"What I got with the 6th row as a touch key was performance and design beauty."Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Interview

 The first thing I thought while writing the article of "XPS 13 Plus" published by CES is that "this sixth row of touch key will be inevitable."Lenovo will use the "ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 2" (2014) to make the function key in the sixth row as a touch key, and the former has only 1 with "MacBook Pro" since 2016, and the former is only 1.The latter has been abolished in the year, and the new model (14 inches and 16 inches), which appeared last year (2021), has been tried several times, and no manufacturer has been successful so far.

「6列目をタッチキーにして得たのは性能とデザイン美」。Dell XPS 13 Plus開発者インタビュー

 However, because of the adoption of such touch keys, the new XPS 13 Plus has been designed as a neat design, from touchpads to physical keyboards (5 rows), and touch function keys, making it more modern as a notebook PC. ing.

 Regarding why XPS 13 Plus adopts such designs, DELL Technologies Consumer Design, Vice President of Dell Technologies Consumer Design, Dell Technologies, Dell Technologies XPS/ALIENWARE DesignWe talked to Manager Nicholas Diroretto.