Dell's new RTX 4070-powered XPS 16 laptop is an irresistible OLED beauty

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As the CES techfest thunders towards us with unstoppable momentum, Dell has pulled the wraps off its latest XPS laptops and the new 16-inch model looks almost irresistible. It's not an out-and-out gaming laptop. But it is available with an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU and it's also drop dead gorgeous.

For its new XPS laptops, Dell has rolled out the minimalist design ethic first seen on last year's XPS 13 Plus across the entire range. Most obviously that means an «invisible» glass trackpad driven by haptic feedback, the signature ultra-flat keyboard with tightly spaced keys and those clever backlit function keys that disappear into the panel above the keyboard proper. 

Then add the ultra-slim bezels that have been central to the XPS design language for a few years now and you have, arguably, the slickest and most futuristic looking laptops on the market.

The 16-inch model is the most interesting, offered as it is with up to RTX 4070 graphics. There's also a new 14-inch model with discrete graphics, but that's limited to the RTX 4050 GPU.

The 13-inch XPS can't be had with a discrete GPU, but like the rest of the range is powered by Intel's new Meteor Lake chip, which has perhaps the fastest integrated graphics yet seen and might actually be OK for a little light gaming.

Getting back to the XPS 16, that Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU is the 60W version, which falls around the middle of the 35W to 115W range Nvidia dictates for the 4070. In other words, this isn't going to be one of the faster 4070 laptops around. There is a price to be paid for the slick looks and thin chassis, then—the XPS 16 is just 18.7mm thick and weighs in at 2.2kg for the most powerful configuration.

Screen wise, the XPS 16 comes with two options, both measuring 16.3