hey pc world fans gord nung here at dell's booth checking out
some really big news this is the ultra portable laptop the world goes gaga for
the new i'm not going to show it to you yet because your surprise xps 13 plus
you of course are familiar with the xps 13 you know it you love it this is the plus and why
is it a plus because this is a completely new xps 13. obviously that thing is going to catch you no
visible track pad there's actually an integrated track pad in the middle it's got haptic feedback
in the center but it is a completely smooth surface all the way across there's no seam to
catch your palm and the other thing that's going to catch your eye this there is a virtual function
set up for the xps 13 plus lets you do volume brightness all that stuff you're used to you want
to do function mode you press the function key voila switches over to function mode two features
function normal mode volume mute all that stuff of course there's touch it's a 1610
aspect ratio screen inside 12th gen intel alder lake mobile part i think this one is a
six plus six i'm not exactly sure which which cpus in this model it's a core i5 1205p looks
like about 12 or 14 cores i don't know they're giving you a lot of them iris xe graphics lp ddr5
for memory so it's soldered down of course this particular model on the xps 13 plus
is an m.2 gen4 capability but here's the other thing um ports this side thunderbolt 4 port and
pay close attention internet i'm going to flip it around the other side thunderbolt 4 port you can
charge from both of them there is a new 65 watt charger that comes with this it's tiny doesn't use
a captive cable but of course you're going well i missed it what are you talking about gordon
there's no headset jack on here dell has decided not to put a headset jack on here
and i know you're going to say well they just did this to piss me off but that's not really the
reason why there are real legitimate engineering reasons there's just not space for it and there
is a real engineering reason they made that compromise and said we're not going to do it
we're sorry but you know we're looking at ways maybe give you a dongle maybe we give you a usb
c uh headset in the box but uh clearly there's no uh analog headset jack on here also different
windows hello capable so you can log in with the biometrics on top but previous windows
hello cameras had a combo ir and rgb camera dell says you know what those don't really look great
when the light is low so we have actually separated the rgb sensor from the ir sensor
so the image quality picks up it's still 720p but it should definitely look better than the previous
windows hole cameras you see everywhere of course there is an integrated fingerprint reader in the
power button which is here you get your sort of very beautiful integrated buttons and of course
this is done to save space because if you have physical buttons that you have to push that's
going to take up z height the thickness of the laptop 2.7 pounds here and i do want to mention
i talked about the keyboard this is a mechanical dome keyboard there's no more maglev on this
lineup it looks like for now anyway but it's a full one millimeter travel xps keyboard underneath
fairly minimal venting but the surprise about that is dell is saying this is a full-on 28
watt part in here so we're not talking about performance here i don't have that information
yet dell doesn't isn't really sharing that with us but at a full 28 watts and this thin at 2.7 pounds
i got a feeling it might be faster than what a lot of people think it's going to be like
so but xps 13 available in this really lovely sort of dark charcoal color
also white actually the white really shows off the just the lack of that trackpad and of course
it is haptic again available soonish i don't have the price uh you know about the memory the lpddr5
gen4 ssd m.2 you know it's a 1610 aspect ratio alder lake iris xc graphics and of course just
drop dead sexy i mean you look at this thing this looks like a laptop from the future with an actual
usable keyboard that you can type on not just the made up stuff you see in the movies that would be
a pain to use so check out more information on pc world for the xps 13 plus when it's announced