

It wouldn’t surprise me if it is a little wider, but bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, as I’ll explain now. Dell keeps pretty tight-lipped about how big that hidden touchpad surface is underneath the glass of the XPS 13 Plus, though. At 4.8 x 3.4 inches, it edges out the MacBook Air (4.8 x 3.2 inches). There’s no real reason to run this test back again, except to show off that this is the first laptop where I broke that barrier.īut enough mucking about, that massive touchpad is the star of the show. This time around, thanks to my familiarity with it, I managed to hit 90 wpm.


Last year, I hit 87 words per minute in my typing test. Each key is generously sized and the impact of each feels tactile with a nice comfort for long-term work perfection. The chiclet keyboard remains the same with scissor switches offering 1.5mm of travel and a soft landing design. If I haven’t started sounding like a broken record already, it’s about to get worse (sorry). Huawei MateBook X Pro (2023) keyboard and touchpad. Speaking of work, the TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light and Flicker Free certification mean you can continue to be productive late into the night without any eye strain. Alongside this, I feel confident in the accuracy too in creative applications such as Photoshop. Shows like the impressive Swagger sport fantastically vibrant colors and really show off the contrast ratio in its darkest moments. And that LTPS panel tech gives the whole thing an OLED-like quality to the point that some of you may struggle to tell the difference. That claimed 500-nit maximum brightness still seems to be alive and well, with a nice amount of viewability in brightly lit situations, even with that glossy screen glass.
