Sorry to drag an old thread up, but I have the same questions about the current laptop I'm thinking of getting for my wife. I've sold the Sony I bought her because it just couldn't handle SimCity and had other various driver problems.

I'm currently considering getting her the $999 version of the new Dell XPS 13. It has a Core i5 Skylake CPU, which I'm hoping should be pretty good for onboard video.

What do you guys think? Should this thing be able to handle some basic-level gaming?