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Defense Department seeks to bring back anti-ballistic missile lasers—on drones

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Defense Department seeks to bring back anti-ballistic missile lasers—on drones

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The YAL-1 Airborne Laser platform showed lasers could blow up missiles during boost phase. But it was way too big, too expensive, and had to get too close to launch sites. Drones could solve all three problems, the Missile Defense Agency's chief believes.
The Missile Defense Agency is giving a second look at the idea of airborne lasers as a defense against ballistic missiles. But this time, instead of using giant chemical lasers carried by enormous crewed aircraft, the MDA is hoping that solid-state lasers will soon be up to the job—and that they will be able to be carried by drones.

Over a decade ago, the US Air Force mounted a megawatt laser on a 747 as part of an effort to develop a flying weapon to shoot down ballistic missiles as they launch. The Airborne Laser Laboratory (ABL) had several successful tests, but then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates cancelled the program in 2011 because of both its expense and impracticality.

"The reality is that you would need a laser something like 20 to 30 times more powerful than the chemical laser in the plane right now to be able to get any distance from the launch site to fire," Gates said in a House Appropriations committee hearing in 2009. To shoot down an Iranian ballistic missile, he argued, "the ABL would have to orbit inside the borders of Iran in order to be able to try and use its laser to shoot down that missile in the boost phase. And if you were to operationalize, this you would be looking at 10 to 20 747s, at a billion and a half dollars apiece, and $100 million a year to operate. And there's nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a workable concept."

But now MDA Director Vice Admiral James Syring is convinced that laser technology has improved enough to be up to the challenge—particularly if it's mounted on something a lot cheaper to fly than a 747. On January 19, Defense One reports, Syring said at an event at the Center of Strategic and International Studies, "We have significantly ramped up our program in terms of investment and talking about more of what else needs to be done to mature this capability."

Syring said that MDA's plan is to see how much more reliable and capable laser technology gets over the next three years and then build a long-range, high-altitude drone around a laser weapon. The drones, conceivably using stealth technology, would be able to stay on watch for long periods of time without being detected and at altitudes that stay out of range of air defenses.
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Sony’s new portable projector puts an 80-inch display anywhere

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This small, white box might look like a set-top box, but it’s actually a new laser diode projector from Sony. One that can project an 80-inch screen anywhere you want it to.
The LSX-P1 is part of Sony’s Life Space UX line. It’s about five inches square and three inches thick, and it weighs around two pounds. Despite its small size, Sony managed to pack in a pair of speakers and a lithium battery that can keep the projector powered for around two hours. The LSX-P1 pumps out video and images at 100 lumens, which is decent for a projector this portable.

It’s good for more than just watching movies in dark rooms and putting on a lunchtime presentation in a cramped booth at a restaurant. Check their official press release (Google Translate link) , and you’ll see that Sony thinks that the LSX-P1 is a fantastic way to install some fake windows in your house. It can also double as a really expensive wall clock — that also displays the current weather. Not exactly the most exciting uses, but this is still a very cool, portable unit.
There are other battery-powered projectors out there that output twice as many lumens, but the LSX-P1 offers an excellent mix of high resolution (1366 x 768), decent brightness, and a throw ratio that allows it to project a massive image from around two feet away. It also offers built-in Bluetooth LE and 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi connectivity.
Sony is asking around $800 for it, which is a little on the steep side. Then again, most of the cheaper projectors like this can’t match its 1366 x 768 resolution.
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Samsung 65KS9500

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We got a first look at Samsung’s new flagship 4K SUHD set at CES 2016, which will be marketed as the KS9000 in the UK.

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We’re more used to manufacturers unveiling whole ranges of TVs at CES, but Samsung broke with tradition this year and gave its whole TV focus to a single set, in the form of its flagship KS9500.

A curved, 4K HDR set, it’s the company’s first official Quantum Dot display and comes with a improved user interface and IoT smarts. Read on for our first impressions.

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Samsung hasn’t been shy in its support for curved screens and so it’s no surprise that its flagship set features a gently curved design.

While we’re still not convinced on any viewing benefits from a curved set, there’s no doubt that they look nice, and the KS9500 certainly cuts a striking shape.

This is helped by the fact that Samsung has managed to do away with the bezel here, telling us that the very, very slim border around the screen is actually the frame that holds the display.

It’s not just the front view that’s been considered though – Samsung has implemented what it’s calling a “360-degree design”, so there are no visible screws on the front or back.

Instead, the back panel has a smooth, unblemished finish, with all ports once again situated in Samsung’s separate One Connect box. The single connection between the box and the TV and power input are hidden behind a removable panel.

It’ll be available in 49, 55, 65 and 78in screen sizes.

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The KS9500 is the first Samsung TV to be officially labelled up as using Quantum Dot colour technology, even though its 2015 Nano Crystal tech was basically just that.

Why it’s decided to do this after pushing the Nano Crystal message so hard is a little unclear – Samsung says there are some small differences between the two, but it seems that ultimately it was a case of changing the name to help make things clearer for consumers.

The panel in the KS9500 is a 4K, 10-bit display with support for HDR. It’s an edge lit set, which is somewhat strange for a flagship TV, but with a peak brightness of 1000 nits, it’s capable of brightness levels we’d usually expect from a direct-lit picture.

This helps to increase the contrast levels between the light and dark in pictures, plus makes the screen punchy no matter the lighting levels in the room.

This is supported by Samsung’s Ultra Black technology, which aims to reduce glare and reflections. Even on the very bright show floor, it managed to do a reasonable job at keeping them at bay, particularly when compared with its 2015 sets.

Picture quality on the whole looked very impressive indeed. We saw a range of demo clips of various bright objects and scenarios, and pictures looked sharp, vibrant and full of detail.

The colour palette appeared a little on the warm side – a red stiletto that was being filmed and displayed on the screen was a touch overdone for our more neutral tastes, though we’re not sure what picture processing technology could have been having a negative effect.

HDR content was as impressive as ever, giving more depth to images and offering up improved detail in the dark and light areas of a scene.

A video taken from the inside of a holiday home and looking out of a window was able to highlight both the vibrancy of the fabrics inside while still showing detail and depth to the clouds in the sky.

A video of waves crashing on to a beach was able to pick out subtlety and texture in the spray, where a non-HDR set looked much flatter, and unable to display the same nuances.

We’d want to wait until to we get the set into our testing rooms before we pass much more of a critical opinion on it, but from our short time with the set, it certainly seems Samsung is set to build on its successes of 2015.

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With its 2016 TVs, Samsung has introduced an improved Smart Hub, which aims to deliver a simpler, much more streamlined approach in getting you to your content quicker.

A bar appears along the bottom without interrupting what you’re watching, which allows you to flick between channels, on demand content, sources and settings in one place.

There’s a two-tier design, so when you have something highlighted, you’ll get a second window above it with suggested content.

Depending on what you have selected, this could be favourite channels, sources or settings based on usage, and in the case of on-demand content, suggested programs to watch. These appear right within Samsung’s UI, without the need to launch a separate app (though this depends on the service provider allowing this).

Samsung also has a new feature called Smart Control, which will automatically recognise any hardware connected to the TV over HDMI and set it up for you, allowing you to control it using the Samsung Smart Remote included in the box.

For example, it will allow you to navigate around your Xbox menu, and even control your set top box guide (though we only saw this demonstrated with American services, we understand UK services are still TBC).

Samsung says Smart Control should work with a large majority of external hardware, but that it’s working on the compatibility of more all the time.

Finally, Samsung has built in Internet of Things hub technology on the KS9500, and all of its 2016 SUHD TVs. This allows you to use your TV to control over 200 SmartThings devices, from light bulbs to door bells, plus you can set 'routines' for things to happen automatically at certain times of the day or with certain behaviour.

The whole interface certainly looks as slick as we’ve come to expect from Samsung, with the new functionality really looking like a good addition to the experience and ease of use.

First impressions
From our short time with Samsung’s KS9500, it certainly looks to tick all the boxes of a flagship TV, while aiming to follow on from all the manufacturer achieved last year. With a combination of great picture quality and slick usability, we can’t wait to take a closer look.
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Business news: HSBC app, Sky TV, Apple, Tabl and Revolut

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Business news: HSBC app, Sky TV, Apple, Tabl and Revolut
HSBC is trialling a new smartphone app that tells users when they are spending too much on coffee, takeaways or drinking in the pub.
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The app, dubbed HSBC Nudge, analyses users’ current account data to identify trends in their spending habits and sends them regular messages to make them aware of the consequences that it will have on their finances.

As an example, a message will appear on screen from the app when a user withdraws more money than usual from an ATM, if they spend more than the national average on takeaways or if they have not checked their balance for a prolonged period of time.

Raman Bhatia, head of digital at HSBC, said that the bank developed the app to help its customers make better, more effective use of their money and meet their long-term financial goals.

The “nudge theory” concept from behavioural economics argues that positive and indirect suggestions or “nudges” can influence decision-making.

Bhatia said that after the two-month trial the app could be offered to the bank’s wider customer base.
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Acquisitions brighten picture for Sky
PAY TV giant Sky has shrugged off the loss of European Champions League football to rival BT with first-half revenues expected to be up 31.7 per cent to ?5.7billion.

Revenues have been boosted by the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, as well as the “solid” growth in new subscribers and the number of existing customers taking on additional services.

Analysts believe that Sky will report a pre-tax profit of ?638.8million for the six-month period ending December 31, 2015.

Last year the firm posted first-half profit of ?1.2billion, which included one-off gains of ?788million from the disposal of its stakes in National Geographic and ITV.

Shore Capital analyst Roddy Davidson said: “We are positive on Sky’s business model and expect top line progress to be fuelled by a combination of growth in existing and new customers, connected boxes, complementary non-subscription services and the potential within the German and Italian markets.”

Last week Sky, which is home to hit TV shows such as Game Of Thrones and True Detective, struck an exclusive long-term deal with CBS, giving it the European rights to hit series such as Billions and The Affair.
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Apple iPhone sales at record levels
APPLE is set to unveil record first-quarter revenues of $76.5billion (?53.6billion) on Tuesday, thanks to strong Christmas sales of its flagship iPhone.

Despite fears that sales of the iconic smartphone, which accounts for the majority of the technology group’s revenues, are starting to peak, Wall Street analysts believe that Apple sold enough iPhones during the three months to December 31 to surpass the record 74.5million units sold last year.

The firm is also expected to announce that its pre-tax profits were flat at $24.4billion (?17.1billion).

Apple enjoyed a record 2015 in terms of both profitability and sales and investors will be keen to see to what extent the launch of its latest devices, the iPhone 6s, the iPhone 6s Plus and the iPad Pro, has translated into increased sales.

Apple said its App Store had enjoyed record Christmas and New Year sales of $1.1billion (?770million).
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Overseas expansion is on the Tabl
TABL, the events website that matches chefs and supper clubs with restaurants, pubs and caf?s that have unused space, is set to expand across the country over the next six months.

Chief executive Kimberly Hurd said that once it has national coverage, she will look at overseas expansion.

It is currently based in the South-east.

Tabl is gaining popularity among chefs and restaurateurs as they can test new concepts by opening pop-up restaurants first without much risk.

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Currency firm looks for funds
REVOLUT, the fast-growing provider of currency cards offering free transactions, is looking at raising funds from investors to accelerate its expansion.

Founded last summer by former Lehman Brothers trader Nikolay Storonsky, Revolut already has 81,000 users in 150 countries.

It says that its customers have made transactions that top ?140million, saving them more than ?10million in “unnecessary” fees.
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Oswalds Mill Audio Imperia is a $280,000 horn speaker

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If conventional speakers, with their drivers and grilles, just don’t cut it anymore, then take a look at OMA's Imperia, which uses horns to propel sound to your ears.
Described as “the ultimate speaker from OMA”, the Imperia uses a four-way horn design, with a vertical array of conical horns. And it looks pretty crazy.

OMA claims to be the only company using conical horns with straight edges, as it believes they don’t “deform the spherical wave of sound created by the horn”.

The horns cover frequencies from 100Hz to 20kHz, while two rear-mounted subwoofer horns, using a 21in neodymium woofer, take care of low end frequencies from 20Hz to 100Hz.
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The two wooden horns are made from solid Pennsylvania Black Walnut, Cherry or Ash wood, and the midrange uses a Cogent DS1428 field coil compression driver.

For the high frequencies, OMA has cast a horn from an aluminium alloy and the outboard crossover network is connected to the speaker via solid slate patchboard.

The price for the ultimate speaker? You can nab a pair of these horned speakers now for $280,000.
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Headphones That Could Make You Happy

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Headphones That Could Make You Happy
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The Nervana headphones aim to stimulate the vagus nerve externally and currently are retailing for $279.
A Florida-based startup wants your music to make you even happier. Called Nervana, the company has created a pair of headphones with a patent-pending vagus nerve stimulation generator. That generator syncs music to an electrical signal that aims to trigger the release of dopamine, a feel-good neurotransmitter. The result is supposed to be an intense buzz of happiness that can be felt for hours after turning off this "lifestyle and wellness device."


As you've no doubt guessed, the headphones (it's actually a pair of patented ear buds and a generator) work by stimulating the vagus nerve, nicknamed the "neural superhighway." The nerve runs from the brainstem, through the neck, and down into the abdomen, where it connects with most of the major organs.

The idea of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is nothing new. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its medical use in 1997, and more than 100,000 patients have undergone the surgery. In traditional VNS, a silver-dollar-sized generator is implanted under the skin below the collarbone, with wires tunneled up the patient's neck to wrap around the left branch of the vagus nerve. It sends electrical pulses to the nerve every few minutes, and in some cases patients have a special magnet that they can use to manually trigger stimulation, too.

VNS has been used successfully to treat epilepsy and treatment-resistant depression, and it's being studied as a treatment option for rheumatoid arthritis, heart failure, diabetes and intractable hiccups.

Nervana's setup doesn't require surgery. The headphones takes advantage of the fact that the vagus nerve runs very close to the skin by the ear and places the source of the stimulation in the left earbud. It's a much less expensive and intrusive way to stimulate the vagus nerve. According to the Mayo Clinic, noninvasive VNS systems like this are already cleared to treat epilepsy, depression and pain in Europe.


The company says it has tested its device on hundreds of adults and recommends two Nervana sessions of 15-45 minutes twice daily. It's important to note again that this is a lifestyle and wellness device, not a medical one. In case you're worried that the product won't work for you, which is entirely possible, you can return it within 14 days.


Along with syncing up the stimulation with your own music library, the headphones feature an 'ambient' mode, which will allow users to sync their stim to music at festivals or to whatever noises happen to be around you at the time (that's one way to make work meetings a bit more interesting).


In addition to providing a legal way for listeners to get a buzz at music festival, the company is hoping its technology can be used by research organizations that otherwise can't afford to experiment with VNS.

Nervana CEO Ami Brannon says she's particularly excited about one project that the company has started to pursue: "There's a possibility of working with veterans who have come back with PTSD. We're really excited about … [being] able to help people in general, but especially our veterans."


The company's Indiegogo campaign has raised $512,200, or 683 percent of its $75,000 flexible goal, and is slated to close in five days. The headphones currently are available for $279 and will ship out by June.
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Cyrus One amplifier to return at "most affordable price ever"

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Cyrus will be releasing a new, feature-packed Cyrus One amplifier at the High End Show in Munich later this month.
The new Cyrus One is an update to the classic amplifier which helped launched the company back in 1984. Set to make its debut at High End, the new model features aptX Bluetooth streaming, a phono stage for connecting to a turntable and a headphone amplifier.

What's more, it looks like it will be relatively affordable, promising to showcase the company "at its most affordable price ever".

Information on the High End website reveals a few details about the feature-packed amp, while the Cyrus Audio Twitter account has shared a teaser image, presumably of the new model, with the tagline, "Harder, faster, better, stronger".
The Cyrus One will deliver 2 x 100-watts of power and features Class D amplification. There's an AB headphone amplifier, a MM phono stage, four line level inputs and a set of pre-outs.

The new One aims to celebrate more than 33 years of Cyrus products, taking design cues from the original but bringing it bang up to date when it comes to the specifiactions.

And, interestingly, it looks like it will be the most affordable Cyrus amplifier yet, presumably coming in under the ?699 Cyrus 6a.
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The original Cyrus One/1 was released in 1984, a year after the formation of Cyrus Audio, and, alongside the Cyrus Two, was the first product the company released.

The classic amp will be instantly recognisable to anyone who has set eyes on any Cyrus electronics over the years, so we'd expect the new model to stick to a similar design. Although following the launch of the excellent, if exotically-designed, Cyrus Lyric, we're prepared to be
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Apple launches water-resistant iPhone 7, kills the headphone jack

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Having scooped its own launch event with a premature tweet, Apple has today officially launched the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus - and there's no 3.5mm headphone jack.
Promising, unsurprisingly, to be "the best iPhone that we have ever created", the iPhone 7 claims ten key new features, including a new design, new home button and IP76 water and dust resistance.

The iPhone 7 comes in new colours for Apple, including a new jet black finish, and is designed with a high-gloss, seamless unibody design, glass, aluminium and stainless steel.

The new iPhone 7 home button is 'customisable', with force sensitive control and new, more responsive taptic feedback, which can be programmed by third party apps.

There's a new Retina HD display for the new iPhones, promising to be 25 per cent brighter, adheres to the wide colour gamut cinema P3 standard and has a 3D Touch layer.

Apple also confirmed the removal of the headphone jack, focusing instead on the Lightning connection for audio.
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The new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will come with bundled new Lightning EarPods, as well as an adaptor for connecting 3.5mm headphones. Also new were the AirPods - Apple's completely wireless earphones.

The AirPods will cost ?159, the Lightning EarPods will be ?29 when sold separately, and the Lightning to 3.5mm headphone adaptor will cost ?9.

And for the first time there are stereo speakers on an iPhone, promising twice the volume.

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus cameras get a big update too, with new optical image stabilisation, a wider aperture lens and a new 12-megapixel wide colour capture sensor. Faster, more energy efficient, the iPhone 7 camera sports a Quad LED true tone flash.

iPhone 7 Plus adds a 12-megapixel telephoto camera, allowing you to use both cameras to capture images. Both phones have 7-megapixel FaceTime HD cameras.
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There's a new Apple A10 Fusion Chip - "the most powerful chip ever in a phone" - that promises to run twice as fast as the iPhone 6, while using less power.

There are new finishes, too, an anodised matte black and a jet black.
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In a strange turn of events, Apple's official Twitter account sent out a tweet went at the start of the event, before Tim Cook, Apple CEO, had announced the new iPhone 7.

As well as a water-resistant body, the tweet - now deleted - appeared to show that Apple has indeed removed the 3.5mm headphone jack.

Apple also confirmed the new iPhone 7 has stereo speakers, new cameras and a "longer battery".
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The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be available in silver, gold, rose gold and the new black finish in 32GB, 128GB and 256GB models starting at ?599. The new jet black finish will be offered exclusively on the 128GB and 256GB models.

The iPhone 7 will be available from 16th September.
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Philips 32-inch Monitor Feature Packed for $450
The new Philips Crystalclear BDM3270QP2 32-inch monitor features 2560?1440 resolution with DisplayPort, HDMI, and Dual link DVI connectivity for $450. The feature packed display includes MultiView technology, which enables active dual connect to view multiple devices like a PC and Notebook side-by-side simultaneously. You can also watch live sports from your set-top box or follow breaking news feeds on one side of the screen, all while browsing the Internet from your notebook or while working on your latest blog post on the other side of the display.
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A Philips AMVA LED panel uses an advanced multi-domain vertical alignment technology to give you super-high static contrast ratios for extra vivid and bright images. While standard office applications are handled with ease, it is especially suitable for photos, web-browsing, films, gaming and demanding graphical applications. Its optimized pixel management technology gives you 178/178 degree extra wide viewing angle, resulting in crisp images even in 90-degree pivot mode. The 10-bit display delivers rich color depth with 1.074 billion colors and 12-bit internal processing for recreating smooth, natural colors without gradations and color banding.

The display comes with Philips Flicker-Free technology to regulate brightness, a SmartErgoBase for ergonomic adjustments, built-in stereo speakers, and a low bezel-to-table height for maximum reading comfort. Two USB 3.0 inputs deliver super speedy data transfers with a 5.0 gbit/s transfer rate and two USB 2.0 inputs are ideal for low speed peripherals. Finally, an integrated MHL port allows users to connect compatible phones and tablets directly to the monitor to mirror content to the widescreen display while charging the mobile device at the same time.
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Price and Availability
The Philips Crystalclear Quad HD 2560 x 1440 32-inch display is now available for $449 at Amazon.com.

SPECIFICATION BDM3270QP2
LCD panel type AMVA LCD
Backlight type W-LED system
Panel Size 32 inch
Aspect ratio 16:9
Optimum resolution 2560 x 1440 @ 60Hz
Response time (typical) 4 ms (Grey to Grey)
Brightness (typical) 250 cd/m?
SmartContrast 50M:1
Contrast Ratio 3000:1
Viewing angle 178? (H)/178? (V)@ C/R > 10
Display colors 10-bit ColorColor support 1.07 billion colors
MHL 1080P @ 60 Hz
Signal Input VGA (Analog)
Display Port
MHL-HDMI (Digital, HDCP)
DVI-Dual Link (digital, HDCP)
Audio In/Out PC audio-in, headphone out
Built-in speakers 3W x 2
Power supply Built-in, 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz
Color Black
Finish Texture
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Review: Better GPU and 4K screen make the XPS 15 a MacBook Pro for PC users
Review: Quad-core CPUs, a GTX 1050 GPU, and 32GB RAM will please power users.
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PC companies are striving to make their 13-inch laptops ever thinner and lighter, a trend that has been good for our shoulders and backs but not as good for performance. Luckily, 15-inch laptops are there to serve as a counterweight, offering not just quad-core processors but increasingly powerful and desktop-like graphics chips.

Dell’s XPS 15, much like Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro, attempts to straddle the line between svelte and powerful. It’s not the smallest or most powerful laptop, but last year’s model struck a good balance between size and speed even if the best configurations were on the expensive side. This year’s version doesn’t change a lot, but a new more power-efficient GPU, a Kaby Lake CPU upgrade, and a fingerprint reader all make it worth reconsidering anyway.
This iteration of the XPS 15 design is just over a year old, and Dell hasn’t messed with it much. The laptop is essentially a blown-up version of the thin-bezeled XPS 13 that the company released to glowing reviews in 2015. The slim border around the top and sides of the screen looks pretty cool and also helps Dell reduce the laptop’s footprint, fitting a 15-inch screen into something slimmer and lighter than a 13-inch laptop might have been five or six years ago.

Like all the modern XPS designs, Dell uses aluminum for the lid and the bottom of the laptop, combined with a pleasant-feeling (but oil-capturing) soft-touch palm rest and keyboard tray. Add a solid backlit keyboard and a Microsoft Precision Touchpad, and you have pretty much completed the recipe.

Dell offers two 15.6-inch display options with the XPS 15: a base 1080p IPS screen with no touch support and a 4K touchscreen. Our review unit uses the latter, and it’s a gorgeous panel (although it could really use an anti-glare coating). It’s high-resolution and tack-sharp, yes, but it also supports the Adobe RGB color gamut instead of the more common (and limited) sRGB. Apple is accomplishing something similar with the DCI-P3 panels it has been using in recent Macs, iPads, and iPhones, though the two color spaces have different strengths. Apple’s P3 space covers more reds, yellows, magentas, and some green tones, but Adobe RGB has an edge when it comes to blues and greenish-blues.

The nice thing is that Dell also ships an app called PremierColor with the XPS 15. By default, its "Vibrant" setting covers not just the Adobe RGB gamut, but also the P3 gamut. If you need to work in a specific color space, it allows for easy switching between Adobe RGB, P3, and sRGB. If you think you can use a wide-gamut screen, the XPS 15 should serve you well. The 1080p screen will probably be OK, too, based on the panels that Dell normally uses in the XPS machines, but that’s a bit on the low-resolution side for a modern laptop of this size.
Look and feel

SPECS AT A GLANCE: 2017 DELL XPS 15 (AS REVIEWED)
SCREEN 15.6-inch 4K IPS touchscreen with Adobe RGB support
OS Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
CPU Quad-core 2.8 GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Intel Core i7-7700HQ
RAM 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 (user-upgradeable to 32GB)
GPU Intel HD Graphics 630/Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5 RAM
HDD 512GB PCIe SSD (upgradeable up to 1TB)
NETWORKING Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.1
PORTS 1x Thunderbolt 3, 2x USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, SD reader, headphone jack
SIZE 14.06" x 9.27" x 0.45-0.66" (357 x 235 x 11-17mm)
WEIGHT 4.5 pounds (2kg)
BATTERY 97WHr
WARRANTY One year
STARTING PRICE $999.99
PRICE AS REVIEWED $2,074.99
OTHER PERKS 720p webcam, backlit keyboard, Microsoft Precision Touchpad, fingerprint sensor
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The weight of the laptop differs based on the configuration you go with. Cheaper models with 1080p displays use a 56WHr battery; they also usually pair a 32GB sold-state boot drive with a 2.5-inch spinning HDD to expand the amount of available storage. Those versions weigh four pounds, in line with Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro. More expensive XPS 15 configurations with 4K screens go all-in on PCI Express SSDs and fill the space saved from the 2.5-inch drive with more battery. Those 97WHr versions weigh 4.5 pounds, though they have exactly the same dimensions otherwise.
Below the screen is the XPS series’ trademark, weirdly positioned webcam that shoots straight up your nose (women have also pointed out to me that it’s positioned at chest level), an oddity we’ve never liked but which is necessitated by the narrow top bezel. And positioned below the keyboard and to the right of the trackpad is a ($25, optional) static Windows Hello-compatible fingerprint reader. It’s a nice addition that addresses one of our minor complaints about the original XPS 15 and ticks one of the boxes on our list of requirements for high-end laptops in 2017.

Speaking of that list, the XPS 13 also includes a single USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port on its right side. This port isn’t used for charging—the adapter that comes with it is rated for 130W, and the fact that the USB Power Delivery spec only goes up to 100W might explain why, and, unfortunately, you can’t charge the laptop with a USB-C charger even if you have one. The port does open the door to high-speed storage and external GPU connections, though, in addition to 10Gbps USB 3.1 gen 2 and DisplayPort output via USB-C Alternate Mode.

The laptop otherwise offers a small but respectable array of ports: two USB 3.0, one on each side; a full-size HDMI port; a full-size SD card reader; and a headphone jack. A lock slot and battery indicator button round things out.
If you want to read more about how we feel about the XPS 15’s design and the general look and feel of the lineup, you can check out our original review of the XPS 15, plus reviews of the XPS 13 and the XPS 13 2-in-1. Our general verdict remains the same as ever: it has a weirdly placed webcam and it’s hard to completely clean the palm rest of oil from your hands, but Dell has constructed a very nice laptop overall. It checks most of the premium PC boxes, and it has a distinctive look that doesn’t immediately look like a clone of a laptop from Apple or anyone else.

Software

Just the briefest of notes on the XPS 15's software loadout, which is Windows 10 Home by default but can become Windows 10 Pro with a $50 upgrade: entry-level PCs are the ones most heavily subsidized by crapware, and as a premium consumer PC, the XPS 15 keeps it to a minimum. You’ve got a McAfee subscription that’s easily removed, a 20GB Dropbox storage offer, a Microsoft Office demo, and a shotgun blast of Dell utilities and driver files (including Nvidia’s whole GeForce Experience deal).

The aforementioned Dell PremierColor app is probably the most interesting of the Dell software, followed closely by the Dell Update utility, which promises the prompt download and installation of new BIOS and driver downloads from Dell. An 11GB recovery partition takes a chunk out of your usable space, but, as always, you can reclaim it in favor of using Windows 10’s built-in recovery options if you want those gigabytes back.

Listing image by Andrew Cunningham


Performance

The new XPS 15 uses either dual- or quad-core Intel Kaby Lake processors, either Intel’s HD 630 integrated GPU or an Nvidia GTX 1050 with 4GB of GDDR5 RAM, PCI Express SSDs (occasionally backed by 2.5-inch HDDs), and anywhere between 8GB and 32GB of DDR4 RAM spread out across two RAM slots. Yes, unlike most other compact laptops available these days, Dell actually does let you swap out your own RAM in these things if you want an upgrade.

Our review unit included the top-of-the-line Core i7-7700HQ CPU, the Nvidia GPU, the 512GB SSD (256GB and 1TB are also options, if you can pay for them), and 16GB of RAM, which should be more than enough computing power for most. All else being equal, I’d have preferred Intel’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips to the Killer-branded Qualcomm version used here—it’s harder to get the latest drivers, and there’s a Microsoft-branded Bluetooth mouse I absolutely couldn’t get to pair to the XPS 15 no matter what I tried—but most Bluetooth accessories seemed fine, and I never had Wi-Fi troubles to speak of.

We’ve compared the XPS 15 to the XPS 13 2-in-1 and the Surface Book with the Performance Base attached, to give you some idea of how it stacks up to thin-and-light and relatively beefy dual-core systems. We’ve also compared it to Dell’s own Alienware 13 R3 and HP’s 17-inch Omen laptop. Alienware and Omen are Dell’s and HP’s dedicated gaming brands, and as such those laptops make different tradeoffs. They’re a whole lot heavier and chunkier, and the 17-inch Omen is a whole lot bigger. But they give you higher-end GPU options, the benefits of which are readily visible in the majority of benchmarks.
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The CPU charts show the XPS 15 pulling way ahead of the dual-core laptops and mostly keeping pace with the quad-core CPUs in the other laptops. There is one exception, though—the Cinebench multi-core CPU benchmark score is a fair bit lower than the one for the Alienware laptop, even though both use identical processors. The Cinebench test runs for longer and is a bit heavier than the Geekbench test, which suggests that Dell does have to throttle the XPS 15’s processor more aggressively under sustained workloads to keep heat under control. The Alienware machine is much thicker and has more robust cooling, which gives the processor more room to breathe.

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The tests also demonstrate the clear lines drawn between integrated GPUs and dedicated GPUs, between older dedicated GPUs and modern ones, and between modern midrange GPUs and modern high-end GPUs. Both the XPS 15’s GTX 1050 GPU and the Surface Book’s GTX 965M GPU are far and away better than Intel’s integrated graphics. And the GTX 1050 is decidedly faster than the GTX 965M—usually by around 20 or 30 percent depending on the test, which speaks to the strength of Nvidia’s Pascal architecture. We don’t have an XPS 15 to run our new benchmark suite on, but the tests from last year’s review that do overlap suggest that the 1050 would best the old XPS 15’s GTX 960M by even more, usually between 30 and 40 percent.

I loaded up some games on the XPS to see what those scores meant in real-world terms. If you’re playing pretty old games like Portal 2, playing in 4K with all the settings turned all the way up is actually possible. But for more modern games like Fallout 4, you’d do best to turn the resolution down to 1080p, and Medium or High settings will guarantee you the best framerates. I don’t have VR hardware on hand to test with, but unfortunately we already know that you generally want a GTX 1060 or better, not a 1050, to achieve playable framerates in most games.

The charts show why. The GTX 1060 in the Alienware laptop is easily twice as fast as the 1050 in many tests, and the beefier GTX 1070 in the HP Omen does better still. If you’re hoping for a VR-ready 15-inch gaming laptop, the Razer Blade is a better choice, since it offers quad-core CPUs and a GTX 1060 in a package that’s not too much larger than the XPS 15.

This leaves the XPS 15 in an odd position. It’s not really a “gaming laptop,” but you also won’t be able to find a game that won’t run on it if you’re cool with turning some settings down. It’s not a good fit for someone who will primarily uses their laptop for gaming, but it’s great if you want to be able to play games sometimes, and you also want to avoid the chunky designs and execrable glowing red-and-green accents of most stereotypical “gamer” laptops.

One final thing to note: the XPS 15's normal fan noise level is fine, and when you're doing most general productivity tasks you won’t notice more than a quiet whirr even if you’re in an otherwise silent room. But if you’re playing a game, those fans spin up like jet engines, easily drowning out the audio from the speakers. You’ll want to put some good headphones in, and you’ll want to make sure you aren’t blocking the fan vents as you play.
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The 512GB PCIe SSD in the XPS is a solid performer, easily smacking down the other systems in both read and write performance. The 256GB model may have lower write performance, as smaller SSDs often do, but, in any case, you’re getting a nice, fast drive.

Battery life
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Battery life feels like the XPS 15’s biggest compromise, at least if you’re using the one with the 4K screen and comparing it to most 13-inch Ultrabooks. Dell promises “up to 19.5 hours of productivity,” but that number was calculated using the model with the largest battery and the 1080p screen. At just under 10 hours, our 4K model fell well short of that. And it’s a pretty light test—based on my real-world usage, I’d knock two or three more hours off of that figure for active mixed use.

The XPS does manage to stay head and shoulders above the pure gaming laptops represented here, though. It outlasts the Alienware laptop by a couple of hours and runs for nearly twice as long as the hulking HP Omen. Put a light-but-continuous load on the CPU and GPU, as our WebGL test does, and the XPS 15 sinks down to their level, though (and the Alienware actually outlasts it).

Pricing and configurations

The XPS 15 starts at $1,000, which sounds pretty good until you start looking at all the different configuration options; the bottom tiers are all missing various bits and pieces that make the laptop worthwhile. The $1,000 version, for instance, offers a 32GB SSD boot drive but primarily relies on a 500GB 7200RPM hard disk for storage, only uses a dual-core i3-7100H CPU, and is stuck with integrated graphics and a 56WHr battery (though with a 1080p screen, a dual-core CPU, and integrated graphics, its battery life might be fine anyway).

The $1,250 version still sticks with a 1080p screen and a hybrid SSD/HDD setup (just with a 1TB HDD instead of 500GB), but it adds a quad-core i5-7300HQ CPU and the GTX 1050 GPU and represents a respectable bare minimum if you’re primarily concerned with getting the best performance for your buck; if you’re unhappy with the 8GB of RAM you at least have the option to upgrade it yourself whenever you want. The main sticking point is the continued use of the 56WHr battery, which isn’t a great fit for the more powerful components. The $1,450 version steps up to a Core i7-7700HQ CPU and is the cheapest model to use a pure SSD (256GB PCIe in this case), but the battery complaint stands.

The $1,650 version is a good sweet spot. You step down to the i5-7300HQ processor, but you keep everything else, and you add the 4K touchscreen and the larger 97WHr battery; if you’re cool upgrading your own RAM from the included 8GB, this one is probably the best balance of price and performance. You can step back down to the 1080p non-touch screen and add the i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and the 512GB SSD for $1,750; the 4K screen is a $300 add-on for this config. Or you can re-add the 4K screen and a 1TB SSD for $2,250 and get a fully loaded config with 32GB of RAM straight from the factory for $2,549 (the market rate for 32GB of laptop DDR4 across two 16GB DIMMs starts around $200, for reference).

The fingerprint reader isn’t standard on any model, but you can add it to any model for a $25 upcharge.

In short, the XPS 15 is less expensive than Apple’s flagship laptop by a considerable margin, but that doesn’t mean it’s “cheap.” Costs escalate quickly as you add upgrades, and, the way Dell sells the systems, it’s usually not possible to prioritize some upgrades over others; you pick one of Dell’s pre-configured offerings or you walk away. I would recommend that most Ars readers get the $1,650 model and then add whatever RAM you need after the fact, but you'll have to make that decision for yourself.

A well-balanced system
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You could read the XPS 15 one of two ways. On the one hand, it feels like a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none laptop. Its performance is good, but there are definitely other laptops that are more credible for high-end gaming and VR. Its battery life is OK for its size and for the performance it offers, but it’s far below that of 13-inch thin-and-light Ultrabooks, including the XPS 13 family. While it’s reasonably thin and light for a laptop of its size, we’re still talking about 4 or 4.5 pounds of laptop here, something you won’t necessarily want to sling over your shoulder all day, every day. Battery life is OK but a far cry from “all day,” even with the added weight of the 97WHr version. And the top-end configs can get costly.

On the other hand, the XPS feels greater than the sum of its parts. It offers excellent CPU performance, and its GPU is more than beefy enough for workstation tasks and 1080p-ish gaming. PCI Express SSDs are a must in any modern high-end system, and both the port selection and support for 32GB of RAM should please power users exasperated by the more common 16GB cap in other laptops (including Apple’s latest MacBook Pros). Its battery will last you through most domestic flights and the bulk of an eight-hour workday. The 4K screen is stunning. And all of this fits into a package that will, with some effort, squeeze into many 13-inch messenger bags.

This year’s model isn’t a huge change from last year’s, but the improved performance-per-watt of Nvidia’s GTX 1000-series GPUs plus the addition of the fingerprint reader help it keep its appeal. It’s not the best laptop for everything, but it’s also not bad at anything, and there’s something to be said for that.

The good

Quad-core CPUs and a respectable dedicated GPU make this laptop well-suited to just about any laptop workload.
Distinctive design and solid construction.
Fairly small and light for its screen size and specs.
Gorgeous 4K panel with Adobe RGB support.
PCIe SSDs.
Thunderbolt 3/USB-C backed up by a good selection of other ports.
Good keyboard, Precision Touchpad.
For $25, the Windows Hello fingerprint reader is a must-have upgrade.
Up to 32GB of RAM, and it's user-upgradeable to boot.
The bad

Weird webcam placement.
Lots of glare from the glossy screen.
Palmrest soaks up oil and smudges.
VR and modern 4K gaming are out of reach.
Some indications of CPU throttling under heavy load.
Upgrades drive the $1,000 base price up quickly.
The ugly

Battery life of the 4K model is tolerable, not great.
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