SUPER Small, SUPER Thin 2-in-1 Laptop - Dell XPS 15
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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this video is brought to you by group reno you can check out their symbios
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demo car at the link in the video description
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so we are here at the dell booth where they are showing off a new member of
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their xps family this is the xps 15 two
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in one yeah so this is the smallest
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thinnest high performance two in one 15 inch ever and it was made possible by
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some pretty special technology so the CPU and GPU are a member of the product
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formerly known as kb lake g family so
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we're talking an Intel 8th gen CPU with
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Radeon vega m graphics now dell isn't
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really telling us much about the specifics of the specs but fortunately
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we're really smart people so we managed to open up task manager and find out
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that this is a core i7 8705 g so that
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guy turbo's up to 4.1 gigahertz and as
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far as we can tell ships with a vega mgl
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so that would have 20 cus though the clock speed is tbd it's got a pretty
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unique thermal solution on it so they're actually using an insulation from the
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company gore you know like gore-tex and the idea behind it is not obviously to
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keep all the heat inside the laptop but to keep it away from the bottom surface
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and the keyboard so the air gets sucked in here and it gets exhausted
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through the vents right here dell's boasting a 15 hour battery life out of
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the 75 watt hour battery and the thing is only 16 millimeters thick while being
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4.3 pounds so it's still a 15 inch
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device but as 15 inch devices go it is pretty
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impressive especially given the overall like this has a really really nice
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feeling hinge mechanism in case you're wondering how cooling works when you
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have it folded up as a tablet because of the feet on the bottom there is still a
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gap so the fans can suck in air
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a couple of the other cool things about it involve magnets so the keyboard is
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actually using it's a scissor style but it's using magnetic levitation and there
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will be available a separate pen that uses again magnetic technology to give
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like a tactile feedback to writing on the screen but that wasn't something we
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could try today in terms of i o you've got a couple of usbc's a headphone jack
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and a security lock and then you got two four-lane thunderbolts and microsd as
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well as a battery life indicator it's expected to go on sale sometime in the
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next four to five months it's gonna start at around a thousand dollars and
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it's going to include dell's new mobile connect technology which allows you to
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take calls uh respond to sms and even on
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Android use apps wirelessly with all
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their new devices for 2018.
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so thanks to group renault for sponsoring this video if you guys want to check out their symbios demo car it
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really is impressive we took it for a ride we've got a video linked in the
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description or hell maybe we'll put it in a card up there but it's got a ton of
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amazing technology in it tons of cameras
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tons of radars most importantly the brain it was smart enough to handle
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level four autonomy even on an actual road with actual french drivers around
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us and we were able to do everything from take the hands off the wheel to recline
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in the special laid back seating position to putting on
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a vr headset that was tied into the car sensors so you could actually see
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virtual graphical representations of the cars or in some cases they showed up as
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like flocks of birds and stuff going past us
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in the vr headset actually wasn't even nauseating which was really surprising
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so check that out we'll have it linked in the video description
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