Lisa Gade reviews Dell’s new 15.6” convertible Windows laptop, the XPS 15 2-in-1. This is one of the first with the Intel 8th gen Kaby Lake-G quad core processor combined with AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 4GB HBM2 graphics (performance in between the NVIDIA GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti). The XPS shares design elements and casing materials with the XPS 15 9570 (reviewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEYTzcQJ644 ), but is 1 mm thinner. The notebook is available with Infinity Edge (tiny bezel) full HD and 4K display options (both supporting Wacom AES 2.0 pen), up to 16GB RAM and a PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD. It has a MagLev backlit keyboard, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, USB-C and Killer WiFi. We look at the $2,200 high end model with the Core i7-8705G, 16GB RAM and the wide gamut 4K display. Pricing starts at $1,299. It competes directly with the HP Spectre x360 15” with AMD RX Vega M graphics.

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