While we can’t say that we universally liked Dell’s first attempt at an Ultrabook, the XPS 13 we reviewed about three months ago, we can quite confidently say that it earned our respect. Here was a smartly styled, sophisticated machine free of stickers and bloatware from a company that, let’s be honest, has delivered its share of each over the years. That machine was far from perfect, but it showed a purity of vision in design that you couldn’t help but acknowledge.
So where do you go from there? Why, you go bigger of course. Meet the new Dell XPS 14, successor in name only to a model that went out of production over a year ago. It is, as you might have guessed, an inch larger than the XPS 13 and so has more room for ports and pixels — but there’s more to it than that. In some ways this feels like a more polished machine than the 13 that came before, and it’s certainly faster but it, too, is far from perfect. Join us for a joyous exploration of why.
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MSI has certainly come a long way since it was introduced all those years ago, and this time around, we have word that MSI could very well be pushing for an introduction of a slider Ultrabook sometime in the fourth quarter of the year – with the asking price of $799. At that price point, it would certainly hit the sweet spot for many a discerning customer, as it is still a couple of Benjamins below the magical $1,000 mark, although you can be sure if you want to up the ante and throw in even more hardware to make this latest MSI Ultrabook run smooth and slick, you can easily break the $1,000 ceiling, especially where a larger capacity SSD is concerned.
