Hey, how's it going Dave 2d here?
So recently dell released this... the two and one XPs 13 and I have been a huge fan of the original XPs 13
But this new version seems better on paper. It's thinner it's more versatile because it's got that 360 hinge and it's similarly priced
Let's take a look it has the same design language
aluminum top and bottom panels with soft touch Carbon fiber on the deck all very rigid and
properly fitted true to the whole XPS name this thing has great build quality the
hinge looks solid it allows you to rotate the screen all the way around and you can kind of one hand open it from the
Side, but because the bottom half is so light you have to wobble it a bit to get it open... for ports
We have MicroSD and an audio Jack and [a] pair of Usb-C ports.. one of them supports Thunderbolt 3
There are no USB-A ports
Which is how the device [is] so thin, but they include an adapter...
So I'm happy
The screen is a 1080p panel color gamut is great color accuracy out of the box wasn't amazing
But calibration made it much better. It does get pretty bright and the super send bezels on the XPS line are always welcome
There's also a QHD version [available] if you want the keyboard is a little disappointing for me
So the keys themselves are actually bigger than normal there are a couple millimeters wider than normal XPs 13 or XPS 15 keys
It doesn't feel too different from the regular XPS 13 keyboard. It's still a short travel stroke
Maybe a little spongier, but similar enough but my biggest gripe are the page up and page down keys located here
So I've been using this thing for two weeks
And I still accidentally hit them when I'm trying to press left or right (keys)
So if you're a database user or a spreadsheet user or just if you frequently use the arrow keys this might be an issue
The Trackpad is good
It's the same shape and size as the regular XPS 13
Windows precision drivers good tracking the click mechanism is solid overall it's a good trackpad. There's now a fingerprint sensor
It works quickly with windows. Hello location is good and tactile
You can instantly find it in the dark, and there's also the classic XPs webcam
It looks up your nose, but this one has an infrared cam, so it should support Windows
Hello Once Microsoft certifies it when you open up the bottom panel the ram is soldered on but the NVMe drive up here is user replaceable
It's the same Toshiba drive as the XPS 13
So speeds are pretty good the 46 watt hour battery takes up a huge footprint and we're getting very good battery life
I'm comfortably getting eight hours with it, and it charges up using a 50 watt USB-C charger
It's running intel y processors which are famous. They're normally 4.5
watt TDP chips
But if the thermal management is good enough they can go up to 7 watts and that's what dell does here the performance is
Surprisingly good for such a low wattage chip it feels very snappy for single core stuff like work and light web browsing
Heavier tasks will still bog the system down so anything that uses both cores for extended periods of time like heavy photo or video editing
Can get sluggish the regular XPs 13 with the [core] I5 or the [core] i7 cPU those will handle heavier tasks better?
gaming on the 2 & 1 XPS
13 isn't great even compared to the regular XPs 13 you can play some really light stuff like csGo
It does however have a thunderbolt three port that uses four lane PCI-E
It doesn't officially support external gpus, but with a couple drivers it can connect up now keep in mind
It's a fanless dual-Core cPU so cPU dependent games are still not amazing
but some games can do pretty well your exact frame rates will depend heavily on the graphics card you use and
Pretty expensive to set this up for a core y processor, but it works
There's no fan noise, because there's no fan and thermals, still aren't bad
There's an obvious warmer cluster on top where all the good stuff is but it's a very comfortable device to use
So the speakers when it's in laptop mode the speakers are good
They sound very similar to the XPs 13 speakers
but because of their location
[when] you have an intent mode you lose a ton of?
audio Clarity the sound bounces around behind the screen and you kind of lose the stereo effects it actually sounds like a mono speaker and
The same thing happens in presentation on in fact it's actually worse in presentation
And the thing is these alternative configurations like these non laptop positions
These are the positions that [people] often [use] when they're consuming media where you want your audio quality to be the best
But that's just not the case
Now when you have it in tablet mode the speaker positioning is fine as long as you're [not] covering it with your hand I
Want to talk a bit more about the tablet mode of this device because this is a feature that kind of separates the 2-in-1
XPs 13 from the regular XPs 13 and the bottom line is...
I don't enjoy using as a tablet. so when you fold the screen over remember the super thin bezels
I love them on a laptop, but as a tablet because of these thin bezels
there's very little room to hold the device without accidentally making contact with the touchscreen, and then there's the issue of
ergonomics, I just don't find it comfortable to hold and this is a problem that almost every single folding 2-in-1 convertible has when
The keyboard is flipped [around] you can feel the keys. They're deactivated
They don't register Keystrokes, but it just feels weird
And there's also that uncomfortable edge when you're holding it the soft touch material is nice to hold it's grippy
But holding a [2.7] pound tablet for extended periods of time is just not enjoyable
And there's no hardware buttons for audio controls you have to do with new software so over the past couple of weeks
I've [been] trying to use this thing as often as I can as a tablet and
I got to be honest every single time
I try just end up reverting back to using it as a laptop because [it's] just so much more comfortable to use as a laptop
And I get it this thing was designed as a laptop first and a tablet as like a secondary option
If you want to you can use it as a tablet
But I'm just saying the tablet experience is not my favorite and that leads me to my last point this thing starts at
$1000 so the pricing is not that different from the regular XPs 13
This is still a good device, but unless you really want that tablet mode or the different screen positions. [I] would stick with the original
XPS 13
This thing is awesome. This is still good
We are treating performance for this hinge and unless you really make good use of the hinge I'd skip it
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