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on paper the dell xps 13 2018 has the

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best screen the highest performance and

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the best built chassis out of all the thin and light laptops on the market

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but just because you know someone has the

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right ingredients doesn't necessarily mean that they'll

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put them together correctly

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so then is the xps 13 a delicious cake

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well there's only one way to find out

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that's not bad oh oh

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oh there's some eggshell

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save 10 today now the dell xps 13 9370 2018

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straddles the line between playful and professional it has just a touch of

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flash especially our subjectively flipping awesome rose gold version but

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manages it without looking or feeling tacky at all

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the white keyboard area accented by carbon fiber is one of if not the

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stiffest to ever come through our Labs and apparently it is extremely resistant

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to stains with dell going as far as to say that if

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you draw on it in permanent marker it'll

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just wipe right off now this was a dry erase but

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you know hopefully we'll do a b-roll shot or something to show it with a permanent marker

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now for thin and light the xps 13 is a

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little bit on the thick side but that hasn't stopped dell from giving up on

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usb type a ports for some reason to their credit though they have

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included three usb type cs two of which are Thunderbolt 3 external

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GPU lovers rejoice and also a headphone port and a micro sd card reader so

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for the next year or two you might be regularly reaching for the included a to

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c dongle but native type c devices are becoming more

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and more common all the time

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now let's address the video title Intel allows partners to configure the

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TDP a measure of power consumption of

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their 8th gen core i7 mobile processors

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and dell has gone full throttle on this one allowing it to draw

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up to 27 watts and reach up to 4

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gigahertz turbo speeds which makes this device feel really snappy over short

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bursts but when we see manufacturers push

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performance to the limit in compact systems we often encounter thermal

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throttling so how about the xps 13.

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well turns out they've actually done a great job here

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under full load it can't quite keep cool

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at first briefly throttling in an attempt to stay

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quiet during short sprints but then when

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the system realizes that big things are happening like a long video export for

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example the fans kick in to bring everything under control and the real

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world results are impressive our xps 13 with a CPU that costs over a

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hundred dollars less matched or beat the competing lenovo

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thinkpad x1 carbon and absolutely ran circles around any notebook with a 7th

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gen u series processor but

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a powerful engine is only as good as the rubber that meets the road or the

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photons that hit the eyeballs in this case

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and our model actually looks really good here too it sports a 4k 13.3 inch touch

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display with HDR support it's exceptionally bright the colors are

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amazing and you can basically have your nose

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even if yours is smaller than mine touching the screen and still not see an

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individual pixel there's just

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one small problem it's a 400

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optional upgrade adding insult to injury there are only

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two screen options and the 1080 one

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isn't available with touch i mean we get that

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bigger numbers sell better but realistically you don't actually need 4k

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on a screen this small so we want to see a 1080 touch option for a more modest

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increase in price that might make us feel better about the

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slightly undersized trackpad this thing is just okay the surface coating feels

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good but i found myself wishing that it was a little bit taller just like my

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wife and having trouble with accuracy even

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after playing around with pointer acceleration settings

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maybe one solution would be to break the mold and experiment with a slightly

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taller aspect ratio on the screen like microsoft has been doing that would also

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give them an easy fix for the improved but

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if we're being honest still pretty horrible webcam placement

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i mean i know that not everyone uses the webcam on their laptop a lot but

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i do and i'm pretty sure that the people i

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call don't want to look up my gargantuan

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snout the whole time that they are talking to me it even interferes

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sometimes with Windows hello facial recognition which made the inclusion of

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a fingerprint sensor and the power button actually that much more awesome

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this is sick which means i guess we're back to good stuff

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let's talk about the keyboard it

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is really good alex prefers the longer travel of the x1

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carbon but for me the soft

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quiet keystrokes managed somehow to not feel mushy and the short travel allowed

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me to get up to nearly my full desktop mechanical keyboard speed in a matter of

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minutes and the speakers are great too especially for a laptop this size with a

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nice clean sound that makes them well suited for something like tossing on

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some tunes while you're playing cards with your friends

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and you can even have a pretty long game too since this 7 hour result in our

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battery life test is based on a continuous load you should get through a

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workday pretty comfortably without the charger

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now let's be clear here there were some negatives in this video but none of them

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are anywhere near deal breakers and with the first reasonable config starting at

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1200 the xps 13's price

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is pretty good

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with some caveats a similarly spec'd lg gram includes a

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touchscreen has better battery life and is much lighter but it falls behind on

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performance build quality and Thunderbolt 3 for the 13 inch version so

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if you're into easy docking or future expansion for your notebook

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that's a big deal so overall we're giving two

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recommendations here one for potential buyers if you're willing to pay to play

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the xps 13 is a well-built high performance and compact machine

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and then we also have one for dell fix the screen options there needs to be

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a cheaper touch screen for you guys to be competitive on the low end and then

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while you're at it deal with that webcam placement eggshell in this otherwise

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truly delicious electronic cake

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that's actually really good cake

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you know this is really good the thermaltake p90

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it's an open frame tempered glass mid tower case that's split up into three

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compartments for your graphics card power supply and other cooling

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components it's got five millimeter thick tempered glass side panels that

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let you put your system on display it's got three different layouts that make it

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wall mountable horizontal lying or vertical standing

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