New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- In April this year, Dell, currently India's fourth-largest laptop maker, launched the latest edition of its XPS range of premium Windows laptops in India. While such launches are seemingly common, there's one very key point that was different about it-about 18 months ago, Dell, like many of its peers, had chosen to do away with the XPS range, a favourite of legendary repute among users for over 30 years.

Standing as a stylized abbreviation of 'Extreme Performance System', the very first XPS line was launched in 1993 as desktops, followed by the first XPS laptops in 2004. The 1990s was massive for laptops-the idea of a mobile personal computing system was an imperative for corporate and business leaders. In India, d...