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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Dell XPS 18 at first glance this looks like a computer on kind of the smaller side of the all-in-one spectrum it's got an 18 inch screen but then you grab it here you lift up and look at that this is actually got a battery in it which means it's a really large tablet or a smaller to mid-size all-in-one depending on how you look at it we've actually seen a couple of these systems before sony has the VAIO cap 20 with a 20 inch screen a soos has a transformer all-in-one also with an 18 inch screen of that first kind of grouping of these this is definitely the best to date because the Sony Tablet even though it's only a little bit bigger weighs like 12 pounds this thing is under five pounds whereas the assist version when you remove it from its dock it switches over into Android mode it's very confusing don't even get me started about that now for $1,300 that's kind of a lot to pay for an 18 inch own one especially one with laptop parts and integrated graphics you do get this big weighted stand right here that acts as a power charging dock as well and they throw in a keyboard and mouse you can trade down to less expensive versions that skip the dock you can buy it separately and that have like a core i3 CPU as opposed to an i5 or even an intel pentium class cpu which I would really avoid at all costs now you aren't paying a premium to be one of the first people on the block with a combination tablet / all-in-one there's a few reasons why you'd want to do that you can just pick this up and take it into another room of your house to show someone the video or share some photos that do some tabletop gaming which is actually kind of fun I really wouldn't take this out so the coffee shop or anything it's too big and the battery lasts about four hours not really enough for carrying with you style computing just like almost every laptop now has a touchscreen whereas last year it didn't I think we might be looking at a possible future where pretty much every on one becomes a detachable screen with a battery built into it now it hasn't happened yet but once Intel's next generation of chips comes out and if people start buying these as opposed to traditional all-in-ones I think you're gonna see a continued hybridization of big screen tablet and all-in-one and frankly around with a big gigantic tablet is actually kind of fun I'm Dan Akron and that is the Dell XPS 18