Should I get a XPS 15 9560?

Hello guys.

I would like to know whether it is a good time to buy the XPS 15 9560. I'm looking at the 4k, 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, i7.

It is relevant to know that I am a picky person, especially regarding build quality and specifically the screen. I'm coming from a few macbook pro lotteries and I can't take it anymore. The macbook would be perfect for me except the screen. It is cloudy, corners bleed and that red/green glow kills me.

From what I've heard, the XPS 15 9560 4k has a perfectly uniform brightness and color, so check.

However reading these forums and a few reviews, seems people are having various types of other hardware issues. Overall, if do I have good chances of picking one up without those? And if I do, are they easily fixable?

Hope you can enlighten me.
Thanks!

 

m8 - spend sometime reading the forums and become enlightened

You can start with this post from today:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...pointment-to-literally-become-a-farce.803238/

 

I have had exactly the model you are considering for two and a half weeks and so far, it is really nice. However, as you can tell from reading various threads on this forum, the XPS also has a lottery with significant variations including (but not limited to) the quality of the display. Whether an issue can be fixed as well as the quality of technicians also appears to have a high degree of randomness.

If you live near a MicroCenter, I would suggest getting the laptop there -- they sell that model for $1600 and you can return or exchange it within 15 days of purchase. The downside is that you have to go to the store in person and they'll probably try to sell you something extra (or at least they did it to me), but the upside is that you have your laptop immediately rather than wait for shipping which also minimizes the wait time if the machine needs to be returned or exchanged.

 

don't bother then, if you are unsure get reading and make up your own mind

 

Any laptop you ever buy, ever, from any manufacturer, will have an overwhelmingly high chance of not ever having any problems.

The people who *DO* have problems, from any product, ever, from any manufacturer, are a very vocal minority. Nobody comes onto these forums to say "Yup. Working as intended. Carry on."

Now, it sounds like you have very high standards when it comes to "perfect" screen quality. You are not going to find an IPS-based laptop display that doesn't show some signs of backlight bleed, non-perfect blacks, and possibly color shifting if you are sensitive to that. Repeatedly buying and returning laptops isn't going to change anything, because that is not a hardware defect. That is simply one of the drawbacks of IPS technology. Most people are not bothered by that too much; or they eventually just accept these drawbacks and enjoy their laptop anyways.

But if you demand an absolutely perfect screen, and will not stand for anything less than absolute perfection from every pixel without any backlight bleed, then IPS, VA, and TN LCD technologies will not satisfy you. You will want to check out OLED. And that's pretty easy, because there are only two OLED laptops in production. If you are looking for a business-oriented laptop, Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. For gaming, Alienware 13. That's it. Those two options for OLED.

So, as a practical next step, I'd say either buy an OLED laptop, or just accept that IPS is an imperfect technology and move on.

 

Having a X1 OLED, I can tell you that even this is not perfect. Minor brightness variations on darker brightness settings - may come from ambient sensor, don't know.
Currently thinking about a XPS / Precision 5520 for performance reasons.
OLED colors are surely better than XPS 4k screen, but difference is not as much as I expected.
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