It smoked the 15:55 average and the Gram 17’s 23:28. The laptop-turned-steamroller continued pushing through on the Handbrake test, taking only 7 minutes and 21 seconds to transcode a 4K video to 1080p. The premium laptop also tore through our synthetic benchmarks including Geekbench 5.4, our overall performance test where it reached 8,929, crushing the 4,813 category average as well as the Gram 17’s (Core i7-1165G7 CPU) 4,458. I had 50 Google Chrome tabs open with some running Twitch and YouTube while others ran Google Docs and Sheets with a few open to random news sites and Tweetdeck. And that one is without a doubt the Dell XPS 17 with its 2.2-GHz Intel Core i7-11800H processor, 32GB of RAM and 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD. And when I wasn’t perusing through websites, Windows 10 gestures like pinch-zoom and three-finger tap were quick and responsive. Just like its predecessor, the 2021 XPS 17 has a 3.5 x 6-inch touchpad which, thankfully, has great palm rejection. Is the bass going to rival a pair of computer speakers? No, but it’ll blow most laptop speakers out of the water. When I switched to the Hip-Hop Hard preset, the thump increased. When I listened to Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” I heard a slight bass thump even when the Waves MaxxAudioPro software’s equalizer was off. Who’s there? The Dell XPS 17’s top-firing quad-speaker system which is made up of a pair of primaries and tweeters. And although the display is mighty shiny, the anti-reflective coating drastically cut down on any reflection or glare even when I worked outside. The 10-finger capacitive touchscreen offers a seamless, agile response, keeping pace with me as I scribbled “Laptop Mag” across the panel in my sometimes legible cursive. The MacBook Pro and Gram 17 reached 429 nits and 382 nits, respectively. The XPS 17 got some serious revenge during the brightness test, outshining the competition with a blinding 464 nits, easily surpassing the 388-nit average. The Gram 17 proved to be the most vivid at 109.3% It’s below the 82.9% premium laptop average as well as the MacBook Pro’s 80.7%. However, I was surprised to discover that the XPS 17’s panel only measured 77.6% on the DCI-P3 color gamut scale.
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