I really like my XPS 15 problem is it's a bit too big and heavy now they do have
an XPS 13 which is also fantastic but
it's a little bit too small my hands fall off the edge kind of sucks if only
there was an XPS 14 well there sort of
is it's under their Precision line so uh it's really expensive but this looks
like it could be really good let's have a look
here welcome to Dell let's do great things together all right I'll put you
aside for a second got our power
cord USB type c charger love to see it I
uh went on vacation a week ago and forgot my laptop charger but I could
just charge it using my phone charger and everything was fine one right here
is read it for 130 Watts not bad the
typical Dell dongle uh I don't love that having a dongle is something that you
need to do but at the same time HDMI USB
type A gets easy to just Chuck in your bag I do actually use this a
lot all
right tada this sure looks like an XPS but
like a kind of chunky one how's how's the thickness it's like maybe 2 mm
thicker oh maybe one for Io we have
Thunderbolt on each side two of them there as well as a mini SD slot
Kensington lock and excellent we also
have a headphone microphone combo Jack uh can't take that for granted from Dell
these days oh for this one though they did do away with the diamond cut finish
so you can see that it over here it has kind of that like I guess anodized maybe
sand blasted kind of look there whereas
on dxps it's all nice and shiny also
this unfortunately does not have dbrand skins but also dbrand won't sell you a
scorpion so uh why would you use anything else
anyway 3.6 lb not too bad compared to
the XPS 15 which is
4.3 nice little savings aside from that
it is laptop here we
go now interestingly on the touchpad we have um
something uh I do sort of wish that they
are a bit more clear about what it could do instead I'm just going to take it off
and probably never get use of oh it's an
NFC Reader I wonder if you're able to use that for like smart cards or
authentication stuff this is a professional laptop being from the Precision line so I wouldn't be
surprised if there's some sort of like card that you can just tap right there
to lock and unlock it more securely than like your fingerprint wow this is a nice
display do you have specs for this thing is it is it ol it looks like it's OLED
the display although I thought for a second it was OLED cuz it looked
fantastic is actually W LED and it's 16x
10 2560 x600 that's a really nice
resolution for a laptop of this size one of my biggest complaints about the XPS
13 plus was that your screen options were 1080p which is not quite enough
pixel density or 4K which is more pixel
density than you need and just destroys your battery life
this is a very nice in between this must
be brutally expensive I remember even like pretty expensive business laptops
had just trash displays even a couple years ago this is far from that this is
an incredible display as for performance I think we have quite a bit yep all
right I9 12 900h 14 cores 20 threads we
also have 32 gigb of RAM at 5200 megga
transfers per second that makes me suspect that you're not able to swap it
but also it is of a higher speed than what you can have in the slottable
modules D's actually working on a thing so you can have faster RAM in your
laptops it's like a weird socketed thing I forget what they call it but hopefully
that comes to actual consumer devices pretty soon cuz I really want to try it
out we also have 1 terab of RAM an NVIDIA RTX a1000 so that's a Quadro but
they stopped calling it a Quadro even though Quadro has really good brand
recognition and everybody just calls the new a1000 or whatever quadros this does
only have 4 GB of dedicated GPU memory
which is kind of too bad I'm guessing this thing is very slow let's find out
what it is oh my God Microsoft go away I do not
want you to get all of my data all right just looked it up so the
a1000 is the same die the ga 107 as the
r TX 3050 it is a little bit slower
though it has okay it has the same number of Cuda cores as the RTX 3050 on
the desktop effectively it's a 3050 but
slightly slower and way more expensive it is very nice if you are a
professional because you can do very cool things like uh run solid works and
the drivers work properly solid Brooks could probably make the drivers for
propably on GeForce but uh they don't
all right well we get some things download it let's have a look at this
keyboard okay the keyboard is fantastic
I was having a little bit of trouble cuz I was kind of getting like uncanny
valued for a second it is very very
close to the XPS 15 that I use every
single day and know the keys like perfectly although oh wait
H that that's why I didn't quite like it compared
to this right here you can see a little
bit but it's way way less now this right
here is the sort of thing that is very acceptable that is excellent
keyboard flex but when you have the same switches on two chassis and one of them
you use literally every single day you're going to notice those little tiny
things let's get this back why is there so much dirt over here
now below the keyboard we also have a trackpad it's great it's I wish it was a
little bit larger it feels like they took the same unit off of the old XPS 13
and just chucked it in here we like all right we're good which isn't all that
bad it's a fantastic little trackpad I just wish it was a tiny bit bigger oh it
has fingerprint in the power button oh yeah it does does it have facial
recognition though okay I can't seem to set up
facial recognition but Belle tells me it has it so if it doesn't he's the one
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that I should probably be installing like solid works and showing you that
that works well but it's going to be fine it's a 3050 except with certified
drivers it's going to work great and now it's installed thank you Intel Wi-Fi 6E
the ax 211 is legitimately the best
Wi-Fi chip that exists
oh one thing that I just noticed um the
pixel response times on this display are not great I don't know if you can see
the trails here yeah this is so much faster I don't
know if you can tell there but like my movements on this display just feel
night and day different latency wise compared to this
one it feels like I'm playing this drunk
turns at 30 FPS and super high input
latency is not the best gaming experience oh you can have all right
let's turn the resolution down a bit all right how's 1080p this is playable right
here for 40 45 FPS I can deal with this
and look here the graphics are good I can turn those down a bit actually oh 69
FPS wow okay this actually this is running great you could totally play
games on this laptop if you wanted to so
uh if you're trying to you know get a nice fairly thin and light laptop and
your work is paying for it you want to play games on the side this is quite a
good option you're not going to be like competitively playing stuff but I could
100% oh like I just hit that deer it you
could totally play valheim this would be totally fine this is a fantastic looking
display though we we'll just pop up some crab Rave here it seems like it does not
have the waves audio control panel on
this like it does on the XPS which is great cuz it just breaks all the time
and makes your stuff sound
terrible okay solid start solid let's
start might be a bit
Tenny not bad not bad all
right oh that sound's way worse
now it's not bad though like it's not as
good as the XPS 15 but also like look at it they have this much much space for
the speakers here that much there like it's half as much speaker space of
course it's going to be better like not bad though especially for like professional devices that's another
thing for whatever reason professional devices just had tier speakers for so
long it's like yeah professionals listen
to music too like you don't only have to
use Excel oh speaking of which though this is a professional device it has
Intel V Pro do you know what that does I don't really it there's some security
features that it adds it's way more expensive I think the biggest thing that
it does is it allows for it to be more easily set up by like Network and system
admins realistically you are never going to care about the Intel V Pro but your
network manager will he will thank you
all right let's see about the webcam that's more cropped than I thought I
feel like most webcams are further out than that one sec maybe I'm just being
dumb oh my God as you might have noticed
there my XPS 15 had to wake up from
hibernation after I closed it because every single time that I close the lid
it has to hibernate the reason for that is Windows modern standby basically it
means that if you just have your normal sleep settings on occasion because your
computer tries to like it still runs the CPU it still connects to the Internet so
you can like receive your messages and stuff I don't want that on my laptop I
want to just simply go to sleep and not kill the battery when I leave it in my
backpack okay I was correct though the this is way more cropped in
than most webcams I'm I'm like way closer and I also just look way better
it seems like the Precision 5470 has a great webcam this looks really good
honestly is it 1080p I kind of assumed that it would just have the exact same
sensor as is on the XPS 15 it looks like
it but whatever they've done it's way better like just the colors of my face I
look like I don't know someone that is a
person as opposed to like the half dead on the
XPS like just just stuff like I don't know
that like my skin kind of looks like skin instead of being like sort of blown
out and then sort of dark and kind of looking
like yeah this this is just way better it's uh 720p it's 720p okay the only
thing I can think of that would make it this much better is for one software but
also they must just have a totally different lens system on it but like how
it's the same size Dell what are you
doing how is this one so much better than the one on the XPS 15 I actually do
not know I'm kind of flabbergast at how much better this is good job Dell I
wonder if the microphone's better as well it's really good honestly is it 1080p okay so very usable I kind of
assumed that it would just have the exact same sensor at sounds like the
same microphone but it does a perfectly fine job did we mention that this
screen's touchcreen it's touchcreen I I do really like this display I know that
I talked about the latency for a bit but like if you're not gaming it's really
good it's fine to look at oh we could run a cine bench I really like how Dell
Optimizer goes over top of everything else and takes forever to launch that's
my biggest problem so Dell has some
really great software on the xps15 for like your color profiles your battery
profiles fan profiles all that stuff it takes forever to so I just don't use it
it's still opening the problem is I can't hit okay
to like save cab bench Dell Optimizer
DOI is not responding got to get the ShortCircuit speed tape all right let's
see how we do all those 20 threads I'm
going to guess what
12,900 if it breaks 1,300 we're happy
12,682 that's mildly disappointing
but not bad service host diagnostic
policy is running I feel like that Windows update might be screwing with us
a bit one moment while Windows installs updates I'm going to have a nice sip of
my coffee you can't get that mug on our store but you can't get this water
bottle LTT Store.com it comes in red this one's like Canada all right this is
taking forever I'm just turning it off I'm done uh you can probably get a
higher c a bench score if Windows isn't
updating it must sucks so much to be a company like Dell where they do so much
absolutely incredible engineering but they're 100% tied to how
good Microsoft is oh one thing that I didn't notice
before and this is definitely why it's slightly thicker than the XPS 15 look at
the size of this foot it's got like a full quarter pipe
there it's massive I would be so stoked if we can
upgrade the RAM but I can almost guarantee with those speeds you cannot
oh wait I didn't notice this before but there's a smart card reader right here
that's the sort of thing where for a consumer device you would absolutely never need it but if you work in super
high security situations like the government or I I don't know whatever
that's the sort of thing that is completely crucial looks like the whole
thing's aluminum all right so for our battery we have a 72 wat hour jobby I
imagine that depending on what you're doing your battery life is going to vary
greatly so if you have the display pumping out all 500 nits and you have
all 20 threads of your processor I don't know doing something
you're going to go through that pretty fast if you treat it nice 8ish 9 10
hours of battery life somewhere in there
probably we also have two nice little heat pipes that go up here the fin
density on these fans is crazy we'll just go up here and
see how many fins there are in there they're also pretty thick boy fins
so Cooling in this given the size I imagine is quite good couple more things
to note in here the SSD is replaceable
although the Wi-Fi card strangely is not
overall though I really like this little machine it's the XPS 14 that I have
always wanted it has essentially the same power as the 15 little bit slower
doesn't have the same kind of cooling but you know it's a little bit smaller
as well I will very happily give up the
500 C bench points for half a kilogram off the weight there is one thing though
this is a professional device and professional devices come with big money
how much is it $3,358
$3,358 okay that's uh that's about what I was expecting honestly uh that's a
pretty terrible value if you are a person that is looking for a laptop that
has these specs you can get like the nv5
or the Lenovo 7i Pro for half as much
and it will give you essentially the same thing those also don't come with
like vpro and Dell's professional warranty crap that's
really good so yeah if you're in a
situation where you are buying a laptop I don't think I can recommend this but
if your boss is buying a laptop and you want something that you can sort a game
on and generally have a great time this is a good buy and this is also a good
buy and until the next time I do one of these which is probably pretty soon cuz
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