On this channel, we cover loads of laptops that are performant,
interesting, and very expensive. So,
when you actually go to buy one, you're probably going to look for something like this. This is a Dell Plus 2 in one,
and it's not crazy expensive. Let's take
a look. All right, how much power do we get into this thing here? We can see we
have 65 watts of power that is delivered over USB type-C, which I absolutely love
cuz this will charge your phone really fast as well. In here, we also get a
stylus. Oh, fancy. This is Dell's active
pen, and they were kind enough to not just give us the tip, but we have tips
if you end up running out of one of them. Very nice. I'm just hearing from a
control room that this is actually an optional add-on. So, bye. All right,
there's the guy. Can we do the pull?
Yes. All right, let's have a look at the
definitely not an Inspiron two in one. First of all, I really like this blue.
It's the sort of thing that's classy but not outright boring. And the design
overall does not make me think that they just copied Apple, unlike their naming
schemes. On the right hand side, we have USB typeA and headphone jack. And on the
lefth hand side, sadly, we don't have USB 4. We have USB 3.2 Gen 2 and HDMI.
2.1 1.4 1
Dell. One thing I am not super stoked about though is it seems like that the
fingerprint rejection is uh it's not the best that I've ever seen. It's not the
worst, but that's not great.
One finger lift.
Sadly, this laptop is not perfectly balanced, but I won't take away too many
points for that. The outside looked really, really nice with like this metal
back cover and the metal bottom cover. Once you open it up,
you get most of the way there. The screen very nice and glossy, but the
palm rest is pretty plasticky. It has a bit of a
bit of a drum line feel to it.
Okay, let's be fair. We should move away
this pad right here, but uh it's not the
most solid laptop that I've ever seen in my life. That said though, this is a
twoin- one. So, you can have it in tablet mode or tent mode or this mode
that laptop makers always want me to show off, but I don't think anyone
actually uses. And of course, laptop mode. Looks like the power button here
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beforehand that this screen was underwhelming and in person it also is
very underwhelming. It is 1920 by 1200
touch of course and Dell claims that it is 300 nits peak brightness and we
measured it in the Labs and it absolutely smashed that reaching 301
nits. Now for the colors, what exactly your laptop can display depends on the
color space. So, if you want something that's able to really edit photos, look
fantastic, have those super saturated colors, you want something that can
cover all of DCIP3. If you're not looking for that, you want
something that can cover all of sRGB. That is what most web content is. And
this right here can cover 63.7% of sRGB,
which is pretty bad in 2025. This
combined with the underwhelming brightness means that this display is
adequate. We also measured an average delta E of 7.68
when what you want is less than two for
color work. Now, I did talk to Dell about this and they said that it is
expected to get those color results. And if you want a better one, maybe go for
the 16-in 2in1 cuz that has a miniLEDD display. Let's see how it is for
writing.
seems pretty good overall. It's nice. It's accurate. Man, I wish it had art.
That would be so cool. Now, even if the display is a little bit underwhelming,
the specs themselves are at least welming. In here, we have a Ryzen AI
5340, which has six cores and boosts up to 4.8 GHz on three of them. The other
three are Zen 5C cores that only go up to 3.4 GHz. So hopefully that helps us
in the battery life department later, but it will not be helping us get any
Cinebench records. That said though, you can spec it with a Ryzen AI 7350,
which should be a bit quicker if you do need the power. In here, we also have 16
GB of 7500 megat transfer per second RAM, which means you probably cannot
replace it. You also have a Micron 512 GB SSD,
MediaTek, which is disappointing, but
W57 wireless landing card, which is
really nice to see. And finally, an AMD Radeon 840M graphics. Actually, why did
I say finally? We also have an NPU. This does AI, but does a game. Let's see how
we do in Rocket League here. I'm at 1200p high quality settings, no
anti-aliasing, and
this is looking half decent. Like, it's obviously not incredible, but I was
expecting less if I'm honest. Uh, never mind. Are we getting scored on? Nope.
It's fine. Great computer. Moving on.
You know, I wouldn't call it loud. And we are in high performance mode, but
it's not quiet.
I would call the noise acceptable.
I think I'm going to give this keyboard a B+. The switches themselves are
fantastic. And for the most part, it is
really, really good. But the problem is the chassis rigidity just isn't quite
there. And in particular on the left hand side of the keyboard, it is really
floppy. I am not a perfect typist, so I
am kind of bad for using left shift at
times when I'm also hitting like F or R or E or something like that. And when
you hold down the left shift, a couple of these keys become just worse. Oh,
it's so close to being amazing. Might upgrade it to an A minus. Just give it
an A minus minus. We were talking about noise though. I suspect that I will be
underwhelmed.
speakers are downfiring. I'm going to see if Oh. Oh.
Oh, this chassis is so floppy.
You can click the trackpad. Oh, no.
No.
What are you doing, computer? Dell, make
your chassis better.
We'll get to the MacBook in a second, but I want to try something that is
insulting.
In fairness, I do have a Pixel 8 Pro which costs more than this laptop, I
think. But also, it is a phone and it
sounds better. It has more bass and deeper extension. I don't think it's
quite as loud as this laptop, but
ow. Just for fun, let's hear it against the MacBook. All right. In today's
fight, we have Logan Paul versus some school children. the school children
represented by the Dell Plus two in one
and the MacBook. I'm sorry for that, Dell, but improve
your speakers. Jeez. Up top, we get a 1080p webcam. And my favorite thing
about it is if you don't want anyone to see you, they cannot. There's a little
flippy flip switch on the top so you can completely turn off the webcam. But if
you do want to have it on, it looks pretty darn good. Dell, have you fixed
your webcam? Woes. It really seems like it. I'm pointing at studio lights. My
face is still mostly exposed. We're moving around here. Oh, wow. My face is
still correctly exposed. There's not a whole bunch of noise. Nothing like that.
Looking over this way, we have a tiny bit of detail on this, even though it's
completely black. Overall, I am pretty impressed. Dell has in the past
neglected their webcams, but this one right here seems like they have changed
that. All right, let's see those Wi-Fi 7 speeds.
Wow.
Seven Phillips head screws later, two of which are captive, which means that this
should be
pretty easy to get off. We are able to get inside. We can see that we have a
heat pipe right here, just one of them, and one fan. and it was a tiny bit loud,
but I think totally acceptable. We also have our Wi-Fi 7 chip right here and a
tiny little SSD, but if you want to upgrade it with a bigger one, you can.
Now, although many of the aspects of this laptop have been what I would say
are fine, there is one part that is exceptional, and that is the battery.
Right here, we have a 64Wh hour one, and is able to get us 8 hours and 48 minutes
of battery life. That means that even though this is not the most powerful or
really the best at anything, you can do not the best at anything for a really
long time. And I think it's competent enough at everything that I think I can
recommend it. This thing comes in at $850 as spec. And if you want to get it
even cheaper, it's on sale for $6.99,
which in my opinion is a fantastic buy.
Is it a great machine? Maybe not. Is it a machine that you
probably are going to buy anyway and be totally happy with it? Yeah. So, huge
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