I was looking to replace my old laptop and it came down to a choice between this Dell XPS 17" and the new Razer Blade Pro 17".  In a lot of ways, the specs were pretty similar, but Dell's processor was better being a core i9 10th gen.  If this Dell also had the newer GeForce RTX 3080 it would have been perfect!If you are looking for a creator laptop in a 17" this is an excellent choice.  Of course, there aren't many choices for 17" laptops so you should expect the premium pricing.  If you need the extra GPU and CPU power with lots of storage built in it's worth it though.I do a lot of different things on my laptop including video processing (need a lot of storage for all the raw and edited video files), I do 3D rendering and animation (needs a lot of GPU, CPU, and storage), and of course when I'm not working I like to relax by PC gaming.  This laptop isn't marketed as a gaming laptop but it performs very well as one.  In addition to PC gaming, I've also started VR gaming with an Oculus Quest which can be used as a PCVR device but my old graphics card in my old laptop just wasn't quite good enough to handle VR.  This laptop performs spectacularly with PC games and VR games alike.  It renders 3D images in a matter of minutes on images that took nearly an hour on my old laptop saving me a lot of time and while rendering this PC is powerful enough that I can still do other things on it while waiting for those renders to finish.The only thing I'm a little conflicted on is that this only has USB-C ports.  I know their better for data transfer and charging but at the same time... every peripheral I own is USB-A.  Headset... USB-A, mouse... USB-A, keyboard USB-A, webcam... USB-A, microphone... USB-A, USB flash drives... can you guess it?  USB-A.  It's meant having to buy a lot of adapters and hubs to be able to connect things which adds a lot of extra buk to the desktop space this uses as well as keeping track of additional parts.  That part isn't particularly convenient and considering most devices are still being made as USB-A connections I couldn't replace all my peripherals very easily (plus a lot of them are fairly new and were pretty expensive)  What I do like about the USB-C ports though it that I can charge my laptop form any of the 4 ports which means I can choose the side that's most convenient and least likely to trip over.The battery life on this laptop so far has been exceptional and lasts a long time even when I'm heavily utilizing GPU and CPU.  This laptop also turns on super fast.  Even restarts are amazingly quick.  Normally, restarting my PC to install updates or whatever took a few minutes.  Now it's usually around 30 seconds or less from the time I hit restart to the time it's restarted and waiting for my to log in.  I've never had a PC restart this fast and I think it's fantastic.The fan is relatively quiet and really only whirs up when I'm really pushing the GPU.  Even then I wouldn't call it loud just noticeably louder.  Most of the time I would say the fan is pretty whisper quiet.The 4K screen is absolutely amazing for detailed work in photos and video but I have had issues with some older programs not auto-resizing well to a 4K screen.  Some programs I've used had to have some special parameters added to their startup to get them to not look like a teeny tiny little mini window.  I don't think it's an issue with any newer programs though and even most older programs auto-scale well.  Also this screen is huge!  It's viewable space  is bigger than my last 17" thanks to their ultra thin bezel but that also means that you can't put a camera cover over the built in camera.  The camera itself is only 720p though so personally I'm just putting a tiny sticker over the camera (I don't use the facial recognition of Window Hello) and using an external 4K camera.  I found the choice to use a 720p webcam as the built-in in a 4K laptop a little odd to say the least.  I would expect at least a 1080p, so it was a disappointing feature.The fingerprint reader is extremely quick and easy to use for logging in and is a feature I've been missing from the last few laptops I've owned.  I had it on a previous HP laptop and it was super convenient then so I was happy to find it's a returning feature.  The finger print reader is up in the top right which is also a power button that's right on the keyboard.  I actually really like this placement as I often end up bumping power buttons on the sides or too close to the screen since I sometimes lightly rest my fingers/hand there.  This one is not in a place that I accidently bump so I'm really happy with the power buttons placement.  It's also not obvious that it's the fingerprint reader so it's somewhat discreet.Overall, this is an expensive laptop but if you game, do video stuff, and or work with 3D either images or animations this is an all around great laptop that meets the need for probably most creators and gamers (and those who like to do anything and everything between).