
It’s hard to make simplicity stand out, but that’s what Dell has done. My wife, who rarely comments on the laptops I review, called the XPS 15 “beautiful.” That’s high praise, and it’s well-deserved for this remarkably designed laptop. But as we’ll see, you get what you pay for with the XPS 15 - a laptop that does what it needs to do to hang on to the crown. I reviewed the XPS 15 with a Core i7-11800H CPU and the RTX 3050 Ti, which runs a cool $2,400. That’s exactly what Dell did with the 2021 refresh of the XPS 15, which adds 11th-gen Intel H-series CPUs and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti to significantly increase performance. Instead, you change what’s on the inside. It already has a killer design and an excellent OLED screen. What do you do to make the best 15-inch laptop even better? Well, you don’t change what’s on the outside.
