If you’re looking for something special, the Dell XPS 13 Plus is for you: Its chic case and top display make it an ultrabook that is more than just a work machine for text and spreadsheets.

That’ll be a harder case for the XPS 13 Plus to make to some people, even when it dares to feel like a peek at the future of laptops. As of right now, Dell’s website lists the XPS 13 Plus with ...

These are all compromises, Dell’s case is, in order to achieve the thinnest and most powerful laptop possible. Unfortunately, the XPS 13 Plus is not that. It is more expensive and much hotter ...

The Dell XPS 13 Plus (2023) looks and feels just as premium as its predecessor, but it still has the same weaknesses — and in some cases, it actually performed worse in our tests.

We also set the machine to both its Optimized and Performance modes, the latter of which is essentially a worst-case scenario in terms of the system's peak noise output. Dell's XPS 13 Plus Remains ...