

Only the black rubber-coated magensium alloy base, with vents for speakers (fore) and heat (aft) feels uniquely Dell. Save the SD card slot and headphone jack, all the ports are on the left-hand side, and the very curves Dell chose to cut into the corners of its clamshell chassis are the same ones Cupertino defined. Similarly, the main chassis looks like Dell slapped a thin black slice of rubber on top of a MacBook Pro's keyboard tray. The entire lid and hinge looks like it was lifted from a MacBook Pro, with only a glossy black glass border around the screen to contrast from the finely finished aluminum.

Let's get this out of the way: there's been a bumper crop of recent laptops that have taken cues from Apple, and the XPS 14 is among the guiltier parties.
