Most other aspects of the Dell XPS 3D are standard laptop fare, with a 7200RPM hard drive, 4GB RAM, two USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, 802.11n wireless capability, an integrated Blu-ray disc drive and HDMI and mini-DisplayPort outputs. It is good to see  dell xps 13 plus USB 3 ports included as standard, whilst the Blu-ray drive is arguably essential for a 3D movie and gaming machine. Despite this, it would be nice to see a free SSD drive upgrade in place of the old-fashioned mechanical drive. The amount of RAM is upgradeable to as much as 12GB.

Of course Windows 7 comes pre-loaded and in general use the performance is superb. Even with all of the eye-candy turned on, everything works really fast and is super slick. Load up some of the latest graphics-intensive games such as Far Cry 2 and F1 2010 and although very good for a laptop, is does struggle to produce decent FPS rates on full screen resolution. We found that lowering the settings a notch or two really helped to provide smooth playback.