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Dell has been on a roll the past few years with their XPS lineup, which is

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why I'm excited that they were able to sponsor this video for us to show you

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their latest XPS laptops as a CES

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preview. We got the 14 and the 16.

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Welcome to Dell. Let's do great things together. Sure. Inside both of the

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boxes, it's pretty identical. You get your laptops in a cloth bag. And here is

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the documentation, or at least where it would go. There's nothing in here. I

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imagine it's just because it's CES. The documentation has been finalized. And

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here are the charging bricks. They are 100 W adapters for both size. Same size

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charging brick. Nice and pretty small. I tend to like the Dell charging bricks.

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And they also both terminate in a USBC. There's no proprietary standard here,

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which is a bummer if you're somebody who likes the Mag Safe kind of stuff that

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you can find on a Surface or a MacBook.

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But nice because now you can just charge anything else that's USBC with these. I

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love the simple packaging. Way to go, Dell. Let's un sheath these.

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Wow, these are nice. And look at these.

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Thin and light, I guess, is the way. Dell says that these start at 3 lb or

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3.65 lb on the 16-in. And um honestly,

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it's like really easy to manipulate. It's a very

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lightweight laptop, which is pretty crazy because these are some pretty

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powerful laptops. We'll talk about that later. One impressive thing is that this

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is basically the same size as a 13-in

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MacBook Air and you're getting a full extra inch of screen. Dell actually

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claims that this is smaller by volume, though the difference is so slight that

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you probably wouldn't notice. This feels like they're lying, you know? It feels

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like they're like this can't be 14 in. It does feel so much more compact and

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you just get that much extra space from the smaller bezels around the entire edge of the display. That's uh that's

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pretty neat. But before we look too closely at the insides, let's take a look at the ports we got on the outside.

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On the right hand side, we get [music] one USBC port, a combo audio jack, and

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on the other side, two more USBC ports. All are Thunderbolt 4. So, it doesn't

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matter which port you're plugging into. You will get full 40 GB per second

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speeds and DisplayPort out, which is pretty sweet. Though, I would like at

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least one USBA, but there's not a whole

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lot of space. Maybe the bigger one gets it. No, these have the exact same IO, so

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it's more just a preference of [music] size rather than of functionality.

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Dell's XPS lineup is taking advantage of the latest Intel processors. That's

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right. We got Panther Lake in these babies, which plans to take the power of

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AeroLake plus the efficiency gains of Lunar Lake and combine them into one

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super great mobile chip. And the fact that these are Ultra chips means that

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these are going to be AI ready if co-pilot is your thing. And these can

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both be specked with the top-of-the-line Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H.

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The ones we have today are a little bit more modest. That doesn't mean that those are weak processors. But let's

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take a look inside of these. Yes, they got rid of the worst part

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[music] of their previous XPS laptops. We have our actual function row with

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actual buttons. It's not capacitive for

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no reason. Thank you, Dell, for going back [music] to the way it should be.

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Capacitive buttons are no good, and I'm glad they got rid of it. Whether or not

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you like the lack of gaps in your keyboard is probably a preference. I find that these still type quite well,

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though, I think they lack a bit of tactile [music] click that I would like. They're a

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little bit more subtle than other Chicklet style keyboards that I've used. Not bad, just not my preference. The

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keyboards are in fact backlit. They are not RGB. These are sturdy with their CNC

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aluminum unibody construction. And let's see. Oh, yes. You could do the one hinge

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open. That only went up because I went too far. They don't lay flat. They're

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not lay flat, but they are touchcreens. And the hinge stays pretty well where

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you want it to, even when you're writing on it, which is good. [music] And while

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the body itself is CNC, the trackpad is

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actually glass. I don't know if it's the same Gorilla Glass 3 that makes up the

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displays on this. It is a nice hand feel, but let's talk about the displays.

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They use Dell's OLED infinity edge touch

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displays, which are tandem OLEDs. And what is tandem OLED? Well, kind of like

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how there's two of you on a tandem bicycle. On a tandem OLED panel, there

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are two OLED layers. What that means is you can boost brightness and color

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volume without affecting the lifespan because you don't need to drive these

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things with as much power. and that lowers their burn-in risk. Despite that,

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these are not the brightest displays, but boy are they pretty. Both of these

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are Vasa Display HDR true black 500

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certified. And interestingly, they have a variable refresh rate that can go from

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20 to 120 Hz, and that's a first for laptops according to Dell. Think about

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the LTPO displays that you have on your phone that allows your phone to go down to 1 Her Herz. So, when you're looking

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at static content, this can instead change its refresh rate to 20 Hz to save

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battery life. And that's going to make a big big [music] difference. Even cooler

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is that if you get the LCD display, which is of course not going to be quite

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as beautiful as the Tandem OLED, you can actually get the full 1 to 120 hertz

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just like you would have on your cell phone. And that's another first. And

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also, I don't think I've heard of that being applied to an LCD before. But what

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does the lab say? Well, on these pre-production units where things could

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change, the displays are pretty good. Testing them out of the box, we saw in

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SDR that the peak brightness is around 420 nits, which is a bit above what Dell

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quotes, and that their gamma tracks at around 2.3 across the board. By default,

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these have 100% coverage of the P3 color space, but that results in most colors

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being too saturated for sRGB, even when we compensate by trying to clamp to the

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sRGB color space. For color accuracy, we did find a Delta E2000 averaging around

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1.5ish when clamped to sRGB and 2ish in

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its out-of-the-box profile when comparing to Display P3. In HDR, when we

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calibrate to the EOTF target, we found that the peak brightness was around over

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500 nits at a 10% window and 400 nits at a 100% window size, hitting the true

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black 500 certification. The displays cover around 85% of the BT 2020 color

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space with a very impressive Delta ETP of around 8.1 on average despite a

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little bit of oversaturation. Overall, surprisingly good for HDR, even if the

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SDR is like eh. Between the two laptops, the differences that we saw can

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basically just be chocked up to panel variants. They're all within

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manufacturing tolerances. They're both good displays. [music] The webcams on

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both of these seem pretty good. Honestly, they're very small is

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something that Dell wants to point out. [music] The first ultra narrow 8

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megapixel webcams, it they're trying to maintain the quality of their older

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laptop webcams while fitting it into an even smaller bezel. And I think that

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these do a perfectly admirable job for anything you'd want out of a webcam from

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a laptop. Like there's no real complaints here. You get a little bit of

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blown out in the highlights sometimes. If you're on the go and you just need to

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take a video call, this is a perfectly serviceable webcam. And speaking of on

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the- go, Dell claims that this is going to have 27 [music] hours of battery life

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for general use and up to 40 hours for

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local video playback. That is crazy. That's better than like MacBook good.

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Okay, it's probably in no small part due to the tandem OLED plus the low refresh

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rate. Maybe they're playing like a 20 FPS video, so the frame rate only has to be 20 Hz. But you know what's going to

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kill your battery is playing shim games. Now, this is not a gaming laptop. In

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fact, the laptops in front of me don't even have a GPU proper in them. We're

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running on integrated XE graphics, but the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 does come

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with 12 XE cores. Listen to speakers.

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You know, they get decently loud, but I'm not going to say it's a uh it

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excels, especially on the 16-inch. Let's see what the 14-inch sounds like.

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Honestly, I'm pretty impressed by the 14-in laptop. I guess both of these have

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10 watts of speaker power, and that's coming in a hidden design where it's

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like uh you can't really tell where the speakers are. Adele wants me to mention that these are omniirectional speakers

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that you can't even see. Wow. So, we're playing Witchfire. It's a

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UE4 based game. >> It's an early access and we're playing at full screen 1920 x 1200s. We're on

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medium settings and things are looking and running pretty good. And this is

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integrated graphics. Like I don't know if you can see that how well you can see that from the top down. It's looking

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pretty good to me. Honestly, I'm quite impressed especially cuz this is not one

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of the SKs that has the additional arc graphics on it. This is just the new

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Intel graphics, the XC3 graphics that are forms the baseline of all of the

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Panther Lake CPUs, which means that if I wanted to, I could do some upscaling

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with XESS. That's kind of one of the most exciting parts of this latest

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generation of Intel processors is the massive improvements that they've made

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to the GPUs in these things. You're going to see some pretty powerful, thin,

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and light laptops coming really, really soon, and the XPS is no exception. So,

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where does that leave us at the end of this unboxing of the new XPS lineup? I'm

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honestly pretty impressed. They've taken everything that they did right about the

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last gen, got rid of what they've done wrong, and provided a super premium

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feeling, super performant package in a classy chassis that just feels great,

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and was honestly pretty quiet, sounds great. I mean, pricing remains to be

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seen and especially in these hard times when it comes to RAM and stuff, who

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knows what pricing is going to be like, but I will assure you, regardless of the

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price, you are getting a high quality premium product that is super nice. So,

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where does that leave us with the Dell XPS lineup? Well, it's not quite done

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yet. The XPS 13, which they didn't send us today, but they're going to be

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showing off at CES proper, is poised to be the thinnest and lightest XPS ever,

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and still going to maintain the same premium quality, [snorts] as well as be

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a pretty bit more accessible in terms of price is what they're saying. Thanks

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again, Dell, for sponsoring this video. If you enjoyed this video, why don't you watch some more of our CES coverage.

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There's going to be so much cool stuff. Riley's going to be showing you cool stuff. David's gonna be showing you cool

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stuff. I'm going to be showing you cool stuff. So, keep your eyes peeled because there's a lot more awesome tech coming

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your