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hey guys jon rettinger from technobuffalo here I've had the dell adamo XPS for just about a week when I first got it in for testing i had two initial concerns the first was typing how was type and going to work in different environments with that weird slanted keyboard well i did a video showing how it worked on a desk on a couch in a chair and while it was on your lap and suddenly typing on the keyboard wasn't a concern it actually was a very pleasant experience the next big war ii i had was performance with an ultra-low voltage chip traditionally they're not known for any sort of graphics output or the capability to handle significant amount of HD video and I'll under no illusions that I'm going to be able to play 3d games on here I'm not that big of a pc gamer anyway but watching HD video is very important both on hulu and youtube so i want to make sure that the adamo XPS could handle that sort of got right here is going to be a demonstration of how that works i'm recording the screen directly from a camera i didn't want to use a screen recording program so i wanted you to be able to see what the processor could do on its own without having to run any sort of screen capture program so let's go over some specs before we start it's a running an intel core 2 duo cpu it's the you 9400 at one point 4 gigahertz it's got four gigs of ddr3 RAM surrounding a 64 64 bit operating system of course that's a Windows Home Premium seven and it's sitting on top of a hundred twenty eight gigabytes solid-state drive so that one ran the windows performance windows experience index let's see what the scores shut down to sew a 3.2 is the score overall but the score is based on the lowest number so for processor we got a 4.2 which is not bad for memory we got a 5.2 for graphics we got a 3.2 this using intel integrated graphics gaming graphics 3.2 in primary hard disk not surprising a very strong 6.7 due to that solid state drive let's go ahead and start opening up some youtube and hulu and we'll see how all that works out i'm going to open up here as well the task managers you can see how far are and how tax the processor is just sort of sitting here and doing general stuff hovering around fifteen percent just with this open up opened up nothing else is really open here the exception of Google notifier so we will open up YouTube and we'll check out an HD video go to web to my youtube channel and we'll check out say it's fitting the unboxing of the adamo XPS can see the number right in a corner as far as a process being used so this year for playing on a standard playing on certain budget standard video it jumps up to about forty percent now if we take a you know regular video and we make it full screen I can we will see the processor but it plays pretty smoothly there's no skipping or jumping in standard data resolution the audio is sunk up nicely it's like watch by any other computer now what happens if we bump this up to high def so we'll go from 322 480 and right now worry about forty four percent let's see what happens so you do see a jump definitely one for that 44 range of 65 but it is still playing very smoothly no hiccups no jumps looks very good certainly you're more than capable of handling 420p video now this one goes up to 720p let's see how it handles 720 thinking about it and there it goes now it jumps up not as much but definitely goes up high now we're sort of hovering around the high 70s low 80s I'll jump to 90 now I'm back up to it one hundred percent and then it falls back down so it does play and again it plays very smooth but you're definitely taxes taxing the processor let's skip to where there's some some actor you can see that it's relatively fluid here not on full screen let's go ahead and fullscreen us and see how it looks so it's playing at full screen it looks very smooth I'm not seeing any jumping or pixilation or any loss of frames it looks just like it would on any laptop without a club super ultra low voltage chip so I'm your servant standard core 2 duo it looks very nice it's very capable it's certainly taxing the processor though quite a bit playing that so here we are now it's still playing 720 and we're now we're about 80% let's say you want to do something else so you have a microsoft word document open in the background how is that going to kill your process that can affect everything going to open that up just minimizing here now we're up at a hundred percent and things are still playing smoothly even though we're at well now we drop down to 80 we haven't experienced any loss of frame rate jump around so as far as having one program open we're still okay what if we've got a couple tabs over here so we'll go to how it just go to CNN a few times what happens well still seem to be playing smoothly I'm starting to see a little bit of jumping there looks like i had a catch up so you start to see a little bit of choppiness now although we did catch up and things are back to being smooth but it wasn't a completely seamless transition what if we go fullscreen now with word and a couple tabs open so it still is playing smooth it's not as smooth as it was it's there's a tad bit of chopping us and I'm noticing but it's definitely watchable so go ahead and close it so the moral with YouTube at least is that this is a very capable computer for streaming youtube video you can have you got to be careful what you have open you can't have you know I am Microsoft Word Excel and five or six programs open while you're streaming HD video fullscreen it's just not going to cut it but if you're sure of selective about how you do it the adamo XPS can more than handle it so let's jump things over to hulu and i'll shut down everything else so we sort of ran during our tests i will see how this plays streaming content from hulu so we immediately jumped back down there to thirty six or eight nine percent let's go ahead and pick clip the clip from saving office so just standard definition and see how it plays we're gonna get a commercial beforehand i think so it is play nice and smooth the audios turned down but the audio does sync up quite nicely in the audio is not an issue the only issues that i ever experienced when things did get choppy was just in the video Department so I've guys been for Disney right now we're still at about thirty six percent so we're pretty low it so what's a video plays we're going to jump up so about sixty fifty percent it seems to hover down doubts back to 43 no loss of fidelity whatsoever it seems that hulu is actually less resource of intensive than youtube was kind of interesting let's go ahead and up the content here up the sides we'll go ahead and make this full screen no problem things like nice and smooth no loss of video fidelity all right what if we up this to right now at 420p or go to 420 p so that was high resolution that worked pretty well now we're a little bit lower and if we want to you know go full screen here we're able to play it no problem so what if we have word open again let's say we got a cup of tabs sitting here let's CNN a few times you know sort of standard South you know if you have an IM program of flint river it might be let's see how that taxes the processor so we're still at about forty percent and we're watching this still in HD we can kick it over to 320 but video fidelity is still quite good we're a bit high at seventy percent let's see if it does full screen no jump it up video quality looks fantastic so the moral here looks to be that hulu is more resource efficient than youtube and this is a very capable laptop for doing almost everything i've actually been really impressed with the chip they put in here especially in such a small thin package it's extremely capable of handling really every day to day tasket i've thrown at it I've even done some light video editing on it as well and it's handled it like a champ so if you were worried about how the adamo XPS is going to be with HD video you can put those fears and worries at rest and you can enjoy your computer so it will be more dell adamo XPS coming up so stay tuned to the channel for all of that and of course technobuffalo i'm jon rettinger and i'll see you in the next video bye bye you