I liked my original delx ps12 2in1 a lot
so much in fact that I made this video that never got released because my hair
looked awful other than some screen burning
issues it's been a fantastic machine and it's still in service today partly
because since then there hasn't been anything quite like it more recent XPS
12 two in ones have been ASUS transformer style tablets with
detachable keyboard well no more a proper super compact
twoin one is back the Dell XPS 13
9365 2in1 2017 or as I'm christening it the folden
atrick 9000 because Dell's name for it
is terrible
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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
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