2018 Dell XPS 9570 Laptop, 15.6 UHD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge Touch Display, 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8750H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, GeForce GTX 1050Ti, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 Home, Silver

Nice laptop. Very fast. However, you can not use a USB or Thunderbolt Dock or hub to connect a mouse or keyboard. The 9570 only has two USB ports. So if you are docking it or using it for presentation purposes at a client, you will not have any free ports for thumb drives, etc..

The 32 GB RAM allows me to do the jobs I need and work on multiple projects at once. Ive been very happy with this computer and its functions. Its also very stylish for those which this matters. My only negative I would mention is that battery life is only fair. I was hoping it would be better. Overall you cant go wrong with this purchase.

I really liked the computer but the display doesnt work 100% of the time. While customizing the desktop to fit what I need, the display cut out and wouldnt come back on for a while. So I returned it :(

EVERYTHING!!!!

I bought this as a work laptop; I use it mainly for Sketchup, AutoCad and Vray Architectural design. I needed a portable, yet powerful laptop that could do everything as i travel too much for a desktop. I have also used it for light gaming, just to compare to my previous laptops & computers. Ill start with- yes, its powerful (but no, i dont know the technical ins and outs so ill keep this simple). It deals well with the softwares high-processing needs and can cope with large, detailed models. It renders VERY quickly (Almost 10x faster than my previous laptop, a Lenovo Yoga2) and is generally a very reasonable computer for what i require. It starts up really quickly- the finger print sign-in being a nice touch. Im pretty glad of this though, as i do tend to restart this laptop more frequently than id expected to; when its in high-use it will often stop responding and only return to life once re-started. I also like the touch-screen addition, although i dont use it as much as i thought id be tempted to, nor is it accurate enough to use for presentations, so perhaps just an expensive luxury i thought id like. Maybe when modeling software integrates touch-screen into the workflow it will become more useful. On build quality: I love the feel of the keyboard and the touch pad and the whole material finish screams sleek and professional. The screen is HUGE for the size of the laptop, however coming from the Lenovo Yoga2 with a 4k screen, the resolution is pretty average and the colours come out feeling dull. The graphics card does make up for this though, allowing me to finally enjoy the beauty that is Cities: Skylines (wow, thats a stunning game). Unfortunately, and i wonder if this is just a fault with my machine, the speakers are pretty crackly, leaving the sound quality poor. Plug in headphones are the only way forward. Fortunately, Im not going to be watching movies on it any time soon. Battery life with heavy use is also kinda average, id say maybe 4 to 5 hours. This isnt much of an issue for me, however, as if im sitting at a computer a powder socket isnt far away. Overall, its a great laptop. I dont think its worth the price tag though, and im glad ive got a second one for general day-to-day. This is a workstation with some unnecessary perks that give an illusion its a versatile machine. Maybe i have been spoiled over the years with some great laptop choices, but if youre looking at this review its pretty likely you have been too.

It worked well and I loved it for 3 months and then out of nowhere it started crashing with hard drive not installed errors. Also constantly deadlocked/completely froze when trying to fix, requiring it to be forced to shutdown by holding the power. Eventually, I could not restart it and it gave light signals indicating a problem with the CPU. Complete waste of money. The price for the hardware was the selling point, but it was too good to be true.

The hardware is among the best available and the build quality is amazing. Thats the nice things. The frustrations have been firmware / driver support. Dell has add on drivers for audio, power management, wireless, etc. Many of their competitors due the same, but I havent been able to use windows default drivers to supplant them and the crash rate for some of them is outstanding. Pair that with bi-monthly firmware updates that I suspect are the cause of many bugs (machine has been failing to resume from sleep off and on for over 3 months) and you basically ruin the pros. Previously I had a 16 GB memory rig that caused me to kill and load VMs constantly. More cores + memory should have been a significant time savings, but instead all of the time saved and then some has been spent with Dell support or trying to troubleshoot machines myself. If the end user is not tech savvy, I would expect these frustrations to be compounded several times over.

Jammed, stuck not working properly

Simple the best laptop I have owned - working in the tech industry I wanted a powerful laptop with GPU but light weight. The performance is amazing and I am getting 6 hours from the battery.

Reported to ship with Windows 10. It comes with Windows 10 Pro pre-installed. The computer crashed after installing some updates which failed, so I ran a system restore, which also failed. The built-in OS recovery tools all failed. Downloaded the USB OS Support Assist / Recovery tool from Dell official website and it installs W10 Home, not Pro. Spent 2 hours on the phone with Dell support, Dell claims this is because this is an unofficial 3rd party seller and the description is incorrect. They are unwilling to provide an upgrade back to W10 Pro, which the machine shipped with, because in their support database it is listed as a W10 Home machine. Buyer beware. Like the computer otherwise.