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