You'll also notice a lack of annoying stickers on the palmrests. The silver and black motif is striking, especially when you open it up for the first time, and the soft-touch rubber paint Dell slathers across exposed surfaces helps insulate your hands from heat and gives the laptop a luxurious feel at the same time. The layout is spacious and comfortable, and there's an attractive minimalism to the design. If you've been following my laptop reviews, however, you know what I'm going to say: there are definite pros to carefully studying the way that Apple builds laptops.įor instance, the XPS 14's basic construction is absolutely top-notch: but for the glass screen and platter-based hard drive, I'd feel comfortable dropping it to the ground.
Only the black rubber-coated magensium alloy base, with vents for speakers (fore) and heat (aft) feels uniquely Dell. Save the SD card slot and headphone jack, all the ports are on the left-hand side, and the very curves Dell chose to cut into the corners of its clamshell chassis are the same ones Cupertino defined. Similarly, the main chassis looks like Dell slapped a thin black slice of rubber on top of a MacBook Pro's keyboard tray. The entire lid and hinge looks like it was lifted from a MacBook Pro, with only a glossy black glass border around the screen to contrast from the finely finished aluminum. Let's get this out of the way: there's been a bumper crop of recent laptops that have taken cues from Apple, and the XPS 14 is among the guiltier parties.
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