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this is the new xps 13 and somehow dell

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has managed to cram six processing cores in it ladies and

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gentlemen it was just two years ago that we were stoked on a six-core desktop

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i mean if this is properly cooled

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somehow we could easily be looking at the fastest ultrabook

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ever but given that it managed to maintain the slim and sexy form factor

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of the previous xps 13s that does seem

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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

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13 is something truly special but that's

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not a bad thing the xps 13 remains one of the most impressively built machines

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on the market with its genuine carbon fiber and magnesium chassis giving it

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the kind of rigidity that well you'd expect from

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something made of carbon fiber but it still surprised us because to the eye

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dell doesn't seem to have done a whole lot to make the xps 13 ready to handle

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six cores that can boost up to a blistering 4.7 gigahertz and guys we've

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seen this movie before with apple's 2018 macbook pro juiced up roided out CPU

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same anemic cooling solution the good news is that we're not dealing with a

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core i9 8950hk but Intel's core i7 10710u is no

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pussycat either its rated TDP is just 15

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watts but dell has opted to crank that

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up to 25 watts and in our testing anyway it drew a lot more

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than that for short periods at a time for example when starting an all core

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render it reached darn near 60 watts

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which unsurprisingly caused it to hit its thermal limit very quickly after

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staying at around 40 watts for a surprisingly long time the xps 13 then

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drops down to 25 and bounces between 1.8

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and 2.5 gigahertz on all cores for the remainder of the render now all of this

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is very impressive given that we would normally see worse clock speeds from a

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quad core CPU in an ultrabook but in real world terms what does it all mean

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for you basically if you want tasks like

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video rendering photo editing compiling code or running simulations to happen

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fast the xps 13 is by a country mile the

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fastest ultrabook we've ever seen to be clear you will get much better

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performance out of a 15 inch laptop like an xps 15 or a blade 15 but unless you

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need that power very frequently the portability of the 13 is going to make

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it a no-brainer for a lot of people it isn't perfect even during relatively

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mundane tasks like installing an application the fans can get rather loud

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compared to other less powerful ultrabooks but what's impressive about

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the thermal management is the aerogel insulating gore material so even when

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it's under very heavy load the palm and

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keyboard areas of the xps 13 actually managed to stay relatively cool thanks

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to this installation with just some of the upper keys heating up a bit after

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long renders or gaming sessions as for gaming performance well it's

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actually not horrible anyway given that we're

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working with integrated graphics but i certainly wouldn't recommend this

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machine if your primary form of entertainment is gaming now despite

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being 10th gen this processor is actually 14 nanometer and doesn't have

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Intel's improved iris graphics although it can play esports titles like rocket

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league dota or cs go as for aaa games

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forget about it possibly the best optimized modern example doom 2016

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doesn't even manage to crack 30 FPS at 720p on the lowest settings so if you

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want an ultrabook that can satisfy your gaming itch on the go the razer blade

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stealth gtx remains the only worthwhile option as long as you don't mind its

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dumb keyboard layout thankfully the xps 13 team by contrast

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did a great job here keyboard strokes are somehow both soft and snappy giving

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you a great feel for when the switches are actuating and as for the track pad

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it's pretty darn good too even if it could use a couple more millimeters of

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extra space to get full marks probably the only annoying interface

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issue for us with the xps 13 is the screen options i know i'm gonna sound

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like a broken record here but the base version comes with a 1080p display which

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would be fine if i didn't need to spend another 300

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on the 4k one in order to get touch support

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now to be clear that one does look amazing but it's just unnecessary

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at this size you need to be within a foot and a half of the display to even

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notice the difference between 1080p and 4k

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bringing us to the single biggest problem that the xps 13 has

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the existence of the dell xps 13

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2n1 the laptop that has actually been my

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daily driver since dell actually sponsored my unboxing of it so you guys

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have asked me for my longer term impressions now that i'm no longer

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obligated to say anything nice about it and the truth is i actually really like

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this machine the two in one model has almost everything that i like about the

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regular xps 13 incredible build quality

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great screen decent i o as long as you're ready to live that

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dongle life and although it is down a couple of cores it makes up for that for

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me anyway in a number of key ways for starters it's got a slightly larger

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trackpad and a 16x10 display both of

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which improve usability more than you'd probably think i mean less lifting your

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finger up is always good and having just

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that little extra bit of space for like

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your your browser tabs uh it's great like like this one right here

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ltdstore.com they got they got cool shirts there and stuff what's also great

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about the two in one is that it comes standard with a full hd touch display so

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there is a 4k option but you aren't forced into getting it if you want touch

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finally of course it's a convertible honestly speaking i use mine as a tablet

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maybe once every 10 days but it is a

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nice to have also i feel a little out of character saying this but while 4 cores

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was a massive improvement over 2 in ultrabooks

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i really doubt that most people looking for something thin and light like this

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absolutely need six cores and besides

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because of thermal and power constraints the six core xps 13 only ended up being

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about 14 faster than our quad core xps

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13 2 in one i mean what we said before is true

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this will make your experience appreciably faster if you were say photo

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editing or video editing but if your primary tasks are word excel and

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watching youtube videos where both machines by the way handled our 8k yule

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log test just fine you are unlikely to notice the difference

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where you might notice a difference though is in the keyboards the xps 13

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has a more traditional feeling keyboard while the two and ones

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the only way i can really describe them is as more crisp within a minute of

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typing on either of them i can get up to full speed comfortably something i was

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never able to say about the macbook short throw keys and i think that

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whether you prefer the 13 or the two in ones keyboard is just gonna be a matter

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of taste i liked the two and one better alex slightly preferred the 13 but we

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both agree that both of them are a plus material another strong area for both

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laptops was definitely battery life the two-in-one slightly beats out its less

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flexible cousin but both of them easily achieved 9 hours of battery life and

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could likely be pushed to 10 or more if you treat them really nicely one area

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where dell took one step forward and one step back though was moving the webcam

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from the bottom of the screen the camera is still

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we expect that you're just gonna use your phone quality i mean look how much

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better this one looks so it's not even a current gen phone at least it isn't

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looking at my nose holes which is really good but in creating this super small camera

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that fits into their slim infinity bezel

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dell was forced to leave out Windows hello facial recognition a feature

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that's on basically every other ultrabook that's worth its salt

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now i can somewhat forgive this since the fingerprint reader which is built

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into the power button is a pretty good solution but especially on this one if

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i'm using it as a tablet that kind of puts the reader on the back

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of the machine so face unlock would go a

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long way here another area that these two laptops are compromised compared to

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their predecessor is an upgradability on the last xps 13 it was super easy to

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replace the RAM just one screw in fact but now unfortunately the memory is

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soldered on both models so make sure that you get enough from the get-go

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the only saving grace here is that the storage is at least upgradable but even

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then that is only on the 13 not on the two in one so which one to

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get comes down to your price point really if you're looking to spend less than thirteen hundred dollars

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get a surface laptop three it's got an excellent touch screen which the xps

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doesn't at that price and it's a very solid performer so get subscribed so you

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can see our full review of that at fourteen hundred dollars though man

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these things aren't cheap but they get pretty compelling the xps two

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in one becomes powerful enough to meet the specs for a recommendation there and

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it is one incredibly complete and sexy

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package then as for the xps 13 the only reason i

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could really think that you'd want this over the two in one is if you really

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want the power of those extra cores which also means that you'd probably

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want upgraded storage some more RAM the 4k touch display putting us at an eye

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watering 1750 us dollars up front

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