WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.359 Dell has been on a roll the past few years with their XPS lineup, which is 00:00:03.679 --> 00:00:11.360 why I'm excited that they were able to sponsor this video for us to show you 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:15.040 their latest XPS laptops as a CES 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:16.800 preview. We got the 14 and the 16. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.480 Welcome to Dell. Let's do great things together. Sure. Inside both of the 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:25.920 boxes, it's pretty identical. You get your laptops in a cloth bag. And here is 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.439 the documentation, or at least where it would go. There's nothing in here. I 00:00:27.599 --> 00:00:33.440 imagine it's just because it's CES. The documentation has been finalized. And 00:00:31.119 --> 00:00:38.640 here are the charging bricks. They are 100 W adapters for both size. Same size 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:42.640 charging brick. Nice and pretty small. I tend to like the Dell charging bricks. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:46.160 And they also both terminate in a USBC. There's no proprietary standard here, 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:51.280 which is a bummer if you're somebody who likes the Mag Safe kind of stuff that 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:54.000 you can find on a Surface or a MacBook. 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:57.920 But nice because now you can just charge anything else that's USBC with these. I 00:00:56.239 --> 00:01:06.400 love the simple packaging. Way to go, Dell. Let's un sheath these. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:08.400 Wow, these are nice. And look at these. 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:15.200 Thin and light, I guess, is the way. Dell says that these start at 3 lb or 00:01:11.119 --> 00:01:17.200 3.65 lb on the 16-in. And um honestly, 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.119 it's like really easy to manipulate. It's a very 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:25.520 lightweight laptop, which is pretty crazy because these are some pretty 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:31.680 powerful laptops. We'll talk about that later. One impressive thing is that this 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:34.159 is basically the same size as a 13-in 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:39.360 MacBook Air and you're getting a full extra inch of screen. Dell actually 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:42.720 claims that this is smaller by volume, though the difference is so slight that 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:46.720 you probably wouldn't notice. This feels like they're lying, you know? It feels 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:49.520 like they're like this can't be 14 in. It does feel so much more compact and 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:54.240 you just get that much extra space from the smaller bezels around the entire edge of the display. That's uh that's 00:01:52.960 --> 00:01:58.079 pretty neat. But before we look too closely at the insides, let's take a look at the ports we got on the outside. 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:03.840 On the right hand side, we get [music] one USBC port, a combo audio jack, and 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:07.360 on the other side, two more USBC ports. All are Thunderbolt 4. So, it doesn't 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:12.160 matter which port you're plugging into. You will get full 40 GB per second 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:18.000 speeds and DisplayPort out, which is pretty sweet. Though, I would like at 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.840 least one USBA, but there's not a whole 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.520 lot of space. Maybe the bigger one gets it. No, these have the exact same IO, so 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:28.000 it's more just a preference of [music] size rather than of functionality. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:32.160 Dell's XPS lineup is taking advantage of the latest Intel processors. That's 00:02:30.239 --> 00:02:36.720 right. We got Panther Lake in these babies, which plans to take the power of 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:41.519 AeroLake plus the efficiency gains of Lunar Lake and combine them into one 00:02:39.040 --> 00:02:44.080 super great mobile chip. And the fact that these are Ultra chips means that 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.640 these are going to be AI ready if co-pilot is your thing. And these can 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:54.000 both be specked with the top-of-the-line Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:59.120 The ones we have today are a little bit more modest. That doesn't mean that those are weak processors. But let's 00:02:56.319 --> 00:03:05.280 take a look inside of these. Yes, they got rid of the worst part 00:03:02.747 --> 00:03:10.640 [music] of their previous XPS laptops. We have our actual function row with 00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:13.200 actual buttons. It's not capacitive for 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:18.080 no reason. Thank you, Dell, for going back [music] to the way it should be. 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.120 Capacitive buttons are no good, and I'm glad they got rid of it. Whether or not 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:26.640 you like the lack of gaps in your keyboard is probably a preference. I find that these still type quite well, 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.000 though, I think they lack a bit of tactile [music] click that I would like. They're a 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:36.560 little bit more subtle than other Chicklet style keyboards that I've used. Not bad, just not my preference. The 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:43.040 keyboards are in fact backlit. They are not RGB. These are sturdy with their CNC 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:48.000 aluminum unibody construction. And let's see. Oh, yes. You could do the one hinge 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:53.360 open. That only went up because I went too far. They don't lay flat. They're 00:03:50.799 --> 00:04:00.080 not lay flat, but they are touchcreens. And the hinge stays pretty well where 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:05.280 you want it to, even when you're writing on it, which is good. [music] And while 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:07.439 the body itself is CNC, the trackpad is 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:12.400 actually glass. I don't know if it's the same Gorilla Glass 3 that makes up the 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:17.759 displays on this. It is a nice hand feel, but let's talk about the displays. 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:20.400 They use Dell's OLED infinity edge touch 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:23.840 displays, which are tandem OLEDs. And what is tandem OLED? Well, kind of like 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:29.040 how there's two of you on a tandem bicycle. On a tandem OLED panel, there 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:33.199 are two OLED layers. What that means is you can boost brightness and color 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:36.639 volume without affecting the lifespan because you don't need to drive these 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:40.240 things with as much power. and that lowers their burn-in risk. Despite that, 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:46.000 these are not the brightest displays, but boy are they pretty. Both of these 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:48.080 are Vasa Display HDR true black 500 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:52.800 certified. And interestingly, they have a variable refresh rate that can go from 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:56.000 20 to 120 Hz, and that's a first for laptops according to Dell. Think about 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.639 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 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:04.960 at static content, this can instead change its refresh rate to 20 Hz to save 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:08.960 battery life. And that's going to make a big big [music] difference. Even cooler 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:12.639 is that if you get the LCD display, which is of course not going to be quite 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:17.600 as beautiful as the Tandem OLED, you can actually get the full 1 to 120 hertz 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:21.199 just like you would have on your cell phone. And that's another first. And 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:26.479 also, I don't think I've heard of that being applied to an LCD before. But what 00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:30.880 does the lab say? Well, on these pre-production units where things could 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:34.240 change, the displays are pretty good. Testing them out of the box, we saw in 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:38.160 SDR that the peak brightness is around 420 nits, which is a bit above what Dell 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:43.360 quotes, and that their gamma tracks at around 2.3 across the board. By default, 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:47.280 these have 100% coverage of the P3 color space, but that results in most colors 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:50.880 being too saturated for sRGB, even when we compensate by trying to clamp to the 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:56.639 sRGB color space. For color accuracy, we did find a Delta E2000 averaging around 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:58.080 1.5ish when clamped to sRGB and 2ish in 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:02.880 its out-of-the-box profile when comparing to Display P3. In HDR, when we 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:07.600 calibrate to the EOTF target, we found that the peak brightness was around over 00:06:05.039 --> 00:06:11.840 500 nits at a 10% window and 400 nits at a 100% window size, hitting the true 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:16.960 black 500 certification. The displays cover around 85% of the BT 2020 color 00:06:14.479 --> 00:06:22.560 space with a very impressive Delta ETP of around 8.1 on average despite a 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:27.759 little bit of oversaturation. Overall, surprisingly good for HDR, even if the 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.800 SDR is like eh. Between the two laptops, the differences that we saw can 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:34.319 basically just be chocked up to panel variants. They're all within 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.880 manufacturing tolerances. They're both good displays. [music] The webcams on 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:42.180 both of these seem pretty good. Honestly, they're very small is 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:47.199 something that Dell wants to point out. [music] The first ultra narrow 8 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.039 megapixel webcams, it they're trying to maintain the quality of their older 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:57.520 laptop webcams while fitting it into an even smaller bezel. And I think that 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:03.919 these do a perfectly admirable job for anything you'd want out of a webcam from 00:07:01.599 --> 00:07:07.599 a laptop. Like there's no real complaints here. You get a little bit of 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:10.720 blown out in the highlights sometimes. If you're on the go and you just need to 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:15.120 take a video call, this is a perfectly serviceable webcam. And speaking of on 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:21.280 the- go, Dell claims that this is going to have 27 [music] hours of battery life 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.919 for general use and up to 40 hours for 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:28.319 local video playback. That is crazy. That's better than like MacBook good. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:32.160 Okay, it's probably in no small part due to the tandem OLED plus the low refresh 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:37.039 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 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.280 kill your battery is playing shim games. Now, this is not a gaming laptop. In 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:46.960 fact, the laptops in front of me don't even have a GPU proper in them. We're 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:53.570 running on integrated XE graphics, but the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 does come 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:55.590 with 12 XE cores. Listen to speakers. 00:07:53.570 --> 00:07:55.590 [music] 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:08.800 You know, they get decently loud, but I'm not going to say it's a uh it 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:12.840 excels, especially on the 16-inch. Let's see what the 14-inch sounds like. 00:08:13.220 --> 00:08:15.240 [music] 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:23.120 Honestly, I'm pretty impressed by the 14-in laptop. I guess both of these have 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:26.639 10 watts of speaker power, and that's coming in a hidden design where it's 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:32.880 like uh you can't really tell where the speakers are. Adele wants me to mention that these are omniirectional speakers 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:35.839 that you can't even see. Wow. So, we're playing Witchfire. It's a 00:08:34.479 --> 00:08:42.560 UE4 based game. >> It's an early access and we're playing at full screen 1920 x 1200s. We're on 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:45.760 medium settings and things are looking and running pretty good. And this is 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.440 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 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.399 pretty good to me. Honestly, I'm quite impressed especially cuz this is not one 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:58.880 of the SKs that has the additional arc graphics on it. This is just the new 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:02.720 Intel graphics, the XC3 graphics that are forms the baseline of all of the 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:06.560 Panther Lake CPUs, which means that if I wanted to, I could do some upscaling 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:10.640 with XESS. That's kind of one of the most exciting parts of this latest 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:13.920 generation of Intel processors is the massive improvements that they've made 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:18.800 to the GPUs in these things. You're going to see some pretty powerful, thin, 00:09:16.880 --> 00:09:23.920 and light laptops coming really, really soon, and the XPS is no exception. So, 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:28.000 where does that leave us at the end of this unboxing of the new XPS lineup? I'm 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.279 honestly pretty impressed. They've taken everything that they did right about the 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:37.200 last gen, got rid of what they've done wrong, and provided a super premium 00:09:34.560 --> 00:09:41.760 feeling, super performant package in a classy chassis that just feels great, 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:45.760 and was honestly pretty quiet, sounds great. I mean, pricing remains to be 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.680 seen and especially in these hard times when it comes to RAM and stuff, who 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:53.519 knows what pricing is going to be like, but I will assure you, regardless of the 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:57.200 price, you are getting a high quality premium product that is super nice. So, 00:09:55.920 --> 00:10:01.839 where does that leave us with the Dell XPS lineup? Well, it's not quite done 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:05.279 yet. The XPS 13, which they didn't send us today, but they're going to be 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:09.600 showing off at CES proper, is poised to be the thinnest and lightest XPS ever, 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:14.480 and still going to maintain the same premium quality, [snorts] as well as be 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:17.760 a pretty bit more accessible in terms of price is what they're saying. Thanks 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:21.760 again, Dell, for sponsoring this video. If you enjoyed this video, why don't you watch some more of our CES coverage. 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.959 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 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:32.000 stuff. I'm going to be showing you cool stuff. So, keep your eyes peeled because there's a lot more awesome tech coming 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:32.000 your