Wonderful and reliable beast machine. Superfast and smooth operations with this config. Can run many video editors like DaVinci Resolve and Tableau without any lags or the screen freezing. Only difference of my XPS 15 from this config is that mine came with 1 TB ssd. Planning to upgrade to 32 GB RAM when it cannot handle more graphics intensive software. It's been more than a year and worth every penny.
I have this but wouldn't get it. Get the newest generation; these had thermal throttling issues. The new ones use a much better cooling solution with a vapor chamber
Picked one of these up from the outlet winter of 2019 - it's been an absolute workhorse.
I undervolt mine; I believe several models (11th gen Intel for example) got a bios update that inhibits undercoating. If you're planning to do so double check if this model/9th gen is affected. Runs fairly quietly even with turbo on, but the fans were definitely noticeable before undervolting.
Zero burn-in (black desktop, no icons, auto hide taskbar), and for me the screen is 100% worth it. 1650 does ok with AAA games at 1080p with med/high settings.
Biggest complaint is the tb3 port's pd is capped at either 60 or 65w, by design by Dell. Really wish it could run 100w as 65 barely keeps it from throttling.
I have an 11th gen i7 (tigerlake) work laptop and prefer this 90% of the time. Great keyboard and screen. Only flaw to me is the pd cap.
I have this PC and use mainly for photo and video editing. Works well for 1080p editing and 4k editing it would start struggle with more adjustment layers. I think it is no surprise that this has the thermal throttling. Repasting would help slightly.
I have also had a chance to use the XPS 7500 (i7 10750h and 1650ti). In terms of performance not much of difference. It is to do with look and feel mostly.
Even though it is not OLED 7500 has that awesome bezel less display with less reflection. if you care about speakers it is massively better speaker in 7500, it is near perfect for a laptop. Also it has windows hello face recognition which the 7590 does not.
Sometimes I have seen 7590 going around $1k with CB and all. 7590 is a great laptop for around that price. If I were to pay $1300 and can wait a bit, probably I would wait for a better deal on 7500.
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I have this laptop with 32G ram and 1TB SSD, and I get around 5-6 hours with heavy multitasking at 4k resolution and brightness around 70-80%
11th generation would be double the price but 9th is probably adequate for most users?
Ugh...9th gen...? That's terrible.
I undervolt mine; I believe several models (11th gen Intel for example) got a bios update that inhibits undercoating. If you're planning to do so double check if this model/9th gen is affected. Runs fairly quietly even with turbo on, but the fans were definitely noticeable before undervolting.
Zero burn-in (black desktop, no icons, auto hide taskbar), and for me the screen is 100% worth it. 1650 does ok with AAA games at 1080p with med/high settings.
Biggest complaint is the tb3 port's pd is capped at either 60 or 65w, by design by Dell. Really wish it could run 100w as 65 barely keeps it from throttling.
I have an 11th gen i7 (tigerlake) work laptop and prefer this 90% of the time. Great keyboard and screen. Only flaw to me is the pd cap.
I have also had a chance to use the XPS 7500 (i7 10750h and 1650ti). In terms of performance not much of difference. It is to do with look and feel mostly.
Even though it is not OLED 7500 has that awesome bezel less display with less reflection. if you care about speakers it is massively better speaker in 7500, it is near perfect for a laptop. Also it has windows hello face recognition which the 7590 does not.
Sometimes I have seen 7590 going around $1k with CB and all. 7590 is a great laptop for around that price. If I were to pay $1300 and can wait a bit, probably I would wait for a better deal on 7500.
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