, like a DVT prototype that somehow was released as a retail product.
If you would be so kind and go to Dell outlet to see all the machines that are in the restored section and it is neither more nor less the returned computers or simply that have not been sold, literally ultra 7 + 32 gb ram + 1tb ssd + rtx 4050 + oled for the modest price of 1500 dollars, I personally like it much more at this price than at a stupidly high price
I think its more about the pricing thats affecting people, Earlier it was justified cause dell xps was the only premium performance windows laptop(non gaming) but now every laptop is premium high end with better performance and form while being cheaper.
Still remembered when Josh was like not happy, when talked about this Laptop. Even when this guy (13" version in 2022) was made Josh disappointed as this was having issues 😅
Whole xps line is absurd. I will never forget how they knowingly sold millions of defective touchpadcunits for xps 15/17. Now with the refresh this keyboard etc.
Es kann nur Sinn ergeben zu kaufen, wenn es viel billiger wird. Es sieht zwar krass aus, aber ist immerhin nicht wert, wenn der Blade 14 viel besser in der gleichen Preisgruppe anbietet.
@@cameronbosch1213 But do you think it's still worth it, considering the shitty customer service of Razer in Germany? At this point I'm just thinking of grabbing a Macbook for work and continuing to game at home on my heavy Acer!
@@DrAugenArzt IDK. If you don't like macOS and/or you need Linux for work, then a MacBook will be of no good use to you. Personally, I'd lean towards the HP Spectre 14 or Asus ROG Flow x13 in those cases.
@@cameronbosch1213 I don't mind the MacOS! I just want something that lasts me for a good while and can be multifunctional. I don't like the design of the new HP Spectre, the 2023 one was on the other hand so premium looking! Same with Flow x13, too plasticky and boring looking hahaha. It's either a Razer, Dell XPS if it gets cheaper or the Macbook!
@@DrAugenArzt I don't like macOS because it feels so inefficient to use and like it's falling apart with all of the glitches in the OS. Even Windows, which is also really bad, is barely any better! Also, most of my apps don't work on macOS.
I really want the XPS to be good, if not great windows laptop. I mean, the design is sleek and refreshing with top-notch quality. I agree with you that with that price point, it is hard for them to compete with some other close competitors in the same class. The touch function key row is a strange design choice (acceptable for me), but you are not going to get much out of the RTX 4050 with just 30w. I know it's likely for the thin body and better heat management, but they could have thrown an Intel Arc or sth similar in there instead and drop the price down. I had always wanted a Dell XPS but the price does not justify all it has to offer. Hope they will change this in the upcoming generation.
I think the SnapDragon X Elite version of the XPS might save it. I have the XPS 13 Plus. My only complaints are - - 60 Hz Refresh Rate [Dell fixed that by giving the XPS 14 120Hz] - Piss-poor Battery Life [can Qualcomm help Dell solve this problem? We'll see]. Other than that, I just absolutely love this thing.
Let's see what Qualcomm brings to the table. Thanks for sharing your opinion from actually owning one, I enjoyed the 13 plus a lot as well, when I did the review for it!
I think the real hate came from the fact that Dell invented the camm2 replaceable storage modules to the ram, making fast laptop memory replaceable and then did this... non replaceable ram
The 2023 model isn't that overpriced; it's often on sale for close to a 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with 32 GB of RAM. But the Blade has upgradable RAM.
I have had too many Dells BSOD to ever touch them again, so I am only talking from what I read on the net, and it appears Dell has a poor rep for QC. Sales are falling, around 44% down in China last year, and it is clear Dell relied too much on people buying on aesthetic (narrow bezels), but now the whole market has caught up, they have no answers apart from gimmicks. Yet they are still priced ultra-premium. The subpar performance, poor comparable battery life and silly designs have meant the Intel XPS 14 2024 will be a hard sell. Sadly, the same design (invisible trackpad and taskbar) on the XPS 13 Oryon, meaning that is off my list of what I will buy. I would argue that a 2024 XPS 14 is a step backwards in 2024 and well worth giving it a miss. There are no good Intel ultrabooks this year, as Intel in a stopgap cycle for CPU, so probably see how the X-Elite PCs go, or wait for Lunar Lake next year.
@@cameronbosch1213 For sure, but I would still wait for next year's models if you can, as they are likely to be much improved to compete with the Snapdragon and also be Gen-2.
Just buy an Asus ROG Flow x13 2023 with an RTX 4050, 4060, or 4070. It destroys this Dell XPS 14 in every way apart from maybe the XPS 14 model with an OLED screen, but if you're sensitive to PWM, then the ROG Flow x13 has a QHD 16 : 10 (2560x1600) 165 hz screen with around a 3 ms response time. And it has a MUX switch, XG Mobile support for a 175 watt RTX 4090 (not cheap, but it is an option even going back to the 2021 Flow x13), an AMD CPU, a more powerful RTX 4060 or 4070 option, a great and more traditional keyboard and touchpad, more ports, and 2 in 1 functionality. I can't see any reason to buy the Dell XPS 14 when the ROG Flow x13 and Zephyrus G14 exist.
Dear Dell, for this form factor of the XPS 14, please do the following. Give me a tandem Oled screen that can hit 1000 nits, ditch intel, and nvidia since you always underpower both and replace with Snapdragon X elite. Unlike the new XPS 13 with Snapdragon, let the 14 go up to 32 gb of memory and have a 1 TB ssd. Do it all for under $2500 and watch the orders roll in.
Purposefully busted keyboard designed to be bad, horrible battery life like every other laptop, no better performance than any other laptop.... Whats to like? It's a disguating low end peice of trash like everything else on the market besides the Razer with a Thunderbolt 5 connector, or the Framework 16 purely because of future potential. XPS used to mean an extreme performance desktop with unique design and ventilation... This is none of that, and Dell should be ashamed of releasing sometning so uninspiring and lacking innovation, just like HP, and most other PC makers.
Why would anybody buy this piece of overpriced crap if you can buy e.g. macbook pro 14 with 36GB memory, same storage, much better keyboard/touchpad and probably display too, better performance and for less than this??
Comparing it to the MacBook is a false equivalent because they run different operating systems. If you don't like Mac OS then a MacBook isn't an option. Instead compare it to another PC.
I'm going to be honest here, the 4050 in the 14" is a joke. I think this is the weakest 4050 you can buy in a laptop right now. But correct me if I am wrong
Heck, I think the Asus ROG Flow x13 has 45 watts on all of the RTX 4050, 4060, and 4070 GPU options. That is impressive and actually more than the XPS 14! However, that's a much smaller device and is actually BETTER in almost every other way, and is so much cheaper.
New laptop with worse eXPerienceS. Typical Dell. We might as well buy mini pc with portable screen w/ external GPU, keyboard and mouse without the expensive price tag and near unrepairable.
The Dell XPS 14/16 this year is terrible! Bad Battery life, loud fan noise, gets hot easily, and the touch row keys is very lagging. I had the XPS 16 for weeks and it was miserable! I returned it and got a Lenovo yoga pro 9i. It is so much better than a Dell XPS. I do not recommend the 14/16 model XPS!!!!
Well, according to our benchmarks even a low power 4050 mops the floor with any iGPU solution currently available ... Not to mention the additional software support you get for Nvidia specific features. So I would be careful to completely dismiss the 4050 too quickly.
Exactly. This laptop literally has almost no redeeming qualities to it. Literally every it does is done better by another option that is cheaper. It's literally the jack of no trades, master of none.
Funny thing is, even Dell themselves know very well that these touch function keys suck, which is why they didn't include them in their business lineup, like Precision and Latitude.
And yet they keep trying to double and triple down on it despite nearly every reviewer and consumer criticizing it. It's worse than Apple's Touch Bar, which Apple famously killed, and now Dell thinks that the Touch Row was a good idea. Ffs, they really don't know what makes a good laptop anymore!
Actually, they did include them in the Latitude lineup for a couple years now. They're sticking with this design, lol.
@@RagnarokBW If that's true, then they're going to lose a lot of sales.
@@RagnarokBW well before design refresh, even xps has real keys, not capacitive ones. Funny thing is, in recent latitude they use same style keyboard without gap between keys that used in latest XPS, but they have real keys on function lines, not shitty capacitive one like XPS
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is better than this: It has much better performance, being lighter and thinner than this. It has better battery life, keyboard, speakers, and ports. It also costs less.
Heck,the ROG Flow x13 is better than the XPS 13. And the fact that the Razer Blade 14 is CHEAPER than the XPS 14 while having better performance, ore ports, better battery life, two RAM slots, and a higher refresh rate screen just make it impossible to recommend the Dell XPS 14. I mean, when even Apple's MacBook Pros have more ports than the XPS lineup and is simuarly priced, you know Dell screwed up big time.
I cannot recommend the XPS lineup this year at all.
I think if anyone beats Razer in terms of pricing they’re doing something very wrong
Great point! The G14 is such a no brainer if you uninstall armory crate and use G-helper to reduce temperatures and fan noise. Also the Lenovo yoga pro 9i will also be a great contender when it's updated to the ultra 9 processor, heck A RAZER BLADE 14 is better and somehow CHEAPER than any usable configuration of the XPS (ones with the OLED screen and dedicated GPU)!
Agreed. Can't see anyone getting this over a G14.
Support for Linux? Dell is well-known for it.
They should improve the thermals and add the Fn key row. But boyyy is it gorgeous, absolute beauty
Summed up perfectly as "too many compromises for the price" I was really excited to see the XPS returning to the 14" form factor, the equally disappointed to see the keyboard and Dell's instance on not offering these with AMD processors as a option either.
Having been a long term XPS user for the last 8 years with various devices at work from the XPS 15 and 13 lines I've become less impressed with them over time, we've recently taking the plunge back into Thinkpads, and I have to say Lenovos keyboards on those are miles more comfortable to use and I've found my self heavily using the function keys again. I've found the AMD chips we went with a perfect balance of performance, a decent amount of GPU grunt and the battery life excellent, the only downside really is less flashy appearance.
2.25k dollars for rtx 4050 30W😂😂😂 that s**t isnt worth that much, no wonder people are hating it, totaly deserved😂
in reality nobody cares about the dGPU in a laptop like this, the problem is other stuff. a 4050 at 30W is just a bonus, with or without it this laptop has issues with price, performance, functionality etc
I don't know if I can quite explain it (or if this is the core reason), but I sense the main reason people are (IMO rightfully) piling on these new designs is that we collectively know Dell is just posing these as luxury. In reality, it's a facade of copying apple 5 years too late - with HALF the battery life and equal pricing ... plus I'm sure there's a hundred major and minor issues and annoyances that will still happen because it's infected with the same standard dell bios and bloat-ware (rage-ware?) like Maxx audio (oh boy, I'm about to start ranting), Premier color (I'm sure it works JUST as well as color management on a Mac), etc...
P.S. I say this as an XPS 9500 owner... if you dare buy this, get 3-5year extended warranty. Thank me later.
I just posted by comment and read yours. People reading OP's comment, do as she/he as mentioned, buy the extended warranty (i'm not a dell employee). Try to get it included using discount codes. You will need it.
Maxx audio has been the bane of my existance ever since I got my XPS 15. I came from a macbook so you can expect how much it makes me rage that everything doesn't "just work". Sadely I'm stuck to windows now so I'm hoping the new Asus G16 or the Lenovo yoga pro 9i will give me an experience closer to that of a macbook, Dell is just the worse and keeps getting worse with every generation.
The craftsmanship and material design on the new XPS line is really top tier stuff, but the functionality is terrible. For this price point I would want a more robust heatsink cooler design with much higher TDP (power) limits on the CPU/GPU.
luv my xps 14 but its not a cheap thrill.
The Dell XPS are awesome but the prices are way off. For example +40% over Lenovo Yoga 9 2in1 that actually has 4K not FullHD/3K like the Dells.
And you can still get 64GB of (still soldered but still possible) RAM.
You are talking about video editing - but my experience shows that DaVinci sometimes crashes due to lack of video memory even on a 6GB video card, but here it is 4GB (in the requirements for 4K video says need 8GB)
We use Resolve as well and in my experience it does not crash when running out of VRAM, which does happen even with a mobile 4090, but rather gets super slow, which only a restart can fix.
I cut down the entirety of the talking head for this video on the XPS 14 without a problem tho. But your mileage may vary depending on your footage.
@@NotebookcheckReviews I do quite a bit of my on the go editing with a 780M and have very few issues, It can get super slow after a long session but a restart quicky fixes that, and tweaking the settings to with the lower quality previews also solves a lot of that too.
@@NotebookcheckReviews In my comment I didn’t talk about the work in the program itself, but about rendering in 4k.
When rendering in DaVinci resolve 18 at 4k60Hz in h265, it filled 6GB of video memory on my rtx3060m and crashed. In the 19th version the situation improved - in most cases it was limited to 4-5GB of video memory... p.s. some time ago I replaced my Asus g14 (r9 5900HS + rtx3060m) with a MacBook Pro with M3 Pro - working with DaVinci on it is much more pleasant (although I can’t say that I’m completely satisfied with the MacBook - there are a lot of things that frustrate me, starting with scratching screen on keyboard)
The price & performance is where this laptop just falls apart
Unfortunately, the 16" is much better priced, so hopefully Dell will adjust the 14" accordingly.
It's a design functional monstrosity, dell and alienware make shit laptops recently with poor design decisions on and bad product ie crap dim screens in alienware what why?
And the other little things, like Wi-Fi 6E compared to Wi-Fi on the other XPS laptops, and it's soldered at that!? Goodbye Dell.
@@NotebookcheckReviews Even the 16" is poorly priced. The ROG G16, Lenovo yoga pro 9i and even the razer blade 16 are MUCH better options at the same price range than any XPS 16 with the OLED screen and dedicated GPU (the 1080p ips is literal trash and an unusable spec.)
I hate that they cap their 4070 at 60W for the 16". I would love to be able to spec out a 9i, 4070, 64gb memory, 1TB ssd of that machine if they would kick it up to 90W for the dGPU
"Hated for no reason?"
Terrible keyboard due to touch
expensive
Long term, bad quality control for software and hardware (this is based on owning several XPS 13s up to last year)
No AMD option
thermal management not the best
mediocre battery life
Also:
- An unusable touchpad if you have vision issues.
- A port selection that makes Apple look generous. And you know you screwed up when Apple is the one with more ports.
- Extremely low power limit on the RTX 4050, and worse than even the Asus ROG Flow x13, a 13.4 inch laptop that absolutely obliterates this one.
- Useless touch row that only serves to cause programmers and people using the escape and delete keys massive headaches.
- Soldered Wi-Fi 6E when the 13 & 16 get Wi-Fi 7. What the hell!?
- Way too expensive for what you get.
So yeah, I agree. This laptop deserves all of the hate it's getting and honestly even more.
@@cameronbosch1213 I forgot about the ports selection
@@verygoodbrother Yeah, as Just Josh said,
"You know you're in trouble when Apple has more ports than you!"
I can just keep recommending Schenker's Vision 14 and 16 series. Fantastic selection of ports, beautiful display, good performance.
Dell managed the eliminate the functionality of the function row… but man is it a good looking laptop!
I don't know why I seem to be the only one who thinks this, but I think it looks unfinished, like a DVT prototype that somehow was released as a retail product.
If you would be so kind and go to Dell outlet to see all the machines that are in the restored section and it is neither more nor less the returned computers or simply that have not been sold, literally ultra 7 + 32 gb ram + 1tb ssd + rtx 4050 + oled for the modest price of 1500 dollars, I personally like it much more at this price than at a stupidly high price
I think its more about the pricing thats affecting people, Earlier it was justified cause dell xps was the only premium performance windows laptop(non gaming) but now every laptop is premium high end with better performance and form while being cheaper.
I like your videos, now that you have significantly cut down on blue lighting. Kudos!!
Ah well, you will see it every now and then ;)
No... Who wants touch keys? No one. Who wants the worst webcam in the world? No one.
It's not 720p anymore. It is 1080p. So there's the bare minimum done. But yeah, that function row is a huge miss.
Still remembered when Josh was like not happy, when talked about this Laptop.
Even when this guy (13" version in 2022) was made Josh disappointed as this was having issues 😅
Whole xps line is absurd. I will never forget how they knowingly sold millions of defective touchpadcunits for xps 15/17. Now with the refresh this keyboard etc.
the refresh button in the website
To be fair, they did fix them in later units.
But now they're not even trying.
Es kann nur Sinn ergeben zu kaufen, wenn es viel billiger wird. Es sieht zwar krass aus, aber ist immerhin nicht wert, wenn der Blade 14 viel besser in der gleichen Preisgruppe anbietet.
Exactly. The Blade 14 is so much better and the 2023 model, when it's on sale, is just an objectively better laptop in every way.
@@cameronbosch1213 But do you think it's still worth it, considering the shitty customer service of Razer in Germany? At this point I'm just thinking of grabbing a Macbook for work and continuing to game at home on my heavy Acer!
@@DrAugenArzt IDK. If you don't like macOS and/or you need Linux for work, then a MacBook will be of no good use to you.
Personally, I'd lean towards the HP Spectre 14 or Asus ROG Flow x13 in those cases.
@@cameronbosch1213 I don't mind the MacOS! I just want something that lasts me for a good while and can be multifunctional. I don't like the design of the new HP Spectre, the 2023 one was on the other hand so premium looking! Same with Flow x13, too plasticky and boring looking hahaha. It's either a Razer, Dell XPS if it gets cheaper or the Macbook!
@@DrAugenArzt I don't like macOS because it feels so inefficient to use and like it's falling apart with all of the glitches in the OS.
Even Windows, which is also really bad, is barely any better!
Also, most of my apps don't work on macOS.
This particular model is probably sponsored by Razor and Apple so they could appear reasonably priced.
I really want the XPS to be good, if not great windows laptop. I mean, the design is sleek and refreshing with top-notch quality. I agree with you that with that price point, it is hard for them to compete with some other close competitors in the same class. The touch function key row is a strange design choice (acceptable for me), but you are not going to get much out of the RTX 4050 with just 30w. I know it's likely for the thin body and better heat management, but they could have thrown an Intel Arc or sth similar in there instead and drop the price down. I had always wanted a Dell XPS but the price does not justify all it has to offer. Hope they will change this in the upcoming generation.
Why would you want an XPS nowdays? Asus and Lenovo and even Razer and Apple make better and cheaper laptops now, it's not 2019 anymore.
I don't know why his is running at 30w mine says 40w on the NVidia control panel. Maybe dell changed it with their recent bios update.
I think the SnapDragon X Elite version of the XPS might save it.
I have the XPS 13 Plus.
My only complaints are -
- 60 Hz Refresh Rate [Dell fixed that by giving the XPS 14 120Hz]
- Piss-poor Battery Life [can Qualcomm help Dell solve this problem? We'll see].
Other than that, I just absolutely love this thing.
Let's see what Qualcomm brings to the table.
Thanks for sharing your opinion from actually owning one, I enjoyed the 13 plus a lot as well, when I did the review for it!
I think the real hate came from the fact that Dell invented the camm2 replaceable storage modules to the ram, making fast laptop memory replaceable and then did this... non replaceable ram
Dell copying the worsts aspects of apple --> 🚮
3000 EUR ... for this ? No way ... I'd rather get the already overpriced Razer Blade 14.
The 2023 model isn't that overpriced; it's often on sale for close to a 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with 32 GB of RAM. But the Blade has upgradable RAM.
I have had too many Dells BSOD to ever touch them again, so I am only talking from what I read on the net, and it appears Dell has a poor rep for QC. Sales are falling, around 44% down in China last year, and it is clear Dell relied too much on people buying on aesthetic (narrow bezels), but now the whole market has caught up, they have no answers apart from gimmicks. Yet they are still priced ultra-premium.
The subpar performance, poor comparable battery life and silly designs have meant the Intel XPS 14 2024 will be a hard sell. Sadly, the same design (invisible trackpad and taskbar) on the XPS 13 Oryon, meaning that is off my list of what I will buy.
I would argue that a 2024 XPS 14 is a step backwards in 2024 and well worth giving it a miss. There are no good Intel ultrabooks this year, as Intel in a stopgap cycle for CPU, so probably see how the X-Elite PCs go, or wait for Lunar Lake next year.
I agree. Dell could have put the Snapdragon chip in a better laptop, but they chose their most divisive and honestly worst option for it.
The HP Spectre 14 2024 is really good though. Has everything you could possibly want in a 2 in 1, including above average battery life.
@@cameronbosch1213 Yes, I thought they would backtrack and give us something more sensible on the Snapdragon...I was wrong!
@@cameronbosch1213 For sure, but I would still wait for next year's models if you can, as they are likely to be much improved to compete with the Snapdragon and also be Gen-2.
No function keys …
Waiting for xps 17 or 18 convertible 2in1 . ❤❤😅
I don't know about hated, but once you spec them with a half decent GPU and extra ram, the XPS line is insanely overpriced
Unfortunately it is!
Just buy an Asus ROG Flow x13 2023 with an RTX 4050, 4060, or 4070. It destroys this Dell XPS 14 in every way apart from maybe the XPS 14 model with an OLED screen, but if you're sensitive to PWM, then the ROG Flow x13 has a QHD 16 : 10 (2560x1600) 165 hz screen with around a 3 ms response time. And it has a MUX switch, XG Mobile support for a 175 watt RTX 4090 (not cheap, but it is an option even going back to the 2021 Flow x13), an AMD CPU, a more powerful RTX 4060 or 4070 option, a great and more traditional keyboard and touchpad, more ports, and 2 in 1 functionality. I can't see any reason to buy the Dell XPS 14 when the ROG Flow x13 and Zephyrus G14 exist.
No reason.... seems like theres a lot of reasons .... The entire XPS Line is fudged....
It is too underwhelming for most people to want it. It does look good, but looks are not everything.
Dear Dell, for this form factor of the XPS 14, please do the following. Give me a tandem Oled screen that can hit 1000 nits, ditch intel, and nvidia since you always underpower both and replace with Snapdragon X elite. Unlike the new XPS 13 with Snapdragon, let the 14 go up to 32 gb of memory and have a 1 TB ssd. Do it all for under $2500 and watch the orders roll in.
Purposefully busted keyboard designed to be bad, horrible battery life like every other laptop, no better performance than any other laptop.... Whats to like?
It's a disguating low end peice of trash like everything else on the market besides the Razer with a Thunderbolt 5 connector, or the Framework 16 purely because of future potential.
XPS used to mean an extreme performance desktop with unique design and ventilation... This is none of that, and Dell should be ashamed of releasing sometning so uninspiring and lacking innovation, just like HP, and most other PC makers.
Why would anybody buy this piece of overpriced crap if you can buy e.g. macbook pro 14 with 36GB memory, same storage, much better keyboard/touchpad and probably display too, better performance and for less than this??
Comparing it to the MacBook is a false equivalent because they run different operating systems. If you don't like Mac OS then a MacBook isn't an option. Instead compare it to another PC.
@@DaneReidVoiceOver you could still run linux on arm macbooks…
Hated for GOOD reason.
I'm going to be honest here, the 4050 in the 14" is a joke. I think this is the weakest 4050 you can buy in a laptop right now. But correct me if I am wrong
Heck, I think the Asus ROG Flow x13 has 45 watts on all of the RTX 4050, 4060, and 4070 GPU options. That is impressive and actually more than the XPS 14! However, that's a much smaller device and is actually BETTER in almost every other way, and is so much cheaper.
It’s not a bad laptop per se, but a very badly priced laptop.
New laptop with worse eXPerienceS. Typical Dell. We might as well buy mini pc with portable screen w/ external GPU, keyboard and mouse without the expensive price tag and near unrepairable.
The Dell XPS 14/16 this year is terrible! Bad Battery life, loud fan noise, gets hot easily, and the touch row keys is very lagging. I had the XPS 16 for weeks and it was miserable! I returned it and got a Lenovo yoga pro 9i. It is so much better than a Dell XPS. I do not recommend the 14/16 model XPS!!!!
The Yoga Pro 9 is definitely one of the most rounded and well-made 16" in this class in 2024. They did a great job with that one.
IT'S HATED FOR MANY REASONS 😂!
30W TGP, let's start here
This is a joke, better just use iGPU
Well, according to our benchmarks even a low power 4050 mops the floor with any iGPU solution currently available ... Not to mention the additional software support you get for Nvidia specific features.
So I would be careful to completely dismiss the 4050 too quickly.
Don't fight it. Just get a Macbook. Anything else is a waste of time and money.
MacOS sucks. No thanks.
Dell needs to stop
probably the most fanboy review I've seen. The laptop is junk.
Exactly. This laptop literally has almost no redeeming qualities to it. Literally every it does is done better by another option that is cheaper.
It's literally the jack of no trades, master of none.
If you think this is a fanboy review, then look at Windows Central's review, which I actually got into an argument with the snobby reviewer.