this is the new xps 13 and somehow dell
has managed to cram six processing cores in it ladies and
gentlemen it was just two years ago that we were stoked on a six-core desktop
i mean if this is properly cooled
somehow we could easily be looking at the fastest ultrabook
ever but given that it managed to maintain the slim and sexy form factor
of the previous xps 13s that does seem
like a pretty big if
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so from the outside there isn't a whole lot that could tip you off that this xps
13 is something truly special but that's
not a bad thing the xps 13 remains one of the most impressively built machines
on the market with its genuine carbon fiber and magnesium chassis giving it
the kind of rigidity that well you'd expect from
something made of carbon fiber but it still surprised us because to the eye
dell doesn't seem to have done a whole lot to make the xps 13 ready to handle
six cores that can boost up to a blistering 4.7 gigahertz and guys we've
seen this movie before with apple's 2018 macbook pro juiced up roided out CPU
same anemic cooling solution the good news is that we're not dealing with a
core i9 8950hk but Intel's core i7 10710u is no
pussycat either its rated TDP is just 15
watts but dell has opted to crank that
up to 25 watts and in our testing anyway it drew a lot more
than that for short periods at a time for example when starting an all core
render it reached darn near 60 watts
which unsurprisingly caused it to hit its thermal limit very quickly after
staying at around 40 watts for a surprisingly long time the xps 13 then
drops down to 25 and bounces between 1.8
and 2.5 gigahertz on all cores for the remainder of the render now all of this
is very impressive given that we would normally see worse clock speeds from a
quad core CPU in an ultrabook but in real world terms what does it all mean
for you basically if you want tasks like
video rendering photo editing compiling code or running simulations to happen
fast the xps 13 is by a country mile the
fastest ultrabook we've ever seen to be clear you will get much better
performance out of a 15 inch laptop like an xps 15 or a blade 15 but unless you
need that power very frequently the portability of the 13 is going to make
it a no-brainer for a lot of people it isn't perfect even during relatively
mundane tasks like installing an application the fans can get rather loud
compared to other less powerful ultrabooks but what's impressive about
the thermal management is the aerogel insulating gore material so even when
it's under very heavy load the palm and
keyboard areas of the xps 13 actually managed to stay relatively cool thanks
to this installation with just some of the upper keys heating up a bit after
long renders or gaming sessions as for gaming performance well it's
actually not horrible anyway given that we're
working with integrated graphics but i certainly wouldn't recommend this
machine if your primary form of entertainment is gaming now despite
being 10th gen this processor is actually 14 nanometer and doesn't have
Intel's improved iris graphics although it can play esports titles like rocket
league dota or cs go as for aaa games
forget about it possibly the best optimized modern example doom 2016
doesn't even manage to crack 30 FPS at 720p on the lowest settings so if you
want an ultrabook that can satisfy your gaming itch on the go the razer blade
stealth gtx remains the only worthwhile option as long as you don't mind its
dumb keyboard layout thankfully the xps 13 team by contrast
did a great job here keyboard strokes are somehow both soft and snappy giving
you a great feel for when the switches are actuating and as for the track pad
it's pretty darn good too even if it could use a couple more millimeters of
extra space to get full marks probably the only annoying interface
issue for us with the xps 13 is the screen options i know i'm gonna sound
like a broken record here but the base version comes with a 1080p display which
would be fine if i didn't need to spend another 300
on the 4k one in order to get touch support
now to be clear that one does look amazing but it's just unnecessary
at this size you need to be within a foot and a half of the display to even
notice the difference between 1080p and 4k
bringing us to the single biggest problem that the xps 13 has
the existence of the dell xps 13
2n1 the laptop that has actually been my
daily driver since dell actually sponsored my unboxing of it so you guys
have asked me for my longer term impressions now that i'm no longer
obligated to say anything nice about it and the truth is i actually really like
this machine the two in one model has almost everything that i like about the
regular xps 13 incredible build quality
great screen decent i o as long as you're ready to live that
dongle life and although it is down a couple of cores it makes up for that for
me anyway in a number of key ways for starters it's got a slightly larger
trackpad and a 16x10 display both of
which improve usability more than you'd probably think i mean less lifting your
finger up is always good and having just
that little extra bit of space for like
your your browser tabs uh it's great like like this one right here
ltdstore.com they got they got cool shirts there and stuff what's also great
about the two in one is that it comes standard with a full hd touch display so
there is a 4k option but you aren't forced into getting it if you want touch
finally of course it's a convertible honestly speaking i use mine as a tablet
maybe once every 10 days but it is a
nice to have also i feel a little out of character saying this but while 4 cores
was a massive improvement over 2 in ultrabooks
i really doubt that most people looking for something thin and light like this
absolutely need six cores and besides
because of thermal and power constraints the six core xps 13 only ended up being
about 14 faster than our quad core xps
13 2 in one i mean what we said before is true
this will make your experience appreciably faster if you were say photo
editing or video editing but if your primary tasks are word excel and
watching youtube videos where both machines by the way handled our 8k yule
log test just fine you are unlikely to notice the difference
where you might notice a difference though is in the keyboards the xps 13
has a more traditional feeling keyboard while the two and ones
the only way i can really describe them is as more crisp within a minute of
typing on either of them i can get up to full speed comfortably something i was
never able to say about the macbook short throw keys and i think that
whether you prefer the 13 or the two in ones keyboard is just gonna be a matter
of taste i liked the two and one better alex slightly preferred the 13 but we
both agree that both of them are a plus material another strong area for both
laptops was definitely battery life the two-in-one slightly beats out its less
flexible cousin but both of them easily achieved 9 hours of battery life and
could likely be pushed to 10 or more if you treat them really nicely one area
where dell took one step forward and one step back though was moving the webcam
from the bottom of the screen the camera is still
we expect that you're just gonna use your phone quality i mean look how much
better this one looks so it's not even a current gen phone at least it isn't
looking at my nose holes which is really good but in creating this super small camera
that fits into their slim infinity bezel
dell was forced to leave out Windows hello facial recognition a feature
that's on basically every other ultrabook that's worth its salt
now i can somewhat forgive this since the fingerprint reader which is built
into the power button is a pretty good solution but especially on this one if
i'm using it as a tablet that kind of puts the reader on the back
of the machine so face unlock would go a
long way here another area that these two laptops are compromised compared to
their predecessor is an upgradability on the last xps 13 it was super easy to
replace the RAM just one screw in fact but now unfortunately the memory is
soldered on both models so make sure that you get enough from the get-go
the only saving grace here is that the storage is at least upgradable but even
then that is only on the 13 not on the two in one so which one to
get comes down to your price point really if you're looking to spend less than thirteen hundred dollars
get a surface laptop three it's got an excellent touch screen which the xps
doesn't at that price and it's a very solid performer so get subscribed so you
can see our full review of that at fourteen hundred dollars though man
these things aren't cheap but they get pretty compelling the xps two
in one becomes powerful enough to meet the specs for a recommendation there and
it is one incredibly complete and sexy
package then as for the xps 13 the only reason i
could really think that you'd want this over the two in one is if you really
want the power of those extra cores which also means that you'd probably
want upgraded storage some more RAM the 4k touch display putting us at an eye
watering 1750 us dollars up front
that is a lot of money but this is an
awesome laptop and there's nothing else quite like it on the market
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