From PC World: Dell's new Precision 15 5000 corporate laptop takes an important cue from its cousin, the XPS 13. Arguably the best consumer laptop of the year, the XPS 13 crammed a 13-inch screen into a laptop no bigger than ones that packed 11-inch panels.
Dell does the same trick with its new Precision 15 5000, shoehorning a 15-inch panel into a surprisingly svelte laptop. At first glance, you’d think it was an XPS 13, just scaled up a bit.
The Precision 15 5000 features an “infinity display” that lets Dell shrink the size of the laptop up to 17 percent over its direct predecessor with the same-size panel. Two panels are available: Both are wide-viewing-angle models, which is code language for IPS-like (Sharp doesn’t like it when you call anything other than its own panels IPS, even if the technology is the same.) The lower-resolution screen is a 1920x1080 panel with a 72-percent color gamut. The higher end of the spectrum nets you a UHD 4K panel (3840x2140) with 100-percent Adobe color gamut and 10-point touch.
Despite being fairly thin, the new laptop will support 45-watt Intel CPUs including the Core i7-6820HQ, the Core i5-6300HQ or the Xeon E3-1505M v5, plus another unnamed Xeon model. All of the CPUs will be based on Intel’s latest Skylake family. They'll bring DDR4 memory to the table, as well as Thunderbolt 3 through a USB-C port. The Xeon offerings will support ECC DDR4, for those who are simply anal about their memory errors.
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