Dell XPS 13 Plus vs MacBook Air M2: Specs To buy the same laptop from Apple you’d pay $1,899, though if you downgraded it down to a 512GB SSD like the XPS 13 Plus has you’d pay just $1,699. The MacBook Air M2 we tested, by comparison, arrived sporting an upgraded M2 chip with a 10-core GPU (instead of the default 8-core), 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. To buy the same configuration directly from Dell, you’d pay roughly $1,910 - though if you ditched the OLED touchscreen upgrade and went with the default 1,920 x 1,200 display, it’d cost closer to $1,616. The XPS 13 Plus we’re testing sports an Intel Core i7-1280P CPU, 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a 512GB SSD and a 3.5K OLED touchscreen. Below you’ll find a chart comparing the entry-level specs for both laptops (plus the 13-inch Pro M2) for context, but the actual units we reviewed are a bit pricier and more powerful. One important caveat here: neither the XPS 13 Plus nor the Air M2 we tested are the entry-level models. That means we’ll be updating our Dell XPS 13 Plus hands-on review within the next week or so with a full evaluation of Dell’s thinner, lighter spin on an XPS 13, but some of our testing results were so intriguing that we couldn’t wait until the review to share them. We know this because we’re currently testing an XPS 13 Plus with an Alder Lake Intel Core i7 CPU that Dell sent us for review. The Dell XPS 13 Plus appears to be capable of outperforming Apple’s new MacBook Air M2 in terms of raw CPU power, which means Apple silicon still faces serious competition from Intel’s new Alder Lake laptop chips.
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