Upgrading my 2023 Dell XPS 15 9530! And How YOU Can Too!

Today lets go through the REAL USEFUL steps of upgrading a brand new Dell XPS laptop ourselves!

Tools used

SSD

Ram (get the right kind)

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First Mac ( M1 Mac Mini)

Best Macbook (MacBook Pro 16)

Best Travel Professional Windows Laptop (XPS 17)

Best Thunderbolt 3 Dock (cal digit TS3 Plus)

Best Beginner YouTube Camera (Sony A6100)

Best Overall YouTube Camera (Sony A7IV)

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Main Camera (Sony A7IV)

Main Lens (Tamron 28-75)

Secondary Lens (Tamron 17-28)

Main Computer (MacBook Pro 16)

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[StanleyKC]

People in America / Canada / Europe are so lucky. You can just easily return the RAM sticks if you bought the wrong ones or you don't like them. Here in Nigeria, you would never find those sticks and if you import them from America, and realise you bought the wrong one. Lol that's it. Money wasted. If you buy a phone and you don't like it, you are stuck with it. No such thing as return policy here lol. You don't like it?! Deal with it lol. Anyways! Great video.

[velocitydreamer]

I could be wrong, but you should always disconnect the battery regardless, as most laptops (unless you shutdown with a key-combo) have a form of soft-powerdown (especially since using soft-power buttons), so I imagine there is still power to the board.

[steveellsworth]

I just received my XPS15 today. It came with 32gb ram and a 1TB hard drive. I may leave it be and not upgrade. It runs fine for me.

[FarrellMcGovern]

I'm a bench tech for PCs and laptops...so I may go a bit beyond what the average person might...but really it is not all that complex. In addition to upgrading the RAM, and replacing any spinning rust drives with SSDs, if it is an older laptop, first clean the exhaust fans. Next, I will remove the heat sink, clean all the old thermal compound off the chips and heatsink with isopropyl alcohol, then carefully apply new thermal compound. This will ensure that your laptop will last a good long time.

[PaulioNZ]

Just bought myself a refurbished XPS15, with the i7 option.. and your videos have helped me with the knowledge of being able to upgrade the RAM and the extra SSD. Thanks!

[ifytvrn]

IDK who is looking for this, but I use Ubuntu as my primary OS. This laptop runs 22.04 perfect. I have the UHD+ screen and battery lasts ~10hrs (GPU disabled). No additional drivers were needed, but make sure to install 3rd party software when installing Ubuntu. Also, I use TLP for better battery performance.

[prosql]

One thing that is unfortunately not covered very well on the "upgrade" videos for this unit is where exactly the seam is to separate it at and how to get into what is a very tight fit. Yours is the first one that showed opening it from the front rather than the back first. The key that still isn't called out well enough is finding the small notch in the center front that allows you to between the bottom cover and the keyboard level trim. Once I finally saw that notch, which had totally blended in for me such that I missed it, I was on a much faster road to getting that bottom cover to actually separate. Once that's done, it's easy schmisy to make the swap and get back to putting it all back together.

[ameft]

I'm actually looking forward for some benchmarks on the new i9 and RTX 4070 low powered compared to 3050 Ti, before any upgrade! 😉

[payman_azari]

I upgraded an old 2011 Toshiba L755 by HDD to SDD and the laptop revived and is working perfectly as my desktop and smart TV, now the bottleneck is CPU (Core i5-2450M) under very heavy web browsing.

[bryans]

I like that Dell and many other manufacturers sell laptops that can be upgraded.

[josephregallis]

My 17" 2013 HP laptop came with a 500GB HDD and I upgraded it to a 500GB SSD. Big difference in speed and performance!

[abhishekomprakash]

Great video. So you were able to add the new SSD at the provided slot. Did you remove the existing SSD? I cannot see that you pointed where the existing SSD is? And if it has just 1 slot for SSD then how did you get Windows OS after you powered on the laptop?

[sir.fender]

I completely forgot about you because of the algorithm. I cleared my cookies and cache and you showed up on top of my algorithm after a refresh. Good video

[wagnerviniciusmacedo]

You are the best. A perfect and patient teacher.

[enderpirate]

I have the 9510 and one of the things in an upgrade I go is upgrading the OS, from boring old windows to Linux and I LOVE IT!
Could you in the future by a laptop from someone like system76 who makes high quality computers and puts Linux on them?

[MsNIKITA]

I used to think Samsung drives were great! However afhr years of using them, I discovered WD_Black SSD last longer and come in higher capacity meaning I can install 2x 4Tb units into my laptop doubling it's storage space over the Samsung 980 Pro. I wish Dell provided a heat-spreader for the secondary SSD, like they did with the older 17" as some SSD can get super warm. Just thought I'd share my experience. BTW, it's always better to disconnect the power from the motherboard when upgrading, this can prevent damage to other components, that's why they provide a connector for the battery. Other than this, thanks for the video.

[AndriiVozniak]

I decided to upgrade my 9520 to 32 GB RAM while ordering because it was cheaper than buying third-party chips. However, I added 980 PRO by myself later

[Olaf-Lingen]

I upgraded my Acer Nitro 5 (Ryzen 5 4600+Geforce 1650, 8gb RAM, 512GB M.2-SSD) to 32 GB DDR4-RAM, and an additional 4TB SSD-Harddrive and am able to play with rather good FPS and Stability. And i have the option to add another m.2-Drive :)

[iivv_nn]

this is greaat. my current laptop has two ssds, the main one where I have my OS. and the one I installed in place of the optical drive where I store my files. I was looking for a new laptop with similar layout. Thanks, video helped me a lot.

[Collinormous]

I'm still shocked they dont use a vapor chamber on the 15" - I mean, its a good laptop but it'll throttle so hard even with liquid metal, and thermal pads to transfer some of the heat to the casing.