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hey how's it going this is Dave 2d and this is a new XPS 15 the 95/60 so the previous generation the 95 50 was my daily driver for over a year I used that thing a lot so when this new one came in I was pretty excited to give it a good run now looking from the outside not much has changed from the previous generation it's still one of the best built Windows laptops so a lot of devices that use aluminum are pretty to look at but they're delicate this laptop is less focused on aesthetics I mean it's still nice to look at but it's also a tank the exterior surface holds up well the hinge holds attention perfectly after a year and the soft touch carbon fiber finish when I first looked at this stuff I thought for sure it would wear down or at least gets discussed over time but it doesn't at all the build quality on this thing is awesome another thing I really like is the 4k screen it's probably the best part about this laptop 15.6 inch IPS touch panel amazing color gamut amazing color accuracy great viewing angles super Zen bezels and it's got a good software to switch between the color spaces I consider this to be the best screen on the market for what I do if you're a professional gamer and you need crazy fast refresh rates then maybe not but if your content creator or if you just want an awesome display this one is really really good the webcam still looks up your nose but if this is the price for an ultra-thin bezel I'll take it any day it's also easy to open for upgrades and when you're in there you can do your standard stuff like adding more RAM or swapping out drives the stock Ram is faster than last year it's still ddr4 but now it's running at 2400 megahertz the stock drive speeds are great better than last year as well the battery has been upgraded it's now a 97 watt hour battery which is actually near that 99 watt hour legal limit and if you take this big battery and you combine it with that cable a chip that's inside here you get really good battery life you're comfortably hitting seven and a half hours of battery life with the screen at 215 inch it's pretty awesome that's a full day battery you can bring it to work leave your charger at home and then just charge it when you come back home if you want to you can actually remove this big battery get some on Amazon and replace it with the two and a half inch drives and a smaller battery I like this stuff below but I didn't on my older XPS 15 so I have two storage drives so other stuff that I like the keyboard is pretty good it hasn't changed I like to lay out a lot backlighting is white there's nothing I really dislike about it and it's pretty easy to get used to but it's not a keyboard that you'll fall in love with it's good it's just not excellent the trackpad is unchanged glass surface performs really well because of the windows precision drivers and button mechanics are nice now if you're coming from a macbook and you've never used anything other than apple trackpads you're probably not going to love this one but seriously this is as good as it's going to get for Windows trackpads it's really good but apples trackpads are better so those are some things that have really liked about the 95 to succeed but there are some things that I didn't like in the previous generation that haven't changed the first I know this was really petty but the color of the device I wish it came in more colors it has one of the best-looking interiors with that carbon fiber finish but the exterior is silver and you can only get in silver you can get skins I'll link this one below but it would be cooler if Dell made a dark grey or a black version of this laptop the second thing are the speakers they have good volume but they don't have the best location they're underneath the keyboard even though the kind of faces user the audio isn't as clear as I'd like it to be I wish these were repositioned maybe up to the top or something the third thing is a little more important it supports the porridge selection is decent there's a bunch of USB ports audio jack HDMI and an SD card slot I think it's a better selection than some other pro laptops I do wish it had more USB type a ports like when you have a mouse plugged in there's only one of those ports left and it can be a little bit cramped the other thing is that the Thunderbolt 3 port only uses 2 PCIe lanes not 4 so instead of a full 40 gigabit per second pipe you only get half 20 gigabits per second so most users won't be affected by this at all but because it has 2 lanes you can only run a single 4k 60 Hertz display from the port and if you want to run an external GPU the speeds will be about 10% slower than it should be the new KB Lake CPU gives a bit of a performance bump the system feels snappier when opening apps and games same with Adobe Premiere stuff is just a quicker partially due to the faster clock and partially due to the new speed shift tech the GTX 1050 is a nice performance upgrade from the older 960m it's a faster GPU and now it has four gigs of RAM instead of just two on benchmarks we're looking at a 25% increase in graphical performance from the 960m render times in Adobe Premiere aren't that much faster but I'm noticing smoother playback and editing using GTX 1050 light and moderately demanding games we'll be able to comfortably hit 60 frames per second with the GTX 950 if you want to see more details about gaming performance I made a pretty comprehensive gaming benchmarks video which I'll link below it's a quiet laptop on idle often silent fan noise under maximum load still isn't that loud there's a bit of thermal throttling during benchmarks so when I'm playing games or if I'm editing video it doesn't happen I've never noticed an actual in-game throttling but whenever on benchmarks for long enough we do see clock speed reduction thermals on the surface look good there's nothing uncomfortable to use the carbon fibre deck really helps with keeping surface temperatures down alright with the new 95/60 XPS 15 you're still getting amazing build quality from aluminum and carbon fiber materials the 4k touch screen is unchanged from last year and it's awesome it's literally my favorite laptop screen right now the backlit keyboard is easy to get used to and comfortable to type on the glass trackpad is one of the best in the business on the inside the KB Lake i7 and the GTX 1050 are a nice upgrade from last year's models the cooling could be a little bit better the stock RAM and the SSD have good speeds where you want they're easily replaced and there's a 97 watt hour battery that'll last year round seven and a half hours now the XPS 15 starts at $1,000 but once you add the gtx 1050 and the 4k panel which I highly recommend you're looking at $1600 end up it's certainly not cheap but it's a fantastic machine is it perfect no I mean there's other machines that are really good in this price point like the razor blade comes to mind that's equally awesome in its own kind of realm but if you're looking for a machine that has great build quality like really really great build quality fantastic screen and you don't mean like a super powerful video card take a look at this one I think you'll like it that's the end of this video some of you enjoyed it subs if you loved it if you got next time