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Review: Dell XPS 15 review: too hot to handle

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To clarify, this is 8.5/10, not 8.5/100.

I can only guess that if the laptop didn’t run loud, hot (over 100°C at times–which is to say, the temperature at which water boils) and had poor battery life, it may have rated 11/10. But I suppose we’ll never know.