on paper the dell xps 13 2018 has the
best screen the highest performance and
the best built chassis out of all the thin and light laptops on the market
but just because you know someone has the
right ingredients doesn't necessarily mean that they'll
put them together correctly
so then is the xps 13 a delicious cake
well there's only one way to find out
that's not bad oh oh
oh there's some eggshell
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save 10 today now the dell xps 13 9370 2018
straddles the line between playful and professional it has just a touch of
flash especially our subjectively flipping awesome rose gold version but
manages it without looking or feeling tacky at all
the white keyboard area accented by carbon fiber is one of if not the
stiffest to ever come through our Labs and apparently it is extremely resistant
to stains with dell going as far as to say that if
you draw on it in permanent marker it'll
just wipe right off now this was a dry erase but
you know hopefully we'll do a b-roll shot or something to show it with a permanent marker
now for thin and light the xps 13 is a
little bit on the thick side but that hasn't stopped dell from giving up on
usb type a ports for some reason to their credit though they have
included three usb type cs two of which are Thunderbolt 3 external
GPU lovers rejoice and also a headphone port and a micro sd card reader so
for the next year or two you might be regularly reaching for the included a to
c dongle but native type c devices are becoming more
and more common all the time
now let's address the video title Intel allows partners to configure the
TDP a measure of power consumption of
their 8th gen core i7 mobile processors
and dell has gone full throttle on this one allowing it to draw
up to 27 watts and reach up to 4
gigahertz turbo speeds which makes this device feel really snappy over short
bursts but when we see manufacturers push
performance to the limit in compact systems we often encounter thermal
throttling so how about the xps 13.
well turns out they've actually done a great job here
under full load it can't quite keep cool
at first briefly throttling in an attempt to stay
quiet during short sprints but then when
the system realizes that big things are happening like a long video export for
example the fans kick in to bring everything under control and the real
world results are impressive our xps 13 with a CPU that costs over a
hundred dollars less matched or beat the competing lenovo
thinkpad x1 carbon and absolutely ran circles around any notebook with a 7th
gen u series processor but
a powerful engine is only as good as the rubber that meets the road or the
photons that hit the eyeballs in this case
and our model actually looks really good here too it sports a 4k 13.3 inch touch
display with HDR support it's exceptionally bright the colors are
amazing and you can basically have your nose
even if yours is smaller than mine touching the screen and still not see an
individual pixel there's just
one small problem it's a 400
optional upgrade adding insult to injury there are only
two screen options and the 1080 one
isn't available with touch i mean we get that
bigger numbers sell better but realistically you don't actually need 4k
on a screen this small so we want to see a 1080 touch option for a more modest
increase in price that might make us feel better about the
slightly undersized trackpad this thing is just okay the surface coating feels
good but i found myself wishing that it was a little bit taller just like my
wife and having trouble with accuracy even
after playing around with pointer acceleration settings
maybe one solution would be to break the mold and experiment with a slightly
taller aspect ratio on the screen like microsoft has been doing that would also
give them an easy fix for the improved but
if we're being honest still pretty horrible webcam placement
i mean i know that not everyone uses the webcam on their laptop a lot but
i do and i'm pretty sure that the people i
call don't want to look up my gargantuan
snout the whole time that they are talking to me it even interferes
sometimes with Windows hello facial recognition which made the inclusion of
a fingerprint sensor and the power button actually that much more awesome
this is sick which means i guess we're back to good stuff
let's talk about the keyboard it
is really good alex prefers the longer travel of the x1
carbon but for me the soft
quiet keystrokes managed somehow to not feel mushy and the short travel allowed
me to get up to nearly my full desktop mechanical keyboard speed in a matter of
minutes and the speakers are great too especially for a laptop this size with a
nice clean sound that makes them well suited for something like tossing on
some tunes while you're playing cards with your friends
and you can even have a pretty long game too since this 7 hour result in our
battery life test is based on a continuous load you should get through a
workday pretty comfortably without the charger
now let's be clear here there were some negatives in this video but none of them
are anywhere near deal breakers and with the first reasonable config starting at
1200 the xps 13's price
is pretty good
with some caveats a similarly spec'd lg gram includes a
touchscreen has better battery life and is much lighter but it falls behind on
performance build quality and Thunderbolt 3 for the 13 inch version so
if you're into easy docking or future expansion for your notebook
that's a big deal so overall we're giving two
recommendations here one for potential buyers if you're willing to pay to play
the xps 13 is a well-built high performance and compact machine
and then we also have one for dell fix the screen options there needs to be
a cheaper touch screen for you guys to be competitive on the low end and then
while you're at it deal with that webcam placement eggshell in this otherwise
truly delicious electronic cake
that's actually really good cake
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