I have had two XPS because price/performance. All for years and used daily. The charger failed in all of them. Heats up, stops charging. Battery swelled, made keyboard unusable (only some keys work). Screen failed for a while but then started working again. Network card failed on both, had to be swapped. Swapped RAM on one. Both sit on a cooling pad or overheat badly. The XPS is a hell of a lot of performance for price, but if I had to be constantly on the go and work from a laptop, I would probably get something else to avoid the embarrassment of peripherals working intermittently.