Dell XPS 13 (2015) - Beautiful and Functional... But Is It Perfect?

Most of the laptops floating around here are reviewed from a fairly new and purely objective perspective, as they're not really the kind of thing you'd use as a daily driver anyway and perhaps most importantly, they don't have a predecessor with The fact that I have a very intimate relationship, my video of the

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edition will be different, its dad is clearly the latest generation from grandma, I suppose it is a generation before that, a product whose two-in-one transformation capabilities it does not share but with which it otherwise bears a more than passing resemblance, the msi gt80 titan is the world's first gaming laptop with a completely mechanical keyboard and has dual gtx 980ms. in sli, click now to learn more, so let's start with the highlight feature of the 13.

Now, this laptop is available with a 1080p non-touch display with standard glass, but I think most people would say that actually You're not doing your no nonsense, it's

beautiful

and you like the hyper-thin 5.2 millimeter bezel. It allows the xps 13 to be about an inch less in width and height than my 12 and a half inch xps 12 while still offering a larger screen, but of course size isn't everything, so you know what it is like once you have it in your hands. and start working on it, it's actually a little strange at first, to be honest, I mean, I'm used to the screen ending at the edge of the keyboard on most laptops and on this one it's just not like that, It's a surprisingly different feeling. but you get used to it pretty quickly, there are still issues, although the text scaling and UI still sucks on Windows 8.1, with some apps displaying blurry text and others, the UI completely falls apart, something I'll keep mentioning until that gets fixed, but the good news is that in browsers and most other things you'll normally use, man this monitor is gorgeous, near

perfect

viewing angles, retina-like sharpness and it's bright too, the color temperature It was kind of cool right out of the box, but I ran with the color jumpsuit and fixed it right away. and he also told me that I'm sitting at a brightness of about 40 and I get 120 candela per square meter out of this thing which is great for indoors at full brightness, it's basically blinding inside but great if you're in the sun but of course if you're just you wanted to hear how cool the screen is infinitely then you could watch this 10 hour loop we created for me talking about how cool it is if you don't like that kind of stuff then keep watching this video because this pony has a lot more tricks anywhere a pony would keep tricks.

The guts of all the one low-resolution and integrated Intel HD 5500 graphics with, depending on equipment level, a variety of u or ultra-low-power dual-core i3i5 or i7 processors, four to eight gigabytes of RAM and between 128 and 512 gigabytes m.2 SSD now wait a sec linus that ssd sounds super cool and fast and pci express but i have like wax built up in my ear or did you just say this laptop has four gigs of ram on the thousand dollar model and a single eight gigs on the seventeen hundred and fifty dollar model, well you might have enough ear wax to cause serious hearing problems, by the way, but that wasn't the problem right now, the

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Dell XPS 13 doesn't even have the option to configure. has more RAM than I can fill with a single multi-tab internet browser, there's more good stuff, although the material options are excellent, with a machined aluminum and real carbon fiber theme in black and silver similar to the one I have and I love it.

For the most part, the entire device is surprisingly thin, but even while running the work benchmark I used to test battery life on PC Mark 8, the fan remained very quiet and sometimes not even it turned, and the i o has improved dramatically for me anyway. Plus an SD card reader to match the USB 3 port and lock on this side and the mini display port with additional 4k capability, power jack, battery life indicator and 4-pole combo audio jack on the other, but I also have more criticisms. While the bottom is a solid hunk of aluminum with only vents and rubber feet to mar its coolness and the screen itself is phenomenally rigid considering how thin and basically bezel-less it is, the keyboard has taken a major step back. in the construction quality department. the backlight is nice and white and the layout is quite ideal, apart from a slightly shorter backspace key than I would like, but the key travel distance is very short, the membrane switches have a bump heavy and sudden front touch unsatisfactory and much more important than any of those other things, the entire keyboard has much more flexibility than I would expect in a premium product like this, regardless of how thin and sexy it is while I'm stacking, I have other complaints In no particular order, uh, Dell.

The power adapter is super small, which is nice, but the friction-locked power plug wore out on my old laptop and basically falls out now on that one. I'm disappointed this hasn't been reviewed. Your pointless McAfee test and the Dell update we're using 25. plus percentage of CPU working, God knows what when I first turned the thing on at one point, I've since removed them, both speakers are firing sideways instead of towards the front which bites and there's a little lip on the bezel here which makes swiping in right for the charms menu a little awkward and difficult, well the last one was pretty stingy which means We're probably headed for the good stuff again.

The precision trackpad's default medium lag for palm rejection is horrible, but once I changed it, I got used to it. pretty quick, there's something I can't put my finger on, what a joke, but even now I'm experiencing some kind of tracking discomfort based on cursor acceleration with fine movements, but I'm pretty sure it's Windows' fault so far. As far as hardware goes, the overall accuracy, responsiveness, and feel of this glass pad with seamless buttons on the bottom is very, very solid, as is pretty much the rest of this device, I mean, Thanks to its 5th generation processor, my i5-equipped model achieved a score of 2846 and the pcmark works suite which I ran as a battery life benchmark and to see how far we've come in recent years, it did so while managing 35 yes in double digits more battery life than my previous product. and speaking of battery life, Dell actually sent out this battery pack that you can use to get some extra out of it and charge other things like your phone while you're at it, if you're into that kind of thing, so we've come.

A long road, but it's time to conclude and the conclusion is that the xps 13 2015 edition is a fantastic and incredibly

beautiful

machine that I love, but it lacks the customization on Dell's website that would allow me to configure it into something that would buy. Pre-built options involve a lot of trade-offs that sound great on paper, like giving up 20 of the rated battery life for a sleek, high-pixel-density display on the premium models, but in practice are let down by the terrible experience. what its use entails. Windows with UI scaling, so Dell, if you're listening, I love this device, but this is the one I'd like to see next time. 1080p ips with a touch screen covered in Gorilla Glass so you can conserve some battery and not have to. scale and 16 gigs of RAM, seriously that's critical and let me have whatever processor and SSD I want and whatever trim level I want, it seems like a lot of the options are locked down unnecessarily, it would be nice to talk about a build option on request.

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