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this is the dell xps 15 and in many ways it's

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my favorite laptop i've actually been using it since the review

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but hp thinks that they can beat it or i

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think hp might be able to beat it with this right here it's the nv15

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and it has an rtx 2060 an i7

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107 50h and

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it's 500 cheaper than this guy

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so let's get into it i think it should be good or maybe not i don't know

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it's always scary comparing it to like an xps 15 because this is awesome

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oh you can see it right there right from the get-go

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how much power can we expect

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all right right off the bat we have a 200 watt charger so

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that's really great because this has very similar specs to the xps 17

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which only comes with a 130 watt charger that

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actually isn't able to keep up with the rtx 2060

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and the i7 that's in there i think this right here won't have that problem

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though

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aside from that there's not a whole lot in here

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do we have oh your computer has a

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pre-installed battery plug in the adapter before you powered uh we're

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probably not gonna do that here we are the

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15.

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how heavy is this it feels surprisingly light given

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that it's not exactly small turns out it's 2.1 kilograms or 4.6 pounds which

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is actually the exact same weight pretty much as the xps 15 for whatever reason

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it feels slightly lighter in my hands just less dense i guess

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it has a very nice i think it's all aluminum

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we'll see when we open it up but there might be some plastic around but i think

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it's mostly aluminum oh wow you get a lot of ports so

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on this side you have two Thunderbolt 3 a full-sized HDMI

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and a usb type-a along with a microsd slot i do kind of wish

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they had a full-size one but then again

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you get this other stuff here so can't complain too much

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and on this side you just get a single usb type a and a headphone

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combo jack yes it's actually

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very impressive io i'm almost i'm

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surprised they don't have a little flappy thing on the side given

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how thin the whole thing is but anyway

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let's get into it

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there it is it's a laptop it actually has

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i think it was 82 and a half screen to body ratio which is

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pretty good it's obviously not going to be quite like the xps 15 which does have

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the 16 by 10 that brings it all the way down here

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but this screen does have you know it

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has that extra little bit of good good because it is a 4k OLED touch even though you might

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not be getting you know the full 16 by 10 goodness you

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are going to have just the deepest blacks that you can find on any screen

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so just initially looking at it the track pads

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it's a pretty good size especially compared to some of hp's

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older stuff but it's not massive like what you get

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in the xps 15. like if we look

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in the top down here yeah it's

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uh it's it's dwarfed that said

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i think that this is big enough that as long as it tracks well

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you're not gonna really have any issues with it

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it's a bit

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not ideal overall though

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chassis stiffness is excellent the

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actual rigidity of the screen is great

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just the feel of the laptop overall

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yeah no twist at all it's very solidly

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built and we do have to remember that this is hp's envy lineup which is

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not quite their like top-tier ball inspector stuff this is they're more

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like you have just a couple small compromises

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in order to get something that's you know well it's 1500 bucks like that's not

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cheap but at the same time what you're getting

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it seems like it's not bad oh i didn't even notice before that

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there's a barrel connector right here for power instead of

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delivering it over usbc so that is

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mildly annoying because one of the things that i love on

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certain laptops the ability to like plug in

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right there or you know charge it from the other side it's

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awesome but at the same time you know we also have a 200 watt power brick and

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it's not going to lose battery life while you're doing heavy stuff

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oh fans are definitely announcing their

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presence OLED screens just look so good

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it just never fails actually this is like

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kind of one of the worst showcase wallpapers i've ever seen

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i don't know if you'll be able to pick up on it here but it's

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it's just kind of grainy and awful and it makes

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the OLED screen look not nearly as good as it actually is like

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if you look at these icons here they're just so crisp

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and perfect whereas all of up here it

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just kind of looks like whoever made this just took the iso which look

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let's try and get something better there

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okay now i'm confused i'm not totally sure if something's wrong but just

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looking at the screen it kind of looks almost dirty in some

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spots i think it's a problem with the screen because this is something that i saw

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on some of the earlier oleds from like

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razer and dell they had just kind of odd

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artifacts i think it has to do with the way that the pixels are lined up um

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i'm going to grab a microscope and come back i want

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to actually figure this out okay so it does seem like this is the same samsung panel that we would have

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found on the other like dell and razer laptops

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that i found a similar problem like this too

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so let's just have a little gander here under the microscope

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okay so we can now see the pixels that are on this display and

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i'm curious if they're doing some sort of a cheating or

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if it's just that the actual like OLED pixels are just too small for how close

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i am to the display you can very clearly see that there's a

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bunch of little like black areas and also that the blue pixels are

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much larger and then they have more red and green ones because i think your eye

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is more like attuned to those frequencies does that make sense brandon

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so now let's take a look at the xps 15.

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there we go so you can very clearly see this is at the same magnification as the

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last one that on the dell there's a lot less

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general space and gaps so i feel like that the sort of

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like dirtiness that i'm seeing on this screen is just simply a result of how the panel

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is laid out voice over alex here so it turns out the problem i was experiencing was the

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screen door effect this is when you're too close to a display and you're able to see the

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individual subpixels instead of your brain just thinking it's a solid color

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this is really common in vr headsets looking at the microscope footage we can

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see the individual pixels on the envy's OLED panel are a lot smaller and have a

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lot more black space around them than the dell xps ips

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panel this combined with mediocre gray uniformity is why the OLED panel looked

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dirty while displaying solid colors getting back on track here let's look at

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something that you might actually do on this instead of just like pixel

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peeping a grey screen ah it does it just doesn't look as good

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as i want though i'm guessing it's not an issue at all once you start watching something

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oh yeah this looks awesome so in a darker scene like this where you have

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just like a lot of darkness and then just like little bits of light

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the image is just popping out you're not actually going to be able to see it

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because it's like looking at a screen through a camera on

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your screen that's probably not an OLED but either way it looks awesome just trust me on that

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yeah on something like this when it's not just a full screen of

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like mostly solid colors you can't tell

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that like they kind of cheated on those blue pixels

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given how good hp's speakers have been in their like

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little 13-inch laptops i'm hoping that these are excellent

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but we'll see you soon

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the clarity at first is awesome

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damn yeah i can dig that

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oh the dell's better well

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that didn't last long this is still excellent though

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it it just doesn't quite have the deep like that the dell has and

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the dell also loses the mac so you know it's probably like third place which

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isn't bad still in the podium now this is ShortCircuit so we're not going to

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do any detailed benchmarks if i had to guess this is going to be

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very similar to the xps 15 in like CPU benchmarks so that's your

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like rendering if you want to do photoshop or most video editing as well it's going

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to perform very similar on the two whereas the hp envy 15 is going to

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definitely beat out the xps 15 when it comes to GPU benchmarks because that

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2060 is just it's just more powerful

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that's that's the fact and it's cheaper but

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anyway i'm really excited to see the cooling system in this because apparently they

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just went in straight up thief the cooling system from their hp

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omen line of gaming laptops so let's see

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what it's like

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yep that's aluminum very nice

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it's not you know like a super solid piece but at the same time

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it's still very impressive especially given the price point of this thing

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anyway in here the upgradability looks great so we have

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our one m.2 SSD over here and then on

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this side there's easy expansion for another one you also

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get an 83 yeah an 83 watt hour battery

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so that should be they claim you'll be able to get 18 hours of battery life if

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i had to guess it's 10 10 9 or something like that and

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we have upgradeable RAM right here

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we do so there's one and another one

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right under there this actually looks like it's the graphite cheating that we did a video on

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a little while ago that worked terribly for CPU cooling but this is

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where you might actually want to use it the real star of the show though is

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right here actually i'm going to take it off screw it we have a big old vapor chamber

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from all the way up here over and across the cool

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CPU and the GPU i'm just really surprised actually

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that hp was able to cram a big old vapor

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chamber in a more budget notebook like this one

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oh i'm doing this completely out of order actually you should get subscribed to LTT if for whatever reason or not

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because we have a whole video on why vapor

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chambers are just awesome coming up fairly soon well not

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not super soon i haven't ridden it yet so it's a while out oh yes

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huh wow that's kind of weird

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it looks like they added in extra little

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heatsink stuff here that's not actually connected to anything

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it might just be so it has a more uniform look when you sort of open it up

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which like whatever cool i guess but the

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real star of the show is this guy right here i'm just it's so

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awesome that they're able to fit vapor chamber cooling in a laptop

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this slim and also just like not targeted at gamers like

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it's awesome to be able to see the like gaming notebook

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influence making its way into professional designs like this so you're

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able to actually like get that power and really harness it in

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ways that a lot of the times they were just kind of like yeah whatever

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it's not a gaming notebook screw you you don't get that much power so anyway yeah

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i think this is an awesome little laptop it's so cool

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they're able to fit this much power into something for one

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like this small and also into

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you know something that's okay it's it's it's not cheap guys it's not cheap

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it's 1500 bucks but at the same time

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this is 2100 bucks and it's not as fast

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so there you go it kind of depends on what you're looking for i wouldn't say

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that one's necessarily better than the other but this is a really strong option if

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you're looking for just like a good old Windows machine to do all of

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your stuff so anyway hit like get subscribed um

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yeah have a fantastic day i'm about to unbox another very powerful

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laptop