ah stupid though it wasn't supposed to
be like this you know this device was
supposed to save me hundreds of dollars
on my next laptop purchase compared to
the MacBook yeah I was really counting
on the Dell XPS 13 to be the MacBook
replacement running Windows for hundreds
of dollars less it's just was it just
didn't work out for me
I'm just having so many issues with
using Windows PCs and some of his Dells
fault some of it is Microsoft's fault
and I'm not really sure if I'm just a
really picky person or if this laptop is
pure garbage but let me tell you
something
you know I'm the type of person who will
spend a lot of time setting up their
environment and so if I have a laptop
everything should just be very good very
functional my keyboard should work just
right my mouth should be just right my
screen should be just the way I like it
and you know whenever I start a new job
I might spend like the first whole week
or two just setting up the computer and
people would think well this guy's weird
why is he just spending on his time
setting up his computer messing around
with cables he's ordering a new keyboard
a new mouse and you know sometimes if
you've just wonder why don't I just sit
down and get a little bit of work done
why am i spending so much time just
setting up my keyboard I want my desk to
be as appealing as possible for me to
sit down because I want to say that I'm
just like you I'm just a normal person I
don't like sitting down at my desk I
don't like sitting down in front of a
computer nobody does you know we all
want to be outside we all want to be out
in the park playing going out to the
beach going out having fun you know of
course me too I'm human
which is why I want my desk to look so
good look so fun and be so comfortable
such that when I sit down I have a
really pleasant great experience and
that makes me just a little bit more
likely to want to just sit down for many
hours at a time instead of having a
really messy dirty desk and everything
is just not really set up right and you
know the whole thing is an unpleasant
experience for that reason I think that
the hardware the gear that you use is
very important especially for
programmers and software engineers who
might spend extremely large amounts of
times in the at the computer it is
essentially my job to
like at computers for long periods of
time and this is something that very few
people are able to do very few people
want to do so I've mentioned before that
the secret to coding is being able to
sit down at your desk for long periods
of time what's my secret is to make my
environment very nice very comfortable
to be it now many people have asked me
to mentor them to teach them how to code
to teach them how to get into a large
tech company and the number one reason
that I don't do things like this is
because I know that you probably don't
have a very good desk setup you if
you're running a Windows with a ton of
different bloatware and your trackpad is
no good and your screen is crappy and
you and your laptop is really creaky
with a bunch of plastic on there
everything is kind of slow then you know
there's really no chance for you to get
good at all you've already lost before
you even begin you know if you've had
the dog before and you've done dog
training then you'll know that they say
you need to set the dog up for success
and that's what you need to do - I want
to set you up for success and you don't
do that by getting yourself started off
on the wrong foot with a bunch of crappy
hardware hardware is important to look
at in my opinion now as for myself I
have not looked at hardware probably for
the last five years so until you get
yourself all set up until you can say
that you've helped yourself how can you
expect anybody else to help you hey tech
wait here and welcome back to another
episode today we are drinking stock code
brew coffee it is actually unsweetened
so liking that it's pretty good actually
it's not not too sweet I think I'd like
a little bit more sugar in this one
actually first of all I want to take
care of a few logistics people have been
asking me why am i doing all these
gadget reviews and you know I think
that's an excellent question and I want
to answer that for you but today is a
pretty busy day we have a full schedule
so if you don't mind I'm going to take
with this question for just two minutes
but I think it's a very important
question there's just a few other things
I want to talk about first and make sure
that I respond to your question I want
to make sure that all of your questions
are answered
so if I don't get you a question just
please let me know or you can grab me
afterwards so let me just show you what
I have prepared for you
here this is the 2018 Dell XPS 13 and
people have caught this the MacBook of
the PC world it is an extremely slim
well-built device it looks very similar
to the MacBook and after a lot of
research I sort of decided that well if
I were going to get a PC if I were going
to get a Windows machine this would be
it now on the other hand here what I
have here is a standard 2013 model
that's five years old it is a macbook 13
and then the problem we have here is
that recently my kid closed the slap top
on the pen and because of that there's
this black mark on the screen and now
I'm looking for a new laptop for my wife
and at first I was thinking well you
know I'm just going to get her another
MacBook and call it a day and I started
looking around online and that's sort of
what got me interested in taking a look
at other sorts of devices like the
surface go like the pixel book and after
evaluating that might sort of decided
that none of them were really good and
you know we all know that mac books are
very expensive compared to pcs so what
was supposed to happen was I was
supposed to come full circle back to pcs
and this would be the device that I
would get her but unfortunately I found
that that they'll expire in still has
some pretty critical issues now what
really attracted me to the Dell was the
price this normally runs about $1000 but
that was always running various
discounts and then I had an American
Express offer where I can combine them
for an additional 10% off that's about
20% off $2,000 price bringing this
device about $800 MacBook is like $1,300
and even then it's only a two core
machines so what I'm seeing is that a PC
is about 30% cheaper than the price of a
MacBook now Mac books maybe getting
refreshed soon but their price likely is
not going to drop much so why don't we
just open these devices so this is the
MacBook and then this is the Dell
alright now I'm going to show you the
critical issue that I found that the
main issue is tab switching on the
MacBook tab surging just goes much
faster and being able to switch tabs
quickly I think is a key component of
being able to use a computer it helps
you just served in that faster browse
pages jump between pages quickly and
you'll find that on Windows PCs for some
reason you can't switch taps very
quickly on max you can and I think that
this is for me perhaps one of the
biggest deal-breakers between Mac and PC
and why I still think Mac is going to be
the way to go so what I've done here is
I've opened up Chrome and if I press
ctrl tab I can switch to tabs and you'll
find that the Mac is very responsive but
then they'll often times the type of
won't switch at all if I hold it you can
see that the Mac is switching very
quickly and yet that del gets stuck and
that shows you just the difference in
performance I'll say that the Mac is
performing probably a hundred times
faster or more than the PC at this point
I made this smoking fast and this
ability if you just quickly switch tabs
as you're browsing the internet trying
to learn trying to gather information is
crucial even with Firefox is still
pretty sluggish and gets stuck sometimes
so you know just like this non
responsiveness is really annoying for me
now the reason this doubt is so well
acclaimed is because the bezels are
really thin but the issue with that is
what they did is they essentially cut
the trackpad such that it is shorter the
keyboard remains the same size and what
you end up having is just a really short
trackpad such that it's really difficult
to use the trackpad to scroll upwards
because as you're trying to scroll up
your fingers are hitting the top of the
trackpad and there's just no space to
move it you know I just thought that was
pretty poor design actually and the
other reason that this screen is so
short is it is actually about 10%
shorter than the standard macbook 13 the
aspect ratio is 16 by 9 versus 16 by 10
so even though you may think that this
is a 13-inch just like any other 13-inch
it's not really a 13-inch because it is
shorter I wish they would just stop
making tons and tons of laptops and none
really good you know like just make five
five good laptops and bait your whole
company on those five and just make it
really good and really usable because as
they're turning out tons and tons of
different laptops and models none of
them are really good none of them are
really polished and you know there's
just small little nitpicky issues with
each one and they all add up and the
ergonomics I think are very important
the other complete deal-breaker for me
was these arrow keys because they put
the page up and page down buttons right
next to it so often if I'm like editing
text I'm using the arrow keys to
navigate around the document I
accidentally touched the page up or page
down buttons and they'll completely move
the screen to somewhere else in terms of
screen
I also found a strange yellow color cast
to the dowel springs compared to the
MacBook screens and it's also not as
bright I think it's about 30% darker
than Mac's prints so I think if you're
doing further
I think this PC probably wouldn't be
very good for your usage the other
frustrating thing was that for Windows
the Wi-Fi would always be breaking up
and getting disconnected and then I'd
have to go in there and go into the
network settings and click troubleshoot
and it would take like a minute to
detect problems and so overall it's just
funny to me how a five year old MacBook
can still smoke a PC that has specs on
paper that's supposed to be like twice
as fast and yeah the PC just still seems
sluggish and the ergonomics are still
not quite as good
you know the trackpad is too small your
fingers are always hitting the top the
camera is positioned strangely the Aero
navigation keys have page up and page
down next to it the screen given the 16
by 9 aspect ratio was a little bit too
short for my taste and overall I felt
that the tab switch is just a little bit
too sluggish I think that they'll has
put out overall a valiant effort so
there you have it there's a bunch more I
could talk about this device but you
really only need a few good reasons to
understand why you probably don't want a
Windows device so that don't for me give
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see you next time bye