this is the dell xps 15 and in many ways it's
my favorite laptop i've actually been using it since the review
but hp thinks that they can beat it or i
think hp might be able to beat it with this right here it's the nv15
and it has an rtx 2060 an i7
107 50h and
it's 500 cheaper than this guy
so let's get into it i think it should be good or maybe not i don't know
it's always scary comparing it to like an xps 15 because this is awesome
oh you can see it right there right from the get-go
how much power can we expect
all right right off the bat we have a 200 watt charger so
that's really great because this has very similar specs to the xps 17
which only comes with a 130 watt charger that
actually isn't able to keep up with the rtx 2060
and the i7 that's in there i think this right here won't have that problem
though
aside from that there's not a whole lot in here
do we have oh your computer has a
pre-installed battery plug in the adapter before you powered uh we're
probably not gonna do that here we are the
15.
how heavy is this it feels surprisingly light given
that it's not exactly small turns out it's 2.1 kilograms or 4.6 pounds which
is actually the exact same weight pretty much as the xps 15 for whatever reason
it feels slightly lighter in my hands just less dense i guess
it has a very nice i think it's all aluminum
we'll see when we open it up but there might be some plastic around but i think
it's mostly aluminum oh wow you get a lot of ports so
on this side you have two Thunderbolt 3 a full-sized HDMI
and a usb type-a along with a microsd slot i do kind of wish
they had a full-size one but then again
you get this other stuff here so can't complain too much
and on this side you just get a single usb type a and a headphone
combo jack yes it's actually
very impressive io i'm almost i'm
surprised they don't have a little flappy thing on the side given
how thin the whole thing is but anyway
let's get into it
there it is it's a laptop it actually has
i think it was 82 and a half screen to body ratio which is
pretty good it's obviously not going to be quite like the xps 15 which does have
the 16 by 10 that brings it all the way down here
but this screen does have you know it
has that extra little bit of good good because it is a 4k OLED touch even though you might
not be getting you know the full 16 by 10 goodness you
are going to have just the deepest blacks that you can find on any screen
so just initially looking at it the track pads
it's a pretty good size especially compared to some of hp's
older stuff but it's not massive like what you get
in the xps 15. like if we look
in the top down here yeah it's
uh it's it's dwarfed that said
i think that this is big enough that as long as it tracks well
you're not gonna really have any issues with it
it's a bit
not ideal overall though
chassis stiffness is excellent the
actual rigidity of the screen is great
just the feel of the laptop overall
yeah no twist at all it's very solidly
built and we do have to remember that this is hp's envy lineup which is
not quite their like top-tier ball inspector stuff this is they're more
like you have just a couple small compromises
in order to get something that's you know well it's 1500 bucks like that's not
cheap but at the same time what you're getting
it seems like it's not bad oh i didn't even notice before that
there's a barrel connector right here for power instead of
delivering it over usbc so that is
mildly annoying because one of the things that i love on
certain laptops the ability to like plug in
right there or you know charge it from the other side it's
awesome but at the same time you know we also have a 200 watt power brick and
it's not going to lose battery life while you're doing heavy stuff
oh fans are definitely announcing their
presence OLED screens just look so good
it just never fails actually this is like
kind of one of the worst showcase wallpapers i've ever seen
i don't know if you'll be able to pick up on it here but it's
it's just kind of grainy and awful and it makes
the OLED screen look not nearly as good as it actually is like
if you look at these icons here they're just so crisp
and perfect whereas all of up here it
just kind of looks like whoever made this just took the iso which look
let's try and get something better there
okay now i'm confused i'm not totally sure if something's wrong but just
looking at the screen it kind of looks almost dirty in some
spots i think it's a problem with the screen because this is something that i saw
on some of the earlier oleds from like
razer and dell they had just kind of odd
artifacts i think it has to do with the way that the pixels are lined up um
i'm going to grab a microscope and come back i want
to actually figure this out okay so it does seem like this is the same samsung panel that we would have
found on the other like dell and razer laptops
that i found a similar problem like this too
so let's just have a little gander here under the microscope
okay so we can now see the pixels that are on this display and
i'm curious if they're doing some sort of a cheating or
if it's just that the actual like OLED pixels are just too small for how close
i am to the display you can very clearly see that there's a
bunch of little like black areas and also that the blue pixels are
much larger and then they have more red and green ones because i think your eye
is more like attuned to those frequencies does that make sense brandon
so now let's take a look at the xps 15.
there we go so you can very clearly see this is at the same magnification as the
last one that on the dell there's a lot less
general space and gaps so i feel like that the sort of
like dirtiness that i'm seeing on this screen is just simply a result of how the panel
is laid out voice over alex here so it turns out the problem i was experiencing was the
screen door effect this is when you're too close to a display and you're able to see the
individual subpixels instead of your brain just thinking it's a solid color
this is really common in vr headsets looking at the microscope footage we can
see the individual pixels on the envy's OLED panel are a lot smaller and have a
lot more black space around them than the dell xps ips
panel this combined with mediocre gray uniformity is why the OLED panel looked
dirty while displaying solid colors getting back on track here let's look at
something that you might actually do on this instead of just like pixel
peeping a grey screen ah it does it just doesn't look as good
as i want though i'm guessing it's not an issue at all once you start watching something
oh yeah this looks awesome so in a darker scene like this where you have
just like a lot of darkness and then just like little bits of light
the image is just popping out you're not actually going to be able to see it
because it's like looking at a screen through a camera on
your screen that's probably not an OLED but either way it looks awesome just trust me on that
yeah on something like this when it's not just a full screen of
like mostly solid colors you can't tell
that like they kind of cheated on those blue pixels
given how good hp's speakers have been in their like
little 13-inch laptops i'm hoping that these are excellent
but we'll see you soon
the clarity at first is awesome
damn yeah i can dig that
oh the dell's better well
that didn't last long this is still excellent though
it it just doesn't quite have the deep like that the dell has and
the dell also loses the mac so you know it's probably like third place which
isn't bad still in the podium now this is ShortCircuit so we're not going to
do any detailed benchmarks if i had to guess this is going to be
very similar to the xps 15 in like CPU benchmarks so that's your
like rendering if you want to do photoshop or most video editing as well it's going
to perform very similar on the two whereas the hp envy 15 is going to
definitely beat out the xps 15 when it comes to GPU benchmarks because that
2060 is just it's just more powerful
that's that's the fact and it's cheaper but
anyway i'm really excited to see the cooling system in this because apparently they
just went in straight up thief the cooling system from their hp
omen line of gaming laptops so let's see
what it's like
yep that's aluminum very nice
it's not you know like a super solid piece but at the same time
it's still very impressive especially given the price point of this thing
anyway in here the upgradability looks great so we have
our one m.2 SSD over here and then on
this side there's easy expansion for another one you also
get an 83 yeah an 83 watt hour battery
so that should be they claim you'll be able to get 18 hours of battery life if
i had to guess it's 10 10 9 or something like that and
we have upgradeable RAM right here
we do so there's one and another one
right under there this actually looks like it's the graphite cheating that we did a video on
a little while ago that worked terribly for CPU cooling but this is
where you might actually want to use it the real star of the show though is
right here actually i'm going to take it off screw it we have a big old vapor chamber
from all the way up here over and across the cool
CPU and the GPU i'm just really surprised actually
that hp was able to cram a big old vapor
chamber in a more budget notebook like this one
oh i'm doing this completely out of order actually you should get subscribed to LTT if for whatever reason or not
because we have a whole video on why vapor
chambers are just awesome coming up fairly soon well not
not super soon i haven't ridden it yet so it's a while out oh yes
huh wow that's kind of weird
it looks like they added in extra little
heatsink stuff here that's not actually connected to anything
it might just be so it has a more uniform look when you sort of open it up
which like whatever cool i guess but the
real star of the show is this guy right here i'm just it's so
awesome that they're able to fit vapor chamber cooling in a laptop
this slim and also just like not targeted at gamers like
it's awesome to be able to see the like gaming notebook
influence making its way into professional designs like this so you're
able to actually like get that power and really harness it in
ways that a lot of the times they were just kind of like yeah whatever
it's not a gaming notebook screw you you don't get that much power so anyway yeah
i think this is an awesome little laptop it's so cool
they're able to fit this much power into something for one
like this small and also into
you know something that's okay it's it's it's not cheap guys it's not cheap
it's 1500 bucks but at the same time
this is 2100 bucks and it's not as fast
so there you go it kind of depends on what you're looking for i wouldn't say
that one's necessarily better than the other but this is a really strong option if
you're looking for just like a good old Windows machine to do all of
your stuff so anyway hit like get subscribed um
yeah have a fantastic day i'm about to unbox another very powerful
laptop