Firstly, lets talk about battery life - it's amazing I'm easily getting 9-10 hours of battery life during regular use (MS Office, web browsing, streaming a little music or youtube @ 1080p, 30%brightness ). Obviously this isn't a gaming laptop but I've played a Civilization V on here again @ 1080p High settings without issue - the battery life slips to around 3-4 hours, which is still pretty impressive. Something to note with the 9350 with the addition of USB type c with using the Thunderbolt 3 interface means in the future it might be possible to add an external GPU (Dependent on driver availability).

Next up design, fit, & finish. The edge to edge infinity display is impressive - people notice & make comments so be prepared. The aluminium case with the carbon fibre interior is beautiful & makes for a very high end device the only downside is fingerprints show on the carbon fibre but they do wipe off pretty easily with a microfibre cloth. The keyboard has two levels of back-lighting, & has around 1.2 mm of travel ( A little short if you are switching from a Thinkpad (1.5mm travel on my T430s) however you will get used to it pretty quickly & it is still a very nice typing experience). With the use of premium materials Dell have been really successful in building a thin, lightweight & sturdy machine - 2.6lbs makes my T430s seem like it's a small boat anchor. As for complaints as most have noted the position of the webcam is in the bottom left corner shooting up which can make for some up the nose shots however I've found that if I sit a little further back from the screen this is mostly alleviated - if it really bugs you buy a USB webcam. Something often missed when deciding on a new laptop is what is it like on your lap well I can tell you that this Dell stays cool, has very to no fan noise & the smooth underside means no sharp edges digging into your legs.

Performance is great this laptop will do everything you need to do on the go with the possible exception of editing 4K video & the latest 3D games. I opted for the Core i5 6200u with 8 GB ram, 128GB SSD & the 1080p non-touch screen. I believe this is the price / performance king - the i7 offers about a 5-10% performance gain but the extra cost coupled with having to get a 2k touch screen (Save the money - touch on a laptop is a gimmick & cost you about 35% battery life) means it's not worth the extra money. Some other reviewer have mentioned driver issues with the Wi-Fi driver - in my experience over the last month I have not had any problems except for when the Wi-Fi driver was updated & required a restart which it didn't announce as such the internet was disconnected until after the restart - Dell / Intel you can do better with these driver updates.

So whats the verdict - there's a reason this laptop has been winning awards & plaudits from reviewers, no marketing spin this is the best Ultrabook on the market & you should not hesitate to buy it.

TL:DR - Believe the hype, this laptop is awesome - great battery life, screen, keyboard. Forget the touch screen on the higher spec model is a waste of money. Go buy one now.

Solutions
1. The first two flaws were resolved by going to Dells website and running their driver update tool which is actually pretty neat since it automatically identifies your laptop and installs the necessary drivers after a few clicks. *note: It failed to install 2 out of 4 updates but succeeded after a restart. This took about an hour to complete, with the most important update being the Bios update.
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2.Once all the driver were updated the laptop OS felt much more solid and reliable. But I still wasn't happy with the performance of the touchpad. When browsing webpages, it felt like it was not picking up my scroll commands and just felt slow. So typing "mouse and touchpad" in the windows search box got me to the touchpad ,settings where I was able to adjust the setting the was causing me grief. You will see a setting for touchpad delay and its set to medium delay by default. Change this to either "short delay" or "no delay" and you will find that the touchpad is much more responsive and might I say, even enjoyable.

3.Now onto the last thing that was keeping me from really falling for this laptop..the colors. The screen colors just seemed dull and boring to me and I was having a hard time convincing myself that I could live with the colors for the next few years. I mean, I have an <$100 amazon fire tablet and a windows phone that had better color presentation than the XPS 13 out of the box! So after a quick google search I came across a reddit post that linked to the steps needed to install a color profile that will correct the bland and dull colors that ship with this laptop. It took about 10 minutes to walk though the steps required but afterwords the colors really popped. Its amazing how much a simple color profile can change the overall look. Or you can go into the color management setting in windows 10 and perform a color calibration under the advanced tab. That helped as well.

So after spending a few hours installing the updates and tweaking a few settings, I can say i'm at peace with keeping this machine and using it everyday for the next few years. I would give it 3 stars out of the box and 4 1/2 star after fixing the flaws.

As for the speed and graphics. Its what you would expect out of a 6th Gen i5 with 8 GB ram and a SSD. Takes <20 seconds to boot up from power off and doesn't miss a beat when transitioning from programs and having multiple tabs open on Chrome.I do a lot of 3D printing and manipulating and loading 3D files was no problem for this machine.
Battery: Its blows my mind to see 10 Hours left when on a fully charged battery. We've come so far in terms of mobile computing and I can't wait to take this out to coffee shops knowing that I can leave my charger at home without having any dead battery anxiety.I'm not sure what real life performance will be but this laptop has a reputation of making it 7+ hours on a single charge.

Overall I am happy with this purchase and feel the price paid for this laptop is about right.