{"video_id":"exUaDtl05U8","title":"Dell’s Carbon Fiber Convertible - XPS 13 2-in-1 (2017)","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":517,"segments":[{"start_s":0.199,"end_s":6.64,"text":"I liked my original delx ps12 2in1 a lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.919,"end_s":9.719,"text":"so much in fact that I made this video that never got released because my hair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.84,"end_s":14.679,"text":"looked awful other than some screen burning","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.24,"end_s":20.039,"text":"issues it's been a fantastic machine and it's still in service today partly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.48,"end_s":26.439,"text":"because since then there hasn't been anything quite like it more recent XPS","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.68,"end_s":30.8,"text":"12 two in ones have been ASUS transformer style tablets 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two-in-one portable charger and wall charger featuring 5,000 milliamp hours of capacity check it and their Valentine's promotion out at the link below the folden Atrix 9000 comes out ahead of its predecessor in most ways build quality is a step up with an aluminum and carbon fiber shell that manages to get lighter and thinner without losing any of that quality feel so the razor blade stealth no longer stands out from other Ultra Portables at the starting at $9.99 price point the screen is far from color accurate out of the box but it's bright with great contrast and Dell's trademark Infinity Edge that gives this 13-in device a much smaller footprint than even modern competitors like the HP Spectre X360 2017 a 13in 2in1 that I covered here here it's very very totable and the performance compromise is much less than I expected Dell claims that by dynamically boosting the power delivery to the processor they have overcome the disappointing performance of last generation super low power Intel y series devices while still achieving a fanless cooling solution and I'm impressed it won't hold up to sustained gaming loads with an ex Thunderbolt 3 video card as well due to its lower clock speeds and inferior cooling but on battery the XPS comes within spitting distance of the X360 which sports a much faster on paper core i7 7500 U though Nothing in life is free and it should also be noted that the battery life for both machines ended up being very similar as well and on top of that neither of of them is capable of smooth 4K YouTube video playback without running into CPU bottlenecking from time to time let's talk hinge the satisfying but probably fragile and expensive to manufacture Ferris wheel is dead and the industry seems to have collectively decided a 360° yoga style hinge is the way to make a single device operate in laptop tablet mode or somewhere in between so it comes down then to who makes the best one and Dell's is good if a little underwhelming next to the X360 they both have wonderfully smooth action but HP managed to achieve a one-finger lift while the XPS is actually kind of challenging to pry openen IO is another trade-off prospective XPS buyers will need to consider I've accepted that I'll need to carry type-c dongles for the rest of my life but I do wish that like the X360 it had at least one full-size type a port in case I forget the speakers are loud and sound quality good for an ultra portable and the webcam is mostly decent with a very good array mic but if you use yours a lot you might not like its position at the bottom of the screen you end up with that creepy looking down at you expression that uh isn't present on competing models like the X360 2017 more good news though the onboard 2x2 Wi-Fi knocked my freaking socks off this is the first time I've seen consistent 50 megabyte pers second transfers on a laptop it's using a year old chipset from Intel so it must just be a very excellent antenna design which brings us finally to the bad news I'm not a huge fan of the bottom half of the clam shell the fingerprint sensor is fast and accurate but it really needs to be back lit so I can find it in the dark and an IR camera here instead would be a welcome Improvement next time around the touchpad has a consistent click feel below the top quarter and is much better with the speed turned down a notch and the Palm rejection delay adjusted to quick but it still Jitters too much when operated two-handed I give it a B+ as for the keyboard it's not terrible or anything the layout is mostly pretty good especially considering how little space they had to work with but there's also not much that I like about it the soft touch finish combined with the very spongy tactile feel of the switches gives it a feeling kind of like typing on a sofa number row inputs register incorrectly when you press keys too quickly and I hate hate hate eight the arrow key layout page up page down home and end should be handled with function plus arrows and don't need dedicated keys this was really frustrating just about every other time I wanted to move the cursor one spot I ended up scrolling the whole page with that said the folden Atrix 9000 is a pretty cool little twoin one it's fanless delivered top-notch battery life comes equipped with Thunderbolt 3 is reasonably priced and does all of this with a 360° hinge something you might not end up using that much because it's still pretty heavy to use as a tablet but with how little now that you're giving up compared to previous convertibles for that hinge hey it might be time for traditional notebook users to consider converting yeah I'll show myself up speaking of tools for the job it's summer apparently something something boarding Planes Trains driving a car leave your worries behind okay I don't know what any of that stuff in my notes is but today's sponsor is tunnel bear and if today's lack of online privacy brings out your inner grizzly bear ra ra then you can try tunnel 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