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Dell buddy are you okay your XPS laptops

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recently have been both incredibly engineered and just the worst things

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that I have seen in a long time because of decisions that you did not need to

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make so I'm in the very strange position where I'm going to be recommending this

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right here this is the new Dell Inspiron 16 plus and it looks to be even better

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than the XPS 16 because it's not stupid

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haa up first is our power adapter this thing will deliver 130 wats and that is

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over USB type-c love to see it plug it

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in turn it on Wow here it is this is

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just a big slab of laptop right here

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there is so little design going on and

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I'd like to say that I want a bit more of that but we have seen what happens

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when Dell goes full in on design you end up with things like no IO fortunately we

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have that here a Micro SD card slot headphone microphone combo Jack thank

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you Dell don't remove that from your other laptops USB type A another type A

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wow they know that exists too we also have Thunderbolt 4 HDMI 2.1 one of the

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strangest is that on the igpu version

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the HDMI is 1.4 which means you can't

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even do 4K out of it so be very careful

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when you're looking between the two models because the one with the dgpu and

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the igpu are completely different this

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is the power brick that came with this right yep yes why is there a barrel Jack

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hole over here apparently this might be because people that already have

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deployments of a whole bunch of these maybe they want to use a barrel Jack

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with their existing systems I don't know it's kind of strange you'd expect this

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to just be like another type c or something like that the first thing that I'm noticing that is a huge upgrade

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compared to the XPS series is the fact that this is just nice to touch all of

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the edges are nice and rounded there's nothing sharp what I am sure of is that

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it feels good what I'm not as sure of is the size of

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this trackpad on First Look I feel like they could have definitely made it a

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little bit bigger there are of course some other things that let you know that

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this isn't a $33,000 laptop we don't have any Gorilla Glass here and the

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plastic around the bezels not the greatest in the world it probably makes

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the screen pretty easy to replace but we have a matte display and we also have

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lb that is quite a bit of heft for a

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machine like this and when you combine that with the power brick that is 5.8 lb

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that you're going to have to carry around in your backpack that's going to be quite a bit to have on your back and

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you can comment down below about how oh I had a gaming laptop and I was able to

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I don't care that's quite a bit of way this display is not the greatest that

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I've ever seen if I'm honest I was expecting it not to be the best ever

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this is not a top-end laptop and it does not come with OLED or anything crazy

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like that but when I saw that it was Quad HD 120 HZ 300 nit Peak brightness

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isn't great but the rest of it sounded very promising but the let down is that

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it's just kind of grainy and I don't understand why there's no touchscreen

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digitizer to get in the way you guys are just going to have to trust me on this

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one but it's just not what I was expecting when I saw the specs of this

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display it is still really quite good given the price point it's just not

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quite where I wanted it to be looking at the Labs test results this display does

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measure quite well we're able to get 326

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nits Peak brightness Which is higher than the 300 that's advertised with a

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Delta e2000 of 2.29 you would definitely

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be able to use it to video or photo edit in a pinch even if it isn't something

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that I would trust if it is my professional job to do stuff like that

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but it should be noted that you do not want to switch this out of the default

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color profile that gets you nice srgb

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everything else is going to just look strange and probably in ways that you

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don't want one other thing that is a little bit odd about this display is

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that you have the options of 120 HZ or

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48 HZ o that's some 48 HZ does not feel good 60 you can

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kind of get away with 120 feels way better all right let's have a look at

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what's under the hood for the processor we have an Intel core Ultra 7

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155h that has 16 cores six performance

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eight efficiency and two low power efficiency cores and those performance

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cores will go up to 4.8 GHz making this

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quite a rapid little guy we also have 16 GB of RAM at 5600 megga transfers per

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second and it says form factor so DM O

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So this might be upgradeable I love to see that we also have a 1 TB mvme SSD

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Wi-Fi 6 E from Intel like to see that

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Intel's npu which does not meet the minimum specs for co-pilot even though

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they did steal a key for co-pilot and also an NVIDIA RTX 4060 now this is

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going to be a little bit of a controversial pick so you can go for the

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4060 in this but you only get 60 watts

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of power out of this chassis which is

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not going to be getting you the full performance of that keyboard

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you know what I really like this keyboard it has a very satisfying snap

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to the key travel and the stability of these Keys is fantastic like look if I

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push on the corner whole thing going down way before it's getting below the

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chassis I think I'm going to give this keyboard a solid a and bonus points

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still for having an actual Escape key in function row and I don't have those stupid Capac what is certainly not going

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to be getting an a though is the track pad the size I can get over it's made

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out of myar instead of glass I'm going to give the track pad of

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B minus I expect Intel CPUs to run hot

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but we're in the menu and it's already at 100° like oh dear oh God what's

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happening why is this so terrible this is actually unplayable right now all

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right we are back in rocket league but I have Hardware info open we are looking

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at 100° on the core but we are not having any more issues with the dropping

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down to like 7 FPS maybe what we needed was just a restart so if you're looking

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at a laptop that is mostly just for like schoolwork and office stuff and things

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like that but on occasion you want to be able to game this is probably going to

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be a pretty good option all right we've now been playing rocket league for 2

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minutes this is not a very accurate way to do this but 46° where's here 46.8 all

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of it is very hot Labs when they were doing their testing and they had

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extended gaming sessions found that the keyboard got up to 53° C which is the

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sort of thing that will actually burn you if you touch it for too long that

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said the keys themselves are pretty nice and cool and the bits that I'm actually

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touching are okay but everything

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surrounding the keys will actually give you a first-degree burn if you hold your

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hands there for long enough ow and in here we have a four speaker setup two on

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top two on the bottom this is another situation where dedicated graphics gets

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four speakers integrated only gets two totally different laptops but let's see

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if it

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bumps ooh that's even better when you have a solid surface below you the

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treble bounces off of it and it actually sounds really quite decent I think given

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the price of this those are perfectly acceptable speakers hopefully we'll be

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able to actually do proper testing on the sound of laptop soon I am very

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excited for that all right let's see how the webcam looks it's really not too bad

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it's exposing well for my face there is

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definitely some ghosting issues but it is 1080p okay it does definitely

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struggle at times like I am both blown out and look like that I have been in

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the sun without sunscreen for 48 hours but if you're lit in a somewhat

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reasonable way it is able to figure it out and if you want people not looking

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at you boom there's a little switch right there that just completely

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disables it I love to see that thank you for putting it on there Dell

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unfortunately we don't have any IR emitters so we don't have Windows hello

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facial recognition but we do have a little fingerprint reader right here so

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you can get into your laptop nice and easy nine Phillips screws later two of

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which are captive so they pop this off

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we are inside and this is actually looking incredible for upgradeability

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given that the year is 2024 we have our SSD right here and spot

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for a second SSD right here now the second SSD will have to be a very small

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boy but at the same time you can get 2 tbte ssds of this size Chuck it in there

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it's way better than nothing and that's what most other brands will give you we

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also have an upgradeable Wi-Fi card right here so you can go to Wi-Fi 7 in

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the future if you so choose and the most incredible bit we have upgradable RAM

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soams hell yes so many laptop makers are

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either going to just not having any upgrade ability or just even worse the

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chip makers aren't even allowing it looking at the cooling solution it is

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shockingly robust given the CPU temperatures in here we have four heat

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pipes two fans and we also have four heat sinks which looks like it should be

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able to dissipate a fair bit of heat well not that one's going straight into a hitge but the rest should be able to

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dissipate a fair bit of heat even if it didn't really do that in the real world

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what I suspect is if you rip this thing off and throw some liquid metal in there

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you'll be able to get much better temperatures and if you're going in here

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to like upgrade the RAM or something in a couple of years anyway that might

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really bring this thing back from the dead what certainly won't be dead though

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is this laptop well it will die eventually but it will take quite some

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time because it has a 90w hour battery in it we able to see over 10 hours of

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battery life on this away from the wall which is quite impressive given that it

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has a dgpu and an Intel CPU one final

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test for upgradeability wow they have a super small SSD in here by default so

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you could just Chuck it right there get a fullsize SSD and Bam you're off to the

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race and it passes the double-sided SSD test so you can check a double-sided SSD

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in there the repairability of this has really helped my overall opinion of it

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so many laptops don't have that so then the Dell Inspiron 16 plus is this a

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laptop that you want if you want to do hardcore gaming hardcore video editing

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professional photo editing really hardcore anything at all no

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but this is a laptop that is not crap at

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anything it has good enough gaming performance a great keyboard a good

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enough display if you're just doing casual video editing or photo editing

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and it will just be a friend for a long time because you can upgrade it man have

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I mentioned yet that you can upgrade it it's just a pretty good laptop just like

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