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    Dell XPS 13 on new Kaby Lake?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Kuat, Sep 14, 2016.

  1. Kuat

    Kuat Notebook Guru

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    Is Kaby Lake going to bring anything noticeable to the XPS 13 ?

    I guess it won't be 4 cores, correct?

    Reason i asked is because i got a beffed up XPS 13 literally just a few days ago. I freaking love it, but trying not to feel bad because i didn't wait for the Kaby Lake train.
     
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  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    If you can afford to wait about a month, I'd return your XPS 13 and get a Kaby Lake model.

    Kaby Lake will bring you improved integrated graphics performance. This is the only major improvement, and is the biggest reason you should upgrade.

    Minor upgrades include slightly improved battery life (which you'll never notice), and 4K hardware decoding (which is useless, since the situations when you actually need to decode 4K content very rarely happens).

    Remember... Your current laptop is awesome. It doesn't suddenly get "worse" in a month, just because a newer model comes out.

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    kent1146, Sep 14, 2016
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  3. didsip

    didsip Notebook Consultant

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    Considering how long it took for the Skylake model not to have any graphics glitches/for Intel to fix the drivers, I'd take this one over a Kaby Lake version with 5 minutes of extra battery life any day, at least for productivity.
     
    didsip, Sep 14, 2016
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