Surface Laptop Studio vs. Dell XPS 15 9510: Which is better?

Microsoft has released the Surface Laptop Studio, a 14.4-inch machine, in late-2021. It is powered by up to a quad-core Intel Core i7-11370H with a boost clock speed up to 4.80 GHz. The laptop has a dedicated GPU option up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti  with 4GB GDDR6.

On the other hand, we have the 15.6-inch XPS 15 9510 was introduced by Dell around the same year in mid-2021. It comes with up to an octa-core Intel Core i9-11900H with a boost clock speed up to 4.90 GHz. It has a dedicated GPU option up to Nvidia Quadro RTX 3050Ti with 4GB GDDR6 45W TGP.

The Surface Laptop Studio has a 14.4-inch display which is slightly smaller than the 15.6-inch Dell XPS 15 9510. In addition, The Surface Laptop Studio weighs 3.83 lbs. about 10% lighter than the 4.22 lbs. Dell XPS 15 9510. Moreover, measured at 12.72” x 8.98” x 0.746”, the Surface Laptop Studio is slightly more portable than the Dell XPS 15 9510 at 13.57” x 9.06” x 0.71”.

There are a toal number of 4 ports and slots available on Surface Laptop Studio. That includes a Thunderbolt 4 port, a Surface Connect+, and a headphone jack. With that said, it has two ports and slots fewer than the Dell XPS 15 9510 that has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a lock slot, a USB-C port, a full-size SD card slot, and a headphone jack.

Moving over to upgradability, Microsoft claims that the Surface Laptop Studio supports up to 32GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4X memory. However, it has an onboard memory module that is not upgradable by the users. Fortunately, it comes with a single removable M.2 SSD slot that users can replace and upgrade in the future.

For Dell XPS 15 9510, it supports up to 64GB 3200 MHz DDR4 memory that you can upgrade with two memory module slots on the motherboard. It also has two M.2 slots that users can easily swap or add an extra SSD to get extra space when needed.