WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.320 The Dell XPS 13 is an absolute marvel of engineering. 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:09.480 The amount of stuff they have crammed in here into this 13-inch chassis is just incredible, 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:13.800 but I've always thought, what if instead of compromising it, you just made it 14 inches? 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:18.480 Well, that's what they've done here. This is the Dell Latitude 9440, 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:25.920 and I believe this has everything that's great about the XPS 13, but now it's just a tiny bit bigger. 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.760 And most importantly, it's got a headphone jack. 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.560 In here, we also have Dell slash Recycle. 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:39.160 Boop, boop, boop, boop, yep, plug it in, press the power button, that's how you set it up, cool. 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:44.160 We also have in here a USB-C to A adapter. 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:49.560 That does mean that you definitely do not get USB type A on this, but Dell is at least nice enough 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.680 to include the dongles that you need to get started. So you're not just like, 00:00:52.760 --> 00:00:56.280 hmm, I can't use my mouse with my new laptop, that's cool. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.080 In here, we also have a 65 watt charger. 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:04.720 You do have a couple different options if you want to charge faster, there is 100 watt available, 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:08.680 but I think 65 is pretty good cause it's not too large. 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:14.560 That said though, this is a 60 watt charger that you get with the XPS 13 plus. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:18.600 This one's 65 watts, and look at the size difference. 00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:24.040 Why would you ever want this one instead of the one that came with the XPS? 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.800 Just a first look, absolutely fantastic. 00:01:27.800 --> 00:01:30.880 Around the side, we have got shockingly 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:36.400 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, Thunderbolt 4, and two more Thunderbolt 4s. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:40.960 Now does this have a full 360 hinge? 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:48.160 Oh, it does, fantastic. And speaking of fantastic, just look at this thing. 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:51.280 What a fine little laptop. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.360 On here, we have got Dell's zero lattice keyboard 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:57.440 that we first saw in the XPS 13 plus, 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:01.080 although I am going to have to take away a couple of points 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:04.840 with how they've integrated these speakers. Look at this, it kind of looks like 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.440 they just sort of slotted them in there. This edge is a little bit sharp. 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:13.600 I think you guys could have done a little bit better given how just absolutely premium the rest of this feels. 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:18.560 Also, we have Dell's haptic collaboration touchpad, 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.960 which apparently can do video, sharing, messages, 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.120 and your microphone. There is also a fingerprint reader on our power button. 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:34.560 Excellent, I believe this also has facial recognition, so getting into your laptop will be extremely simple. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.040 The first thing I'm noticing here is that this is a very sharp device. 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:43.200 It looks really great when you have these super sharp C 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:47.120 and C milled corners, but it's not very nice to use. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.840 I absolutely love the pillow block corners 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.160 on the HP Dragonfly. This is so frickin' nice. 00:02:56.160 --> 00:02:59.360 Dell, please do that. I don't want to have to take the buffing wheel 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:05.640 to too many more of your laptops. It also is one hell of a fingerprint magnet. 00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:11.280 Now on the XPS 13 plus, they have just this one great big piece of glass 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:16.600 that goes all the way across, even though the trackpad itself is not actually that big. 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:19.640 It goes to like, oh, I can't tell. 00:03:19.640 --> 00:03:24.160 They're somewhere. Not that that's an issue, you get used to that pretty fast, 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:28.800 but on the sides here, I am just, oh, gnarly. 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.280 That's said though, let's, 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:40.200 oh man, this is an absolutely fantastic keyboard. 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:43.920 Okay, how does it compare to the XPS 13 plus? 00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:51.560 I think that the latitude's even better than the XPS 13. 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:56.960 Like, by quite a bit. It took me a long time to get used to this 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:01.200 kind of strange keyboard that we find on the XPS 13. 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:05.560 So you have so little space between all of the keys 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.400 and you do get used to it. So they have a little bit of a dish 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:12.440 and that allows your fingers to feel where they're at 00:04:12.440 --> 00:04:16.200 and you get used to it relatively quickly. 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:20.340 The one on the latitude has just a tiny bit more space 00:04:20.340 --> 00:04:24.280 between the keys and it is so much easier 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:29.160 to get that muscle memory. It took me a sentence and I am typing really fast. 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.360 It takes me like an hour or two of typing on the XPS 13 plus to get used to it. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.720 Yeah, so these keys are definitely still dished 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.920 like what they had on the XPS 13 plus 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.640 and that just tiny bit more space between each key 00:04:43.640 --> 00:04:49.720 is making this so easy to type on. You know, honestly, I think this is an A plus keyboard. 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:54.840 I don't know that there is another keyboard that I would consider A plus on the market right now 00:04:54.840 --> 00:04:57.760 besides the HP dragonfly, which is... 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.480 The one on the dragonfly I personally like more, it has a bit more click, bit more travel, 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:09.880 but the one on the latitude, oh man, it is so smooth. 00:05:09.880 --> 00:05:13.880 It is so accurate and these keys feel so freaking good. 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:18.320 An easy way to tell if you have a good keyboard on your hands is the key stability. 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:22.680 So if you look here, I can press on the corner of this key 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.880 and I cannot get the key to like move around 00:05:26.880 --> 00:05:30.200 and sort of just like squishy squash. 00:05:30.200 --> 00:05:33.680 I can only, while pressing the corner of this, 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:37.720 have the entire key actuate. That is absolutely exceptional, Dell, 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:43.320 and I honestly think this is the best keyboard you've ever made. I absolutely love that this is a haptic touchpad 00:05:43.320 --> 00:05:46.720 because it gives you a little bit of tuning ability. 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:50.160 So we are not actually clicking it. So like if you look here, 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:56.760 the trackpad itself is not moving. So instead, they have some little tiny motors. 00:05:56.760 --> 00:06:00.360 These are maybe PZ electric, maybe some sort of different something. 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.840 What's happening is that it is detecting the amount of force that you're pushing on this 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:08.720 and then once you get over a certain threshold, it makes a little vibration. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.960 So that gives you the feel of a click without actually clicking. 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:20.520 Okay, let's see how this thing weighs in. XPS 13 plus, 1.269, nice, kilograms, 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:29.920 or 2.8 pounds. The latitude comes in at, oh, real units, real units. 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:34.960 1.56 kilograms, or 3.4 pounds. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.520 So that's actually quite a bit heavier. And we also have the Dragonfly Elite here, 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:44.440 which is, is that the lightest of the bunch? 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:48.760 No, that's a dead tie with the XPS 13 effectively. 00:06:48.760 --> 00:06:51.800 Another thing that the latitude 9440 has 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:56.040 that is sorely lacking just kind of across the XPS line 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:02.280 is a screen resolution that makes sense. So this right here is 2560 by 1600. 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:05.400 So that is the 16 by 10 version of 1440p. 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:10.000 And it is exceptional for laptops of this size. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.800 You're never going to be able to see the pixels on a 4K display that is 13 inches. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:21.440 Whereas 1440p is nice. Like I have a 1080p display on the Dragonfly here. 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:24.840 It honestly isn't fantastic. 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:31.120 Like stuff like emails, you aren't able to fit as much as I want on the screen at a time. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.280 Whereas this right here, you've got that bit more resolution. 00:07:34.280 --> 00:07:38.360 You can make the text a tiny bit smaller. It still is nice and clear. 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:42.840 And it is just such a good choice here, Dell. 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:49.120 Thank you. Aside from the resolution being good, the overall just panel here is exceptional. 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.320 It's IPS, so you don't have those deep inky blacks 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:55.800 like you might have with OLED. But overall, it is very good. 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:01.080 We measured 560 nits peak brightness, which is good enough for even going outside 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:05.200 for the most part. It isn't matte, so you might have to contend with, 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:08.640 you know, the stupid lights in your office or whatever. 00:08:08.640 --> 00:08:15.400 But overall, very, very good. It is not the most color accurate display. 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:19.440 So it's a tiny bit oversaturated, 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:23.960 which brings our average Delta E all the way up to 2.4. 00:08:23.960 --> 00:08:26.960 Also a nice thing about the display, it's touch. 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:33.680 So you can, you know, do your touchscreen stuff here. You can flipper around, be like, oh, it's a tent now. 00:08:33.680 --> 00:08:41.040 And then keep on doing that sort of stuff. Now for performance, we get an i7-1365U, 00:08:41.040 --> 00:08:45.520 which is 10 cores, 12 threads, only two performance cores, 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:51.000 so it isn't as performant as you might expect from a 10 core CPU, 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:56.400 given that eight of those are efficiency cores. But it is still a very good processor 00:08:56.400 --> 00:09:00.760 for something like this. Remember, we have 32 gigabytes in this one 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:04.720 that are running at 6,000 megatransfers per second. Wait a second. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:09.640 I thought Dell said 64. Oh, this is kind of strange, 00:09:09.640 --> 00:09:13.840 but you can only get 6,400 megatransfers per second 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:17.040 with 64 Gigabyte, apparently. 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:21.360 That's weird, but whatever. I am not about to complain about having 32 gigabytes 00:09:21.400 --> 00:09:28.800 of 6,000 megatransfers per second memory. For the disc, we have one terabyte Samsung SSD, 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:32.400 Intel Wi-Fi 6E, excellent. 00:09:32.400 --> 00:09:36.160 And of course, we do not have a dedicated GPU in here, 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:40.200 so you're just running the dirty old Intel Iris Xe graphics. 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:43.520 What do you think? Should we try and have a game? 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:49.160 Let's do it. While the game is launching, I just want to shout out that this supports MU-MIMO, 00:09:49.180 --> 00:09:53.720 which allows a Wi-Fi device to simultaneously send and receive multiple data streams, 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.520 and the networking on this is just exceptional. 00:09:57.520 --> 00:10:01.000 The Labs noted that even when compared to gaming laptops 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:04.840 that it was beside, this thing just absolutely ripped 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:09.120 through the downloads on Steam, like no other laptop has. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.760 All right, will we hit 30 FPS and CSGO? 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.600 Oh, oh, oh, 32, 34, oh, oh, 42 there for a second. 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:25.080 Oh man, this is bad though. 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.080 It's saying 40 FPS, but oh, this is disgusting. 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:36.640 I am having regular lag spikes in the unplayable number of FPSes. 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:40.400 I can 100% blame this computer 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.600 for why I'm being so bad and not myself, 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:47.480 because holy frig, this is one of the worst gaming experiences 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:51.200 that I've had in a long while, and that is real. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:56.480 Look at that stutter. Our Labs did a bunch of testing on some other games, 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.820 and it is very consistent in being bad. 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:03.320 You do not want this laptop. If you want to do gaming, 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:08.940 you need to get something like an XPS 15 or a real gaming laptop, which makes sense, 00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:14.380 but that's not what this is for. What this does have though, that could be quite nice, 00:11:14.380 --> 00:11:17.700 are good speakers. We have some up on the top here, 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:21.560 we have some down on the bottom rate, there and there. 00:11:23.400 --> 00:11:25.300 All right, treble's nice and clear. 00:11:29.140 --> 00:11:31.820 Bass is lacking, I wonder. 00:11:36.380 --> 00:11:39.740 Oh, there we go. Okay, okay. 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:43.260 I moved away our desk pad, so that the down firing speakers 00:11:43.260 --> 00:11:47.060 actually bounce off of the table, and it sounds so much better. 00:11:47.060 --> 00:11:49.260 It's so much wider. Here we go. 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:58.060 Oh, it gets deeper now too. 00:12:00.180 --> 00:12:04.780 Noted. Definitely place this on a hard surface 00:12:04.780 --> 00:12:07.140 if you want to get the most of those speakers. 00:12:09.660 --> 00:12:11.540 Okay, first challenger. 00:12:15.900 --> 00:12:18.500 All right, latitude 9440. 00:12:19.820 --> 00:12:23.200 XPS 13 plus is way worse. All right, that's what we needed here. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.060 Now, HP Dragonfly, that's the real contender. 00:12:27.060 --> 00:12:30.340 The real test now, latitude 9440. 00:12:32.500 --> 00:12:37.500 HP Dragonfly Elite is filled in this as well. 00:12:37.540 --> 00:12:41.740 The latitude 9440 is one of the best sounding laptops 00:12:41.740 --> 00:12:45.380 I have heard in a long time. It's like MacBook level. 00:12:45.380 --> 00:12:50.700 This thing is fricking great. Good job, Dell. This keyboard is absolutely exceptional. 00:12:50.700 --> 00:12:55.860 Touchpad, very good. This display is one of the best that I have seen. 00:12:55.860 --> 00:12:59.420 It isn't quite as fancy as what Dell will give you 00:12:59.420 --> 00:13:05.100 with an OLED or Apple with their mini LED, but as far as just a down the middle display goes, 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:09.500 this is fricking fantastic and the resolution makes so much sense. 00:13:10.500 --> 00:13:13.940 What's the catch then? The battery life, very sadly. 00:13:13.940 --> 00:13:18.460 The HP Dragonfly, which has very similar performance, 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:21.580 even though not quite as good of a display, 00:13:21.580 --> 00:13:29.020 will get you about 12, 13 hours of battery life. This thing right here, Labs tested it seven and a half. 00:13:29.540 --> 00:13:34.140 That is many hours of potentially working on something 00:13:34.180 --> 00:13:37.660 that you are losing by going with the latitude 00:13:37.660 --> 00:13:40.980 and it is very disappointing. 00:13:40.980 --> 00:13:46.300 One thing though that they did do to help the battery compared to something like the XPS 13 though, 00:13:46.300 --> 00:13:50.580 apparently they have mini LEDs behind these keys, 00:13:50.580 --> 00:13:54.220 which not only makes them look fantastic, but use less battery life. 00:13:54.220 --> 00:13:58.100 I don't know if you guys can tell because the XPS is white, 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:01.660 but just the way that the light is piped around these keys 00:14:01.660 --> 00:14:05.940 is nowhere near as good as the way that it is on the latitude. 00:14:05.940 --> 00:14:11.820 It just looks so great, but it was not enough to compete at all 00:14:11.820 --> 00:14:15.060 with the Dragonfly in battery life. Geez. 00:14:15.060 --> 00:14:18.420 Now, I don't want to say that seven and a half hours of battery life is bad 00:14:18.420 --> 00:14:22.780 because it is quite good. That gets you almost through an entire work day, 00:14:22.780 --> 00:14:26.660 but it's gonna be at the end of the tank when you're done. 00:14:26.660 --> 00:14:31.460 Oh, it has a good webcam though. So first of all, I spy with my little eye. 00:14:31.460 --> 00:14:36.020 A shutter. Now in the Dell latitude, we get a full HD webcam 00:14:36.020 --> 00:14:39.020 and it does have a physical shutter that blocks it. 00:14:39.020 --> 00:14:43.060 Yeah, you can see it right there. There's a little tiny red thing. 00:14:43.060 --> 00:14:46.380 There we go. Yeah, so no feet at all. 00:14:46.380 --> 00:14:50.900 Turn it off. You see a little shutter go away and I come back 00:14:50.900 --> 00:14:54.060 and this looks really good. This is one of the best webcams 00:14:54.060 --> 00:14:58.660 that I've ever seen from Dell. Well, that's not saying too much, 00:14:58.660 --> 00:15:04.220 but it's full HD. I look nice and clear and it's exposing very well for my face. 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:10.860 Let's do a little turnaround here. Oh, it struggled. It struggled, but it's figuring it out as it goes. 00:15:10.860 --> 00:15:14.260 I am overall quite impressed with this 00:15:14.260 --> 00:15:17.780 and it looks at least from this angle, 00:15:17.780 --> 00:15:20.980 really quite natural. Like once it figures itself out, 00:15:20.980 --> 00:15:24.620 it's exposing my face very well, plenty of detail. 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:28.020 And good job guys. And hopefully these two mics right here 00:15:28.060 --> 00:15:31.700 picked up my voice nice and well too. Oh man, that's quick. 00:15:31.700 --> 00:15:37.060 Look at that 80 megabytes per second over Wi-Fi. Hell yeah, 896. 00:15:37.060 --> 00:15:41.100 We hit 96 megabytes per second over Wi-Fi. That's really good. 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:45.540 Now of course, this being a business laptop, it has a whole bunch of things 00:15:45.540 --> 00:15:49.300 that makes it just generally safer and more reliable. 00:15:49.300 --> 00:15:52.460 So stuff like if the BIOS has been tampered with 00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:57.060 or just corrupts, it can fix itself and also chassis intrusion detection. 00:15:57.060 --> 00:16:01.300 So hopefully it doesn't get too mad after this. I'm rather surprised that I just have 00:16:01.300 --> 00:16:05.620 straight up Phillips screws on here. Come on, come on, there we go. 00:16:05.620 --> 00:16:10.260 Very simple to get off. Oh cool, we can see where your SIM card would go 00:16:10.260 --> 00:16:15.100 if you actually optioned it. So your 5G card would be plugging in right here, 00:16:15.100 --> 00:16:19.700 little PCIe header. And then you can see where it shows sim tray right there. 00:16:19.700 --> 00:16:23.060 And I'm guessing that is the pad that it would be soldered onto. 00:16:23.060 --> 00:16:28.840 Also in here we have our 60 watt hour battery, which netted us, as we said, seven and a half hours 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.400 of battery life and two fans 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:37.120 and a nice little heat pipe there. Also right here we have got our SSD. 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:42.280 It looks like that that is the only spot that we're able to put an SSD and it is a short one. 00:16:42.280 --> 00:16:45.480 So if you want to upgrade it, you can, 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:50.440 but it's going to be quite expensive because you cannot get like a proper full-size SSD. 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:55.640 Last thing in here are two downfiring woofers, which did an exceptional job. 00:16:55.640 --> 00:17:00.780 And that seems to be about it. Okay, it did just turn on with the bottom off. 00:17:00.780 --> 00:17:08.080 So I'm guessing you have to configure chassis intrusion detection, it's not just gonna do it for you. 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:13.000 What I wanted to show though is how the Wi-Fi antennas are run, cause it's actually quite smart. 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.080 Now, obviously your antennas cannot just go straight 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:19.120 through this aluminum chassis. It's not going to be great, 00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:22.840 but we do have the glass touch pad and they run up here 00:17:22.840 --> 00:17:28.900 and the Wi-Fi antennas are actually underneath the track pad so that you can have that nice strong Wi-Fi 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:33.160 that this absolutely excels at without having something 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.900 like, well, on the XPS 13, they had to have this stupid 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:41.500 glass touch pad chummy up here. One final thing that's fun is this bottom cover appears 00:17:41.500 --> 00:17:46.460 to be made of magnesium, which is expensive, but this is also a very expensive device. 00:17:46.460 --> 00:17:51.260 This thing comes in at over $3,000 as configured, 00:17:51.300 --> 00:17:55.300 which is a lot of money even for a business laptop 00:17:55.300 --> 00:17:59.140 like this, but that said, this thing is frickin' excellent. 00:17:59.140 --> 00:18:03.780 Just like we have a bunch of people on a tour here, say hello to everyone, it's the outro. 00:18:03.780 --> 00:18:07.580 Hit like, get subscribed, and just have a fantastic day. 00:18:07.580 --> 00:18:08.420 See ya later.