Dell XPS 15 7590

The XPS is the flagship line in our Dell range — the closest thing Dell makes to a MacBook Pro. Where the Latitude models we list are 14-inch business workhorses built for keyboards, battery life, and vPro manageability, the XPS 15 7590 is built for people who want the machine to look and feel like a premium consumer device. The chassis combines a woven carbon fibre palm rest with an aluminium lid and base, and at 15.6 inches the near-borderless panel gives you far more screen to work with.

What actually separates this XPS from the Latitudes is the Core i7-8750H and the dedicated graphics. The 8th Gen i7 is a 6-core, 12-thread chip, roughly 50% faster in multi-threaded work than the Core i5-8350U inside the Latitude 5490 and 7490, and the GTX 1050 Ti 4GB is a real discrete GPU — it handles light photo editing, 1080p video timelines, CAD viewers, and older or lightly-detailed games in a way integrated Intel graphics simply cannot. It is a 2018-generation GPU, so modern AAA titles are not its strength, but for GPU-accelerated work in Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or Blender it is still genuinely useful.

Two details make this particular configuration a smart buy. First, the 97Wh battery is the largest Dell fitted to a 15.6-inch laptop of this era, and with the FHD IPS panel instead of the optional 4K OLED screen it delivers genuine all-day runtime rather than the two-to-three-hour marathon the hi-DPI versions are famous for. Second, RAM and storage are both upgradeable — two SO-DIMM slots and two M.2 slots mean you can push this machine well past its factory configuration for a fraction of the cost of a new laptop. At Rs. 95,000 with a two-month warranty, it is the premium option in our range and the one to pick if your work touches graphics.