Dell XPS 16 9640 Is The Best Laptop in Our Top 50 Laptops by Battery Life Ranking

When were Windows laptops more efficient than MacBooks? Well, the Meteor Lake CPUs from Intel were a real blessing, providing excellent performance in all form factors, as well as really good efficiency. The Dell XPS series are a prime example of this, with the three laptops in the series each providing really good power and battery life.

In our new Top 50 Laptops with the best Battery Life Ranking, the Dell XPS 16 9640 takes first place, lasting for up to 22 hours and 48 minutes in our video playback tests. This is despite running with a 16-core 22-thread Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and a discrete RTX 4060 GPU.

Dell XPS 16 9640: Full Specs / In-depth Review

Link to laptop: Get the Dell XPS 16 9640 on Amazon

Dell XPS 16 9640 (NVIDIA RTX 4050, 4060) in-depth review

The XPS 13 9340 and XPS 14 9440 are great compact machines that offer powerful hardware, modern design, and great battery life. The bigger Dell XPS 16 9640 is no different. Once again, this machine is powered by 28W Intel Meteor Lake CPUs and the most powerful chip for the series is the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H. This time around, you can opt for punchier NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs, you can go as high as GeForce RTX 4070. The latter is also tied with vapor chamber cooling and faster (soldered) memory while the not-so-powerful siblings rely on RAM with lower frequency and normal thermal system. Spe[...]

Pros

  • Elegant design
  • Thin and compact for what it is
  • Very high P and E core clocks during full processor stress
  • The fans aren't loud
  • Premium and solid build quality
  • PWM-free (Sharp 17TDN-LQ163N1)
  • High max brightness + very good contrast ratio and 100% sRGB coverage (Sharp 17TDN-LQ163N1)
  • Great color accuracy with our "Design and Gaming" profile (Sharp 17TDN-LQ163N1)
  • Has three Thunderbolt 4 ports
  • Jaw-dropping battery life
  • Comfortable keyboard
  • Has a fingerprint reader and IR camera
  • Great CPU and GPU performance

Cons

  • Poor upgradability
  • High price
  • Invisible touchpad
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