being someone that professionally reviews laptops people ask me all the
time what laptop should I get and kind of the
default answer for anyone that needs like a bit of power like good screen
just generally a good laptop has been the XPS 15 and it's it's kind of going
from the last time that it was updated in 2012 it was like yeah yeah the XPS 15
this thing's sick oh my god kind of like I I guess there's not really any other
options for you like you can get a blade but I don't know I was probably gonna
break yeah I say that because Brandon wants to buy an XPS and his blade broke
yeah but hopefully very soon you won't
have to deal with like this very small trackpad for 2020 and these also quite
small key caps that are frankly worse than the ones that Alienware has been
putting out lately so let's get into it but we don't have
just an XPS 15 here we have also got an
XPS 17 which according to the product
manager that I talked to beforehand was the single hardest laptop he's ever had
to design according to Dell this is not the official unboxing it's pretty close
but these are pre-production units so yeah it's probably not gonna be all
marked up on the production version here
it looks about the same from here obviously but what else do we have so
we've got some warranty and safety
regulation a rather large power brick 130 watts that shows you what kind of
power like this thing right here is got we also have a USB to type a connector
very nice to have for when you just like own a mouse and want to use it with this
and the laptop arrives and you find it you can't that really sucks on a lot of
other ones and you know good old power adapter so we have a full size SD card
reader here we have USB type-c that's just normal USB type-c and a headphone
jack and also we have these edges that are quite sexy so they're diamond cut on
a CNC machine all the way around here and it's two pieces of aluminum so you
have a piece of aluminum here another one there and also the carbon fiber
sheet along the top on the other side we have two Thunderbolt three ports each
one has four PCIe lanes and the good old Kensington lock we also
you know on the bottom let's just do the full tour around here got I think these
are speaker grilles I'm not totally sure and some vents but let's get into what
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much space there is there you can just it's the first time that I've ever seen
a Windows machine like Razer gets kind of close but that is very similar in
just general size I wonder if it has the same sort of a feel first impressions of
course here friggin amazing for a Windows machine maybe even excellent for
a Mac machine I would say comparable at
least they feel just very similar which
is probably the highest compliment possible it's the kind of thing we're
like you're able to just turn down the sensitivity a little bit when you have
so much room to move around and you don't have to worry about like you start
over here and then you end up off the side whereas like the other one that's
just in the top down here give you guys a nice idea of how much of an upgrade
this is so there's the new and here is
the old hole it absolutely dwarfs it is
it twice it's big it has to be close if not twice as big that was dangerous
okay let's actually science this here 10.5 times 8 so the old one was eight
hundred and forty millimeters square it the new one is a hundred and thirty-five
millimeter square so that's what like 60% increase something like that just
look at it I don't know what else to say besides it's just a beautiful thing
another really noticeable thing here is
to switch to sixteen by 10 it's one of those things that Apple does on their
machines and I don't know why everyone doesn't just go 16 by 10 you know
instead of just this big black bar along the bottom you get extra screen and this
extra like vertical space is so useful for
just everything that you're doing especially productivity wise so like you
know you have all of the task bars up top and you can just see a lot more text
in Word documents it's surprising how much just that tiny bit of I don't know
that like thumbs width of space down there just helps you have it easier time
seeing everything so also although these are both 15.6 inch displays because this
one's 16 by 10 it is a bit smaller it's
not much but to be fair it's noticeable also I wonder if thickness is any
different I'd say that's about 2 mil so
you know it's it's not a big difference but at the same time it has the same
amount of power more screen and way way
more trackpad so I can dig it it also just looks so much better I don't know
what it is but you just look at these two devices and this one well I want to
say it makes this one look old but the old XPS 15 looked like it was designed
in 2012 beforehand so this one looks
just new and modern and like something that I really want to have but that's
not even all that we have here let's get into the other one so I will admit that
I did take a peek at the XPS 15 beforehand I have legitimately not
looked at the 17 before so far it looks
like an XPS device that is for sure let's go for the power brick first I'm
curious how much more power you get or if it's the same 130 watts okay so I'm
guessing that it's over built for the XPS 15 which I think has a 50 watt TDP
and is actually spective for the big ol
17 here that has a hundred watt TDP so
once again we get the diamond cut edges along here that I think look fantastic
and you also have two Thunderbolt 3 ports which are each four PCIe lanes and
then on the other side this is the really fun part you have two more
Thunderbolt 3 ports with four PCIe lanes
each as well so this has actually two Thunderbolt 3 controllers in it meaning
I'd I don't know you can just hook up all you want to it I guess that's a lot
of bandwidth we also have SD card reader and headphones oh I imagine there's
charging on both sides too that's one of the things that I really loved about the X
PS 13 was that you're able to just plug in the charger on one side or the other
which doesn't sound like a big deal but think about how many times you've had to
like take your charger when it's like over here and kind of like drag it
across the table and then you're like oh no it doesn't quite reach and then you have to like mm-hmm yeah you can just
plug it on the other side it's great it looks actually very similar is that the
same size touchpad I'm guessing it's the exact same unit here but we can find out
not that you're gonna be complaining about the size of this at all 50 and
yeah it's totally the same size which isn't bad
it doesn't quite get to the size of you know the Apple one here on the 17 they
definitely could have made it a smidge
larger but at the same time I don't
think they really needed to this is half a heavy one though I wonder what is the
weight on this so MacBook Pro 16 inch is 4.1 eight pounds which we're going to
round up to 4.2 the 15 is I'm guessing
very similar 4.21 okay so you know
couple grams difference but essentially
the same and the 17 which certainly feels heavier 5.24 yeah so this thing is
a whole pound heavier than the other two here you can certainly notice that and
like given how big this is like as far
as it's quite a thin machine it's very dense
you normally don't see like five-and-a-half pounds until something's
like super gamer that screen is so sick
though there's just so much of it it's shockingly big so for both of our XPS is
here we have the 4k version which is actually 38 40 by 2400 pixels because
you know it's 16 by 10 they also go up
to 500 nits which i think is a hundred more than the last one although they
don't have the OLED that the previous 15 had which was sick to look at these are
also both touchscreen although unfortunately the 1080p versions aren't
going to have touch at the start I kind of talk to them it's like I'm gonna have
to get mad at you in the review and they're like yeah we know maybe
later but can't comment I really hope that they get touching the lower end
ones that said damn a display of this
size which i think is 17 inches on the dot it's not like a 17.7 it's like 17
zero you actually would be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k if
you would still have to get close I imagine somewhere around here but it's
not like these 13-inch ones or you have to be like well one thing that they'll
also would not stop talking about was that these are blue light safe panels
apparently it was a huge pain in the ass to develop them with sharp so that they
wouldn't emit like the harmful blue light and only give you like the good
stuff without causing color shifting within the display like you would with
like using flux or something like that I'm curious how well it works but at the
same time I feel like I need like a color scientist to come in and show me
how well it works I don't think I'll be able to pick up on something like that with just my eyeballs
yes it's keyboard time notepad on the
XPS 13 you get one millimeter of key travel which is pretty much what you'd
expect and it's surprisingly good for how short of a travel that is although
on the new one here we get one point
three millimeters of travel and it's shocking how much of a difference that
little bit can make it just feels I don't know more deliberate when you're
typing like you can kind of go in and get into sort of like a flow state of
typing easier than you can on the thirteen whereas on the thirteen I feel
like that I can just burst through stuff really quickly I know how it compares to
the Mac that's the real question that everybody cares about we've got the new
magic keyboard 16 inch I don't think I
like the magic keyboard as much so it's it is a good keyboard I have to give
Apple that but when I have it side by side with the XPS 17 the Dell just feels
a bit softer almost like you have a nice tactile switch but then it kind of just
keeps on going and doesn't have like an abrupt end whereas the magic keyboard
feels a lot more like it's like a like a jolt as opposed to like a
any sense at all it reminds me a lot of kind of like you know those older laptop
keyboards that were just fantastic because they didn't care about how big
it was it has a very similar feel to that even though I think on like a think
pad or something like that you'd have like one point seven millimeters of actuation we should test the speakers
David said before you listen to it to come in here and enable three experience
head tracking is on oh my god what is this honestly that is quite impressive
it sounded like a thing just came right across there it is very similar to what
you get with Dolby Atmos in the MacBook
or like an HP but it's still pretty cool
but now the big test here how is it fair
against the MacBook okay this is the Dell XPS and my first impression is that
it's worse I'm sorry to hell let's
switch back over yeah this would be
pretty impressive in isolation but when you compare it to that like the MacBook
it's not very close I can't tell you for
sure if the battery life on these two is going to be great but according to what
Dell has told me and more importantly really just the raw specs of it these
should be very good so the 15-inch gets an 86 watt hour battery and the 17-inch
gets a 97 watt hour battery which is basically as big of a battery as you can
fit on a plane without you know them you have to get a special exception or
something you guys have to do that for your camera sometimes right if I had to
guess you'll probably be able to use the 15 for something like 9 hours and the 17
will probably closer to 10 10 and a half but it really depends on what you're
gonna do because these are able to come with some really powerful configurations
so the 15-inch comes with up to what is it an i7 108 75 H out and launch so
that's 8 cores up to 5 point 1 gigahertz and sometime afterwards she'll be able
to get an i-9 108 85h
just up to five point three gigahertz not fantastically named processors the
15 inch is also available with up to NVIDIA gtx 1650 TI which for the vast
majority of stuff that you want to do even like light to moderate gaming is
going to be more than enough the 17 also comes with a high 9 which is you know up
to 5 point 3 gigahertz 8 cores absolute
beast but it also comes with an r TX 2060 so the max q model and both of them
just like you know look at it it's not a big device but at the same time damn
this thing with a 2060 is going to be pretty good at gaming by pretty good i
mean excellent at gaming and anything
that you want to do as far as like professional applications go unless
you're like I don't know doing 1500 part models and SolidWorks
it's gonna be able to handle it like a beast I'm pretty tempted to switch over
to one of these just because like you know I've got the surface laptop here
she's not super powerful it's pretty good most of the time but then you go
over to like 105 and I'm trying to create CAD models and it's it's not
gonna do I just have to walk back up and go to my desktop where as if one of
these guys right here anywhere that I go I'd be able to work on the biggest CAD
models that I can throw at it I am super excited to fully review these
guys we can't look at any performance in them because they're pre-production
units and you know pre-production units are flaky at the best of times I'm gonna
set up all three here the new family of XPS is look pretty friggin good I'm very
excited about all of these laptops and I
might actually switch to one 15-inch
right here is looking very compelling I know Brandon's going to yeah brand is
probably pre-ordering anyway get
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