Vital stats Dell XPS 13

Our favourite Windows laptop gets flippy

How do you make the Dell XPS 13 better? You give it tablet morphing powers... ● Eagle-eyed Ultrabook fans will recognise the XPS 13 name, but Dell’s taken its powerful, portable and popular laptop and cracked it. Well, sort of: it’s scooped up the best bits of the existing XPS 13 – winner of the laptops supertest in our February issue – given them a boost and stuck them into a hybrid shell that will rotate right round on itself.

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● The complicated hinge might have added heft, but the carbon fibre and aluminium body works hard: turning the scales to 1.2kg, it’s not tablet-light but it’s hardly a rock. It’s slimmer than a Surface Book, so it ought to slip nicely into your satchel. Dell says it’s the smallest 2-in-1 laptop in the world.

Every trick’s in the ’book

● But there’s more. It’s also had a host of hardware upgrades, including the option of a nifty fingerprint scanner for use with Windows Hello. The lineup includes Kaby Lake i5 and i7 chips, SSD storage up to 512GB, and 4GB or 8GB of RAM.

Back to basics

● Sadly, there’s no 4K option for the 13.3in display, with the convertible XPS 13 retaining the Full HD and Quad HD+ resolution versions of the previous model – albeit now touch-enabled. Dell reckons it’ll do 15 hours on a single charge, though, which should be enough to get you through a fair few episodes of Rick and Morty.

THINNER THAN A SURFACE BOOK, IT’S CLAIMED TO BE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST 2 IN 1 LAPTOP