Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 65

BUYING GUIDE

But Dell’s implementation compromised
convenience for slimness, moving the camera around
the bottom bezel. No more. After years of mocking, it
has thrown in the towel and moved the camera above
the screen, though in doing so the XPS 13 9380 lost the
ability to use your face to sign into Windows Hello.
The bad news? The camera’s movement
overshadows other upgrades in the Dell XPS 13 9380.
You’d hardly know the XPS 13 packs Intel’s newest ultra-
low power consumption Core i7-8565U, for instance –
the first laptop we’ve tested with this ‘Whiskey Lake U’
chip. Beyond a fair performance bump, other changes
in the CPU include native support for USB 3.1 10Gb/s
and integrated Wi-Fi support (except for the radio).
If you’re thinking “that’s it?” then, well, you can
understandalltheexcitementovermovingtheDell
XPS13’s camera to the top bezel. So let’s start there.

Dell has moved

the camera

above the screen