I don't think that characterization tells the whole picture. Yes there's some nice engineering that went into it, and it's probably a nice machine for a lot of

I don't think that characterization tells the whole picture. Yes there's some nice engineering that went into it, and it's probably a nice machine for a lot of people, but those extra features aren't anywhere close to a free lunch. Apple themselves don't rate it at 20h even for web browsing, and when you use a real workload like compiling 100ksloc the XPS 15 will handily beat it in battery life. Not to mention you cap out at 16GB of memory.