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I'm Dan Ackerman and here we are taking a look at the brand new Dell XPS 13 this is of course Dells first ultra book you've seen us talk about this a little bit at the very end of 2011 and then more detailed hands-on look at CES just a month or so ago well now we've actually got the final product here and it really is Dells version of that ultra book super thin form factor that's becoming so popular now and of course as you can see just by taking a look at it it's very macbook air like they're really not even trying to pretend it's something else there is one big difference between this 13-inch laptop and the 13-inch MacBook Air the Dell XPS 13 actually has a smaller footprint if you look at it compared to some other 13-inch laptop to go well that's really small Dell claims it's closer to an 11 inch laptop footprint even though they crammed in the 13-inch screen it's really somewhere in between this thing is bigger than the 11 inch MacBook Air but it's smaller than the 13-inch MacBook Air and because it has the bigger screen in it with the edge to edge Gorilla Glass over the entire display it actually feels a little bit denser and heavier than you're thinking we're just looking at it they're a bunch of other cool features that we liked on here backlit keyboard always welcomed big glass click pan again something we really expect to see on an ultrabook these days you are gonna find not quite as many ports and connections as you maybe used to on a 13-inch laptop there's one USB to one USB 3 I'd Lee they have DisplayPort for video output instead of HDMI and no matter how hard you look there's no SD card slot on this even Apple has an SD card slot on the 13-inch MacBook Air although not on the 11 the Dell XPS 13 run standard Intel Core i5 and core i7 CPU is the basic $9.99 version we have here has a 128 gig SSD that's really where you want to be with an ultrabook right now and you could trade up for a few hundred dollars more and get a faster processor and get a 256 gig SSD I did like especially the little battery meter on the side that's something we used to see in a lot of laptops you don't see that too often now I like just being able to take a look and see how much battery power I have left so Dells come a little bit late to the Ultrabook game in a way I'm glad they waited because they put together a very nice system there's not a lot about it that's really gonna jump out at you and go you know in your face look at me I'm exciting instead it's well-made it's got the components that you want they got the price right $9.99 that's really where you want to be in an ultrabook these days and of course I really love that they got the bigger 13-inch screen into a smaller body I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Dell XPS 13