The Dell XPS 15 is one of the best 15-inch laptops you can buy, with a rich, vibrant screen and plenty of high-end performance for productivity and gaming.

Dell’s flagship XPS 13, XPS 15 and XPS 17 all have some notable differences when it comes to price and features. Here’s how to find the right one for you.

Dell has stuffed a large 86 watt-hour battery into this model, but the 4K+ XPS 15 still only lasts for around 6 hours on a light workload. Don’t expect to spend all day away from an outlet.

The Dell XPS 15 is fast, beautiful, built right, and offers up a gorgeous OLED display. It's a dream machine for creative types and power users.

Critically, Dell hasn’t messed with the XPS 15’s keyboard, which remains a delight to use thanks to relatively deep key travel (for a laptop) and a nice, springy feel.

But even more importantly, the new XPS 15 is 8% thinner, half an inch narrower, and more than two-thirds of an inch shallower from front to back (13.57 x 9.06 x 0.71 inches and 4 pounds).

When it comes to the touchpad, the Dell XPS 15 comes with a decent-sized one, measuring 3.5 x 6 inches. This gives you ample room for all the multi-touch gestures that you might need to use.

The Dell XPS 17 9730 and Dell XPS 15 9530 are both remarkable machines; otherwise I wouldn’t have headlined this review the way I did. But we’ve been going on a bit with the same basic design ...

The new XPS 15 includes two USB 3.1 5Gbps Type A ports, HDMI 2.0, an SD card reader, a headset jack, a Noble lock, and a Thunderbolt 3 port. And importantly, Dell updated the Thunderbolt 3 port to ...

The new Dell XPS 15 looks just like the gorgeous XPS 13. And that’s a good place to start. With the redesigned XPS 15, Dell has maintained the design language of its smaller 13.3-inch sibling.

Dell’s XPS 15 trackpad feels as big and smooth to use as Apple’s MacBook Pro Retina. The XPS 15 looks like Dell blew up the XPS 13 Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of the keyboard on the XPS 15.