Battery Life

Bombardment life is 1 of the aspects of the XPS xiii that Dell is making assuming claims about. Calling the battery performance of this laptop "manufacture leading", they say the 1080p model will last up to 15 hours in some sort of unspecified workload. The QHD+ model gets just 11 hours of life, although this could exist expected anyway from the increased resolution (177% larger) and improver of a touchscreen. Once more, I had the 1080p model to review.

I was immediately skeptical of Dell'southward 15 hr battery claims because that'southward well over what I've experienced on like devices in the by. The MacBook Air xiii-inch (for example) is a slap-up performer in terms of battery life, only information technology doesn't really achieve its claimed 12 hours of life in practice. Anything above ten hours is pretty optimistic in general, and considering many devices on the market barely scrape by viii hours in practise, challenge the XPS 13 achieves nearly double this sounds very far fetched.

However we are dealing with new silicon from Intel that specifically focuses on energy efficiency improvements. The 15W TDP of the Core i5-5200U within the XPS thirteen is nothing new, merely improvements to lower ability states should see increased bombardment life in everyday usage. The XPS 13 also includes a sizable 52 Wh battery; large considering the footprint of this compact laptop.

While I didn't ever achieve 15 hours of bombardment life in my practical use of the Dell XPS 13, I did attain life much higher than other laptops I've tested. The XPS 13 easily lasted a full 24-hour interval of work off the charge, with plenty of room to spare, and at a reasonable brightness (around 50%, as this is a brilliant display). During this time I was generally editing Give-and-take and Excel files, browsing the web and watching a few streamed videos, so nothing hugely CPU or GPU intensive, simply there was frequent apply of Wi-Fi and the internet.

In general twenty-four hours to twenty-four hours usage I'd wait bombardment life anywhere from 11-13 hours in like conditions: fifty% brightness, browsing the web and editing documents. This is an splendid issue, and I could easily see someone getting 8+ hours doing a few more CPU intensive tasks (similar photograph editing) throughout the day. If you really stretch the battery (Wi-Fi off, low brightness), you might get to Dell's claimed 15 hours of battery life.

Although I didn't test the QHD+ XPS thirteen, I'd expect results to be adjusted according to Dell's rated battery life. They country the battery life of the higher resolution model is 26% lower, so this would realistically represent to 8-ten hours of typical use. I'd definitely sacrifice the higher resolution for 3 hours of extra life, even though the battery functioning from the QHD+ model should be pretty practiced anyway, but that'southward just me.

In our battery benchmark tests, the Dell XPS thirteen performs well, though once more it doesn't achieve 15 hours of life. The Wi-Fi browsing test is especially intensive as information technology's constantly loading webpages, so with more moderate usage you can expect longer than 8 hours of life.