Dell XPS 17 9700 - 2020

It's one of the smallest 17-inch laptops for creative use I've seen -- barely larger than its middle sibling, the XPS 15 9500 and only a bit more substantial than a MacBook Pro 16. And in many ways, it's one of my favorite big boys to date. Pretty, but powerful enough for general use that I'm not yelling at it all the time, sufficiently small and light enough to make it lap friendly and with a decent balance between speed and battery life and no sacrifices on the keyboard.

Dell’s largest XPS laptop in years is appealing to anyone who demands the most performance possible and an enormous screen. It’s a bit hefty, but still far smaller than 17-inch laptops from years ago.

This isn’t the best laptop for anyone who’s mostly working in Chrome around the house or in libraries or coffee shops. It’s really for power users who might need to occasionally work on the go and who have found that smaller screens and lower-powered systems fall short of their needs. For that person, this is the best laptop to buy.

The 2020 resurrection of Dell's XPS 17 is a bold, sleek laptop with a gorgeous 17-inch display, long battery life, and serious computing power.

Dell's new XPS 17 is a total hit. It's a spacious, beautiful full-featured laptop with excellent performance, impeccable build quality and components, that also delivers top-notch battery life in its class. As far as 17-inch notebooks go, the new Dell XPS 17 may very well be the flagship laptop many of you have been waiting for.