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what if we took our favorite new laptop of 2015 so far and gave it much better battery life I'm Dan Akron and this is the Dell XPS 13 non-touch edition this is a less expensive version of the Dell XPS 13 that we first saw at CES back in January of this year and reviewed in a very high-end configuration one that had a 3200 by 1800 touch screen a very nice laptop performance was fine battery life like Adam was fine we got about seven hours out of it in our battery tests but Dell said you know what we've got a different configuration that's probably gonna do a lot better let us send that to you this is a less expensive not more expensive a less expensive configuration of the same XPS 13 a notable for its very thin screen bezel you really get screen almost to the edge of the whole body right here this just has a 1920 by 1080 a standard HD screen and it's a non touchscreen so this configuration comes out to about $8.99 certainly a lot less than the twelve or thirteen hundred dollars you're gonna pay for the higher res touch version of it now doing our battery test we found that this thing actually did a lot better it ran for 12 hours on a battery test which is MacBook Air territory that's amazing either dell has done something in this configuration to to further optimize it for battery or frankly powering that big 3200 by 1800 screen with the touch overlay was just draining a lot of power so if you say to yourself this system cost less and last longer what's not to like about it I do have a couple of things that are holding me back one is I miss the touch screen this is a non-touch display and frankly the touch pads on these are not as great as the ones you'll find let's say a MacBook so you're gonna want to reach up and touch the screen occasionally for navigation dropping it I think is kind of annoying you also don't get the edge to edge glass over the display which which means that the screen is insect from from the bezel here and it's not quite a slick looking although some people will prefer you see the matte finish right here as opposed to the glossy finish on the touch version the big problem of course is that you don't have anything in middle what I'd love to see is next to his 13 with a standard 1920 by 1080 touchscreen and if you give me 9 or 10 hours of battery life out of that I think that would be the best of both worlds I'm Dacron and that is the Dell XPS 13 non touch version