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In a statement issued directly to Gizmodo this evening, a spokesperson for Google has confirmed that Chrome is indeed to blame for our frozen and crashing new MacBook Airs. More »

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Over the past couple of days, a few of us had the great good fortune of receiving our new MacBook Airs direct from Shanghai via FedEx. Is there anything so thrilling as the promise of a fresh computer, sealed in its box, untouched and cold cold cold? More »

Dell surprised us at CES with the launch of its super-elegant and affordable Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, which we selected in our Best of CES list. Read our XPS 13 review here.

So today, we are very happy to see the rest of the family coming to the market, namely the XPS 14 and XPS 15 laptops. Both units are powered by a 3rd generation Intel Core i5-3317U processor (3M cache and up to 2.6 GHz. Optionally users can select the Core i7/4M cache/3.0 GHz), are less than an inch thick and feature the very elegant silver-colored machined aluminum chassis that we discovered at CES. The Dell XPS 14 features a 14” HD WLED 1600×900 display (400 nits) while the XPS 15 model gets a 15.6” WLED 1920×1080 display (350 nits), both with edge-to-edge Corning Gorilla Glass.

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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New Dell XPS 15 laptop spotted at the Romanian Aviation Museum, Dell Latitude E6430 ATG,

Dell’s XPS 13 Ultrabook has been rather lonely since it launched in early 2012, but the company is introducing two new laptops to round out the updated XPS line. Today it announced the 14-inch XPS 14 and the 15-inch XPS 15, both of which feature the same aluminum chassis as the XPS 13 and run Core i5 or Core i7 Ivy Bridge processors.

The XPS 14 Ultrabook will be available in two configurations, both of which include a backlit keyboard and a 400-nit, 1600 x 900 display. The main difference between the two models is connectivity: the higher-end XPS 14 comes with integrated mobile broadband and uses Dell’s NetReady “pay as you go” service to get online when Wi-Fi is out of range. Both versions come with up to 8GB of RAM and can be configured with a 500GB drive spinning at 5,400 RPM paired with a 32GB SSD or a standalone 512GB SSD, and the WWAN model comes standard with a 500GB drive with a free fall sensor on board. Another difference is graphics: the base model ships with Intel HD Graphics 4000, while the WWAN model offers an NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M GPU. Dell claims the notebook provides up to 11 hours of runtime, “the longest battery life of any Ultrabook.” The XPS 14 starts at $1,099 and is available today. It just so happens that we’ve already taken the laptop for a full test drive: check out our review here.

Next up is the XPS 15, which weighs 5.79 pounds and sports a 1920 x 1080 Corning Gorilla Glass display. The laptop includes either a DVD-RW or Blu-Ray drive and comes with up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. As far as graphics go, you get a choice of NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 630M chip with 1GB of dedicated memory or GeForce GT 640M graphics with 2GB of RAM. Pricing starts at $1,299, and like the XPS 14 this laptop is available today. Check out our hands-on gallery below.

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