is it raining finally all right
let's go get the xps 13. what why well
we're gonna soak it why didn't you already soak that one no
that's my xps 12. this is the this is their newer laptop
no it rained last night so
this is the state of it this water is actually dripping out from
inside the notebook yeah this is going to be awesome so we're going to find out
if the xps 13 can survive being out in the rain just like its predecessor which
also isn't waterproof so it sat here for about a week the thing i don't know yet
because the thing that's most like look at that right where i left it what oh my god
i'm not supposed to do stupid things minus what is it that was an accident
the first time and this time it's also an accident
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now technically the xps 13 which i've been carrying
around in my backpack with my xps 12 which survived being left
out in the rain overnight you can check out that video here
now i've been carrying this around in my backpack because i've been waiting all
this time for an opportunity to find out if the xps 13 could also survive a
similar encounter with the elements so
the first thing i'm going to do is fire this bad boy up gorgeous laptop by the
way you guys can check out my review of it here um so i'm going to fire it up to
show you guys that it is indeed still working perfectly and even though this
is something that i did promise to return to dell
i never said that it wouldn't have been rained on in the meantime so uh you know
i figure we might as well uh put it through its paces and
see how this baby does now i'm not going to have it turned on in
the rain because that would probably kill it but what i'm going to do is i'm
going to allow it to go into sleep that's exactly the state that the other
laptop was in when it was left out by accident before so if it's in sleep so
so we know this because once we got it fired up it actually
worked and resumed exactly where it was
so my battery life is sitting at about 62 percent
and we are going to go ahead and do that Windows 8 swipey doop-de-doop sleep
thing sleeps extremely quickly we're going to
take it outside and in order to make this as similar to
last time as possible
it is sleeping we are going to leave it
on this railing no i think it was on this table
on this table right here
so i wish the xps 13 the best
today we find out if the xps 12 survival
was a total fluke or if dell computers are made of magic i
suspect it was a fluke but only one way to find out
is it the stupidest thing i've ever done yes really no
did you tell dell that you're gonna be doing this
no oh my god
this is like i can't even look away
yeah they won't be able to look away either yup
i suspect they won't be too impressed with this particular idea of mine but
hey they were all over promoting the last one on social media hey look how
great this video is so surely if you know yeah but that one was an accident
that one was an accident maybe you were an accident all right well let's just
leave this here we gotta go so i actually meant to rescue this thing
right in the morning but uh i was actually out of the office all day so
it's been out there for 24 hours
which actually um i don't know might be an advantage
because it kind of dried out out here so let's go ahead and bring this baby
inside and have okay well it didn't completely dry out
the bad news for the xps 13
is that with the 12 i was able to
you know open it up and start drying it out right away but i actually have an
engagement tonight and i am not gonna have time to do that
right now so tomorrow not in the morning but after i go to
ncix to film there i will come back and uh
take this baby apart i'm gonna leave it here for now though
we'll put it like that this is still a bad idea
oh i never thought it was a good idea
so it's been a couple days since i've even touched this thing it's just been
sitting there kind of sogging in the meantime but
i've just been busy so this is not what i would normally
recommend if something gets wet you want to crack it open and start airing it out
right away here we go
all right looking not too bad inside actually oh
there's some noticeable discoloration of that screw
bottom panel flap
oh boy it's also a good idea to take pictures
as you go
okay batteries out some definite water
seepage down to the housing for it
so if i pick at this right here you can see
very bad news oh boy
yeah i was a lot more confident that this was a good well i was i never
thought it was a good idea but i was a lot more confident that it was less of a
terrible idea when i started really tiny stuff in here
that is about as disassembled as i think we're gonna get her
on this side let's have a look at that display that i
really wish i had done first all right so the ifixit tear down
actually has a pretty good look at the adhesive that dell is using
for their infinity display glass here
without better tools on hand we may just
be sol all right i'm defeated for now so
i'm going to reach out to our friends at ifixit
looks like we need some eye openers some
kind of prying pics of some sort and i'm just going to tuck this baby
away i mean it's other than the display
everything else is opened up and airing out right now
boy i sure hope i can put this thing back together
and go get to it later all right so today's moment of truth
time let's uh take this baby out of the
air flow later and find out if she works
even breaking the fan that i'm trying to use to heal the laptop that i probably
broke so i fix it clarified a very important
distinction between their tear downs and
their repair guides for me um i was following an xps 13 tear down
which is not necessarily designed to allow you to put all those
different things back together so they actually informed me that they
don't necessarily have a clear-cut procedure for putting
this display the display elements back together if i
take them apart which means
i'm going to kind of go for gold here and hope
that the rain did not penetrate this seam
why would i not label these
oh no this is not going to be a good day
oh that's interesting yeah it does come down this way
okay maybe i could actually look at some of the pictures that i took
oh i get so like sweaty when i work on stuff like
this well oh you know what i'll put the speakers back first
mind you at this point we are ready to find out if there's even a point in
putting the speakers and screen the speakers back in because
we are about to find out if this bad boy works
this is it moment of truth time
we have a light we have a keyboard backlight
no way
wow
oh okay
picks up right where it left off we have
done it again folks whether by luck or by skill
or by the marvelous engineering of the products that we uh that we decide to do
this to uh we have resurrected another wet
laptop let's just make sure uh the screen screen works
touch screen works um
let's go ahead and just like find something we can like yeah multi-touch
still works uh we'll do a quick keyboard test
make sure that still works touchpad touchpad still works this is a test
whoops a test i think we're good to go
wow i can't believe this thing is
functioning holy cow
well you guys uh you guys saw it here first the xps 13 is officially
waterproof it's not waterproof uh thank you thank
you for i'm at a bit of a loss i'm really
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