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what's going on guys Ron Purita here from TechnoBuffalo and today I have a review for you guys of the Dell XPS 15 9 550 Signature Edition a lot to remember there but I'm very excited to review this laptop because it's pretty awesome right out the gate so a couple things I want to cover our pros cons neutrals and my overall impressions of a laptop but before we get to that first is a performance and the speed because it is a laptop it has to get work done has to a heavy duty work done can it do it so in terms of spec you're rocking a core i7 2.6 gigahertz processor from Intel it is very very fast and very capable we have 16 gigs of ram in this one we have 500 gigs of PCIe SSD storage which is all very very fast and we have a 2 gigabyte Nvidia graphics card which is 2 gigs of dedicated memory works very well is very fast and very capable I did a lot of video editing on it and it got through most 4k footage without too much problem or complication compared to something like a MacBook Pro I'd say it's definitely on par the 15-inch obviously in some cases actually a little bit faster I felt because CUDA works a little bit better with Adobe since they sort of embraced that but overall really really good in terms of performance moving on to the pros and cons things I really like on the front where you have your keyboard below the texture of the laptop is rubberized soft and does a great job it's very comfortable very easy for you to rest your wrist type very high quality feeling the texture is superb moving up a couple inches we have the keyboard and this is probably one of the best keyboards IV used to date nothing too crazy here good travel very flat great design and just works really well before I knew it I was typing very very quickly on it without much issue or many errors so good job from Dell they're a little odd maybe kind of a fetish thing that I really liked was the power button it has a physical pressable power button and the tactility behind it was really really nice just pressing it was really satisfying so take that for what you will and probably my favorite thing about this laptop is the screen it is nearly bezel less 4k absolutely stunning display just one of the best displays I've ever seen it is a touch screen I don't really use Windows 10 with the touch screen down often it just isn't optimized for my liking even in tablet mode the apps are still desktop app so I'm not a huge fan I use it for scrolling and stuff but not much else that being said the one inch I did see with the screen was stunning was it was a little oversaturated for my liking especially the Reds in certain colors would just pop a little too much that is for my liking but if you're just watching movies and doing a lot of content consumption you'll probably like this display I'll probably one of the best on the market for you now I did mention this is a touch screen and so credit to Dell because the hinge is pretty damn good here it's very firm and so you're not gonna have too much flex in the screen so if you do want to use Windows 10 with the touch screen if you do enjoy that experience on a laptop you will be able to do so here without too many issues it also is a battery indicator on the side which is great one button you can see what your battery life is like it's like on the old MacBook Pros or like on a multipack with the recent loss of the SD card slot on the new MacBook Pros I feel it's important to rejoice having an SD card slot here it's a really good SD card slot what I mean by a good SD card slot is the way it takes that ste card and how much of SD card is poking in or out so I'm using the last gen 15-inch MacBook Pros my daily driver and the SD card sticks out pretty far and there's always a fear of me slamming it on the side of a desk and breaking the SD card with this it's very solid hold the SD card in place and it goes in about 3/4 of the way so you don't have an SD card hanging off the edge again it's the small things that make a really good experience with a laptop like this ports a pretty standard here you have two USB 3 ports one Thunderbolt port your power you have a headphone out which is also your mic and you have an HDMI out so pretty much everything you're going to need moving on to cons the first thing I wasn't a huge fan of was a trackpad there's nothing really wrong with it but coming from a MacBook Pro where the entire trackpad is clickable having the bottom only click here on the Dell XPS was a little bit hard for me to get used to if you're coming from a similar trackpad it might not be an issue but I think they could have still done a better job one of the bigger issues that I ran into on a day-to-day basis was not having a lip under the screen it sounds like a really small complaint but every day when you go to open up your laptop you have to dig your nails under the screen to lift it up and even when you do that the whole bottom of the laptop comes up to is pretty annoying razor is one of the few companies along with Apple that's figured this out so to see it not here I don't know why it's so difficult to do it's pretty frustrating probably the worst part of this laptop are the speakers they're not good at all I don't know if it's because it's under the rubberized texture but they sound super muffled super bass heavy and just really not good so I recommend you bring pair of headphones or speakers with you one of the biggest things with a laptop is always the battery life according to Dell you get about 10 hours of battery life which is pretty on par with most laptops of this size however in my usage I did got nowhere near this bear in mind I'm doing hardcore video editing so I'm pushing the CPU and the GPU to its max at all times so I ran out of battery in like an hour using Adobe Premiere most of you will get somewhere probably between five to seven hours if you're very very frugal with your usage you can probably get to that ten hours I never even got close that's because of the type of work I was doing however expect from this laptop in the battery department what you would expect from most other laptops in this sort of region of the market and last but definitely not least if you're wondering what the Signature Edition means here's what it is it means the device comes with no bloatware no junk where it comes pre-installed antivirus software for the lifetime of the device and it means you have to buy from the Microsoft Store this is interesting and important because it's almost like Microsoft's version of what Google has done with Nexus devices and right out the gate I'm a big fan of it I think this is how the device is intended to be one of my biggest issues with Windows is you have to go through when you get a device uninstall a bunch of stuff and you run into popups and none of that here very smooth very fluid experience and makes Windows a much better pleasure to use than it normally would be with a bunch of extra stuff on it and so those are really my thoughts on the Dell XPS 15 this laptop is mainly for people who are looking for a hard core performance machine that looks kind of underrated I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic but it is a sleeper laptop you won't be tracking too much attention but you can definitely get everything you need to get done the touchscreen if you like that is a nice additional feature display is insanely amazing and if you compare to something like a 15-inch MacBook Pro it's considerably cheaper for similar specs and equal performance in my opinion you'll get it at about five to seven hundred dollars less depending on exactly how you configure the device there's obviously other laptops out there and we can do comparisons with those if you want to see that let us know in the comments down below give us a thumbs up if you liked this video and I'll see you guys the next one