Dell's XPS 15 laptops are high-end, high-spec machines with a starting price of £1,499 (inc. VAT; £1,249.17 ex. VAT), rising higher if you want an OLED display. As well as the OLED option (the first time this technology has made an appearance in an XPS laptop), features include discrete graphics, long battery life, up to 2TB of SSD storage, 9th generation Intel processors, and Wi-Fi 6. It may pack a premium price, but the XPS range offers a lot of bells and whistles.
With a starting weight of 1.8kg the 15-inch XPS 15 7590[1] is no ultraportable. It's relatively bulky too, measuring 357mm wide by 235mm deep and 17mm thick at the back, tapering to 11mm at the front. It challenged my smallest (15-litre) backpack, needing something a little more capacious for transport.
Dell has done what it can to keep the size down; for example, its InfinityEdge display has screen bezels of just 6.04mm along the short edges and 7.08mm along the top (it shows how much bezel measurements mean to Dell that it quotes hundredths of a millimetre).
The build materials account for some of the XPS 15's weight: it has an aluminium frame, Gorilla Glass 4 screen protection, and a carbon fibre wrist rest. Few laptops I've reviewed feel more solid: I couldn't bend or bow the relatively thin lid using my hands.
Open the lid and it's the screen that grabs your attention, although the keyboard is also noteworthy, with large and well spaced keys -- as you'd expect given such a sizeable chassis. That said, the Enter Key is double height but only single width at its widest, falling to about two-thirds width. I mishit Enter for a little while before getting used to this key.