The Portable Touchscreen Desktop: Dell XPS 18

Dell introduced its XPS 18 back in March of this year as the company’s newest portable all-in-one and a tablet–in one, with a lightweight 18-inch tablet, making it a flexible system for at-home entertainment and productivity.

Design

Dell XPS 18 is currently the thinnest AIO PC to be available on the market and it certainly stands out as it’s unbelievably thin.

It has an evenly distributed black bezel around its 18.4-inch display with the Dell logo featured on the upper-right corner of the display and its webcam sitting in the upper-center of the display. Two rubber flaps are placed at the bottom corners of the back of the XPS 18 to allow users to prop it up in two different methods: a viewing mode and a productivity mode.

The Dell XPS 18’s stand is able to give it a proper place on your desk as it features a magnetized front which allows for the PC to glide into its wireless charging base with very little effort. When the charging ports of the stand and the XPS 18 are connected, a small LED will light up, indicating the PC is being charged. The stand is able to angle itself so the XPS 18 is completely flat, or all the way up, making the computer nearly perpendicular to where you’re viewing it.

The XPS 18 also includes a battery-powered wireless keyboard and mouse, matching the desktop theme of this unit.

Display

Dell XPS 18 packs with a Full HD screen capable of a resolution of 1920 x 1080. That means you can expect to see a high amount of detail in high-resolution images, videos and everything in between while you’re using the XPS 18.

Ports and Battery Life

The XPS 18 keeps its ports to the bare minimum. This device features just two USB 3.0 ports, an 8-in-1 card reader, a headphone jack and the power port, all on the left ridge of the XPS 18.

Dell equipped the XPS 18 with a 69Whr battery, which involved continual Web browsing over Wi-Fi at 40 percent screen brightness, and lasted 4 hours and 12 minutes.

Performance

The Dell XPS 18 came with a 2.7-GHz Intel Core i5-3337U processor with 8GB of RAM, which is a nice processor that typically gives users a nice bit of performance without too much power consumption. Streaming HD video, working on office documents, and flipping among multiple open browser windows all worked smoothly, as did using touch to move around the Windows 8 tile-based menu interface.

Source: ubergizmo.com, laptopmag.com