Presidents' Day sale preview: Our beloved Dell XPS 13 is just $685

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The Dell XPS xiii is the all-time laptop for home utilise, college students and business pros. This early on Presidents' Twenty-four hour period deal from Dell slashes hundreds off our top all-around notebook.

For a limited fourth dimension, you can get the Dell XPS 13 with Intel Core i5 CPU for $685. That's $264 below its onetime price of $989 and one of the lowest prices we've seen for this configuration.

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If y'all're long overdue for a laptop refresh, the Dell's XPS thirteen is a wise choice. The laptop in this bargain packs a 13.3-inch (1920 x 11080) display, 2.4-GHz Intel Core i5-1135G7 4-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, Iris Xe graphics and a 256GB SSD.

In our Dell XPS 13 review, nosotros praise its attractive, premium design and dandy performance. It also won us over with its springy, comfortable keyboard. We gave the Dell XPS 13 a 4.5 out of 5-star rating and the Editor's Choice award.

During existent-globe tests, it handled everything we threw at it and never once flinched. In our lab, it beat the premium laptop with a score of 5,254 on Geekbench five.0, our overall performance test.

Design-wise, the Dell XPS 13 sports a premium anodized aluminum chassis with Dell's signature shiny silver Dell logo on the hat. Port-wise, the Dell XPS 13 supplies you lot with 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports and a USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2 port — both with Ability Delivery/DisplayPort. There's also a headphone/mic combo jack, microSD card slot, and wedge-shaped lock slot built-in.

With a weight of 2.8 pounds and measuring 11.6 10 7.8 x 0.half dozen-inches, the Dell XPS 13 is on par with its competitors. It's lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Pro (3 pounds, 12 10 8.4 x 0.6 inches) and weighs slightly more than Asus ZenBook 13 (two.5 pounds, 11.9 x eight x 0.5 inches).

Only put, the Dell XPS 13 is a capable laptop for piece of work, school and everything in between.

Hilda Scott uses her combined passion for gadgets and bargain shopping to bring y'all the best prices on all things tech. She has a bachelor'southward degree in film and media studies from Hunter Higher and xi years of tech and entertainment journalism. Her piece of work has been featured on Tom's Guide, iTechPost, Examiner.com, Parlemag, Enstars, and Latin Times. When she'due south non scouting for the best deals, Hilda's catching upwards on her favorite TV shows and pro-wrestling matches.