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one of my favorite laptops for the past couple of years has been the Dell XPS 13 is a premium feeling powerful 13 inch laptop but that XPS 13 has been around for a couple years and in that time we seen a lot of great laptop designs that are thinner and lighter and are even catching up to that no bezel look so maybe the XPS 13 needs a bit of a rethink and that's why we have the new XPS 13 two in one that slightly awkward name tells us that this is a hybrid PC sometimes called a two-in-one which shift between laptop and tablet modes by rotating the screen back on its 360 degree hinge but even if you never fold it back into a tablet it still works perfectly fine as a clamshell laptop now at first glance the XPS 13 2 & 1 is close to my platonic ideal of a modern laptop it's slim this little wasted space on the compact body and it has a few high-end features that help it stand out such as an optional fingerprint reader a dual lens IR webcam and of course that great edge to edge display it's not gonna be as fast as a standard XPS 13 because it's got a lower power processor made especially for super thin laptops and tablets but I found it work great for office tasks for HD video and even for little gaming now there are a few sacrifices compared to the standard XPS 13 you're swapping two full-sized USB ports and an SD card slot for two smaller USB seaports and a micro SD card slot this is now my go-to XPS model and because it starts at 999 it's a great starting point for anyone looking for a mainstream laptop or hybrid there's just one more thing that drives me a little crazy about it the power button is just a tiny sliver on the right side edge it's hard to hit on purpose but surprisingly easy to hit accidentally you