Dell XPS 13 review: The MacBook Neo finally has a serious Windows rival
Dell’s new $699 XPS 13 looks and feels far more expensive than it is — and comes surprisingly close to beating Apple’s MacBook Neo. I never thought I’d ever see a budget-friendly MacBook… and yet here we are! One of the best things about it is that it doesn’t feel cheap.
- ▪Dell’s new $699 XPS 13 looks and feels far more expensive than it is — and comes surprisingly close to beating Apple’s MacBook Neo.
- ▪I never thought I’d ever see a budget-friendly MacBook… and yet here we are!
- ▪One of the best things about it is that it doesn’t feel cheap.
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| Original publisher | PCWorld |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcworld.com/article/3208707/dell-xps-13-review.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T13:05:47.647Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T13:05:47.647Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -zsqRACKB6ee · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Dell’s new $699 XPS 13 looks and feels far more expensive than it is — and comes surprisingly close to beating Apple’s MacBook Neo. Credit: Foundry / Ashley Biancuzzo At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Premium design Color-rich display (thinner bezels) USB-C charging on both sides Comfortable, backlit keyboard Cons Shorter battery life No USB-A or HDMI ports No physical webcam privacy shutter Our Verdict Dell’s XPS 13 is a compelling budget laptop, even if it falls just slightly behind the MacBook Neo.
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