When Dell brought us the first Kaby Lake-G laptop to market we were very excited to see how the combo processor would perform, that is, a combination of a quad-core Kaby Lake CPU with an AMD Radeon RX Vega M GPU and 4GB of HBM2 on a single package. We’ve already gone through all the performance, now let’s discuss whether it’s actually worth buying the first Kaby Lake-G laptop: the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1.

We’re looking at a convertible laptop with a 360-degree hinge. You can use it as a giant 15.6-inch tablet, or in more useful stand and tent modes. At this size, I don’t find the 2-in-1 aspect of this laptop all that useful; most convertibles I stick to using as a laptop anyway, but when we’re talking about a 15-inch system, the size makes some of those other usage modes less practical.