Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy
Across the 30 years I've used laptop PCs, they've always made me anxious about battery life. Dell's XPS 13 9345 Copilot+ PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite X is the first Windows PC to relieve me of that worry and let me confidently leave my desk for a full working day without carrying any charging apparatus whatsoever – but it still has unwelcome baggage.
The Snapdragon is an Arm processor, and the cut of Windows Microsoft has prepared for the chip is said to convert any software coded for x86 so it just runs. That was my experience: whatever x86 apps I threw at it just ran. Swiftly. Even a Windows update zipped along without giving me enough time to get frustrated – or make coffee.
So is the touchpad – another matte expanse without visual or tactile clues about its extent. It often made me think I'd right-clicked when I should have left-clicked, when sometimes I'd just missed the trackpad entirely and was left wondering if the PC was glitching.The machine's screen embraces darkness rather than making a nice distinction between bright and murkier tones. And sound is poor – tamborines and snare drums are tortured.
Copilot searches do produce pleasingly detailed search results, but decades of typing search queries into browsers' omnibars is a hard habit to break – especially given I have learned to assess the value of search engine results.
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