If you’re looking for the most powerful and stylish of Dell’s offerings, you’re looking for an XPS. PC makers usually load their review systems to the hilt, in an effort to make them perform well in commonly used benchmarks, but Dell is confident that its Inspidelivers solid, real-world performance for the money, even at base specifications, so we gave it a look.īefore we dig into the system we tested, let’s take discuss where it falls in Dell’s current family of laptops. Dell has some enticing new hardware on tap for its newest Inspiron 7000 series laptops, including the latest and most powerful Intel Skylake processors and NVIDIA GPUs, but the computer maker sent us a decidedly modest version for this evaluation.