This makes it real compact even for an Ultrabook. Like its bigger brother, the Dell XPS 14Z, it has a curvaceous silver aluminium body with a reduced chassis size for its screen.

While most manufacturers decided to brand their Ultrabooks under new names and with many variants and sizes, Dell used its already prominent ‘ XPS’ range to market theirs with just one size. Dell seemed to take it slow and only released their first Ultrabook in the first quarter of 2012. We’ve seen a huge number and variants of Ultrabooks by many manufacturers in the first wave of these ‘MacBook Air-killer’ devices. This new generation of notebooks would use low power Intel processors, have an extremely thin profile and could also include certain tablet functions. The Ultrabook concept was announced by Intel at Computex 2011. Single Review, online available, Short, Date: If style, processing power and portability are among your top considerations in a Windows laptop, the Dell XPS 13 Ultraportable should be in your short list. The Dell performs admirably in just about all areas, but doesn’t really excel in any. Those looking for a long-haul machine or a machine for pounding out a thousand words at a time should look elsewhere.

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