1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:04,350 being someone that professionally reviews laptops people ask me all the 2 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:09,179 time what laptop should I get and kind of the 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:14,790 default answer for anyone that needs like a bit of power like good screen 4 00:00:12,090 --> 00:00:19,710 just generally a good laptop has been the XPS 15 and it's it's kind of going 5 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:25,199 from the last time that it was updated in 2012 it was like yeah yeah the XPS 15 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:29,880 this thing's sick oh my god kind of like I I guess there's not really any other 7 00:00:27,930 --> 00:00:33,780 options for you like you can get a blade but I don't know I was probably gonna 8 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:39,090 break yeah I say that because Brandon wants to buy an XPS and his blade broke 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:41,010 yeah but hopefully very soon you won't 10 00:00:39,090 --> 00:00:46,289 have to deal with like this very small trackpad for 2020 and these also quite 11 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,480 small key caps that are frankly worse than the ones that Alienware has been 12 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:55,289 putting out lately so let's get into it but we don't have 13 00:00:51,539 --> 00:00:58,320 just an XPS 15 here we have also got an 14 00:00:55,289 --> 00:01:00,000 XPS 17 which according to the product 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:04,619 manager that I talked to beforehand was the single hardest laptop he's ever had 16 00:01:02,609 --> 00:01:09,450 to design according to Dell this is not the official unboxing it's pretty close 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:14,509 but these are pre-production units so yeah it's probably not gonna be all 18 00:01:11,250 --> 00:01:17,340 marked up on the production version here 19 00:01:14,509 --> 00:01:24,900 it looks about the same from here obviously but what else do we have so 20 00:01:21,689 --> 00:01:27,299 we've got some warranty and safety 21 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:31,530 regulation a rather large power brick 130 watts that shows you what kind of 22 00:01:29,369 --> 00:01:35,640 power like this thing right here is got we also have a USB to type a connector 23 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:40,500 very nice to have for when you just like own a mouse and want to use it with this 24 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:44,310 and the laptop arrives and you find it you can't that really sucks on a lot of 25 00:01:42,750 --> 00:01:50,850 other ones and you know good old power adapter so we have a full size SD card 26 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:55,350 reader here we have USB type-c that's just normal USB type-c and a headphone 27 00:01:52,920 --> 00:02:00,960 jack and also we have these edges that are quite sexy so they're diamond cut on 28 00:01:57,990 --> 00:02:05,070 a CNC machine all the way around here and it's two pieces of aluminum so you 29 00:02:03,149 --> 00:02:09,660 have a piece of aluminum here another one there and also the carbon fiber 30 00:02:07,259 --> 00:02:14,130 sheet along the top on the other side we have two Thunderbolt three ports each 31 00:02:11,849 --> 00:02:17,790 one has four PCIe lanes and the good old Kensington lock we also 32 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:22,110 you know on the bottom let's just do the full tour around here got I think these 33 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:26,910 are speaker grilles I'm not totally sure and some vents but let's get into what 34 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:32,040 you actually want to see here but first P I a sponsor of this video so P ia 35 00:02:30,270 --> 00:02:36,240 encrypts all of your internet traffic and uses a safe protected IP connected 36 00:02:34,290 --> 00:02:40,020 up to five devices Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux they also have an 37 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:45,960 internet kill switch which keeps you in control in your connection try it risk-free with a 30-day money-back 38 00:02:43,110 --> 00:02:51,810 guarantee at the link below that's a big trackpad that is awesome look at how 39 00:02:49,710 --> 00:02:55,860 much space there is there you can just it's the first time that I've ever seen 40 00:02:53,400 --> 00:03:01,560 a Windows machine like Razer gets kind of close but that is very similar in 41 00:02:58,980 --> 00:03:06,450 just general size I wonder if it has the same sort of a feel first impressions of 42 00:03:03,870 --> 00:03:13,410 course here friggin amazing for a Windows machine maybe even excellent for 43 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:17,040 a Mac machine I would say comparable at 44 00:03:13,410 --> 00:03:19,500 least they feel just very similar which 45 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,740 is probably the highest compliment possible it's the kind of thing we're 46 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,100 like you're able to just turn down the sensitivity a little bit when you have 47 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:29,370 so much room to move around and you don't have to worry about like you start 48 00:03:27,930 --> 00:03:33,120 over here and then you end up off the side whereas like the other one that's 49 00:03:31,230 --> 00:03:39,990 just in the top down here give you guys a nice idea of how much of an upgrade 50 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:43,860 this is so there's the new and here is 51 00:03:39,990 --> 00:03:45,870 the old hole it absolutely dwarfs it is 52 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:51,410 it twice it's big it has to be close if not twice as big that was dangerous 53 00:03:49,590 --> 00:03:58,530 okay let's actually science this here 10.5 times 8 so the old one was eight 54 00:03:56,730 --> 00:04:02,090 hundred and forty millimeters square it the new one is a hundred and thirty-five 55 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:07,380 millimeter square so that's what like 60% increase something like that just 56 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:12,750 look at it I don't know what else to say besides it's just a beautiful thing 57 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:14,910 another really noticeable thing here is 58 00:04:12,750 --> 00:04:18,270 to switch to sixteen by 10 it's one of those things that Apple does on their 59 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:22,290 machines and I don't know why everyone doesn't just go 16 by 10 you know 60 00:04:19,980 --> 00:04:27,300 instead of just this big black bar along the bottom you get extra screen and this 61 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:30,110 extra like vertical space is so useful for 62 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:34,680 just everything that you're doing especially productivity wise so like you 63 00:04:32,669 --> 00:04:39,090 know you have all of the task bars up top and you can just see a lot more text 64 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:43,350 in Word documents it's surprising how much just that tiny bit of I don't know 65 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:48,449 that like thumbs width of space down there just helps you have it easier time 66 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:54,449 seeing everything so also although these are both 15.6 inch displays because this 67 00:04:51,180 --> 00:04:57,199 one's 16 by 10 it is a bit smaller it's 68 00:04:54,449 --> 00:05:03,060 not much but to be fair it's noticeable also I wonder if thickness is any 69 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:04,740 different I'd say that's about 2 mil so 70 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:11,400 you know it's it's not a big difference but at the same time it has the same 71 00:05:07,470 --> 00:05:14,039 amount of power more screen and way way 72 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:18,180 more trackpad so I can dig it it also just looks so much better I don't know 73 00:05:16,229 --> 00:05:24,180 what it is but you just look at these two devices and this one well I want to 74 00:05:21,810 --> 00:05:29,370 say it makes this one look old but the old XPS 15 looked like it was designed 75 00:05:26,250 --> 00:05:31,830 in 2012 beforehand so this one looks 76 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:37,169 just new and modern and like something that I really want to have but that's 77 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:42,060 not even all that we have here let's get into the other one so I will admit that 78 00:05:39,539 --> 00:05:47,490 I did take a peek at the XPS 15 beforehand I have legitimately not 79 00:05:44,190 --> 00:05:49,169 looked at the 17 before so far it looks 80 00:05:47,490 --> 00:05:53,099 like an XPS device that is for sure let's go for the power brick first I'm 81 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:58,260 curious how much more power you get or if it's the same 130 watts okay so I'm 82 00:05:56,430 --> 00:06:04,830 guessing that it's over built for the XPS 15 which I think has a 50 watt TDP 83 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:07,889 and is actually spective for the big ol 84 00:06:04,830 --> 00:06:09,780 17 here that has a hundred watt TDP so 85 00:06:07,889 --> 00:06:14,370 once again we get the diamond cut edges along here that I think look fantastic 86 00:06:11,669 --> 00:06:18,840 and you also have two Thunderbolt 3 ports which are each four PCIe lanes and 87 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:23,909 then on the other side this is the really fun part you have two more 88 00:06:20,639 --> 00:06:26,400 Thunderbolt 3 ports with four PCIe lanes 89 00:06:23,909 --> 00:06:30,479 each as well so this has actually two Thunderbolt 3 controllers in it meaning 90 00:06:28,349 --> 00:06:34,919 I'd I don't know you can just hook up all you want to it I guess that's a lot 91 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:38,760 of bandwidth we also have SD card reader and headphones oh I imagine there's 92 00:06:37,169 --> 00:06:43,340 charging on both sides too that's one of the things that I really loved about the X 93 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:47,180 PS 13 was that you're able to just plug in the charger on one side or the other 94 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:51,289 which doesn't sound like a big deal but think about how many times you've had to 95 00:06:49,250 --> 00:06:54,199 like take your charger when it's like over here and kind of like drag it 96 00:06:52,789 --> 00:07:01,970 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 97 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:06,740 plug it on the other side it's great it looks actually very similar is that the 98 00:07:04,370 --> 00:07:11,840 same size touchpad I'm guessing it's the exact same unit here but we can find out 99 00:07:09,850 --> 00:07:17,479 not that you're gonna be complaining about the size of this at all 50 and 100 00:07:14,710 --> 00:07:20,960 yeah it's totally the same size which isn't bad 101 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:27,500 it doesn't quite get to the size of you know the Apple one here on the 17 they 102 00:07:24,470 --> 00:07:30,949 definitely could have made it a smidge 103 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:33,470 larger but at the same time I don't 104 00:07:30,949 --> 00:07:39,020 think they really needed to this is half a heavy one though I wonder what is the 105 00:07:36,199 --> 00:07:46,520 weight on this so MacBook Pro 16 inch is 4.1 eight pounds which we're going to 106 00:07:41,210 --> 00:07:50,349 round up to 4.2 the 15 is I'm guessing 107 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:53,720 very similar 4.21 okay so you know 108 00:07:50,349 --> 00:07:56,570 couple grams difference but essentially 109 00:07:53,720 --> 00:08:02,479 the same and the 17 which certainly feels heavier 5.24 yeah so this thing is 110 00:07:59,599 --> 00:08:08,900 a whole pound heavier than the other two here you can certainly notice that and 111 00:08:05,780 --> 00:08:11,539 like given how big this is like as far 112 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:13,430 as it's quite a thin machine it's very dense 113 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:19,070 you normally don't see like five-and-a-half pounds until something's 114 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:21,800 like super gamer that screen is so sick 115 00:08:19,070 --> 00:08:27,099 though there's just so much of it it's shockingly big so for both of our XPS is 116 00:08:24,740 --> 00:08:34,159 here we have the 4k version which is actually 38 40 by 2400 pixels because 117 00:08:31,039 --> 00:08:36,110 you know it's 16 by 10 they also go up 118 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:39,919 to 500 nits which i think is a hundred more than the last one although they 119 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:44,720 don't have the OLED that the previous 15 had which was sick to look at these are 120 00:08:42,469 --> 00:08:49,940 also both touchscreen although unfortunately the 1080p versions aren't 121 00:08:47,750 --> 00:08:53,360 going to have touch at the start I kind of talk to them it's like I'm gonna have 122 00:08:51,410 --> 00:08:58,940 to get mad at you in the review and they're like yeah we know maybe 123 00:08:56,450 --> 00:09:04,040 later but can't comment I really hope that they get touching the lower end 124 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:06,920 ones that said damn a display of this 125 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:13,010 size which i think is 17 inches on the dot it's not like a 17.7 it's like 17 126 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:17,360 zero you actually would be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k if 127 00:09:15,529 --> 00:09:20,839 you would still have to get close I imagine somewhere around here but it's 128 00:09:19,220 --> 00:09:25,160 not like these 13-inch ones or you have to be like well one thing that they'll 129 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:29,060 also would not stop talking about was that these are blue light safe panels 130 00:09:27,140 --> 00:09:33,560 apparently it was a huge pain in the ass to develop them with sharp so that they 131 00:09:31,070 --> 00:09:38,120 wouldn't emit like the harmful blue light and only give you like the good 132 00:09:36,260 --> 00:09:41,630 stuff without causing color shifting within the display like you would with 133 00:09:39,890 --> 00:09:45,680 like using flux or something like that I'm curious how well it works but at the 134 00:09:43,790 --> 00:09:50,000 same time I feel like I need like a color scientist to come in and show me 135 00:09:48,290 --> 00:09:56,089 how well it works I don't think I'll be able to pick up on something like that with just my eyeballs 136 00:09:52,610 --> 00:09:58,459 yes it's keyboard time notepad on the 137 00:09:56,089 --> 00:10:03,170 XPS 13 you get one millimeter of key travel which is pretty much what you'd 138 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:08,329 expect and it's surprisingly good for how short of a travel that is although 139 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:10,699 on the new one here we get one point 140 00:10:08,329 --> 00:10:15,350 three millimeters of travel and it's shocking how much of a difference that 141 00:10:12,829 --> 00:10:19,070 little bit can make it just feels I don't know more deliberate when you're 142 00:10:16,940 --> 00:10:22,670 typing like you can kind of go in and get into sort of like a flow state of 143 00:10:21,230 --> 00:10:27,199 typing easier than you can on the thirteen whereas on the thirteen I feel 144 00:10:24,470 --> 00:10:31,550 like that I can just burst through stuff really quickly I know how it compares to 145 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:40,339 the Mac that's the real question that everybody cares about we've got the new 146 00:10:33,610 --> 00:10:42,649 magic keyboard 16 inch I don't think I 147 00:10:40,339 --> 00:10:47,180 like the magic keyboard as much so it's it is a good keyboard I have to give 148 00:10:45,140 --> 00:10:53,600 Apple that but when I have it side by side with the XPS 17 the Dell just feels 149 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:58,220 a bit softer almost like you have a nice tactile switch but then it kind of just 150 00:10:55,970 --> 00:11:03,350 keeps on going and doesn't have like an abrupt end whereas the magic keyboard 151 00:11:00,529 --> 00:11:08,620 feels a lot more like it's like a like a jolt as opposed to like a 152 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:13,089 any sense at all it reminds me a lot of kind of like you know those older laptop 153 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:17,019 keyboards that were just fantastic because they didn't care about how big 154 00:11:14,769 --> 00:11:20,050 it was it has a very similar feel to that even though I think on like a think 155 00:11:19,060 --> 00:11:27,100 pad or something like that you'd have like one point seven millimeters of actuation we should test the speakers 156 00:11:24,310 --> 00:11:32,230 David said before you listen to it to come in here and enable three experience 157 00:11:29,529 --> 00:11:39,040 head tracking is on oh my god what is this honestly that is quite impressive 158 00:11:36,819 --> 00:11:44,199 it sounded like a thing just came right across there it is very similar to what 159 00:11:41,050 --> 00:11:47,670 you get with Dolby Atmos in the MacBook 160 00:11:44,199 --> 00:11:50,740 or like an HP but it's still pretty cool 161 00:11:47,670 --> 00:11:52,660 but now the big test here how is it fair 162 00:11:50,740 --> 00:11:59,199 against the MacBook okay this is the Dell XPS and my first impression is that 163 00:11:55,269 --> 00:12:11,470 it's worse I'm sorry to hell let's 164 00:11:59,199 --> 00:12:14,199 switch back over yeah this would be 165 00:12:11,470 --> 00:12:23,860 pretty impressive in isolation but when you compare it to that like the MacBook 166 00:12:20,130 --> 00:12:25,509 it's not very close I can't tell you for 167 00:12:23,860 --> 00:12:29,319 sure if the battery life on these two is going to be great but according to what 168 00:12:27,790 --> 00:12:34,180 Dell has told me and more importantly really just the raw specs of it these 169 00:12:32,230 --> 00:12:39,040 should be very good so the 15-inch gets an 86 watt hour battery and the 17-inch 170 00:12:36,430 --> 00:12:44,319 gets a 97 watt hour battery which is basically as big of a battery as you can 171 00:12:41,439 --> 00:12:46,630 fit on a plane without you know them you have to get a special exception or 172 00:12:45,459 --> 00:12:51,309 something you guys have to do that for your camera sometimes right if I had to 173 00:12:48,610 --> 00:12:57,850 guess you'll probably be able to use the 15 for something like 9 hours and the 17 174 00:12:55,959 --> 00:13:01,480 will probably closer to 10 10 and a half but it really depends on what you're 175 00:12:59,319 --> 00:13:07,149 gonna do because these are able to come with some really powerful configurations 176 00:13:04,209 --> 00:13:13,449 so the 15-inch comes with up to what is it an i7 108 75 H out and launch so 177 00:13:11,079 --> 00:13:19,930 that's 8 cores up to 5 point 1 gigahertz and sometime afterwards she'll be able 178 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,850 to get an i-9 108 85h 179 00:13:19,930 --> 00:13:26,560 just up to five point three gigahertz not fantastically named processors the 180 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:31,690 15 inch is also available with up to NVIDIA gtx 1650 TI which for the vast 181 00:13:30,430 --> 00:13:36,339 majority of stuff that you want to do even like light to moderate gaming is 182 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:41,560 going to be more than enough the 17 also comes with a high 9 which is you know up 183 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:43,800 to 5 point 3 gigahertz 8 cores absolute 184 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:49,480 beast but it also comes with an r TX 2060 so the max q model and both of them 185 00:13:46,839 --> 00:13:55,920 just like you know look at it it's not a big device but at the same time damn 186 00:13:52,959 --> 00:14:02,680 this thing with a 2060 is going to be pretty good at gaming by pretty good i 187 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:04,630 mean excellent at gaming and anything 188 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:08,920 that you want to do as far as like professional applications go unless 189 00:14:06,339 --> 00:14:12,310 you're like I don't know doing 1500 part models and SolidWorks 190 00:14:10,149 --> 00:14:16,240 it's gonna be able to handle it like a beast I'm pretty tempted to switch over 191 00:14:14,290 --> 00:14:20,529 to one of these just because like you know I've got the surface laptop here 192 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:24,160 she's not super powerful it's pretty good most of the time but then you go 193 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:27,790 over to like 105 and I'm trying to create CAD models and it's it's not 194 00:14:26,230 --> 00:14:31,930 gonna do I just have to walk back up and go to my desktop where as if one of 195 00:14:29,740 --> 00:14:35,260 these guys right here anywhere that I go I'd be able to work on the biggest CAD 196 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:39,670 models that I can throw at it I am super excited to fully review these 197 00:14:37,839 --> 00:14:44,020 guys we can't look at any performance in them because they're pre-production 198 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:47,860 units and you know pre-production units are flaky at the best of times I'm gonna 199 00:14:45,850 --> 00:14:54,520 set up all three here the new family of XPS is look pretty friggin good I'm very 200 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:58,029 excited about all of these laptops and I 201 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,920 might actually switch to one 15-inch 202 00:14:58,029 --> 00:15:05,829 right here is looking very compelling I know Brandon's going to yeah brand is 203 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:08,110 probably pre-ordering anyway get 204 00:15:05,829 --> 00:15:12,670 subscribe for more early looks like this one right here get subscribed to ltte so 205 00:15:10,420 --> 00:15:17,790 you can watch the full review and I'm not hit like or yeah just only hit like