Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 75

BUYING GUIDE

having a high-resolution 4K touchscreen. In fact, if

you look at the results closely, you’ll see that most of

the laptops on the bottom of this list feature higher-

resolution panels. The XPS 13 9380’s screen contains

about 8.3Mp, the Razer Blade Stealth is about 5.7Mp,

and the MateBook X Pro packs 6Mp. Generally, the

more pixels, the more work it takes to achieve the same

brightness as a lower-resolution screen, so a typical

1,920x1,080 panel and its mere 2Mp can be a huge

power advantage.

Dell’s XPS 13 9380 does pretty well at about

ninehoursofplayback.Withitspixeldensitythat’s

reallynotasbadaswereexpected.(Itgetsbright,

too,at 400 nitsmaximum.)Still,comparethatto

12 hour-plus endurance of the HP Spectre x360 13t

The battery life of the new XPS 13 9380 is decent for a 4K laptop, but
you’d probably get another few hours of run time for opting for a
lower-resolution XPS 13 9380 with the 1920x1080 or FHD screen instead