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Dell XPS 9570

9owners with an opinion

62%of verdicts positive

0/2positive/negative since 2024

5 yrslongest happy owner

1happy after 3+ years

Praised for durability and performance; criticized for noise and reliability.

What owners wrote

NeutralOwned 5 years

I managed to eke out 5 years on an XPS15 I was issued, but with no Windows 11 support (9570) its lifespan was limited. I ran Ubuntu for a while, but 23.10 broke LUKS and graphics support on my Nvidia GPU was limited. I’ve just bought a 2.5 MacBook Pro 16” refurbished, and my iPhone is 3 years old and counting with no plans to upgrade. I think getting as long as we can out of our devices is crucial, but the big wheel keeps on turning with technologies like Windows 11 and even Chrome. It’s an honourable endeavour but certainly disincentivised by big tech.

Doesn’t like it

I have the Lenovo X1 and I'm very happy with it, though obviously that's in a very different price category than the Yoga, Surface, or Macbook Neo. On the other hand, more money doesn't always mean better computer. I had a Dell XPS 9570 at a previous gig that had a lot of issues: coil whine, bad camera placement, terrible thermals, etc.

Doesn’t like it

> Windows sucks in the default install, but if you know what you're doing you can remove all the junk from it and make Windows almost as efficient as, say, Linux (and way more efficient than macOS). I can answer this as someone who, throughout last 6 months of his new job, used a Dell XPS 9570 with Windows, then PopOS, then Windows again, and just switched to an M3 Pro a week or two ago. No - you will never get close. That Dell could run fps games like CS:GO or Valorant with 100+ fps, had custom tweaks incl. thermalpads connecting to the chasis, exchanged thermal paste, was undervolted and with a custom fan curve. It still throttled from time to time. Granted - it was 8th gen i7, but it was on paper good enough to handle everything I do. Only on paper. It also choke on my day to day work, which is WebStorm, Docker and Typescript web development. Indexing, autocomplete, builds(even with swc) took a really long time. I switched to PopOS for a while, but overal user experience was even worse to me, with constant issues ranging from monitors behaving weirdly, stuff crashing, requiring weird driver installations, even Docker didn't 'just work', I had to fight it half a day to get it to actually run. Went back to Windows until I got frustrated enough and just bought a 36gb M3 Pro, and I'm never going back. This just works, builds take 1/6th of what they did, I can run full swc build in 100ms, full tsc build takes 10 seconds(down from around 60), nothing ever stutters, nothing slo…

Doesn’t like it

I switched to a XPS-15 9570 from a MBP of roughly equiv spec, but previous gen, after the last round of laptop shuffles at work - I went from MacOS to Windows at the same time in order to feel the pain of our environment under Windows. I'm not saying that it's a bad laptop. But there are just so many little annoying things about it after coming from the MBP and MacOS; * Trackpad is subjectively worse, but I can't tell you why beyond its just smaller - but I am objectively much less accurate with it and trigger tap-clicks when I don't mean to. The trackpad positioning is also slightly uncomfortable to use. * Fan noise - the fan curve has it ramping up earlier than a MBP * Windows was hosed out of the box (fine, fixable, but it wasn't a good start) * The "soft" covering results in so many fingerprints * Webcam on the bottom bezel is an awful angle Pros; * Great screen, touch is a nice add-on but found I rarely use it now * Keyboard isn't terrible * Power adapter isn't a brick Would I do it again. Honestly, not sure. My daily driver isn't the laptop and I just deal. If I had to use the laptop daily, I'd probably reconsider.

Recommends it

I use a Dell XPS 13 9570 with Ubuntu and I am absolutely smitten with it. My last laptop was an XPS 13 9350, and I loved it too, but I did find it a bit too small for my liking so I ultimately ended up selling it and buying the 9570. Let me know if you have any questions about this specific model, and I'll be happy to help as best I can.

Likes it

My personal anecdote. So my trusty rMBP turned 5 years old on June 15. Happy Birthday. As I'm a solo developer for a number of companies, I decided it's a good time to get a spare "just in case". I am "particularly offended" by the touch bar, because the way I type my fingers rest closer to the top, and on my mate's X1 3rd Gen I always turn sound on and off... :-) So touch bar = no go. I got an 4k touchscreen Dell XPS 15 9570 from an OEM channel (no CPU, GPU, HDD, RAM, battery), put in a real 6-core i7-8750h, 32G DDR4-3200, mobile 1050Ti, 2T Intel's T660 SSD, and a 94Wh battery. Switched Wifi to the new Intel AX200. Repasted with Kryonaut paste, added some 3M heat pads. All in all cost me ~$1800. A week ago my MBP finally stopped working, main board failure. Over the course of 5 years I changed screen twice (first the horrible staingate, then water damage), battery twice (first one popped within 1.5 years), repasted, and changed the little charging board. It's time for it to retire. Migrating to Windows 10 turned out to be much less pain than I expected. A few tweaks for the horrible font rendering, install GlassWire (like Little Snitch), Wox (like Spotlight), Seer (preview on Space bar), Chocolatey (like Homebrew), ThrottleStop (easy performance boost), SpeedFan (for fan control), and it feels pretty much like a Macbook. I'm pretty amazed on how easy it was to just swap parts inside - unscrew the lid, pop out the old one, insert the new one. Keyboard is great. Touchpad is ok

Likes it

Dell XPS 15 9570, best notebook I've ever had. Only major issue is that the default fancurve was probably chosen randomly because they just couldn't be bothered. It can be fixed thou with https://github.com/TomFreudenberg/dell-bios-fan-control

Likes it

XPS 15 9570; very happy. Linux is imperfect but largely good; I use i3-gaps on manjaro. MacOS also works, if you're interested in hackintoshing, with 2 caveats: one, patching acpi tables is really hard (though I hear you can get help over at olarila). Two, you need a new wifi card (preferably an intel). If you gripe to dell about the old one, they'll usually send a replacement. Which is probably good anyway, since the killer is not good at all. i7-8750H, 1tb ssd, 4k screen, 32gb ram (really good for dev stuff). The screen is also excellent: you don't appreciate it until you've got it, but it's actually usable in bright sunlight. And the battery is huge; near the tsa limit for how much lithium you can bring on a plane.

Likes it

I used Linux for 10 years (mainly on Lenovos and some early Dell XPS back in the days), then I switched to MacOS about 3-4 years ago and over the last couple weeks I have been trying to go back to Linux because I am sick having to use MacOS everyday. It is a great OS for an everyday user, but not for a developer. Here is what I tried so far: 1) Dell XPS 9370 Developer edition: This comes preloaded with Ubuntu and it is actually amazing that everything works out of the box. It was too small for me though, and the fan made a rattling noise so I decided to return it. The 4K screen is probably overkill on such a small display. Based on the review people recommend taking the normal screen, it saves a lot of battery and there is not that much difference. 2) Lenovo X1: I didn't like the feel of the Keyboard, and the screen was not that good. Installing Linux (Arch) was easy, but decided to return it. 3) Dell XPS 9570: I have this one for the last two weeks and so far I love it on the hardware level. I would even put it as somehow superior to my MacBook Pro. The downside is that Linux is not well supported at all. I have installed Arch so far and spent all my evenings trying to fix all the drivers. So far: The Nvidia drivers are barely working, ACPI needs a lot of tweaks (but it seems I got it working and got my 7 hours of battery). I still need to work on the Touchpad, and couple other things. So far, the Dell XPS 9570 is a good challenger to the MBP, but installing Linux is still