Gadgetory

I'm Dan Akron and we are here take a look at the Dell XPS 13 if that name sounds familiar that's because we reviewed in XPS 13 last year and the original model the year before that and these systems actually kind of all looked the same the changes are internal but they're very important changes because for a slim 14-inch ultrabook the first version and even the second version we're missing some very important features and I feel like this time Delmas finally listened to all our feedback and packed in probably the two most important things that you need in a small light portable laptop like this the first version of the expo Sartine just had a 1366 x 768 screen very low res even though it's about a thousand dollars then they added a 1080p screen that's really what you want but it wasn't a touchscreen even though this was the very beginning of kind of that Windows 8 touchscreen laptop era in this new version of the XPS 13 they've combined that high risk green with a touch screen so that combined with the fact that this is a really nicely made laptop of an aluminum and carbon fiber body really makes it probably one of the top and ultrabooks I can think of right now especially because it's a little bit smaller than what you think a 13 inch ultrabook would look like it's smaller than a macbook air Dell says it's closer to an 11 inch laptop side if it's quite there but it's definitely a smaller footprint than you expect from even a regular 13-inch system like this it's also a bit more business friendly than some of the other ultrabooks out there it's got a DisplayPort instead of HDMI that's pretty standard for a business laptop and you get an optional TPM chip and that helps your IT department hook it up to like all your corporate network stuff attention we've called this the jokingly the dell book air over the years because especially when closed it really looks a lot like a macbook air and the design hasn't changed in a couple of years i don't think it needs it just yet but for right now i'm happy that they finally have a high res touchscreen and even at about 1,300 bucks for this particular configuration that still makes us one of my favorite current ultrabooks i'm dan ackerman and that's the dell XPS 13