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okay what's up everyone Eber here with Harbor connects and this is the XPS 13 9370 the successor to be very popular and successful XPS 13 9360 now at first glance you're not going to know some major difference between these two notebooks because dell hasn't changed anything significant in terms of the physical aesthetics but they've made a few tweaks here and there to make it look like the newer model and they've also changed the port situation so let's find out whether or not if this new notebook is the best notebook to buy in 2018 right after message from our sponsor welcome to you a new keyboard training first attach the magnetic wrist wrist it simply pops in don't forget about the USB pass-through port and the headphone jack to simplify your connectivity you were the boss of the meeting control which is right over here fiery red key caps are included because this is a gaming product with RGB perky all the nation and under the hood we've got cherry MX silver speed and blue switches 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accidentally miss certain keys while typing up something it's just a little bit more comfortable and faster to type with compared to the United 360 now the switch mechanism remains the same Dell hasn't done any upgrades in that department or you get the same tactile feedback along with the shorter distance it's great I have no complaints whatsoever the promise is made out of different materials on the rose gold variant of the XPS 13 9370 dell calls a glass fiber and it supposedly can resist stains over time but I personally can't validate that because I haven't had the chance to get my hands on with the rose gold Arian because it comes to the completely white interior but the model that I have over here is the standard silver and a gray or a silver model with the carbon fiber finish and it feels exactly the same compared to the 93-60 the same story goes for the trackpad you get the same Windows position drivers smooth finger navigation gesture control is just amazing on both these notebooks and having tested a variety of ultrabooks here in the office the track pads on the XPS 13 feel so much superior compared to the competition it's just one of the best in the market the dedicated fingerprint reader has been relocated to the power button it's a subtle change and I liked it I had no issues logging into the device it was pretty quick and unlocking so that's nice moving on to the i/o and that's what threw me off on the new XPS 13 laptop so on the left hand side you get two types each at about three ports each of which share four lanes of PCI Express compared to two lanes on the older models and that's a little bit of a performance improvement if you decide to plug in an external GPU you also get a battery indicator which is nice and switching over to the right-hand side you got your headphone / mic jack a Type C DisplayPort connector and a micro SD card reader now to put this in perspective the older laptop it comes with a full sized SD card slot it comes with two USB type A ports and it comes with the rest of the connection so you only lose you only get a single Thunderbolt three port but that's okay but my question is why has Dell I mean why do they decide to eliminate Type A ports and a full sizes you card reader I get the point that they tried to make the notebook as slim as they could I mean it's a little bit slimmer compared to the older model but it's not significant they both weigh roughly about the same I'm not noticing a huge difference in that part but really it's just it's so disappointing to see Dell illuminate those crucial ports I mean they have included at this dongle that's a Type C 2 USB 3.0 port but if you think about it if you decide to if you want to plug in like some drives or something like that I would have to connect this to this dongle right here and then attach this to the laptop to take full advantage or even just get this whole thing up and running and to me that's just that's the big that's a big no because I'm not willing to carry tangles around just because you know this can easily be misplaced and you'd be stuck out of nowhere because you can't really plug in hard drives or devices even your wireless mouse that has a USB receiver into into the numeric model because it just it's not gonna work you need a dongle for it to work it's frustrating I really wish if they kept the full-size type-a port I mean at least give us one now the positive side charging this laptop requires the same type C connector so that's pretty nice if you want to plug in an external power bank to charge this up you can definitely do that the same story goes with the older laptop you can still use the single type C port to charge the notebook which is great but you know I just really wished if they included type-a ports the display hasn't changed drastically it's the same 13.3 inch 1080p IPS display you can still off to get a 4k option through the Dells website the color reproduction is fantastic viewing angles are just on par with what you would expect from an IPS panel one thing to note is that the screen brightness is only at 400 nits so just like the previous model you won't get the best visibility outdoors and I really wish that they improved that on the newer model now as I mentioned earlier you could choose to go with a 4k display on the XPS 13 but I personally wouldn't recommend that simply because 1080p is just perfect for the size you don't have to worry about scaling within windows and most importantly it helps a lot with battery life now the only thing you would lose going with the 1080p display his touch support so if you want to have a touch screen you obviously have to opt for the 4k display but I don't see myself using touch on notebook it just doesn't make any sense I'm much better off using a trackpad speaking of which is I mean it's great just using the keyboard in the trackpad so that's something to keep in mind now before you get into pricing and performance I want to quickly touch base on Dell mobile connect so this is a seamless wireless integration between your smart phone and your laptop now this feature is only available exclusively on Dell notebooks particularly the recent ones that have been purchased this year Dell working on supporting older pcs and just FYI Mobile Connect still works on the 93-60 because it still features the agency PU what's fascinating about this feature is the ability to send and receive text messages and by that I mean SMS messages along with taking or receiving phone calls directly from the notebook the cherry on top of that is that it doesn't require a Wi-Fi connection but if you are connected to a network you can remotely access your smart phone with a few clicks and it works really well say for example if you want to check Instagram or whatsapp messages this is a great feature to take advantage of the setup process is actually fairly straightforward so all you have to do is download Dells Mobile Connect app from the Microsoft Store and then download the drivers which they direct to you right away and this establishes a connection between your smartphone and notebook and you'll be up and running in no time I do see myself taking advantage of this feature especially when I'm traveling or even when I'm here in the office here and there when I have my smartphone in the living room and I forgot to if I want to send a quick text message I can use this notebook without a problem and it'll work right away ok so let's discuss pricing on these notebooks so the 93-60 starts at $7.99 and the 9370 which is the new model starts at $9.99 so it's a $200 difference between the two models now here's the most interesting part the model that I have over here comes with an i-5 8250 hue processor it's a fork or a third CPU and comes with a gigabytes of RAM and a 256 gigabyte PCI Express nvme SSD now I can figure the exact same specs on the 9360 and the price point was pretty much the exact same at 11:49 so that to me was a lot of interesting of course Dell has these sales going on often so you could end up picking up these notebooks at a cheaper rate but it is interesting you're not gonna be losing a lot in terms of performance or specs when you decide to go for both these notebooks because remember you can still pick up the older laptop with an eighth generation processor you're not losing a lot in terms of performance if you want to pick up the rose gold and white variant of the newer model but you're gonna have to pay an extra $50 so that's something to keep in mind one of the things I wanted to test that was the filmic performance on the newer XPS 13 notebook because with the older model in 93-60 I saw temperature CP temperatures going as far as 95c under full load which was a little concerning because all Dell did would the own laptop was switch the seventh generation processor with an a generation CPU and they were using the exact same cooling solution which wasn't efficient enough to cool the new processor switching over to the newer model Dell has implemented a thermal core solution which is better and efficient a cooling solution which provides better thermal conductivity to reduce CP temperatures and the results do really do speak for themselves so we saw CP temperatures idling around 32 C compared to 40 4c on the older model and of course low temps under my full 15 min at a 64 stress test I saw CPU temperatures going as far as 86 degree Celsius compared to 95 degrees Celsius on the Ottoman older models so definitely a great improvement in that part I did manage to monitor frequencies while performing tasks during idle the CPU did get from for 2.5 to 3 point 4 gigahertz which is right on par with the specs unfortunately during my height of 64 stress test I did notice CPU frequencies only going as far as 2.6 gigahertz which is still respectable it's not a throttling under one point if you Hertz it's right on par with the specs but just keep in mind that don't expect 3.5 gigahertz on all cores during a full load test because the cooling solution is just not capable enough to hit those frequencies especially in this slim form factor another thing to point out is the acoustic performance on the newer notebook has improved drastically so with the older model I didn't notice fan speeds ramped up quite often even during idle scenarios I could literally just hear the fans all of a sudden it just boosts all the way to 100% whereas with the newer model it stays completely quiet you only hear the fans when you're you know stress testing something or if you're loading up a project or if you're doing any heavier tasks that's when you can sort of hear the fans last but not least performance and honestly you're not going to see a huge difference between these two processors they are the exact same for core and thread CPUs with one featuring higher boost frequencies but thinking about it the older model can't really reach that frequency considering its lackluster cooling solution switching over to gaming and that's where things get even more interesting so take a look at three mark cloudy for instance this certainly looks a little bit weird I mean the i5 processor outperforming the i7 at some thing that we have not come across same story goes with overwatch so I did notice the XPS 13 9370 featuring high 5 processor averaging around seventy five point nine frames per second compared to sixty seven point six frames per second on the older model featuring an i7 processor I ran these tests multiple times just to make sure they were consistent and that was true and I was sort of wondering to myself what was really going on so what I did is I loaded up gpu-z on both these notebooks I locked the GPU core frequencies a while gaming and interestingly enough I noticed that the i7 model with the integrated HD graphics the core clock the GPU core clock was only going as far as the 900 megahertz compared to 1050 megahertz on the newer model so this certainly has to do with a thermal solution on the newer model and how improved and efficient it is which is why it's giving us that extra FPS boost in gaming so that to me is just amazing I just want to quickly go over battery life on the newer XPS 13 models so they all decided to go with a 52 watt hour battery on the newer model compared to 60 watt hours on the 93 60 and interestingly enough I didn't notice a major difference or a dip in terms of battery life on the newer model as you can see with my idle test which is basically refreshing a Chrome web page on a loop 15 seconds the new model lasted 11 hours and 35 minutes compared to 10 hours and 7 minutes on the XPS 13 90 360 featuring an i7 processor so for my performance and power efficiency standpoint again it's a lot better opting for the i5 processor now under heavy load this is where things get a little bit interesting so I ran real bench on a loop until the battery was completely depleted and we see the XPS 13 93-60 lasted around three hours compared to two hours and 21 minutes on the newer model and I think part of this has to do with the lower capacity on the newer model compared to you know 60 watt hours on the older model so that's something to keep in mind so to conclude is the new XPS 13 9370 the best notebook to buy in 2018 or is it the best number or is it worth upgrading from the older model so if you have own or if you currently own the XPS 13 93-60 with an A generation processor I don't think it's worth upgrading simply because you're not getting a lot into performance and the design is pretty much identical the one thing that I would recommend doing is replacing the thermal compound to see if you can actually reduce those temperatures in some cases it does work so that's something that you could look into although be mindful that it could avoid it could void your warranty but that's a topic for another video but if you're coming from an XPS 13 featuring a sixth generation processor or a seventh generation processor or even any other Ultrabook or if you're shopping for an ultrabook in 2018 and the XPS 13 the newer model is certainly worth looking into simply because the design is more refined it features an a generation CPU which is faster especially when it comes to multitasking stuff and the thermal solution is definitely a lot improved compared to the 93-60 and that's awesome lack of USB type-a ports and a full sized SD card reader is definitely deal-breaker to me because if I want to transfer media from my camera to the notebook I can't really do that I have to I have to sort of rely on an external solution or a dongle or an adapter and I'm not willing to take that as of right now but if you're okay with that you should definitely look into this because it's definitely a great notebook to buy and I'm gonna wrap it right there I want to hear your thoughts on the new XPS 13 19 370 what do you guys think about it do you think Dell improved or do you think delq have done better in terms of the design and of course what are your thoughts on the temperatures and of course the performance would you actually opt for you an for an i5 processor or an i7 processor let me know the comments down below I'm Eva with hardware connects thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one