> However, the XPS 13's fans do kick in quite often, even when just doing light tasks like browsing the web or typing. I was hoping it would be more like the MacBooks, which usually won't need to ramp the fans up to an audible level unless you're doing heavier work, like encoding a video or loading a news site web page without an ad blocker... but alas the fans often kick in and are audible during normal usage.

I have a friend that returned their XPS and bought a Mac because the fan noise was driving him up the wall. I don't know how, but somehow Macs just don't have audible fans most of the time, while most other computers will turn them for even trivial tasks.