- Hey everybody.
This is Roberto Blake of RobertoBlake.com
geeking out with you today over the XPS 13
from Dell.
So our friends over at Dell sent over this great
Ultrabook, the Dell XPS 13, for me to review
and to show off to you guys.
I want to cover my top five favorite features
of this laptop today.
So my first and probably the best feature
in my opinion, of this laptop, is the near 4K display
and the fact that it's touchscreen and Gorilla glass.
This is something that ultimately helps
make it a Mac Book Air killer in my opinion
because Mac Book Air is currently in 2016.
And we're in the beginning of 2016,
they still do not have retina display.
They're the only Apple product without retina
at this point.
So, I'm really satisfied with the fact that this has
a 4K or at least a near 4K display.
So that's tremendous and it's Gorilla glass
and touchscreen.
So that's fantastic and something that Mac Book Air
is just not doing.
Why does this matter?
Well, it helps with the 13-inch display,
the 11-inch form factor and you when you wanna use
video writing or graphic design applications
or really, just watching great video,
that actually matters and is very cool.
As for the touchscreen,
the Adobe applications have been optimized
for touchscreen, so if you're a graphic designer like me,
when I'm doing work on the go or when I'm at a conference,
that actually matters.
So I can do client work on the go and take advantage
of those features.
My second favorite feature on this laptop
is the Thunderbolt 3 port that this has.
This is tremendous because we get lightning fast speeds.
So if I were to actually hook this up to something
like my doc from Lexar,
I can do high transfer speeds for video editing files.
I can also use super fast portable hard drives
with this and just transfer data.
So for photography, video editing, graphic design,
all those things matter and it's very cool.
The Thunderbolt port also works for displays
so if you want to display stuff in 4K,
then that's gonna be super helpful for you.
They also do have USB 3 ports and actually
have the Dell link, the universal link that actually lets
me hook this up to different displays
using either VGA or HDMI.
So I'm really happy with this in terms
of the Thunderbolt 3 port as well as the USB ports
that it has.
My third favorite feature of this laptop
is the fact that it can support up to
16 Gigs of RAM and that's what actually
is on the model that I have.
Now that might be overkill for some of you,
but you gotta remember,
on the go, when I'm traveling,
I'm going to events,
I'm going to conferences.
I'm shooting video.
I'm shooting photo, and so the ability to actually
have 16 Gigs of RAM available to me
is tremendous for my productivity.
Some of you may not need that in an Ultrabook,
but the thing is,
with Mac Book Air and a lot of other ones,
it's not even an option.
So Dell is not making us compromise
on productivity and overall power when it comes
to this laptop.
So the 16 Gigs of RAM, that is a huge feature for me.
Speaking of compromises, this talks about
my fourth feature.
Power.
This thing is a power house.
It lasts forever and so you can
get like 12 hours of battery life from my particular model
but from a lot of the other ones
like the ones that don't have the 4K display
and are just HD, you get up to 18 hours
and if you're actually using the Dell Power Companion,
you'd know a whole 'nother 10 hours out of it.
So, I need a full workday out of this laptop
without charging and I've used it in the real world
in that scenario.
I will say that the more applications and the heavier
stuff that you use, like Adobe products
and everything like that, that number is gonna go
down just depending on your settings.
So just be aware of that but,
that's gonna happen with any Ultrabook
including the Apple Mac Book Airs,
so just keep those things in mind.
My fifth and final favorite feature
of this lapop is the i7 Processor from Intel.
Now, the reason that this is important
is because having RAM is great,
but processing power becomes the bottle neck
of a lot of things we do as creative people.
So for me, that makes a huge difference
'cause again, I'm doing photography and video editing,
and different things like that.
It may not matter as much to you.
I also like the fact that with this Ultrabook,
I'm very much inclined to want to multi-task.
I actually use it to run my day to day business
so I've got a bunch of browser tabs open.
I've got a lot of different applications
I wanna switch between,
so having the i7 Skylake processors,
I'm being able to do all that
multi threading on the back end.
That makes a huge difference in my overall
productivity and my comfort level in using
this laptop for heavy lifting and doing stuff
day to day, hour to hour.
And if you're traveling and you need to do that
sort of thing and you're in a crunch,
that can be super helpful as well
to just know that you have power to spare.
So, I love that and the other cool thing is,
it means that I can listen to podcasts
and things like that or having YouTube videos,
audio playing in the background and know that
my other applications are not suffering for it.
So, I think all those things are very cool
and that is why I love the Dell XPS 13
and I just want to thank Dell for sending
this over for me to review and to share it
with you guys because I like being able to review
different products, give you guys answers
in the real world about solutions and show you
just how I'm running my business.
So when sponsors reach out and send great
products like these, I'm able to do that and help
to just educate you guys more about how
I'm running things day to day here.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
If you have questions about the Dell XPS 13
or about how to buy a laptop in general,
go ahead and let me know in the comment section.
I'll try and answer your questions.
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