I've been accurate and we're here taking
a look at the Dell XPS 11 this is a
laptop I was very much looking forward
to it has a lot of high-end design from
dell's premium XPS line it's also a
hybrid a laptop tablet hybrid that takes
a lot of cues from Lenovo yoga line in
that it has a hint that starts here
keeps going like this you can bend it
back like this and make it the kind of
like a little kiosk or you can mend it
all the way down and then you get a
touchscreen tablet and a fairly slim one
at that and of course when you're done
you can just flip it back and all of a
sudden you're back into laptop mode the
system is very thin very light
especially compared to a lot of the
other even small 11h hybrids that we've
seen so that all works in the system's
favor working against it is one big
design compromise and that is the
keyboard have been replaced with
essentially a flat keyboard kind of like
the touch keyboard on the Microsoft
service in that the keys are kind of
carved out of this but they don't
actually depress so you have to kind of
feel your way around them you don't
really get any tactile feedback while
you're typing you know in a perfect
world you could train yourself to use
this and understanding it comfortable
with it but honestly after using it for
several days I really could not get my
head around it I had a lot of missed
keys while i was typing other people
tried to add pretty much the same
experience i found the actual laptop
version of this system when you're
trying to type on the screen to be very
very frustrating actually the on-screen
keyboard here on the on the tablet part
of the system work better i actually was
more productive as typing just in tablet
mode like this with the on-screen
keyboard than in laptop mode like this
if they could take the XPS 11 and add
even a very shallow physical keyboard
where you can actually get the tactile
feedback of typing on keys well then it
would work with the very thin design and
the big touchpad and the decent
performance and battery life they begin
out of the system right now it's just
one frustrating tweak away from being
really great i'm dan ackerman and that
is the dell XPS 11
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