Acer Nitro 17 vs Dell XPS 13 Plus

The Dell XPS 13 Plus excels in portability and battery life, with its lighter weight and OLED screen providing better visuals at smaller dimensions and higher resolution, making it very good for general use. In contrast, the Acer Nitro 17, while offering good general-use capabilities with a larger screen and more gaming-oriented hardware, is less portable and has shorter battery life, but provides a larger storage capacity and a dedicated graphics card for more demanding tasks.

The Acer Nitro 17 boasts a dedicated Nvidia RTX 4050 graphics card and a high 165Hz screen refresh rate, making it well-suited for smooth and visually intensive gaming experiences. In contrast, the Dell XPS 13 Plus offers better screen quality with its OLED display, but with an integrated Intel Iris Xe GPU and a standard 60Hz refresh rate, it may not handle fast-paced games as effectively as the Nitro 17.

PerfectRec’s Content Creation Score takes into account the many different features of the laptop that make it more or less suitable for photo editing, video editing and other content creation tasks.

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For general use, the Acer Nitro 17 offers a satisfactory display with adequate resolution and brightness, making it comfortable for everyday tasks, while the Dell XPS 13 Plus excels with higher resolution and superior brightness, enhancing visibility and clarity. In engineering and design, the Dell XPS 13 Plus stands out by covering a wider range of color gamuts, ensuring more accurate and vivid color reproduction which is crucial for detailed work, whereas the Acer Nitro 17, although decent, falls short in color precision. However, for gaming and 3D applications, both lack high refresh rates required for smooth motion rendering, despite their resolution and panel type being appropriate for such tasks.

Battery life estimate is based on a mix of common use patterns. More portable and higher performing laptops tend to have less battery life.

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The Acer Nitro 17, with its AMD Ryzen CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU, is designed for demanding engineering tasks and gaming, offering a powerful combination of processing and graphics and a larger screen, but is less portable and has a lower screen resolution than the Dell XPS 13 Plus. On the other hand, the Dell XPS 13 Plus, while more portable with a higher-quality OLED screen, powerful Intel i7 CPU, and double the RAM of the Nitro 17, lacks a dedicated high-performance GPU which might limit its capabilities in GPU-intensive design applications.