Remember last week when Dell hinted it was launching a super-thin laptop from the ashes of Adamo? Today it’s lifted the lid on the new XPS 15z, a 15.6-inch full powered Sandy Bridge notebook that has Apple’s design firmly in its sights.
Running Sandy Bridge Core i5 or Core i7 chipsets with a FullHD WLED display, up to 8GB DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT525 graphics options and a 7200RPM HDD with up to 750GB, it’s a premium model from start to finish. There are two USB 3.0 ports, support for Intel’s wireless display technology and a backlit keyboard too.
More importantly though is the 8-cell fixed battery, which like Apple’s MBP lineup aren’t user-replaceable. The body is Aluminium and Magnesium alloy.
From the specs alone, you’d expect this monster laptop to have a monster pricetag, but it actually starts at $1,399. For such a solidly specced machine, that’s impressive.
[Dell]
dave
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PMDoesnt really look like an apple product – this thing looks like it is built well, unlike the air. It also doesnt look arrogant
Nick
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:13 PMAssuming you’re calling the design of Apple products arrogant. Could you emphasise on this?
Honestly, the shit people come up with to hate on products is remarkable.
Laptop has impressive specs for its price-tag, and the design isn’t too bad. Not ultra-thin, though. :P
Angus
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 12:20 AMDeliberate anthropomorphism or impaired cognitive function?
TSH
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 4:36 PMDO WANT.
So long as the battery is serviceable in some sense – that and the HDD are the things that wear out in a good notebook.
rtfa
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 10:18 PMrtfa! – the batteries are NOT replaceable – sealed like a MBP, as for HDD, thats soooo 1990′s – sd drives are the way to go! Any comparison of a Dell product to an Apple product is like comparing shit to clay!
Cameron
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 4:38 PM15″ is too big. Still waiting on a good 13″ laptop to come out.
Dylan
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 11:14 PMI agree, This in a 13″ would stop me buying a MacBook Pro 13″ and running bootcamp.
typedmillepede
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PMSamsung QX412… same footprint as a MBP. a bit thicker. bigger screen.
BenDTU
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 4:40 PMAnd here I was thinking my XPS 15 looked Apple influenced. Yeowch.
ozoneocean
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 4:57 PMIs that really a picture of it? If so, “ultra-thin” seems a giant misnomer. It’s reasonably thin maybe, but hardly “ultra”… Unless that’s “ultra” in the same sense that Apple retail employees are “geniuses”.
Dave
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:37 PMI don’t think they could have been any more UN-creative with the design… It’s a blatant copy of the Macbook down to the battery indicators on the side in the same place, the recessed keyboard with the speakers on either side in exactly the same layout. It’s bloody ridiculous, what is wrong with all these companies? They’re basically forcing people to buy Apple because they keep coming up with boring and unoriginal design ideas or copying the competition. The first black Adamo, now that was a beautiful machine… and they discontinued it of course.
Simon
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:59 PMHow can they seriously call this ultra-thin? It’s not as thin as the 2 year old Macbook Pro so what are they on about. PC = Personal Computer. How can they say it’s the thinnest on the planet when a Macbook Pro running Windows exclusively is thinner.
Anyway, this is a fair bit cheaper then a MBP but I’d get the MBP for the battery life, attention to detail in the design and that it runs BOTH OS’s. Why get the fake iPad when you can get the real one — albeit for a higher price.
Sicarius123
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 6:51 PMEvery other news outlet is reporting this as a macbook pro killer
Only Giz seems to be claiming Ultra Thin.
Namarrgon
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 7:10 PM$1400, for something that’s 10mm thinner than the XPS 15, but rather lower-specced?
I paid $1411 just last week for an XPS 15, with a quad-core i7 (instead of the 15z’s dual-core i5), blu-ray writer (15z has DVD-RW), 8GB RAM (2GB more), larger 9cell replaceable battery, better GT540M gfx… anyway, meets my needs much better than sacrificing all that extra functionality just to save 10mm.
DAWOOKIE
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 10:08 PMHmmm $1399 AU (inc GST) versus $999 US. Didn’t know sales tax was 40% in the US *sarcasm+*
Steve
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 1:51 AMI’m not even an OSX guy, but if I wanted a Macbook Pro, I’d pick up a MBP. This 15z seems to have inherited the worst features.
Take off another $100 and we’d be talking.
sipa
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 5:50 AMgosh , dell suffers a lot since there is no marketing for this product….dell, did you hear about youtube????other mk channels??? we need to see it at work first….