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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the brand new Dell XPS 14 now that XPS brands from Dell has been around for a couple of years seems to look different every year although the concept is always the same kind of a high-end premium laptop that mixes productivity with cool design I think the latest generation of the XPS is probably the best yet it started out earlier in 2012 with the XPS 13 which we jokingly called the Dell Book Air because it looks so much like a 13-inch MacBook Air down to the aluminum body and the tapered design the XPS 14 there's also the 15-inch model actually looks a little bit more like a MacBook Pro it still got the aluminum body but it's not tape but it's more slab like like a macbook pro is now in this case we've got a 14 inch display that's 1600 by 900 that's what I like to see in a premium midsize laptop the 1366 by 768 is a little chintzy once you get up to you know $9.99 a thousand dollars more than that and some laptops have 1920 by 1080 displays on a 14 or 15 inch screen I think that's just too much this is just right you also get Dells keyboard which will find on XPS and Inspiron and other models but it works well even across the less expensive and more expensive ones it's backlit which I always like but only on the XPS do you get the big all in one click pad it's kind of like apples a big no button touch pad on the Mac books on the Inspiron models to get the separate left right mouse buttons a little old-fashioned I found this worked just about as good as any Windows version of this I've seen the two fingers scrolling was actually really responsive if you go into the the menu settings for the touchpad you can actually turn on what they call inertial scrolling which is that sort of a little after touch the scroll that Apple has didn't work as good here I would even leave that off you do get Intel's latest generation of Core iSeries processors all the way up to a core i7 which is what we have in here and discrete graphics which is the president considering this is considered in ultrabook which is that sort of Intel super thin laptop category you don't get an optical drive however and it is perfectly thin but I gotta tell you for a 14-inch Ultrabook this thing is insanely heavy even though it doesn't have an optical drive it's 4.7 pounds which which is more then Apple's new 15 inch retina MacBook Pro which is probably the closest sort of high-end mid-sized power ball and of course it's more it weighs a lot more than the dell inspiron 14 that we just reviewed that also has a next-gen Intel Core I series processor and discrete graphics so you can get a lot of the same stuff in the lighter package for a few hundred dollars less although I'm not going to lie and tell you that that system is as well built or nicely designed as this one is I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Dell XPS 14