WEBVTT 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:04.350 being someone that professionally reviews laptops people ask me all the 00:00:03.870 --> 00:00:09.179 time what laptop should I get and kind of the 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:14.790 default answer for anyone that needs like a bit of power like good screen 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 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 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 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 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:39.090 break yeah I say that because Brandon wants to buy an XPS and his blade broke 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:41.010 yeah but hopefully very soon you won't 00:00:39.090 --> 00:00:46.289 have to deal with like this very small trackpad for 2020 and these also quite 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:48.480 small key caps that are frankly worse than the ones that Alienware has been 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:55.289 putting out lately so let's get into it but we don't have 00:00:51.539 --> 00:00:58.320 just an XPS 15 here we have also got an 00:00:55.289 --> 00:01:00.000 XPS 17 which according to the product 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:04.619 manager that I talked to beforehand was the single hardest laptop he's ever had 00:01:02.609 --> 00:01:09.450 to design according to Dell this is not the official unboxing it's pretty close 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:14.509 but these are pre-production units so yeah it's probably not gonna be all 00:01:11.250 --> 00:01:17.340 marked up on the production version here 00:01:14.509 --> 00:01:24.900 it looks about the same from here obviously but what else do we have so 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:27.299 we've got some warranty and safety 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:31.530 regulation a rather large power brick 130 watts that shows you what kind of 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:02:03.149 --> 00:02:09.660 have a piece of aluminum here another one there and also the carbon fiber 00:02:07.259 --> 00:02:14.130 sheet along the top on the other side we have two Thunderbolt three ports each 00:02:11.849 --> 00:02:17.790 one has four PCIe lanes and the good old Kensington lock we also 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 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 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 00:02:30.270 --> 00:02:36.240 encrypts all of your internet traffic and uses a safe protected IP connected 00:02:34.290 --> 00:02:40.020 up to five devices Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux they also have an 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 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:51.810 guarantee at the link below that's a big trackpad that is awesome look at how 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 00:02:53.400 --> 00:03:01.560 a Windows machine like Razer gets kind of close but that is very similar in 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 00:03:03.870 --> 00:03:13.410 course here friggin amazing for a Windows machine maybe even excellent for 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:17.040 a Mac machine I would say comparable at 00:03:13.410 --> 00:03:19.500 least they feel just very similar which 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:22.740 is probably the highest compliment possible it's the kind of thing we're 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:26.100 like you're able to just turn down the sensitivity a little bit when you have 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 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 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 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:43.860 this is so there's the new and here is 00:03:39.990 --> 00:03:45.870 the old hole it absolutely dwarfs it is 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 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 00:03:56.730 --> 00:04:02.090 hundred and forty millimeters square it the new one is a hundred and thirty-five 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:07.380 millimeter square so that's what like 60% increase something like that just 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 00:04:09.540 --> 00:04:14.910 another really noticeable thing here is 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 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 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:27.300 instead of just this big black bar along the bottom you get extra screen and this 00:04:24.840 --> 00:04:30.110 extra like vertical space is so useful for 00:04:27.900 --> 00:04:34.680 just everything that you're doing especially productivity wise so like you 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 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 00:04:41.610 --> 00:04:48.449 that like thumbs width of space down there just helps you have it easier time 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:54.449 seeing everything so also although these are both 15.6 inch displays because this 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:57.199 one's 16 by 10 it is a bit smaller it's 00:04:54.449 --> 00:05:03.060 not much but to be fair it's noticeable also I wonder if thickness is any 00:04:59.580 --> 00:05:04.740 different I'd say that's about 2 mil so 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 00:05:07.470 --> 00:05:14.039 amount of power more screen and way way 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 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 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 00:05:26.250 --> 00:05:31.830 in 2012 beforehand so this one looks 00:05:29.370 --> 00:05:37.169 just new and modern and like something that I really want to have but that's 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 00:05:39.539 --> 00:05:47.490 I did take a peek at the XPS 15 beforehand I have legitimately not 00:05:44.190 --> 00:05:49.169 looked at the 17 before so far it looks 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 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 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 00:06:00.840 --> 00:06:07.889 and is actually spective for the big ol 00:06:04.830 --> 00:06:09.780 17 here that has a hundred watt TDP so 00:06:07.889 --> 00:06:14.370 once again we get the diamond cut edges along here that I think look fantastic 00:06:11.669 --> 00:06:18.840 and you also have two Thunderbolt 3 ports which are each four PCIe lanes and 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:23.909 then on the other side this is the really fun part you have two more 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.400 Thunderbolt 3 ports with four PCIe lanes 00:06:23.909 --> 00:06:30.479 each as well so this has actually two Thunderbolt 3 controllers in it meaning 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 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:38.760 of bandwidth we also have SD card reader and headphones oh I imagine there's 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 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 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 00:06:49.250 --> 00:06:54.199 like take your charger when it's like over here and kind of like drag it 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 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 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 00:07:09.850 --> 00:07:17.479 not that you're gonna be complaining about the size of this at all 50 and 00:07:14.710 --> 00:07:20.960 yeah it's totally the same size which isn't bad 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 00:07:24.470 --> 00:07:30.949 definitely could have made it a smidge 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:33.470 larger but at the same time I don't 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 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 00:07:41.210 --> 00:07:50.349 round up to 4.2 the 15 is I'm guessing 00:07:46.520 --> 00:07:53.720 very similar 4.21 okay so you know 00:07:50.349 --> 00:07:56.570 couple grams difference but essentially 00:07:53.720 --> 00:08:02.479 the same and the 17 which certainly feels heavier 5.24 yeah so this thing is 00:07:59.599 --> 00:08:08.900 a whole pound heavier than the other two here you can certainly notice that and 00:08:05.780 --> 00:08:11.539 like given how big this is like as far 00:08:08.900 --> 00:08:13.430 as it's quite a thin machine it's very dense 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:19.070 you normally don't see like five-and-a-half pounds until something's 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:21.800 like super gamer that screen is so sick 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 00:08:24.740 --> 00:08:34.159 here we have the 4k version which is actually 38 40 by 2400 pixels because 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:36.110 you know it's 16 by 10 they also go up 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:39.919 to 500 nits which i think is a hundred more than the last one although they 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 00:08:42.469 --> 00:08:49.940 also both touchscreen although unfortunately the 1080p versions aren't 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 00:08:51.410 --> 00:08:58.940 to get mad at you in the review and they're like yeah we know maybe 00:08:56.450 --> 00:09:04.040 later but can't comment I really hope that they get touching the lower end 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:06.920 ones that said damn a display of this 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 00:09:10.250 --> 00:09:17.360 zero you actually would be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k if 00:09:15.529 --> 00:09:20.839 you would still have to get close I imagine somewhere around here but it's 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 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:29.060 also would not stop talking about was that these are blue light safe panels 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 00:09:31.070 --> 00:09:38.120 wouldn't emit like the harmful blue light and only give you like the good 00:09:36.260 --> 00:09:41.630 stuff without causing color shifting within the display like you would with 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 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 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 00:09:52.610 --> 00:09:58.459 yes it's keyboard time notepad on the 00:09:56.089 --> 00:10:03.170 XPS 13 you get one millimeter of key travel which is pretty much what you'd 00:10:00.500 --> 00:10:08.329 expect and it's surprisingly good for how short of a travel that is although 00:10:05.300 --> 00:10:10.699 on the new one here we get one point 00:10:08.329 --> 00:10:15.350 three millimeters of travel and it's shocking how much of a difference that 00:10:12.829 --> 00:10:19.070 little bit can make it just feels I don't know more deliberate when you're 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 00:10:21.230 --> 00:10:27.199 typing easier than you can on the thirteen whereas on the thirteen I feel 00:10:24.470 --> 00:10:31.550 like that I can just burst through stuff really quickly I know how it compares to 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:40.339 the Mac that's the real question that everybody cares about we've got the new 00:10:33.610 --> 00:10:42.649 magic keyboard 16 inch I don't think I 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 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 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 00:10:55.970 --> 00:11:03.350 keeps on going and doesn't have like an abrupt end whereas the magic keyboard 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 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 00:11:11.560 --> 00:11:17.019 keyboards that were just fantastic because they didn't care about how big 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 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 00:11:24.310 --> 00:11:32.230 David said before you listen to it to come in here and enable three experience 00:11:29.529 --> 00:11:39.040 head tracking is on oh my god what is this honestly that is quite impressive 00:11:36.819 --> 00:11:44.199 it sounded like a thing just came right across there it is very similar to what 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:47.670 you get with Dolby Atmos in the MacBook 00:11:44.199 --> 00:11:50.740 or like an HP but it's still pretty cool 00:11:47.670 --> 00:11:52.660 but now the big test here how is it fair 00:11:50.740 --> 00:11:59.199 against the MacBook okay this is the Dell XPS and my first impression is that 00:11:55.269 --> 00:12:11.470 it's worse I'm sorry to hell let's 00:11:59.199 --> 00:12:14.199 switch back over yeah this would be 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:23.860 pretty impressive in isolation but when you compare it to that like the MacBook 00:12:20.130 --> 00:12:25.509 it's not very close I can't tell you for 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 00:12:27.790 --> 00:12:34.180 Dell has told me and more importantly really just the raw specs of it these 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 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 00:12:41.439 --> 00:12:46.630 fit on a plane without you know them you have to get a special exception or 00:12:45.459 --> 00:12:51.309 something you guys have to do that for your camera sometimes right if I had to 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 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 00:12:59.319 --> 00:13:07.149 gonna do because these are able to come with some really powerful configurations 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 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 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:21.850 to get an i-9 108 85h 00:13:19.930 --> 00:13:26.560 just up to five point three gigahertz not fantastically named processors the 00:13:24.940 --> 00:13:31.690 15 inch is also available with up to NVIDIA gtx 1650 TI which for the vast 00:13:30.430 --> 00:13:36.339 majority of stuff that you want to do even like light to moderate gaming is 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 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:43.800 to 5 point 3 gigahertz 8 cores absolute 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 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 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 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:04.630 mean excellent at gaming and anything 00:14:02.680 --> 00:14:08.920 that you want to do as far as like professional applications go unless 00:14:06.339 --> 00:14:12.310 you're like I don't know doing 1500 part models and SolidWorks 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 00:14:14.290 --> 00:14:20.529 to one of these just because like you know I've got the surface laptop here 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 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 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 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 00:14:34.060 --> 00:14:39.670 models that I can throw at it I am super excited to fully review these 00:14:37.839 --> 00:14:44.020 guys we can't look at any performance in them because they're pre-production 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 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 00:14:51.250 --> 00:14:58.029 excited about all of these laptops and I 00:14:54.520 --> 00:14:59.920 might actually switch to one 15-inch 00:14:58.029 --> 00:15:05.829 right here is looking very compelling I know Brandon's going to yeah brand is 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:08.110 probably pre-ordering anyway get 00:15:05.829 --> 00:15:12.670 subscribe for more early looks like this one right here get subscribed to ltte so 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