- Hey everybody.
This is Roberto Blake of Robertoblake.com,
geeking out with you today over some new awesome gear
that I'm happy to introduce to the channel.
So, our friends over at Dell have reached out to me
and they wanted to send me something really cool
and new to review with you guys,
and they sent me the Dell XPS13 Ultrabook and I'm going
to show it off for you guys here on the channel now.
So Dell XPS 13 is actually pretty awesome
and I'm gonna tell you exactly what I'm gonna be
using it for.
Some of you actually might remember that
I've been doing a lot more public speaking
and travel lately, so that is something that has been
a struggle for me because my Aces laptop
is pretty freaking heavy when I have to combine that
with all of my camera gear and the stuff that I use
when I'm on the go, so having an Ultrabook just made sense.
Now, I was thinking about a Mac Book Air 13-inch
or a Mac Book Air 11-inch, but ultimately,
the things I'd never liked about those laptops
especially as a graphic designer and a photographer
or that if I got the 11-inch, I sacrificed an SD slot,
I sacrifice power, there's just so many
bottlenecks there, but it's a better form factor.
On the other hand, if I get the bigger screen
with the 13-inch, I do get the SD card slot,
but then I'm also getting some of the added weight.
There was just so many things that I had to consider
including the aspect ratio of the 13-inch
not really being comfortable for viewing video.
So, what I wanted was a laptop that didn't
have any compromises.
I was probably gonna end up settling for one or the other,
but now I don't have to.
Fortunately, Dell wanted to have somebody take
a good, hard look at this laptop that's actually doing work
in the real world on the go.
I'm doing video editing.
I'm doing photo editing.
I might have to do graphic design work
and while I typically would use a 15-inch laptop
for those things, because of my eyes,
having a 4K, yeah, a 4K
or at least a near 4K display on an Ultrabook,
that makes it a little easier to do that kind of work
on the go, especially for me when I don't
want to wear my glasses.
So this laptop means not compromising for me,
which is great.
It also means that I can still do all of my presentation
stuff on stage and have a really great Ultrabook
that is totally powerful and it's not gonna lag
and is capable of doing that because this has 16 Gigs,
you may not need that much, but I kinda do,
and it has an i7 processor, so I've got Quad Core.
That's why I can do things like Corel Video Editor here,
I can use the Adobe apps and it still can
actually be the brain child of my business.
So that just gives you some perspective on how
I've been using it.
What's the user experience been like?
Well, it is using Windows 10 and it does have
a touchscreen Gorilla glass display which is
actually really cool when you think about it.
And it weighs about 2.7 pounds, so it's comparable to
the 13-inch Mac Book Air when it comes to weight,
but it's packing a lot of power.
It's packing more power than any of the Mac Book Airs
ever could and it crushes them on the specs.
This has like, one terabyte SSD,
16 Gigs of RAM and it has the 4K display.
What else?
i7 Skylake processors from Intel.
So, I'm really happy with this.
One of the big major points for me, though
was the battery life.
I liked the idea of having an Ultrabook
with a lot of battery life
and we know that previously, the Mac Book Air
was dominating the battery life game,
but this particular laptop, the XPS 13
is actually very competitive there.
Now, my particular model, you're gonna get
12 hours of negative battery life out of this,
but with some of the other models,
you can get like, 18.
They also sent me the Dell Power Companion
and what that lets me do is,
it lets me get another 10 hours of battery life out of this
and it will also charge some of my other USB devices.
So that's pretty cool.
I'm gonna have a full review and breakdown for you guys,
but so far, so good with using this.
This is the new field commander in the army of awesome,
the little nickname that I have for the gear
that I use here, so I mean, I'm really enjoying this
and it's actually making a real impact for my business.
I find that being able to go out and work in the real world
is gonna be easier.
Travel's gonna be easier.
I actually did a photo shoot where I took this
and it was just so convenient to throw
this into my think tank photo bag
and just go out the door and not feel like
it was killing my shoulder.
So, yeah.
All of those things matter to me.
Now, while Dell sent this over,
these are my opinions and the thing is,
there are little things that I'm not thrilled with
about the laptop, but it is one of those things where
it's like the overwhelming majority of the good features
completely outweigh that and I'm really happy
with it so far.
I really don't think that I need a Mac Book Air now
unless I just want to review one
or I want to compare them, but the reality is
I do feel like this would just crush it
and so maybe we'll do that,
or maybe one of my friends that has a Mac Book Air
will want to come on the channel,
we'll do a, like collab or something like that
and we'll talk about it.
But anyway, this is a great Ultrabook
if you're somebody who is into PCs or doesn't care
about Mac versus PC and you want something on the go
that has power, productivity and no compromises.
This might be for you.
I'm gonna be taking this on the road with me
when I go speak at How Design Live in Atlanta,
which is like the biggest Design conference in the world
and now, I can comfortably know that
if a client needs me to do something last minute while
I'm on the road, or I decide that I want to do
the video editing from shooting interviews
while I'm there, I can just do it right here
from this laptop, edit my podcast,
whatever I want to do, I know that I have more
than enough power to do it.
Or, if I just want to kick back and watch some videos
and relax for a change,
yeah, I should do that more often.
Then, I actually can do it and watch it
on a 4K display.
So that's pretty awesome in my opinion.
So anyway, look forward to the full review.
Thanks again to our friends at Dell for sending this over.
This was tremendous and I can't wait to really get into
the hard core stuff with you guys and I actually
might do a real-world review of what
the rendering capabilities are for this
for video editing, cause I know some of you
are curious about that.
Anyway, I have links for this laptop
in different configurations and also some of the accessories
that I'm using with that Dell sent over.
So you can check those out in the description.
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If you have questions about picking an Ultrabook
for whatever you're doing,
go ahead and leave those in the comment section.
I'll try and answer as many of them as I can.
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As always you guys, thanks so very much
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over the new, Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook.