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Dell XPS 17 9700 17" FHD+ 

Experience two times more performance over the previous generation with the new 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processor.

• 17.0" FHD+ 1920x1200 500-nit 100% sRGB anti-glare
• 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H
• NVIDIA GTX 1650Ti 4GB GDDR6 Graphics
• 16GB (2*8GB DDR4 3200MHz, 0 free slot) Memory
• 1TB PCIe Gen3 x4 Solid State Drive
• Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) + Bluetooth

Beautiful from any angle

Easy on the eyes: Eyesafe® display reduces harmful blue light and maintains vivid color. It’s the first panel to intelligently manage light energy and the source, selectively reducing harmful blue light and dispersing it across the light spectrum.
Vibrant colors: A 100% Adobe RGB display enables you to edit your videos with confidence in their color.
Stellar in size: The stunning 4-sided Infinity Edge display enables an amazing screen to body ratio (93.7%) and a 17-inch screen in a 15-inch size form factor. In fact, it’s smaller than 48% of 15-inch laptops*.

* Based on Principled Technologies research commissioned by Dell, comparing width of Dell XPS 17 to competitor laptops in the 15-inch class, April 2020.

Create with colossal power

Desktop-caliber creativity in a laptop: Packed with staggering performance typically only available from desktops, 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors bring desktop-caliber creativity to your laptop. With i7 processors with 8 cores and 16 threads, 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors help you capture, edit and share your creations faster than ever before. Designed for performance and portability, so you can go wherever your vision takes you.
More creating, less waiting: GeForce® GTX 1650Ti laptops are built with the breakthrough graphics performance of the award-winning GeForce GPUs. Dedicated GPU power accelerates the creative apps you use every day.
Next gen content creation: The XPS 17 with a GeForce GTX GPU features dedicated ray tracing, AI, and video hardware for next generation content creation. Dedicated ray tracing cores render beautiful scenes with accurate lighting, shadows, and reflections. Dedicated AI cores handle time-consuming, repetitive creative tasks such as video re-timing, image enhancement, color matching, face tagging, and style transfer. And dedicated video hardware enables fast, high-quality encoding and decoding for video editing and livestreaming.
Effortless multitasking: Enjoy smooth Adobe filter performance with 16GB of memory. Power through intense workloads with 3x faster wireless with Killer™ AX1650 built on Intel WiFi 6 Chipset.
Infinite storage: Massive flash storage provides plenty of room for videos, graphics, or designs.

Advanced thermal redesign

The XPS 17 delivers unprecedented performance in an incredibly thin form factor. discrete graphics feature unique dual opposite outlet fans, that increase fan airflow by approximately 30% and drive cooling airflow in both directions, resulting in more airflow overall and improved skin temperatures*. Dell’s development of the Dual Opposite Outlet fan has resulted in multiple pending patent applications and at least one issued patent. A massive vapor chamber spans the entire width of the laptop providing even more heat dissipation capacity to help keep the laptop cool and achieve higher turbo power.

Incredible sound for mixing or listening

Serious about sound: Immerse yourself in a 3D surround sound experience with more than 7,000 machined speaker holes and a quad speaker design with Waves Nx audio.
Mic check: Top-mounted mics provide for a better audio experience in Skype conference calls and for far-field Cortana, allowing you to talk to your laptop from up to 14 ft (4 m) away.

Masterful craftsmanship

Precision manufacturing: 100% of the enclosure is sculpted by a CNC (computer numerical control) machining process, resulting in an elegant design that’s stronger than magnesium or plastic.
Diamond-cut sidewalls: Anodizing provides a superior, scratch-resistant surface, but here, edges are dipped a second time to further prevent damage from repeated plugging and unplugging of peripherals.
The finest details: Every element is carefully considered—from its large touchpad and keyboard to its durable Gorilla Glass, machined aluminum in platinum silver, and black carbon fiber with high-polished diamond-cut sidewalls.
Revolutionary webcam construction: The new XPS 17 webcam is small (only 2.25 mm) and also better. A new 4-element lens uses more elements than a typical webcam to deliver sharp video in all areas of the frame, while temporal noise reduction uses advanced noise reduction, significantly improving video quality, especially in dim lighting conditions. Finally, the lens is assembled with precise machinery to ensure all points of the image are in focus.

Eco-wise

Saving our seas: Recognized as a CES® 2018 Best of Innovation Awards Honoree, our black packaging trays are a step beyond recycled. 25% percent of the material consists of ocean plastics collected from coastal areas, while the remaining 75% is made up of other recycled plastics.
Energy efficient: The XPS 15 is ENERGY STAR® certified.
Safer materials: Free of materials like cadmium, lead, mercury and some phthalates, it’s also EPEAT® registered and BFR/PVC-free.
Recycle friendly: 90% of the laptop’s parts can be easily recycled or reused, and the white bamboo packaging trays are 100% recyclable.

Unleash Your Full PC-Smartphone Productivity

Dell Mobile Connect provides a seamless wireless integration between smartphones and PCs, allowing users to make calls, send texts and get notifications on your PC.
*Dell Mobile Connect App must be downloaded to your PC and smartphone. File transfer on iOS is limited to photos and videos.