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Traditionally apple is really
comfortable with removing features from
their devices they've gotten rid of the
headphone jack. They've gotten rid of
function keys on their keyboards they've
gotten rid of ports on the computer,
they're not afraid to strip out features in pursuit of that clean and minimalvibe now .
This is the new xps 13 plus and
dell also wanted something that was
clean and minimal but they're engineers like they're either completely out of their mind or they're geniuses because they made
something that was you know what let me
just show you. So, on the outside this looks like a standard xps product right thin light elegant but when you pop it open the first thing ,you'll notice is that there's no trackpad it's like an invisible trackpad it's still fully functional but in terms of the
aesthetics there's not even like a visual indicator as to where the trackpad is. They've also removed the
function keys at the top of the keyboard it's been replaced with a row of capacitive buttons and the first comparison you might draw is like that looks a lot like
the touch bar from apple's macbook so it's like after four or five years apple got rid of it
and devil's like give me that i want to
use it in this thing, They've also changed the keyboard this is a strange minimal looking boxy keyboard and the whole keyboard deck is glass and all of these new design decisions give this device a very unique aesthetic looks ,ultra clean like the platinum white color looks amazing but even that darker graphite color looks really cool. It's arguably the best looking laptop on the market right now and because it's so
thin and aesthetically pleasing you might think. okay, that must have a weak processor.right this is running intel's new 12th gen p series chips and this gives this product twice the performance of last year's 11th gen xps 13. literally double the
performance from the previous generation.
It's a fantastic performance because their engineers did all those crazy things that i was talking about before they've been able to maintain a super thin profile on this device. It's only like half millimeter thicker than the xps 13 but it has way better thermal performance.so, there's a lot to talk about in this device i'm going to start
off with the trackpad i've reviewed few laptops on this channel and every laptop i've ever touched has had a trackpad except for this one, it is so weird to see a device that just doesn't have something there it honestly feels like it's been david blaine and it's gone and you're left with this smooth glass surface. It is textured gorilla
glass and it has this really nice feel to it. It almost feels like soft touch rubber like it's got that nice inviting texture to it but it's not
rubberized,it's just glass now i am a little concerned about durability because i've never seen a laptop before with a glass keyboard deck ever and if you drop this thing you hit it in the corner couldn't that just like spider through....
It is gorilla glass and gorilla glass is pretty strong but i don't know glass is glass also there's no movement to this trackpad and i mean movement like when you click it, it doesn't go up and down like a cantilever or anything like that, it's just a solid surface that has haptic sensations similar to macbooks where when you press it, it gives tactile feedback but this has a series of haptic motors underneath to give the user kind of precise tactile feedback as to where they're clicking, so on a macbook when you click it there's just one haptic motor a big one that moves the whole trackpad or vibrates the whole trackpad area on this because there's a bunch of them. It'll kind of localize the sensation of where you're clicking so on a macbook if you take two fingers and you touch it and you tap just on one finger you'll feel a vibration on both fingers but on this one when you press it and two fingers on the trackpad you press it only one of them has the sensation of it being clicked it's pretty cool, the area of this invisible trackpad is pretty large and as you move your finger off that era the tracking just stops working as you pull it back in it resumes again.
So, they've also removed the function keys up top this is a function key or secondary function key and you can
toggle between them but in terms of the
actual functionality of this series of keys , they just work like capacitive buttons i don't love the fact that the escape key and the delete key are up there, I use those pretty frequently in my workflow and you have to tap it but i do find these way easier to hit
consistently than the macbook touch bar
like the escape key on the macbook touch
bar was in this weird spot this isn't this is like top left corner. Look memory you just hit it, it does feel different because it's there's no like tactile response but i don't think people will have too much of an issue
with it. It is backlight and it'll automatically get brighter and darker depending on the environment but i couldn't find a way to completely remove the lighting. It's not too bright or anything though, now the reason why these capacitive buttons even exist is well for one aesthetics but it's also for
thermal reasons. So supposedly by using
these buttons instead of a regular keyboard they were able to save two millimeters of height on the inside which might seem insignificant but it allowed them to use a significantly more robust thermal system on the inside which allows them to cool that more powerful p-chip and it works i mean you'll see in a second but this is the solution that they went with.
It does look a certain way and think for the people that want to use escape keys and delete keys and they want physical media controls you lose all that right but you do gain space on the inside and i think for some people that's important ,the keyboard i really like this keyboard ,it looks different but it types perfectly fine i can hit my typing speeds on it. It's got no framing between the keys like it's just all keys and there's no kind of lattice structure between them i thought it would take longer for me to get used to this because i've typed on
other laptops like gaming laptops with a
different mechanism but this style of
keycap and i've never liked those but this one i like it there are four speakers on this device. There's two that fire up two that far down and i think these are the best sounding 13-inch windows laptop speakers i've heard, they're quite good they're not as good as the macbooks but they're just better than the rest they're actually really
solid there is no headphone jack though it does come with adapters for the headphone jack and usb-a but apparently
they removed that headphone jack to save
space on the inside and when you pop it
open it does seem tight in terms of the
z height in there but i don't know their
old audio jack module was quite small. I
would have really liked one to be in here because i use headphone jacks
pretty regularly. Okay Performance so this is running the new intel p chip so if you compare it to like the 11th gen xps 13 this is a massive bump up in performance and it's
sustained performance right it can hold that clock speed and that wattage indefinitely it does run hot though,it'll hit the full 100c and i feel like on a system like this
intel chip small device everyone's going to have that kind of temperature at the top end but this device has quiet fans. I feel like you know on an xps 13 quad fans is great right a lot of users want quiet fans but you had the opportunity i guess you still do through software tweaks . You can just crank the fans a little bit faster uh in terms of graphics, these are still running the
iris xe graphics which was cool last year but compared to what amd has with their ryzen rd and a2 graphics. This is just kind of mediocre at this point so if you want to play games this ain't the move it does have thunderbolt 4 ports like two of them so you can connect it to an external gpu ,if that's what you want to do now there are two screens i was able to check out there's a full hd panel which is my favorite of the bunch.It's very bright great colors and full
hd is still really sharp on a 13 inch device, like this and then there's a three and a half k old panel and this is the most vibrant of the bunch it's got really punchy colors and the blacks are just black because it's old tech and it's really good for viewing media
but my favorite is really that full hd Plus, it's just really nice at this kind of form factor plus you get better battery life especially with viewing media. So, that's the screen that i'd recommend unless you have like a clear need for the higher resolution and
there's also 720p webcam up top which
supports facial login through windows.
Now inside you're looking at just a single stick of storage,that you can swap out but everything else is baked on ,now the price on this device is expensive. It's a 1300 product at the base model now the first reaction i had was like, oh my god that is crazy,expensive,the flip side to like the argument to it is that this is double the Performance of last year's model. So, last year's one i think started at a thousand dollars at the base and it went up as uh got higher configurations but this is like a solid
300 more expensive at the base but this is a premium device right it's an xps 13. The design sleek the performance exceptional the pricing, right it's like it's xps 13 but with some heavy apple vibes coming off of it, they removed the regular track pad they
removed the function keys they removed a
bunch of the ports there's only two of them left, they've removed the headphone jack, it's heavily stripped out now i do give them respect uh just for what they were trying to achieve here like the simple or easy way to have done this but like the lazy way to have done something like this to be able to fit that new p-chip is just bigger system more fans louder fans anyone could do that right but they went for something that is just
really different and i think their solution to this or their kind of approach. This is commendable uh i don't think that this was going to replace the regular xps product like i really feel like the regular xps 13 is still gonna exist like the regular chassis. It's just
that you can't fit a p-chip in that standard chassis ,this is what you got to do if you want to get that extra power okay,there you have it xps 13 plus hope you guys enjoyed this blog....thumbs up if you
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By
Hina Waqas
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