1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,160 It's a sad day. The XPS 15 that I loved so dearly, Dell's killing it. It's not the only one too. 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,080 The XPS 17, the 13, the 13, 2 and 1 all dead because they've got some brand new laptops right 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:22,240 here at CES 2024 here in Vancouver. We have the XPS 13 plus, which isn't new, but it's 13 now. 4 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:28,640 The 14, the 16, but what I want to show you first because they have somehow improved a laptop and 5 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:35,120 made it make more sense in a new generation is the Alienware M16. Over the last while, I 6 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,880 haven't been totally sure what Alienware's been doing because I have just been chasing the maximum 7 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:47,520 performance without really thinking about, can your laptop fit in your bag? But here they have. 8 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:53,840 Look at the size difference between the old M16 and the new one. That is the difference between 9 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:01,120 it fitting in your backpack or not. In a very strange twist, this brand new Alienware M16 will 10 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:07,120 actually be slower than the outgoing model. So this right here gets up to a 4070, whereas the old 11 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:13,200 one got up to a 4090, but what they have done with that drop in power and thermal requirements 12 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:20,160 is make just a laptop you actually want to use. There's just so much usability about this new 13 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:26,400 laptop. That just makes so much sense. Look at this right here on the old one, the palm rest, 14 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,400 put my hands here and they're just falling off of the edge. It is not comfortable to type for a 15 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,880 while even though they have some of the best switches in the game whereas now new one, wow, 16 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:41,120 look at that. My hands are comfortable or maybe you're going into a business meeting or something 17 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:46,160 like that and you don't want to be all gamer-fied. Watch this right here, one button. There we go. 18 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:52,320 Stealth mode. Wow, it almost looks like an old Gen XPS. Look at that. Now I did say we have less 19 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,960 power than last gen, but that does not mean this thing is slow by any means. We have a total of 20 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:05,920 175 watt system power and that 4070 can gobble down a whole 142 itself. For the CPU, we get an 21 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,960 Intel Core 9 185H and we also have quite a decent selection of IO. So on this side right here, 22 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,560 we have 2.5 gig networking, headphone, microphone, combo jack. You can take that for granted. 23 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:25,280 Power input here, HDMI 2.1. DisplayPort. This one right here uses Optimus to be wired directly 24 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,680 to the GPU. Thunderbolt 4 and then two type A's right where if you plug in a mouse, it'll get 25 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,560 in your way. That's too bad. And an SD card reader. It is the micro one, so that's a little bit 26 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,200 smaller than the last gen, but they say this is the fastest micro SD card reader that you can put 27 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:48,000 in the laptop. So don't complain too much. Opening up the new M16 is nice and easy as it was in the 28 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,080 past. A couple Philips head screws you are in. And in here we can see that, well, you get a fair 29 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:59,440 bit less stuff than the old one. So the old one had four fans, seven heat pipes. Now we are down to 30 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:05,600 two fans and four heat pipes, but they say that these fans are quite a bit larger, which uh, 31 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:12,080 yeah, the fan is quite a bit bigger. So they now have 94 fan blades here up from 79 in the old 32 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,480 model, which is how they can get away with not quite as many heat pipes. And that is how they 33 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:22,160 have been able to maintain good thermal performance in this rate here. Also, we still have excellent 34 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:29,120 upgrade ability. So two Sodems right there, two SSDs right here, your Wi-Fi card there. And we have 35 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:35,360 a 90 watt hour battery. That is hopefully going to be getting you quite a bit of time with the 36 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:41,760 wall. And our Yoshi is all good, just like the display options. In keeping with just kind of 37 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:48,720 giving you what you want, there's only a single option and it is the best option. Quad HD, 16 by 38 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:55,280 10, 240 Hertz, that's, well, exactly what I want on a gaming display in a laptop. All right, it's 39 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:02,320 time to have a nice look at these new XPS laptops. This right here is the old one. It looks still 40 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,400 pretty decent, but it was getting a little bit old in the design department. And Dell have been 41 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:14,320 telling me that these right here are the most designed forward laptops they have ever made. 42 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,960 Look at this right here. It looks, well, it looks a lot like the 13 plus that we had before, 43 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,520 but it doesn't have a lot of the drawbacks. So one of the things right here that I did not 44 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:29,040 like about the 13 plus, put your hands on here, edge, super sharp, and your hands are hanging 45 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:37,120 off of the back. 14 though, look at this. It's nice and comfy. Another thing that's not so great 46 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:43,840 about the 13 plus is that, uh, no headphone jack, but look at this right here. We've got a headphone 47 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:50,000 jack and the rest of the IO is pretty good too. Now we no longer have a full size SD card reader, 48 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,560 but this little micro SD card reader, like the Alienware they say is as fast as they could get 49 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,160 it, Thunderbolt four, Thunderbolt four and Thunderbolt four. But very interestingly, 50 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:08,240 even though the IO appears to be the same on the 16 inch, this guy right here is special. Well, 51 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:14,080 it's only special on the 40 70 version, but this will allow you to do NVIDIA Optimus directly to 52 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:20,240 your display from this one right here. If you get the 40 50 or the 40 60 or the Intel arc, 53 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,760 you will not be getting that. That'll just be Thunderbolt four and also the 40 70 version of 54 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,880 this will come with a vapor chamber, whereas the other ones will be just coming with heat pipes 55 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:37,760 and that reduces your total TDP by 10 Watts. And speaking of that, yeah, this right here gets a 40 56 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:43,760 70 in it in this little guy right here. And it isn't even one of those piddly little barely 57 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:50,880 40 70 ones. It gets 60 Watts for the GPU. The whole system can draw up to 80 at a time, 58 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:56,640 which means you should actually be able to game half decent on this for the CPU. We get up to an 59 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:05,920 Intel core ultra nine 185 H and 16 in the 14 we get up to an Intel core ultra nine or seven 60 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:15,120 165 H and this guy can also go up to an RTX 40 50. For the RTX 40 50 in the 14, 61 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:22,320 we get up to 30 Watts on that 30 Watts on the CPU and 47 Watts total, which means that even though 62 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,560 it won't be the most powerful, I still think you'll be able to game pretty good in particular 63 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:33,040 because of the display. All of these get OLED and the 16 and the 14 get up to 90 Hertz, 64 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:39,520 although it goes all the way down to 48 if you want to save some battery life. Speaking of displays, 65 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:45,680 one of my largest complaints about the XPS 13 plus was that when you get the OLED display, 66 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:51,280 even though it looks absolutely beautiful, it kills your battery really, really heart and they 67 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:56,400 have a solution for that. Now in here, we have what they call a P OLED. So instead of having 68 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:02,720 some nice glass right here on the front, it's actually plastic. One little point of clarification, 69 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,080 we won't have plastic on the screen. It will still be gorilla glass. Just the OLED itself is 70 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:13,440 bonded to plastic and I don't really understand why, but that allows them to double the brightness 71 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:19,440 and have the power consumption. That's magic basically, but also that's the kind of magic that 72 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,640 I want to see in my laptop. I don't know why the XPS team didn't give the Alienware team the memo that 73 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:29,520 I'm going to take their laptops apart, but they were kind enough to just do it for me so we can 74 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:36,800 do whatever we want to these ones. Oh, we dropped it. That's too bad. Anyway, what they are super 75 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:43,680 proud about is if you look at this fan right here, this right here is the old XPS 15 fan. You can see 76 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:50,400 not only is the new one larger, but they have these little tippy tips on the end, which do what, 77 00:07:50,400 --> 00:08:00,400 why is that good? Turbo vacation. Sure. But seriously though, it's all about surface area in 78 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:06,160 these fans. So we have more blades, longer blades. We are going to be able to get a lot more cooling 79 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:11,600 through these, but they haven't just improved these fans, but also how they work. So if we 80 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:18,240 look at the old XPS 15, the intake is all along the bottom here, which has a couple of problems. 81 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:23,600 The main one being if you put it on your lap like this, you are blocking the intake, it gets 82 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,960 quite hot, your chances of reproductive success goes down, and it's just a general bad time. 83 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:35,040 Not so in the new one. So if you look right here, it intakes from the side. So even if you have it 84 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:39,360 on like a blanket or something like that, it might be successful, draws it across all of the 85 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:44,400 components in here, hopefully cooling down your VR Rams memory, all of that stuff, and then yeeting 86 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:49,600 it out the back right here. Oh, we're in here. We can have a look at the upgrade ability. So 87 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:57,920 we can swap out our SSD right there. And that's about it. Dell, did you know that someone created 88 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:06,400 a low profile, swappable, super high speed memory standard? Anyway, they didn't use that, but they 89 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:15,760 do have super fast RAM in here. This when it's soldered down can go up to 74.67. Heck yeah, 90 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,200 nailed it. That's a strange number. And it's also incredibly high. So they presumably are able to do 91 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:27,200 that because look at the distance between this core and those RAM chips. That does not have to 92 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:33,680 travel very far to get you those sort of speeds. For the batteries in the 14, we get a 69 nice 93 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:42,960 .5 watt hour battery. In the 16, we get, oh dear, a 99.5 watt hour. That is just on the edge of how 94 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,200 large you are able to get into one of these. And they're saying between the efficiency gains of the 95 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:52,320 new Intel Core Ultras and the variable refresh rate of those displays, the battery life numbers 96 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:57,200 should be better, but we'll have to test that ourselves, of course. What we can test now though 97 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:04,080 are the webcams. Dell has a new 1080p camera on their XPS line and they say it is excellent. And 98 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,040 frankly, the one on the 15 is not hard to beat. This thing kind of sucks. We're going to move 99 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:14,880 around right here. It is grainy. It looks blown out and it also looks underexposed at the same time. 100 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:20,640 It is just a train wreck, especially when you compare it to, oh my God, it actually is a good 101 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:27,040 thing right here. Look at this. I can turn around. Oh, even right there, it's figuring out the exposure 102 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,920 with this right here, big bright light. My face still looks totally fine. I can spin around. 103 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:37,760 It was hot there for a second, but it has figured it out. Dang, you guys actually might have done 104 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:44,800 it. Look at that. It is a, is it smoothing or like, I feel like it's doing a little bit of filtering 105 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:52,560 to my face, but compared to this hunk of junk right here, this is a nice big old improvement. 106 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:59,120 A couple more things here. So the little capacitive touch stuff up at the top, apparently a lot of 107 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:04,160 people complained on the 13 plus that, uh, this just stays on all the time and it kind of sucks 108 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,240 if you're watching a movie or something like that. So on the new ones, it just turns off after 10 109 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,880 seconds and you can choose if you want that behavior or the old stuff in the BIOS. Also, 110 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,160 we have a copilot key right here, which I'm sure is going to age excellently just like the Bixby 111 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:23,920 he did. And finally, the speakers. So on all of them, we have two downfiring Wilfers, 112 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:31,120 two little tweeters in the top, eight Watts on the 14, 10 Watts on the 16. So let's give them a 113 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:37,520 little sniff. Oh, also the keyboard is great. Uh, it's the same as on the XPS 13 plus, but 114 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,280 a little bit larger. This is pre-production. They don't know if the software is actually good yet. 115 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:51,920 I think that needs to go back in the oven. Anyway, yeah, the, the software for the audio is not 116 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:56,400 on there. We will give them a break just like I'm going to give you a break. I hope that you guys 117 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:02,480 enjoyed this video. Hit like, get subscribed and just have a great old day. All dead because 118 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,400 they've got a whole new lineup here. This right here, it's the XPS 14, the 13. Now we already 119 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,760 have the 13 plus, but it's called the 13. That's s***.