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Dell XPS 13 Plus brings a MacBook Touch Bar-like experience



which starts at $850 . Dell said it will confirm the XPS 13 Plus’ price closer to the shipping date. One look at the XPS 13 Plus and you can tell that it offers a different experience than the prior XPS 13. The machine’s keyboard stretches across the entire deck with no space between individual keys. The touchpad isn’t outlined with a border or completed with left- and right-click keys. Instead the XPS 13 Plus has an Apple Touch Bar-like capacitive touch strip that you can toggle to show function-row inputs or media functions. The Touch Bar was an interesting concept that MacBook Pros started playing with in 2016. It replaced the top row of physical function keys with a capacitive touch strip that provided access to numerous inputs the XPS 13 Plus has a capacitive touch strip in place of a function row with physical keys. It doesn’t change based on app allowing Dell to use a 28 W CPU rather than 15 W while maintaining a similarly sized build. The XPS 13 Plus is 0.60 inch thick…