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yes I've been using this laptop for a couple months now and I guess it's probably about time I did a review first and foremost to talk about build quality is part of Dell XPS premium lineup and it feels like a flagship laptop one of my favorite things about this computer though is the screen it's one of the best looking screens I've ever seen on a laptop it comes in a resolution a little under 4k at 3200 by 1800 there's also a 1080p variant color vibrant everything is detailed and crisp and clear it's perfect for editing photos watching movies playing games any sort of content consumption it's going to look great on this device and the cool thing about it it's pretty much bezel is all the way around with five point two millimeters bezels on the tops inside those going this is a small 13 inch to and went on the market right now and the form factor is probably one of the most appealing things to me this is a great travel computer John I went to San Francisco a few months back I think the computer ought to be there now the first time I ever traveled with it since then I've taken with me on pretty much every other trip because it's such a great laptop for what I'm on the go it's lightweight comes in at 2.7 pounds a small form factor makes it really easy to get in and out of my backpack when going through security that's four different modes and you can fold it in there's a traditional tablet mode where you're holding it like a notebook you can also set it down like a kickstand and pull the screen up which is great for watching movies and you're on the plane drop down the tray table set it up the other one too is tent mode where you prop it up one things I wanted to see you there putting it into tablet mode I actually be able to trick some of flight attendant so I could actually use it before you're taking off and in the ticket process on the way there is then we get away with actually keeping it in this mode on the return trip one of the flight attendants spent a little bit of time inspecting my computer and determine that it was actually a laptop after all so I had to put it away that may be of interest to some of you guys that might be using this laptop primarily for travel the hinge is nice and sturdy doesn't feel wobbly or cheap I mean you could pretty much hold the laptop out like this and the screen will stay out on its own so that's really nice so it feels durable zoom embodied laptop feels really well put together very sleek and smooth the interior laptop has carbon fiber a going all around the keyboards nice and smooth it feels comfortable definitely great to type on so let's go comes with a fingerprint reader I didn't find myself using it too much but fast and responsive my preferential waive unlock the computer is using Windows hello I really like using a retina scanner to basically just look at the computer and immediately be logged into my profile let's talk about iOS this computer only comes with USB see we're all kind of moving towards that but if you're an early adopter you're probably gonna need some dongles it comes with you we see the type-a adapter so you will have one of those and the charging cable itself is also USB see it's porcelain of all three and also has a display port on the other side another thing to also keep in mind is that this computer only has a micro SD card reader there's also a headphone jack here and you have a small battery power indicator as well so let me talk a little bit more about this tablet feature the computer that's one of the biggest selling points I think of this device is the fact you can fold it over and you have a stylus and you can use this really nice display of the touchscreen as a writing device I thought it'll be really great for students that need to take notes in class my use cases we were we're doing a spider-man shoot over at the YouTube space I went in and use it furnish the length of a shoot as a thing to take notes on I had my shot lists on there I don't know if it's something that would use on a day to day basis but I really like the features there besides it's really responsive and works well and generally just like having the touch screen it's a really nice feature to have just because sometimes much easier is tap on the screen to select what you're looking for rather than having to navigate with a mouse or using the trackpad holding it back into a tablet activates Windows tablet mode I tried that a little bit personally I'm not a big fan of it for some of you guys that maybe you've been using other windows tablets in the past that might not be a concern for you but it is just there basically the idea around is that make some Windows interface options a little bit more friendly to touch screen use overall I found that I was able to use traditional windows just fine in this set up let's talk a little about performance day to day use it handled everything perfectly fine and that's just typical watching movies web browsing taking notes Word documents and so on I did a little bit like Amy on here plays a person own there's no dedicated GPU it's actually using Intel HD 615 graphics chip those relatively well for lightweight titles I wouldn't expect you to be playing far cry on here crisis or anything like that it's too intensive just keep that in mind if it's not I mean most you guys probably looking this laptop or not using it for gaming primarily but if you wanted to play a few games on there know that they can but it's not going to be the best option for that for this particular review unit we're using Intel 7th gen i7 processors 8 gigs of ram in this one but that can be upgraded 16 and then we have the 256 gigabyte SSD but that can also be upgrade to a terabyte let's talk a little bit about battery that's the most part it does relatively well it's able ops me throughout the whole day when I took it traveling I didn't have any Jews didn't have to plug it in had enough power to watch the movie on the flight San Francisco a little bit of work in between while we were there ingesting footage watching all the clips that we shot from that day and then being able to watch a movie on the way back I've still left with a good 30 percent the one thing that I did fine is a standby time on the laptop isn't the greatest so if I put my laptop away earlier in the week and got it out maybe like on a Thursday I found that generally had to plug it in because the battery be completely exhausted typing on the keyboard feels great it's very responsive it's pretty much what you expect from to any of the Dell XPS laptops if you've used other ones I've got backlighting which is really nice it looks great so in my couple months of using spots up I've really liked it a lot it's a great travel computer I've really been using it it's just between work and home because I'm usually using a desktop at those places but going on trips to San Francisco and other sort of media events that we have this has been excellent for content consumption I didn't find myself on the weekend sometimes just kicking back on the couch watching some movies and using this to spin the tablet mode responding email to take care of any other sort of over new taps that I have it starts at $9.99 which is a relatively competitive price point for laptops of these specs it goes all the way up to fifty 99 which is the model that we have so on all it's been a great travel computer I've really enjoyed using it on my trips if that's something you're looking for then definitely take a look at it hope you guys liked the video until next time I manage it from techni buffalo I'll catch you guys in the next one all right I'm ready for my close-up I know you've had a cure to the surgery because my persona supposed to be not trying to be I was trying to be the douchey tech okay how about a lot of those