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hey how's it going Dave 2d here this is the XPS 15 two and one it's not designed to replace the original XPS 15 they're still making those it's more of like a supplementary device for people that want something that's a little more versatile that can do like different modes and stuff like this so it's a thin and light - and one device that's using the new cable 8g processors so those have the AMD GPUs with the Intel CPUs it's a very powerful system in a small package so when you use this thing in tablet mode it's not exactly the most comfortable thing if you're gonna hand hold it if you have just placed down for taking notes or just doing things as a like rested tablet perfect but if you're gonna hold this thing it's a little big it's comfortable it's usable but it is big it's just a 15-inch screen is never great for a handheld tablet device but you can use it in tent mode or presentation mode you can pop it up to watch a movie you can play games you can connect up a controller or a mouse and a keyboard it's a really nice experience to be up and close to your screen doing stuff now the speakers are located in the back here it's not the best location the speaker sound okay I mean if there's a difference between the regular XPS 15 speakers and these it's not a substantial difference they sound okay but the location isn't great and especially you have an in tablet mode or something it does muffle the sound the ports on this device are all USBC so there's four of them there's two on each side and there's four lane PCIe support if you're curious about external GPUs there's no u s-- PA and there's only a microSD slot which is a little weird to me because I feel like this is a device that's really great for creatives and those are the type of people that would use an SD slot but yeah you're stuck with micro sd the charging is used PC and we also have a battery indicator which we see on XPS products I like seeing that okay the display this is on the 4k panel because that's the one that I have here is an excellent display it's very bright very color accurate you're gonna like it the original XPS 15 screen was already good so expected good it's even better than I thought it would be it's not as bright as a macbook pro screen but I mean I prefer the screen over the MacBook Pros it's just more color accurate it's just a nicer looking image to me there's also a dedicated pen for the two and one device low latency really useful for creatives and students the nib feels good to me it reminds me of a surface product it's got a little bit extra to it when you're writing on the glass the webcam still located on the bottom it's got that standard like up nose angle from the sps products but because it's a two and one you can flip it into ten mode and now we have a normal looking image you also have Windows hello for facial recognition and there's also a fingerprint sensor at the top of the keyboard so this keyboard is a Maglev keyboard it uses magnets to raise each key so instead of a spring or switch it uses magnets to basically give each key resistance and it's actually one of those more interesting features the purpose of this tech is to reduce the thickness of this laptop so you don't have a switch you don't have a dome you basically shave a couple millimeters off of the base now how does it feel honestly when you first use it it's gonna be a little bit different but you get used to it quickly it feels not like a butterfly switch from the Apple keyboards but it just it feels different the way that a butterfly switch felt different from a regular chiclet keyboard this also feels different in its own kind of way it's really hard to describe this but you'll get used to it that's the only thing that really matters you get used to this thing very quickly after like 24 hours 48 hours of using it I'm very comfortable on it the keys feel if they snap back to the resting state a little faster than normal but yeah I feel like most people like it the trackpad is great it's your standard xks trackpad glass surface with great tracking and good button mechanics now there is a glitch that I noticed and I think it's a software thing if you have three keys pressed down at the same time like they have to be together at the same time which probably won't happen very often but if you do you sometimes get other keys registering that you didn't even press it all it's infrequent and the reality is you're probably not spamming three keys at once together very often but it is a thing right now hopefully they patch it soon now if you want to get inside here it's really easy to kind of like enter the XPS products bunch of screws on the bottom pops right off and inside you have a removable drive which is great the rain has started on though don't love that and they've also gone with the killer Wi-Fi card again which I also don't love the battery life is not what I expected it's actually pretty big battery 75 watt hours but the battery life was short and I'm not sure if this is a software thing or a driver thing or something that can be improved over time but right now I'm getting around five hours of battery life at 215 it's on a 75 watt hour battery which is a little weird to me right I feel like on a device like this I would have expected like seven maybe eight pretty comfortably I'm getting five it's a solid performer it's running the I 787 zero 5g so the GPU pushes a really similar performance to a GTX 1050 maybe a little bit faster on some titles but most modern games can run your 60 frames per second if you lower the graphics quality bit it's good not mind-blowing though but keep in mind it's a thin and light 2 in 1 laptop see what the thermals there fair if you're expecting some crazy performance you're gonna be disappointed in benchmarks I'm not seeing any issues but if you play heavier games for long enough it can throttle they're using Gore material like the XPS 13 to help channel the heat away from the keyboard and away from the bottom panel so it's comfortable to use but if you wanted to pick up a machine for heavy gaming this is probably not the right one the video editing performance is also good it's not as good as like the new 6 core coffee like CPUs but it's pretty solid render times a little bit slower than a 6 core but the actual video editing experience is very similar it's a good device for that the fans come on more often than I'd like they're quiet under load but when you stress the system hard it does get loud okay I feel like Dell put a lot of effort and time into making this thing this isn't some kind of like half-ass or half-baked attempt that we see from other companies when it comes to two and one devices this is legit this is well engineered it's well thought out I don't love the battery life I hope it improves I feel like it will improve but aside from that this is a kick-ass device bear in mind though this is not for everyone if you're looking for like a traditional clamshell laptop the XPS 15 like the og one is gonna be a better option than this but if you're creative if your student if you're someone that wants the portability of something that's really diverse and can do a lot of different things and you travel frequently and you watch a lot of like media and watch a lot of movies while you're traveling this is really cool it's it's better for a lot of things that the XPS 15 can't do but if you're just looking for a clamshell device that just does your basic stuff XPS 15 oh gee version is a better choice okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time