Dell XPS 13 9300 (2020)

DELL XPS 13 9300 (2020)

The Dell XPS 13 9300 serves as the replacement for Dell's widely popular XPS 13 lineup. The XPS 9300 brings a completely refreshed look and faster performance, helping you power through tasks quickly. Featuring a thin and light, refined, and premium design that remains powerful enough for office workloads, the Dell XPS 9300 is well suited for business professionals, office workers, and students who frequently carry their laptop to classes, meetings, or business trips.

Premium, Thin, Light, and Portable Design

For the Dell XPS 13 9300, the manufacturer introduced a newly designed chassis paired with a virtually borderless keyboard. Aside from that, updates are confined to subtle details: the machine features cleaner, sharper edges, with rigidity and build quality that approach near perfection. The outer profile showcases exquisitely precise CNC-machined cuts, and on the white edition, the palm rest is woven from glass fiber.

In everyday use, the Dell XPS 13 9300 resists fingerprint smudges on its surface. The materials that make up the chassis are exquisitely crafted, and the laptop is well built, giving the body solid rigidity with surfaces that do not flex under pressure. Opening the lid with one hand is effortless, and the display opens to a maximum angle of about 135 degrees.

The hinge is well tuned, holding the display firmly in place without bouncing. The new hinge structure also allows for a much thinner bottom bezel.

Display

The Dell XPS 9300 features a 13.4-inch display, yet the overall chassis remains quite compact because Dell skillfully narrowed the screen bezels to maximize visual workspace. The XPS 9300 display adopts a 16:10 aspect ratio - an optimal format for office tasks that makes word processing, working in Excel, graphic design, and photo editing much more convenient.

Performance

The Dell XPS 13 9300, powered by a 10th Gen Intel® Core™ i5 1035G1 mobile processor, delivers strong performance so you can freely work, create, and enjoy entertainment on a remarkably thin and light laptop. The Dell XPS 13 9300 comes equipped with Intel® UHD Graphics, providing solid, dependable graphics processing.

Dell Power Manager: The Dell XPS 13 9300 utilizes adaptive performance based on Intel's new Dynamic Tuning Technology. This new predictive and adaptive engine adjusts CPU power to optimize your specific workload and boost performance.

Faster memory, more storage: Equipped with 8GB 3733MHz LPDDR4x RAM and a 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD, the system boots up and processes tasks in a flash, handling multitasking efficiently even with demanding applications.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The edge-to-edge keyboard on the Dell XPS 13 9300 has been widened with larger keycaps that extend to the borders, while the touchpad is roughly 17% larger than the previous generation. Thanks to this redesign, the Dell XPS 13 9300 offers more room for navigation, smooth touchpad glide, and responsive basic gestures.

The manufacturer also redesigned the keys, making them larger and 1mm thin. With these refinements, the Dell XPS 13 9300 delivers an overall comfortable typing experience during long document input sessions. The "left" and "right" arrow keys have also been enlarged, avoiding the issue on the 2019 version where users frequently miskeyed due to their undersized profile. The power button integrates a fingerprint reader that works quite well, improving data security. The Dell XPS 13 9300 is also equipped with a two-level backlit keyboard.

Versatile Connectivity

The Dell XPS 13 9300 comes with the ports necessary to maintain versatile connections with other devices. The I/O selection is streamlined down to 2 USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports to keep the laptop as thin as possible. Alongside these are a microSD card slot and a standard 3.5mm audio I/O jack.

On this model, the Dell XPS 13 9300 omits one USB-C port compared to the previous version, and the remaining battery life indicator LED has also been removed.
Models from the same line are collected in the Dell XPS 13 category; for a wider comparison, see Dell laptops. Two other models worth a look: the DELL XPS 13 9310 (2021) and the DELL XPS 13 9305 (2021).

Battery Life

The battery capacity of the Dell XPS 13 9300 remains 52 Wh, delivering very solid battery life. In real-world WLAN testing, the XPS 13 9300 ran for nearly 12 hours, reaching 8 hours at maximum display brightness. In our video playback test at 150 nits of brightness, the XPS 13 9300 even lasted for about 14.5 hours.