well it finally happened guys i am in the market for a new laptop
because my previous one my blade stealth 2018 decided to off itself
quite literally i was sitting in a job interview i was interviewing i'm not
quitting don't worry i was sitting in a job interview and
did it just boot up
video cancel no that's fine the issue isn't actually
that it won't turn on the issue is that i can't charge it just to clarify that
statement a little bit i plug in my charging cable and it goes
something's shorting something's wrong with it it is time for a replacement so we have
assembled a flock a herd murder whatever it is a
bunch of laptops to determine which will be my new daily driver and there's going
to be quite a few considerations screen is going to be a major factor i type
fast and i type a lot battery form factor and of course i would love to
have i o that i can actually use although it should be noted that i do
always carry a dongle because i have just embraced that dongle life
and my dongle's not on me because i'm
actually using it for a review that i was working on but trust me i almost
always carry a dongle so in front of me are the five candidates
let's find out which one gets the cheap
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i think this is going to be a lot of fun and i'm actually really looking forward
to it so of the five ultra books in front of me
some of them we paid for but some of them were submitted by the manufacturers
thing is i don't know which was which so if i
pick one that we paid for then i'm going to go with that and ultimately i'll be
buying a notebook for the first time in a while and if i pick something the manufacturer provided we'll send the
other ones back for refund but we did it this way to ensure that i wouldn't be
able to have any bias as i'm making a selection another thing that this was
actually the idea of one of our new writers was evaluating without actually
knowing which device i'm using so this is my first time
standing here in front of this and i guess apparently they snuck a macbook in
there so this is a macbook of some sort like what's what's the challenge do i
just sit down and start trying to type something wow those are not very pronounced homo
nipples oh wait there they are okay
i really like this keyboard i did struggle with the backspace but i think
part of it might have been the duvetyne on my hand so i'm not gonna hold that
against it too hard i'm gonna give this keyboard an eight and a half nine out of
ten i really like it this is already a different style of
keycaps that i do not necessarily prefer
accuracy on this one is not bad but it feels a little bit slower it's got those
kind of borderless square keycaps um
this one's like a seven and a half for me i think i already know what i think of
this one but
okay i have the same feedback that i had about this before i feel like it's
really easy to fire off quick bursts but as soon as i
try to type a longer sentence i really struggle to keep up on it for some
reason the short keystrokes really don't work well for me
oh these have kind of a it's a long travel but kind of an empty feeling
travel the really long keystrokes make double characters a little bit tougher
on this one and my my weaker fingers my ring and my pinky fingers struggle a
little bit it's okay seven it's probably
the worst one so far i like this one too i think it's between uh this is an eight
and a half for sure and then which one was the oops
oh i kinda saw which one that was whoops so keyboard test is pretty clear to me
this one and this one stand above the crowd this one is shortly behind this is
shortly behind that and this is honestly probably somewhere in this territory as
well for me because i do do a lot of sort of short bursty typing as i'm
thinking you know go go go go go go go go now our content consumption test
might end up telling me even more that i need to know about these things because
at this point in time i would have a hard time switching to something without
a touch screen so this one has one
that's good to know i would describe the speakers as okay
it's not nearly as oversaturated as contestants 2 and especially 4 are
but it doesn't look as good as the macbook
so the ones on the end i'd say are the closest to the macbook with these two
trailing behind yeah you can see there's a lot of green in the water here
oh right it's a macbook speakers are sort of samey across the
board so far touchscreen good good
this is the worst offender as far as oversaturation goes
honestly this one speakers sound like they're doing a bit of weird tuning it's
a little harsh sounding as far as content consumption goes it's
clearly the ones at the end or the macbook i mean you can calibrate the
display but i want the one that is as neutral and accurate as possible out of
the box i know for a fact brandon wouldn't shoot anything that looks like
that so with that out of the way the next part of the challenge is apparently
for me to find out exactly what all of the notebooks are and
identify them so that's definitely a macbook air
oh shoot okay well i saw that one so
i'm gonna guess the one with the good display but
subpar keyboard is an hp spectre
i don't know who to blame for this poorly calibrated display over here you
know what i'm going to throw lg under the bus and i'm going to guess that
that's a razer blade stealth and i don't think there's a surface laptop to here
let's find out what's actually back here though
wow that was a surface laptop too
oh i gotta say i don't think its keyboard
is as god-tier as alex does this was an lg gram oh lg
i was hoping i was wrong about you and that's a blade stealth so actually
the thing i didn't have was the spectre
x360 i did get the rest of them right though so the next step is to go through
and sort of talk build quality how they feel what the i o is like you know it
totally makes sense that i would have liked the keyboard on the blade stealth
as much as alex might hate this keyboard i personally really like it so this
one's only got two usb type a's but that
is enough for a keyboard and a thumb drive which is sort of my typical
maximum when i'm traveling it does have Thunderbolt 3 as well which means you
can either use just a standard type c dongle like i already have or something
like an external Thunderbolt GPU it's got a quad-core processor razer switched
over to Intel networking from killer networking and i'm personally a fan of
that move overall the only thing i didn't really like about this from the
original review was kind of the the boxy
shape but i kind of feel now like i might have
been a little bit unfair to it because it really doesn't feel that bad in the
hand at all and the touch pad being nice and big like that i'm a huge fan of that
the RGB backlit keyboard is obviously a nice touch
actually wait a minute this doesn't have dual Thunderbolt does it oh dang
oh that's really nice now the ground's main selling point is
the massive 72 watt hour battery and i've daily driven one of these before
and it is really nice basically charging every two or three or maybe four days
depending on how heavily you use it something to note about this one even
though we do have the barrel adapter plugged in is that it does charge over
the Thunderbolt type c port so that's a huge plus for me more than i really
thought about before i started this because it means i can carry a single
type-c power adapter for my switch my laptop and my phone while i'm traveling
but only a single Thunderbolt port
native HDMI out though full size that is
pretty nice to see but they're still using an msata SSD there's no discrete
graphics like this one and unlike most of the other contestants it's using only
a 1080p display which strikes me as a little bit ironic given that lg is the
only company here that actually manufactures lcd panels on the subject
of things that it has to make up ground for the build quality is just not up
there with the razer blade stealth on the subject of build quality
apple still does it like few others do
this thing is hyper thin super rigid i
mean even the screen it's almost like they have a bunch of experience building
tablets you know like super thin tablets super thin phones you know that bent
once before and they learn their lesson from
the thing that's really hard for me to get over here is the i o not having it even a single
type a usb is the kind of thing that can end up really inconvenient for me
because maybe i do go out and buy a type c you know
usb thumb drive or something like that there's still things where i might have
to like a two-factor authentication key where now i have to go get that and i
have to go get a dongle and i'm usually using something like that at a time when
it's really inopportune to be slowed down the other thing that kind of kills
the macbook air for me is the dual core processor if they refresh this thing
with a quad-core CPU now they got my attention again because
the keyboard's not my favorite but the trackpad pad is hands down the best out
of anything in front of me so it does have touch id built into the power button something i really liked when i
spent time with the last macbook that i reviewed but some of the Windows
machines here including the blade stealth and our next one have Windows
hello with facial id and i definitely
prefer that i'd also have to get used to macOS again but i mean it wouldn't be
the end of the world it's just not my preference unless this really blew me
away i wasn't going to go with it moving on
to the surface laptop 2 2 microsoft's credit magnetic power cords are pretty
cool in like a 2008 chic kind of way but
unlike the magsafe connector this one you can actually pull the laptop a fair
distance with it before it disengages depending on the angle you're using so
you could actually conceivably pull it off the table
without actually coming off biometric authentication it's three by
two which is really nice for productivity that aspect ratio makes a
huge difference it was far from the worst display and it feels really good
in the hand but it's not as stiff as the others although
i get it because they've got this you know soft touch surface here and
it's just it's really expensive i just don't think it's really a candidate for
me now this one was kind of surprising to
me when i saw the pricing so the dell xps 13 as equipped has 16 gigs of RAM
512 gigs of NVMe storage it's a similar spec CPU to everything else we're
looking at here so if i was going to you know do some light photo editing or very
very light video editing or plays a casual steam game or something on the
road it would perform similarly to anything but the blade stealth 4k which
is going to outperform it by about double in games if 3dmark is anything to
go by a single Thunderbolt port no dual
Thunderbolt again with another type c on the other side
microsd and not a single type a man it
already had one rose but the pricing the pricing the pricing for this guy is
really reasonable and when you consider the build quality which is
you know what i seem to remember it being better
it's okay it's not up there with apple or razer in terms of the
actual flexibility of it i really like the
keyboard and i really like the screen and i really like the price and i really
like the look it's been a long time since i've used adele i actually don't
remember the last time i daily drove a dell yes i do wow my old xps 12 two in
one that thing was a tank though i mean i've yet to have a razer laptop last me
more than two years and that thing got rained on
i took it apart dried it out put it back together and it is still working to this
day honestly when it comes to io and external build quality and looks there's
really no question that has to be the razer
blade stealth it doesn't have a full-size HDMI which really bums me out
a lot but that's becoming harder and harder to
find so i guess i'm carrying my dongle around anyway but at least it has a
couple type a's still has dual Thunderbolt and it is
just plain built more rigidly than the other
Windows machines anyway i wish i had a little bit more time to do this because
i'm on my way out the door to go on a trip so whatever it is i'm going to set
it up for this trip i'm going away and that's it that's going to live in my
backpack but it's tough so the dell config for a similar spec is about 300
less but when i say similar i mean similar
because the razer blade stealth it has discrete graphics which means i'm not
going to get as much life out of it but they don't have Windows hello facial
recognition on this model is it a touch
sensitive power button that'll make a big difference to me
it is it's a fingerprint sensor see that's pretty good
but it's not quite and go
you know what i've been gaming quite a bit more lately
i'm giving razer another chance don't let me down this time razer
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