- #RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 1080P#
- #RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 INSTALL#
- #RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 UPDATE#
- #RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 DRIVER#
#RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 1080P#
In our less subjective battery drain test (looping a 1080p video at 75 percent brightness), it managed a scant 7.5 hours. In two weeks of testing I only once made it through a full day's work on the XPS 15's battery. My only real gripe with the XPS 15 is battery life. The keyboard is not quite Thinkpad-level good, but it doesn't slow me down or present any problem. Keyboard and touchpad are the same, I find the touchpad a bit too big, but I am primarily a keyboard-and-mouse person, so I may be alone in that criticism (which I could also apply to half a dozen other 15-inch laptops). That's not too bad, but when you lug it around for a day, your shoulders will definitely know it's there. It's worth noting that the XPS 15 does weigh in at 4.2 pounds. It's still the same slim, sleek chassis with the same thin InfinityEdge bezels. I'd love to have a full-size card reader, but the three USB-C ports are a step up from the XPS 13, which only has two. Ports are still the same, with three USB-C ports (with Thunderbolt 4 support), a headphone jack, and a MicroSD card reader. If you keep it nice and clean, the sunlight and glare won't be an issue.Īs noted above, Dell hasn't changed much other than the screens. The main problem with direct sunlight is that the high-gloss surface picks up fingerprints like crazy. The 400-nit screen here was fine in all but direct sunlight. I've also found that glossy OLED screens seem to do better in bright light than FHD screens. Editing photos and video on this machine is a real pleasure, to the point that I found myself out taking photos just so I could process them in Darktable on the XPS 15.
It's a wonderfully bright screen, and the razor-thin bezels give it an immersive quality that's unmatched in the rest of the 15-inch laptops I've tested. While the base mode with the i5 chip is fine for basic computing needs, I would suggest the OLED screen and faster chip if you can afford it. From there, you can run it up to $4,600 by selecting the i9 Chip, up to 64 gigabytes of RAM, and up to a whooping 8 terabytes of SSD space, with some more reasonable configurations in between. The model I tested featured the OLED, the 11th-generation Intel Core i7, Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU, 16 gigabytes of RAM, and a 512-gigabyte SSD. The OLED is more expensive the cheapest option is $2,100. I also believe the 4K model has a slight edge in terms of battery life, although I'm comparing last year's 4K model to this year's OLED here. The resolution is better on the 4K screen. If you want to know which is better … it depends. If you opt for the i7- or i9-based XPS 15, then you can choose between the 4K UHD screen and the new 3.5K OLED. That means the screen on the i5 base model remains unchanged. As with the XPS 13, you have to opt for the more powerful Intel i7 chips to get the OLED option. The big news here is the new OLED screen, which, we should note here, is optional. Please let me know if Dell was able to assist you.Īny further questions, please let me know.The 2021 XPS 15 uses the same 11th-generation Intel chips as the previous model.
#RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 DRIVER#
Not sure if the graphics driver from Dell that you tried is the following, just in case here is the link:
#RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 UPDATE#
I looked for the specifications of your laptop, according to the link I found is working with i7-6560U, and we do have a site where we recommend the best game settings, please try those settings on the games and let us know the results:Īlso another option will be to get in contact directly with Dell to get the instructions to do a BIOS update on the laptop, and to check also if they have further suggestions.
#RUNNING STARCRAFT ON DELL XPS 13 INSTALL#
At this point you tried the main steps that we recommend to do, which is to install the latest graphics drivers provided by the manufacturer of the laptop in this case Dell, and also the latest driver available is our web site which is 4614: