Gordon what we got here hey Adam this is Lenovo's dell XPS 15 killer yes it's a
ThinkPad but it is called the ThinkPad x1 extreme what you get is a 15.6 inch
panel classic classic corporate Jack Donaghey styling for the ThinkPad black
rubberized finish black rubber deck you got your think pad nub I love these
things if you've ever used when it's great to have it but if you don't you
get the trackpad too so you get both I actually like both there's actually a
Windows hello camera infrared integrated somewhere oh sorry up there up there and
we get a fingerprint reader if you like the fingerprint reader it's really nice
let's do the ports we're gonna go you're gonna get I'm just gonna show you that I
want to unplug the power you get to Thunderbolt threes classic ThinkPad
weird shaped square charger port HDMI 2.0 a analog headset jack also this of
course is the custom we're not really custom but very rare lenovo only
ethernet port you get a dongle that basically plugs directly in a
motherboard so it's like PCI or PCIe rather than a lot of Gigabit Ethernet
that runs through USB a lot of corporate types like that because you do
wake-on-lan or you need to wake up outside the operating system let's let
you do it Lenovo that's a little noble thing basically check this out though
let's do this other side to Taipei's SD card reader a smart card reader and know
this is actually Kensington lock and this I like this oh and I like to be
able to so it just lays flat not threesome lays flat not 360 but that's a
really nice touch there's just times when you need to move
the screen back a lot of normal laptops right here's the here's the Mac current
MacBook Pro 15 here's the XPS 15 that's as far as they go this baby goes all the
way to the back once and the balls check that out it's actually a nice feature
but you want to know what's inside of this why is this called the XPS 15
killer by Lenovo and the press which is often wrong inside core i7 8850
h which is a slightly up clock six core coffee-like
H CPU I can give you the actual clock differences lets you so uh I should have
hands up so turbo 4.3 base 2.6 compared to the
8750 H which you see in most coffee like H laptops like the XPS 15 although there
is a core on ion option 2.2 base 4.1 turbo of course you know none of this
really means anything if the laptop can't keep it cool keep it running
also this laptop itself is just the baller version I can't even find it on
Lenovo's website the 16 gig 512 gign with 4k panel and touch and this is
touch is about $3,200 this one has a one terabyte PM 981 and yes 32 gigs of ram
nice for graphics you get a geforce gtx 1050 TI max Q so this 1050 TI max Q
which is probably a little bit faster than a TI little bit faster than the
1050 slower than a TI so it's like a 1055 that's basically the same thing
that you're gonna get in the Dell and of course I don't remember what they've
been in the the MacBook I think it's a Radeon rx 560 in this particular version
Radeon Pro with the core and I'm is that the core the core 9 this is of course is
the famous core 989 50 HK and as we know doesn't do so great in the MacBook Pro
15 it hasn't really changed it doesn't keep it cool the one thing I do want to
point out about this think pad that I really love this laptop is about 4
pounds so that's about 4 to 5 ounces lighter than the XPS 15 which doesn't
sound like a lot but it feels in your hands really light it's basically like
in the MacBook Pro 15 which I would argue the reason why the performance on
the MacBook Pro 15 kind of sucks on the CPU side is this lighter you know 4
ounces is a lot of metal you're gonna leave out a laptop
so the fact that they can get this with 4k and touch which adds a layer of glass
adds weight 32 gigs of ram plus a one terabyte drive 4 pounds that's pretty
spectacular so I gotta hand it to you this is not gonna this is gonna be
really nice in your bag those 4 to 5 ounces make a big difference but what
about perform is so for performance let's check this out
so I actually because I want to shorten this for you I just earlier ran
Cinebench r15 set to a single thread that tests how high that CPU will turbo
up on very light loads although it is a 3d rendering benchmark I think it gives
you a really good idea of how a laptop will do in Chrome in Excel and word for
the most tasks that people do that are just simply single threaded you do an
mp3 encoding the time it's a single thread so what we're gonna see is the
performance how high these laptops can hold their clock
8850 pretty good of course it is a faster CPU
8850 H is higher than 8750 H by a few clocks we see a score of 185 that's what
I would expect that's pretty good here is the XPS 15 with a core i7 87 58
remember a little bit lower clock by decision by Intel so you get the lower
clock speed on those single thread those light threads once somebody for not a
huge amount though is it gonna really make a difference probably not and of
course we got the Mac here not bad 183 is pretty good but when you consider
that this is the highest clock Intel Core i 9 part it's a little
underwhelming that basically the core i7 8850 H is as fast as the court core I
989 50 H K that's on them though but I want to run this in multi thread you
want to know how these are gonna do if you run video encoding 3 rendering those
things that will use all the threads on these six core coffee link H parts let's
kick these two off first and then now I'm gonna kick off the mad
I'm doing this because this is only gonna take a few seconds run as you can
see we are cranking up all the cores I want to see which one's gonna be faster
I think 8850 eights got a good should be pretty
good but XPS 15 has really been a shocker in the performance it really
it's actually slightly faster than the Razer Blade 15 a gaming laptop in CPU
loads so I want to see if it'll actually keep up with the 8850 H which you know
is technically a higher clock and of course we're gonna see what the Mac gets
at any second I don't think we're gonna be overwhelmed there okay eleven fifty
nine out of the ThinkPad x1 extreme that is 1179 from that core i7 88 58 very
very respectable you got to give it to it four pound laptop almost 1200 in
Cinebench let's see what the XPS 15 got BAM and this is why Dells XPS 15 is a
contender it is a contender Dell takes this laptop they push it really hard we
have one thousand we're sorry what twelve hundred and thirteen points in
Cinebench and all thread load remember this is a lower clock CPU even though
the ThinkPad technically has a higher clock if you can't hold it because of
thermals it doesn't really help you so the XPS 15 doing really well not enough
to really make a difference we're not locked there's basically a tie right but
but damn that's pretty good for the Dell also pretty good for the ThinkPad
because you remember it's for about 4 to 5 ounces lighter with touchscreen and 4k
panel and of course oh it's still running oh sorry I messed this up no I
thought I unchecked it to over do over this really I don't think it's totally
fair on the MacBook because we were running an earlier load about 926 but I
gotta say I have seen the best score out of the MacBook Pro 15 on a cold you know
like fresh from boot machine totally dead cold about 980 so it's generally
always been slower than the XPS 15 it's definitely slower than do you think that
x1 extreme just a limitation of the MacBook Pro it
is pretty light this is lighter than the ThinkPad extreme by just a little bit 4
pounds but it also is thinner it's definitely a little bit thinner let's
actually close these and see what's the thinnest unplug these people like to
thin this now of course it's actually pretty damn close it's pretty close
right it's yeah this one kind of tapers up tapers off you know and you got to
remember though you got the feet like if you really wanted to see how thick these
babies are you can sort of flip them over right yeah they're about the same
not a huge difference you know about 4 ounces though still very impressive for
the ThinkPad let's see if I can see what the cooling is can is here the cooling
is inside there I see one fan to fan so two fans I can see at least one probably
similar to the XPS 15 I think it's a dual heat pipe with two fans on the
edges of course you know again I know if it likes a bag on the MacBook Pro I do
as well but it is it is just thin let's turn this baby over to now once you turn
it over you get the feed out of there then in light it is just stupidly thin
that's apples thing if you want to give up your performance on CPU and GPU to
get this thin pay that's good for you that's that's where to go but pure CPU
performance ThinkPad x1 it's gonna rock its world same as the
XPS 15 so it really depends on what you want nice I got it this is just nice
this is now this is for the styling um I'm a big fan of it I like the way to
think Pat's luck I love things I love think Pat keypad keyboards I used a t6
TP for the longest time this keyboard is not quite as good but I gotta tell you I
like it more than one niche P at 15 and I sure as hell like it more than the one
in the MacBook Pro 15 so good keyboard solid performance good weight not cheap
though this baby's got to be expensive 32 gigs one terabyte SSD with a 4k touch
panel it is not gonna be cheap so so does it
earn its extreme name oh you know for yeah for a business
person yeah this is a lot of performance and again business people love Lenovo
they love think bad think Pat is is what you want if you're a business person we
have a debate here whether business people like these kind of silver laptops
I don't think so I think this is people you go into the
boardroom you're gonna get respect for this if you go in with the silver laptop
people are gonna think you're creative type and then they're gonna make you
leave the room when they got to make the important decisions so Dan's can talk
about that later Dan's over here just laughing yeah if
this debate yeah that's that's great Dan can you leave because we have to make
the board has the vote right now and a multi-billion dollar deal and we can
tell from your laptop that's not black and all business you don't belong in
here and the Hawaiian shirt doesn't help others all right you know let's go take
a vote all right let us know if you like bit all business black pink pad or you
like this silver things know he's come with avocado toast that's what I got to
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