Dell XPS 13: The Most Powerful Thin Laptop? #Helpful Post

hey guys the Austin this plain-looking

box contains one of the most exciting

laptops I've seen in quite a while this

is the Dell XPS 13 I really do like the

LG cram so I've already done a full

video on this what's nice is is that

when I'm at the office I can plug it in

via USB C to a monitor and use it like a

desktop for stuff like email and notes

when I'm on the go not only does it have

some of the best battery life I've ever

tested but it's also super lightweight

and portable that's where the XPS 13

comes in

so the XPS 13 has been around for a

couple years now but this is the most

recent version what makes it really

special is that it is one of the very

first laptops to ship with the eighth

generation Intel Core processors now

normally that doesn't sound like it

would be any kind of huge difference but

in this case it means it is going to be

a lot faster at least I hope so one of

the nice things about the XPS 13 is that

it actually is made out of aluminum and

I can immediately tell that while it is

definitely a little bit heavier than the

gram

it feels really substantial pop this guy

open and one of the first things you're

going to see is the fairly large 13.3

inch display and a very very small

chassis so when the XPS 13 first came

out this sort of bezel was really

impressive now it's getting a little bit

more common but it still looks really

nice the outside of the XPS 13 is all

aluminum but on the inside it has this

carbon fiber finish it actually feels

pretty good it almost feels a little bit

more rubbery than you would expect at a

carbon fiber but it's nice and

comfortable there's also a nice

selection of ports so now that you have

our power end but we also have a

Thunderbolt 3 port which you can also

use to power the laptop a USB 3.0 port

headphone jack as well as the battery

indicator which looks like it's dead

which is cool

and if we flip it over to the other side

which we're gonna find is another USB

3.0 port as well as a full-size SD card

reader having that Thunderbolt 3 port is

nice as 9 doesn't double as a USB C port

but you can also do stuff like connect a

4k monitor to it except power N and in

theory you could connect it to an

external GPU for better gaming

performance although unfortunately it

only uses two lanes of PCIe which means

that that's probably not going to be a

great idea it will get bottlenecks

the display is 13.3 inches with a 1080p

resolution but it is not a touchscreen

if you want that you have to upgrade to

the 1800 P model which is a lot more

expensive

now I actually like 1080p as I feel like

it's a good sort of sweet spot between

room screen resolution as well as

battery life and this panel is decent so

the color is fine viewing angles are

solid however it just doesn't get quite

as bright as I would like the biggest

problem with the display is that means

that the webcam has to be put in the

left corner which means that it looks

really weird not only are you looking up

in my nose but I'm always looking to the

side of the laptop this laptop has

pretty decent speakers so one of my

issues with the Graham was that the

speakers were a little bit tinny however

here even though they're not from firing

they come up the sides it sounds a lot

better I also like the keyboard and

trackpad so the keyboard has a nice

spacing the feels good and it's backlit

and the trackpad uses Windows precision

drivers so no it's not quite as good as

something like a glass trackpad on a

macbook but it is right up there my only

real issue is that to get a touchscreen

you have to pay another $350 which to me

is kind of hard to justify what really

makes this new XPS 13 stand out though

are those eighth generation Core

processors now typically when you go

from one processor to the next as far as

generations go it's usually not a huge

difference with this guy we're going

from dual-core processors to quad-core

and then a small thin and light laptop

like this that makes a huge difference

this XPS 13 is powered by the IEEE 78550

you so the base clock is 1.8 gigahertz

but it's almost always above that as you

guys will see in a minute and it can

turbo all the way up to 4 gigahertz now

that's backed up by 8 gigabytes of RAM

and a 256 gig nvme SSD run this guy

through Geekbench I legitimately had to

triple check my results in only is this

one of the fastest laptops I've ever

tested as far as single-threaded

performance goes even with

multi-threaded it is right up there with

high end core i7s from gaming laptops of

last year one thing to keep in mind is

that this is still a 15 watt processor

so for longer sustained use such as

gaming or rendering you will see the

clock speeds start to dip but for most

stuff like video editing or web browsing

you're gonna see it be incredibly fast

unfortunately gaming performance doesn't

see the same kind of gains so here on

rocket ly you're getting anywhere

between 40 to 50 frames per second at

720p quality which is fine for lighter

titles but it's really not going to see

a major benefit over something like

skylake your cable under normal usage

the laptop is basically silent however

once you fire up something like a game

some video editing you'll see that the

fan does get a little bit noisy

tell claims that you can get 13 hours of

battery-life streaming video and about

22 hours of light usage which might be a

little bit of an exaggeration but with a

60 watt hour battery it should

absolutely last you all day there is a

lot to like with the XPS 13 so $1,300 I

feel like this Beck is a little bit

expensive however once you can actually

get a core i5 in this guy and especially

if they have a more affordable

touchscreen version this is gonna be

hard to beat I am really excited to see

these new processors roll out to more

and more laptops having this much power

in such a thin light laptop honestly is

a game changer for me so what do you

guys think about the XPS 13 as well as

these new 8th gen processors let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you in the next one