Apple
MacBook Air (13-inch, M4, 2025)
$999.00
Dell
Based on 35 Reddit mentions
$1599.00
Sentiment summary across the product areas Reddit users mention most.
Original Reddit posts and comments behind this analysis.
Dell XPS completely went to shit.
JWils411 in r/AskReddit
December 17, 2025 3:03 AM
872
Yeah XPS never again. I have got one in 2017 XPS 15 battery went bust 3 years later with Dell stopped producing the battery so the only replacement was with Chinese cheap knock offs. Buy a nice Thinkpad, that will last, battery takes 30 minutes to change and plenty of spare parts around.
AtraVenator in r/technology
March 31, 2026 8:19 PM
35
The problem is that even the higher end laptops tend to be terribly made. I have gone through multiple Dell XPS laptops where the screen attachment hinge has delaminated from the body. Same problem across several generations of relatively high end machine because they cheaped out on the construction
...alexforencich in r/hardware
March 11, 2026 4:32 AM
35
Nice try marketing guys 🤨. For me dell XPS line is long dead when they decide to copy apple.
Material-Ratio7342 in r/Dell
March 23, 2026 2:48 PM
30
even before the M chips, which are really top tier, Macbooks were head and shoulders above pretty much every Windows laptop maker out there. Dell XPS line comes close, but it's still not quite there. and the trackpad is the best in the business and it's honestly not even close. Having recently moved
...JackDostoevsky in r/linuxquestions
April 19, 2026 12:20 AM
11
I feel this so hard. Just started as new head of IT at an SMB, and am replacing our existing mixed fleet of HP and Dell with ThinkPads. Had a new P16s4 AMD arrive with artefacting out of the box, Lenovo cross-shipped me a new one within a week of my request. Send the old one back, no dramas. Had an
...Junathyst in r/thinkpad
April 8, 2026 4:41 PM
8
Check out the College of Engineering laptop recommendations, they typically give the best advice for new students looking at computers I’m CCE, but for me a Dell XPS has been goated for both school and personal uses
Torazha03 in r/OregonStateUniv
April 8, 2026 6:35 PM
5
I had a Dell XPS I had to repair a bunch (charge port died repeatedly, keyboard died) and it was miserable buying salvaged or 3rd party parts and disassembling the bloody thing without breaking it. Then a plastic tab connecting the hinge to the chassis snapped and... you could just never close the l
...moranmoran in r/LinusTechTips
April 22, 2026 5:33 AM
2
Dell xps is rather good.
Commercial-Remove525 in r/CATpreparation
April 22, 2026 7:43 AM
2
Surface are overprice and overated, far from a Dell XPS, a Zenbook S-seriee, a Thinkbook X ai or even a Thinkpad Carbon.. People who can preach Samsung or Surface never had a good laptop in their hands
LeLant in r/snapdragon
April 22, 2026 5:41 PM
1