Honestly, WTF is wrong with these people? The touch bar is an unmitigated disaster, I have NEVER seen Apple backtrack harder than they did with that feature. I personally hate it because it is too easy to accidentally brush against the bar, especially when dealing with a key as important as ESC. Did they learn nothing from the example of Apple?
They learned something according to Tom's Hardware [0]; took a page out of Apple's book and removed the headphone jack!
Well, I will certainly not be buying the new XPS haha. Although I wouldn't have done so anyway. I had a 2015 XPS 15 that had an absurd amount of issues. The charging port broke all the time, the casing would come apart, the hinge was completely busted, etc. After sending it in for repairs multiple times I ended up giving up on the thing.
My 2016 XPS 13 had all sorts of issues that really soured me on the brand. USB C port didn't work half the time (and when it did, it only worked in Windows, not Linux), trackpad stopped clicking, insane amounts of coil whine, and the only thing that made me finally buy a new laptop was the RAM went bad shortly after the warranty expired. My next laptop, a 2017 MacBook Pro, had all the usual faults, but I ended up liking it enough to keep buying Macs...
That is quite the landing strip of a trackpad. It seems they looked at what Apple did (touchbar + big trackpads) and tried to copy it without being obvious. I don't think I'd personally buy one of these, but I am interested to see if the target market of Gen Z'ers likes it as much as Dell seems to imply.
Only 6 years too late, and after Apple already reversed course. This may go down in the MBA case studies.
I can see some people buying this laptop just because it looks cool, but I am glad to see from comments in social media that anybody who has ever used a laptop seriously can see how disastrous the UX will probably be on this laptop.