![]() ![]() But arguably, the coolness delta between the two laptops is small. Both laptops weigh just under 3 pounds.Īs for the aesthetics - well, in a beauty contest between Round Rock, Texas, and Cupertino, Calif., I think you know the outcome. The XPS 13 also has a noticeably smaller footprint: 12.4 by 8.1 inches as opposed to 12.8 by 8.94 inches. But the Dell shares the Air's minimalism, omitting DVD and memory card slots and providing just two USB ports. Predictably, the XPS 13 is not quite as thin as the 13-inch MacBook Air, sloping from 0.71 to 0.24 inch as opposed to the Air's winsome 0.68 to 0.11 inch. Inside the XPS 13 clamshell, rather than continuing the aluminum theme, Dell surrounds the keys with a black surface coated with what it aptly terms "soft touch paint." The inevitable Air-versus-Ultrabook comparisonOpening the box I was greeted by a striking laptop shell - aluminum on top and carbon fiber on the bottom - sufficiently thin and pretty to elicit an "ooh" from several people I showed it to. Not just the Ultrabook, but the whole box containing the power supply and old-fashioned paper manual slipped neatly into my backpack - nice packaging. The Dell XPS 13 came in a classy black box, the kind in which you'd expect to find an expensive modern board game. ![]()
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