The Dell XPS 9340 (Intel) and XPS 13 9345 (Qualcomm) are identical on the outside. Inside, they have different chipsets and performance, but equal battery life.
It’s not often that we have an opportunity to compare two laptops that are identical other than having a different chipset inside. That’s exactly what we have with the Dell XPS 13 , one of the best 13-inch laptops that can be purchased in either Intel-powered XPS 13 or Qualcomm-powered XPS 13 versions but are otherwise identical.
Upgrading to higher configurations, again identical, is also more expensive on the Intel version, for example going to 32GB of RAM is $300 versus $200 . Storage costs the same, while the Qualcomm version can get an OLED display for less. The high-end configurations of their respective chipsets, 64GB of RAM, a 2TB SSD, and a 3.8K OLED display is $2,599 for the Intel version and $2,499 for the Qualcomm version.Design Both versions look identical on the outside.
Then, there are only two ports, USB-C with Thunderbolt 4 in the Intel version and USB4 in the Qualcomm version, and in both one of them is used for charging. And there’s no 3.5mm audio jack. At least wireless connectivity is completely up-to-date with Wi-Fi 7. In our CPU-intensive benchmarks that run natively on Windows on Arm and so provide a fair comparison, at least for apps that don’t run in emulation on the Qualcomm chipset, which will be slower, the XPS 13 is considerably faster. That’s in both single-core and multi-core applications, which is the first time that Windows on Arm running on a Qualcomm chipset is faster than Intel. Their GPUs are closely matched, though.
Given that these are the same options, you won’t be choosing between them on displays alone. Note that contrary to some reports, the tandem OLED display in the XPS 13 is the same as the one that shipped first in the XPS 13 .
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