Sexy + Flexible = Sexible?? - XPS 13 2-in-1
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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this video from CES 2017 is brought to you by dbrand check them out at the link
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in the video description so they kicked us out of the regular filming area but
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there was no way I was going to leave the Dell Booth whatever you call this
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thing without covering the XPS 132 in1
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so if you guys are looking at it going gee that looks an awful lot like the regular XPS 13 then uh that would be
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definitely intentional so still here are the infinity bezels so the super slim
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bezels still here here is the aluminum and carbon fiber construction and still
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here is the light portable feel and the
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very good keyboard and build quality especially considering the size of this
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device I'm just going to manhandle it a little bit here but they had to make a
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lot more changes than you would probably think in order to get a twoin one hinge
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in it so you get your laptop mode you get you put it down like this mode you
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get your tablet mode in order to do that
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they had to make the device thinner so they were able to save some space by
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going from a u series processor to a y series processor do we lose some
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performance yes however a y series
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processor is a 5 wat processor and Dell is using some voodoo magic to run it at
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7 Watts pretty much all of the time with no active cooling whatsoever so they
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save some additional space inside for that they also did reduce the battery
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size a little bit but they see this as a product for a different consumer and
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that's why both products are going to stay in the lineup together another cool
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fun fact is while you're plugged in it can actually boost up to 9 Watts for
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minutes at a Time closing the performance Gap further it's available
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with up to 16 gigs of RAM and up to a 1 tbte SSD and in terms of IO I think they
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found a pretty good balance you get a Thunderbolt port on the left that can
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also be used for charging with a headphone and microphone Jack as well as
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their trademark battery life indicator and then on the right side you don't get
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another Thunderbolt they would have needed another controller for that but you get a type-c and you get a Micro SD
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slot which is great for Content creators since you can easily adapt a Micro SD up
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to a fulls sizee SD for your camera if you're into that sort of thing they
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include a CA adapter in the Box in case you just want to plug in a mouse and
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that's all you really need and they've made some other tweaks that I really
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like as well so 1080p screen or 1800p personally i' would go for the 1080 for
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the extra little bit of battery life and they've moved the camera which supports
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Windows hello just like freaking awesome like hello all other manufacturers can
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you guys all please start doing this cuz it's freaking sick they moved it from
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the bottom left to the center so you don't look off kilter when you're on a
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conference call or whatever else speaking of conference calls it's kind
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of a business-oriented skew they've got a fingerprint reader and dedicated page
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up page down Keys which I'm told is important though I personally am not a
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huge fan of that everything else pretty much I like about it so let me know in
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the comments you guys want to see a full review of this puppy I want to hear from
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you guys and uh thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and a huge
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thanks to dbrand for allowing ing us to be here at CES 2017 if you guys like
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your device you probably like the idea of throwing a dbrand skin on it whether
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it's Marble carbon fiber you know matte finish color you can use their
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configurator oh yeah you can even do this if you're me they don't actually
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carry this color anymore but uh you can use their configurator to see what your
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device will look like makes it look cool protects it from scuffs and scratches
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they do support some of the XPS lineup so that's a pretty cool thing right
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there and for a limited time only they're offering $1 worldwide shipping
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so check that out it's dbrand.com Linus CES or CES Linus whatever the
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Link's down there