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when apple dropped the macbook pro 16-inch there was just nothing really in

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the pc world that compared to it like sure we had stuff that was way more

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powerful or lighter or with longer

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battery life but there was no laptop in existence that compared as an

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all-rounder that i could point at be like there pc peeps just go buy that one

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until today right out of the gate the xps 15 and 17 mean business look at them

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the tall screen the aluminum wrapping around the edges if the long-term

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experience holds up to the first couple of glances at these things then they

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might just be the best laptops on the

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market just like i deliver the best sponsor segways on the market today's

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for a laptop to be truly excellent it has to nail all of the parts that you

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interact with the keyboard the trackpad the screen and of course the chassis

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if any one of these parts sucks it doesn't matter how light or powerful or

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long lasting it is you will eventually grow to hate using it and the xps 15 and

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17 are a master class in nailing these

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features starting with the chassis it's not like the old xps 15 is bad it's

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just that it and every other Windows laptop now feels distinctly last gen

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compared to the xps 2020 lineup their screens are shockingly rigid considering

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their size and thinness the reassuring resistance of the hinge feels quality

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and without sacrificing a smooth one finger lift

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and the carbon fiber topped deck gives the keyboard an incredibly rigid surface

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to rest on and it makes such a big difference on something like the macbook

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pro or the xps 13 with their short

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snappy keys i can absolutely blast out a

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quick instant message but sometimes i struggle getting into that flow like i

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can on say a thinkpad that i prefer for long form writing like a video script

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these xps somehow manage to be perfectly

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tuned for both and they're an absolute joy to use with 1.3 millimeters of key

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travel it's a bit more than the xps 13

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but it maintains the excellent snap at the top of the stroke and it's just

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but here's the thing even if this is the best keyboard on the

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market the likes of microsoft hp and

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lenovo have been putting out a-plus keyboards for some time now so having a

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good keyboard isn't nearly as much of a differentiator as what lies below it

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the absolutely gargantuan track pad

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thank you dell i now finally have

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something concrete to point at while i'm yelling at all the other Windows laptop

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makers to improve their track pads it still isn't quite as big as the

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macbook pro 16-inch but in fairness to dell they didn't have the extra space

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created by apple's larger bezels to work with and to my hands the tracking is every

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bit as accurate and easy to use and compared to Windows alternatives this

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trackpad just well it just blows them all out of the

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water with the only one in the same league being the razer blade 15 but even

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that is a b plus plus or an a minus

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compared to the a plus that we're looking at right here

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one note by the way some of the xps 15s in the very first batch have a slight

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wobble on the bottom so if this happens to you call up dell for a replacement

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that is a defect and that problem has since been fixed up top though really is

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the shining star and i mean shining because this display hits 500 nits

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the way that it reaches all the way from the top down to the bottom of the device

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really i mean i've talked about this before but i found it changes the way i

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use it making me treat the xps 15 and then especially the 17 much more like

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a small desktop compared to a big laptop

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out of the box the colors are over the top vibrant with 107 coverage of the

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adobe RGB color space and delta e values of over 20

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yuck but by simply opening up the dell color

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checker and selecting adobe RGB for the color space those values dropped to an

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average delta e of four and a maximum of six that's color accurate enough for

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basically anyone other than a professional photo or video editor and

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if you're one of those you probably already have your own calibration tool

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anyway my one complaint about the display is

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the options come on dell please give us a 1200 p touch option

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right now the 4k touch option is a 300

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adder and like yeah sick display but that is really steep

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for something that i've felt for a long time is not really necessary at these

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screen sizes at the top of the display we find Windows hello facial recognition

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still my favorite way to unlock a laptop but what's cool is if you're more into

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fingerprint sensors dell included a snappy one of those on the power button

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as well and that's been super useful what with wearing masks being all the

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rage these days by the way if you're wondering how the heck they got a webcam

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into that tiny bezel up top the answer is by just making it really bad like to

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be clear it's a lot better than having it you know down under the screen so

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it's looking up my nose all the time or whatever but

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come on how am i supposed to shout out lttstore.com on my video calls like this

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they can't properly appreciate the merch what i can properly appreciate though

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are the speakers both models are excellent in this regard

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with a surprising depth of bass and clarity of treble for a laptop i think

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it's pretty safe to say these are among if not the best speakers on a Windows

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laptop even if they don't quite match up let's be fair to the incredible sound

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that apple was able to get out of the macbook pro so

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as a laptop that you interact with then dell has crushed it and if this was a

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thin and light we'd basically be able to call it here but with the xps 15 coming

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in at four and a half pounds and the 17

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a full pound heavier we need some real horsepower in order to justify the heft

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so why don't we crack them open and take a look at what's inside to open up either

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of the xps all you need to do is remove the eight torx t5 screws do a little bit

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of spudging and off comes the bottom panel now

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normally i wouldn't look twice at a bottom panel but these

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oh these are pieces of art they're cnc

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milled from a single piece of aluminum and between the curves that are sculpted

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with a ball end mill and the surface finish that they got on the outside i

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think it is pretty safe to say that this is not a cheap part both units have

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massive batteries relative to their size which i consider to be a mandatory

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upgrade by the way from the 56 watt hour base model battery with the 15 getting

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up to 86 watt hours and the 17 getting

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close to the maximum allowed on a plane in the us with 97 watt hours this netted

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us about 9 hours on the xps 15 and

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closer to 10 hours on the 17. although with the brightness of the display and

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the power of these components how you're using these laptops is going to greatly

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impact your real world battery life i mean there were times with the screen

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brightness up with solidworks open that the battery would die after just four

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hours but then also there was this one time that our battery test glitched out

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after a couple of hours on the 17 and it kept idling along for over 17 more hours

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above the battery there we go both of them have easy

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access to dual m.2 SSD slots and dual

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sodium slots to make storage and RAM upgrades easy but that's where the

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similarities stop now inside the xps 15

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we find pretty much what we'd expect in a laptop of this class we've got two

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heat pipes and two fans that make for a total of around 50 watts of cooling

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capacity in optimized mode this solution kept our CPU around 90 degrees with

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solid performance but dell also provides

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an ultra performance toggle that pushed our a core core i7 10875h to deliver

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more performance than a top-tier desktop from two years ago at the expense of

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thermals and possibly longevity but hey

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we did say it was a macbook pro competitor didn't we

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the gtx 1650 will allow for a pretty decent gaming experience if you're

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willing to drop the settings and set your resolution to 1080p

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but this isn't a gaming laptop and i imagine it's going to get more use speeding up

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renders in premiere and it also manages solidworks quite well

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moving over back to the xps 17 though dell has really stepped up their game

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and this is honestly a different class of machine look

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at this cooling system attached to these two huge fans is a

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massive vapor chamber that is straight from the wet dream of a thermodynamics

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professor even with a hundred watts of cooling though the core i7 10875h still

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gets toasty in ultra performance mode so we wouldn't recommend using it all the

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time but with this cooling it managed a cinebench

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r20 score of nearly 4 000 making this thing 20

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faster than a macbook pro 16 inch not to

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mention that it's rtx 2060 max-q shreds

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the AMD gpus that apple stubbornly continues to use at least for now while

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also delivering good performance in games

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i mean that's the thing of course a dedicated gaming laptop of the same

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price is going to destroy either the xps 17 or 15 both in terms of graphics

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performance and responsiveness with high refresh rate displays being pretty much

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standard on anything over a thousand dollars but i think that almost anyone

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besides a full-time gamer or video editor or 3d modeler is going to be more

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than happy with the performance that's on tap here which doesn't mean that we

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don't have any complaints notebook check discovered that the xps 17 actually dips

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into its battery when it's under full load because the included 130 watt power

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adapter can't quite keep up so if you're hitting the CPU and GPU

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hard at the same time you can actually lose battery charge even though the

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laptop is plugged into the wall now we've confirmed this behavior both with

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our unit and with our dell rep who said that it was a decision to keep the size

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of the ac adapter down and like okay fair enough

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but i do wish that in the configurator there was an option for a heavier and

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more powerful adapter so the customer can decide which trade-off they want to

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make bringing us to the other big trade-off

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the Intel CPU this right here ah there it is is the

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zephyrus g14 i feel like we pulled this out a lot lately it houses a ryzen 9 4

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900 hs an eight core processor that puts Intel's current mobile chips to shame

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with a less sophisticated cooling solution we're seeing higher multi-core

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performance higher single core performance and longer battery life from

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a physically smaller battery now i'm gonna give dell a pass on this

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generation for only including Intel in their xps lineup i don't think anybody

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saw AMD's mobile 4000 series being as good as it is but next time around i'm

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not going to be so forgiving i expect to see an AMD version of the xps 15 and 17

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for those of us who want the maximum performance from our devices next time

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also in fairness to dell if they had gone with AMD they would have missed out

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on all these juicy Thunderbolt 3 ports of which the 15 has two and the 17 has

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four and in turn they would have missed out on one of the coolest use cases of

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the xps now i personally would have liked to see at least one usb type a but

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still this is pretty cool so this is the dell

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wd19tb a Thunderbolt dock that over a single

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cable lets you turn your xps into a full-fledged desktop experience we're

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talking dual 4k displays gigabit Ethernet mouse and keyboard along with a

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dongle or two technology connections recently created a 27 minute love letter

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to this approach and for many people it's an awesome way to nearly seamlessly

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transition from a great portable experience to a great less portable

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experience whether it's for work or for gaming now as you've probably guessed by

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now these computers don't come cheap

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like we're talking full blownsies apple pricing here i mean they start at

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thirteen hundred and fourteen hundred dollars but the thing is

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if you're shopping in that price range in my personal opinion there are better

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value options so by the time we get to a config that i would actually recommend

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you can expect to pay at least 2 grand for the xps 15 and

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getting closer to 3 for the 17.

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but i also can't really complain because sure they're expensive as all heck but

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you're also getting what i think is the best Windows laptop that money can buy

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and if dell can figure out how to get AMD and Thunderbolt into the next one i

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might even be ready to call it perfect

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if it also had an HDR OLED display maybe high refresh rate 5g mobile

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connectivity would be nice better webcam caching functionality on the fingerprint

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sensor so you have to touch it again once you get to the login screen i think a better GPU on the 15-inch would be

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pretty nice and how about like an illuminated dell logo on the back like

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when did that become not cool anymore then it would be perfect just like my

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