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some things are made for one task and one task only like this 10 gigabit

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network card it only does networking and

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my car for example is only good for making other people jealous

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conversely this xps laptop is excellent

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at well

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nothing really but it is okay at many things

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so is it like a swiss army knife useful in

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almost any situation or is it like

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a swiss army knife when all you really wanted was a real

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whether you go for the core i5 or the core i7 model you will immediately

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notice the snappy performance of the 4

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core low power processor but what really separates this puppy from other

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non-gaming laptops is the integrated

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vega GPU to be clear this

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is not explicitly a gaming laptop you

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would need a discrete GPU and a fatter

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heavier form factor for that so don't expect to be playing any

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aaa titles at 1080p ultra details

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but it ain't no scrub either gaming on this machine is a night and

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day difference compared to Intel's own integrated graphics and lighter

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competitive like esports games can break 60 FPS on it but it'll work up a sweat

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when it does the CPU can redline at 100 degrees and

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you will always notice the keyboard getting

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uncomfortably hot over 50 degrees by our

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measurements while gaming even though the clock speed gets

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significantly reduced when the CPU and GPU are both being stressed at the same

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time because due to the way they're designed they actually have to share

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their power okay so it performs better than a thin and light

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but it's not that thin and light and worse than a gaming laptop

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but it's not that thick so all of this makes sense and you got to

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think about this in a two-in-one machine

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gaming performance is purely just a

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bonus and the xps two in one is really intended as a day-to-day laptop

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so sure it's a little on the heavy side

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and if i'm being honest the design is

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anything but edgy but i'm willing to forgive boring design

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when you open up a machine and you get to feel some of the best build quality

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available today the screen and the chassis are both exceptionally

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rigid and like what apple did in 2016

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dell has completely removed the usb type a ports but i'm not mad

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because unlike apple they included

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four type c ports two of which are

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Thunderbolt 3. that's something that's hard to complain about in the 2018

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dongle era as for the screen it's excellent

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fantastic colors really high brightness and touch

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functionality i'd actually recommend though going with

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the 1080p version instead of the 4k one

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because at this size even side by side

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it's not that easy to tell the difference with my eyes but with my

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wallet with my wallet i can tell

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moving down dell has created a completely new type of keyboard for the

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xps two in and

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that's dangerous because i already liked dell's keyboards a lot

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so they're calling this maglev and it's meant to give you a lot of tactile feel

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despite a very short throw distance

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and actually okay the risk was worth it it took a little bit longer to get used

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to than normal having a bit of trouble feeling the

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different keys given how close they are to the key bed but

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once i got rolling i was able to type extremely quickly and hopefully these

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maglev keys don't stop working at the first sign of dust

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going further down the line we get to the touch pad which is one of the many

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things about this laptop that is good but not excellent

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it's sizeable but it has poor palm rejection by default though that can be

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fixed by tweaking the settings and unfortunately the settings won't

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help you solve some annoying acceleration

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issues um it's something that you'll probably get used to

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but for us where we're using a lot of laptops side by side it does stand out

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next in the pile of things that are kind of meh is the extra hundred dollars for

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the dell pen it provides a fairly good writing experience but

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it just doesn't feel as natural as the surface pen which has a softer tip with

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a bit of give and a tiny bit more friction which makes writing notes and

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drawing feel a lot more natural so if you were getting a two-in-one primarily

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for drawing you might still want to consider the surface lineup and to del's

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credit short of inserting it inside the

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chassis this is far and away the best

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attachment mechanism that we've seen

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bringing us to yet another complaint the speakers sound pretty good at lower

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volume but they do start distorting at around 50 percent and at full volume

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sound just plain bad and

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it has one of those abominable chin bar

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webcams which is fine if you flip the screen

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around and use a webcam like this but if i was on a conference call and i

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was trying to take notes with my keyboard all the other participants would see is

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my fingers and speaking of fingers it's a good thing that it has a fingerprint

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reader built into the power button because if i wanted to unlock using the

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Windows hello ir camera that it actually

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has i would end up adjusting my screen basically every time

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future proofness isn't a strong point of this thing either besides the storage

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basically nothing in here can be upgraded or replaced so make sure that

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you get the specs you want including RAM

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up front and by the way this massive 75

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watt hour battery only got us five hours in our work

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battery life test a fairly average result so then

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i've complained about quite a bit over the last six minutes or so

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but these are the sacrifices that come with

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a laptop that is able to do everything

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and don't get me wrong overall i actually quite like the xps 15 two in

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one what other device gives you excellent

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touch support lots of performance

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a beautiful screen super high build quality and pretty good

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battery life all in one okay the surface book 2 which also has a

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better keyboard and a discrete GPU

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and on a level playing field yeah come to think of it i would choose the

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surface but the pricing of the xps saves it with

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what we'd call our recommended loadout coming in at fifteen hundred dollars

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it's not really a budget option but it is a full five hundred dollars cheaper

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than the cheapest surface book that we think is even worth looking at

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dedicated graphics the xps 15 211 looks

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