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hi I'm Scott Stein and what you're looking at here is the Dell XPS 13 now we looked at this laptop last year and at the time when ultra books were a new thing the XPS 13 was a bold really nice design from Dell in a very compact form you're talking about a laptop that is a smaller footprint than a 13-inch MacBook Air and very similar stylings as a lot of vulture books do but you have a really nice look for Dell or really for any Windows laptop the drawback last year was the fact that for the price the XPS 13 had a lack of certain ports it also had a subpar battery life compared to others and didn't have the it had an okay scream it didn't have a great high-res scream well now in 2013 this laptop which we did see at CES is available and the nicest part of it is that it has a 1080p display and the 1080p display looks really nice bright sharp vivid great from any angle wonderful but there's a problem with display and that's this it doesn't have touch now some of you may be celebrating that because maybe you don't like touch on the laptop but the fact is you know you don't need to use touch on any Windows laptop Windows 8 it's nice to have and when a laptop lacks it it just feels like a drop feature and this configuration is not cheap you're talking about $1600 yeah for a 256 gig SSD eight gigs of ram core i7 processor nice specs but still that's MacBook Air territory and high-end ultrabooks and it's a lot to pay when you're leaving out touch aside from that the improvements are nice you're gaining about a half hour plus and battery life not tremendous and you are getting newer Intel processors the third gen so you're not looking at anything that's you know brand new coming down the pike but you know nice upgrades you know for the landscape right now you're still not getting a lot of great ports you're getting two USB 3.0 mini DisplayPort and that's it no SD card slot no Ethernet and no HDMI because this is targeted at small businesses and business Fulke business Travelers so that's probably a bummer the one I am most disappointed by is a lack of an SD card slot because come on this thing could have fit one but you see that's literally the same styling as last year very sleek nice metal soft touch design slightly better battery life the price and these configurations does start at $9.99 but you're not gonna get the 1080p screen $13.99 is where you got to go to get the 1080p display and really that's the biggest reason to upgrade on this but I'd say without touch a little bit of a deal-breaker I'm Scott Stein and that's a look at the new Dell XPS 13 2013 edition you