welcome PC world fans Adam Patrick
Murray here with my coworker Gordon MA
you know what's not and you just
released a great article comparing the
XPS 13 to the XPS 15 on PC Worldcom you
should go read it but I want to get into
the overall question which dell XPS is
right for you
we're gonna break this down by a couple
categories and hopefully help people
pick which laptop they should get if
you're confused we understand we have
four of the five XPS there are five XPS
distinct XPS models that Dell is
offering today this is four of those
five the new one we don't have yet but
we're gonna talk about what we know and
what we can tell you okay well why don't
we kick it off first by a portability
because that's that's a big difference
on whether you're going to get a 13-inch
machine or a 15-inch machine so tell us
about that sure so obviously you if you
want portability you're gonna go with
the 13 inch laptops there are two XPS 13
93-60 this is the older
XPS built on the previous body that's
been around for quite a few years
basically this is the same one that came
out a couple years ago it's gone through
quite a few generations Dell refresh it
with the brand-new beautiful XPS 13 9370
you could see the big difference is
you've got this beautiful and it really
is just this beautiful top lid it has a
slightly bigger keyboard okay
interestingly the keys are just a little
bit bigger maybe a millimeter or so
bigger hmm the trackpad is you know very
smooth this one is sometimes a little
rubbery on some bottle models I've seen
this one's a very smooth glass you're
also getting Gorilla Glass on this even
though this both of these are 1080p
panels these are both this one has
gorilla glass on top of it just makes it
look beautiful right so this is not
touch but you think it's touch yeah
right this also has Windows hello
biometric login also fingerprint reader
this one doesn't it's also slightly
lighter slightly thinner slightly
smaller not that much probably not
enough to really make a difference but
very tiny about 2.6 pou 2.7 to 3 pounds
let's call it a three pound laptop with
the brick so awesomeness you
throw this in your bag you don't even
know it's there but if so if portability
is your the biggest factor in your
decision you're saying that this is the
thinnest this is the lightest but it's
still comfortable to use yeah so I like
the keyboard
I like the screen overall performance
we'll get into that in detail later this
is my pick for all out portable
portability but again just no no type-a
we'll talk about the porch later right
well in to go on the the other end uh
you know some people sure they want you
know 13 inches because it's it's nice
and portable but also you're getting a
lot of power in a 15 inch machine well
what about the weight on this guy the
weight on this it's a solid 5 pounds I
got it so like 2 pounds under 5 2 pounds
more than the 13-inch yeah you're
definitely paying a lot in the weight
and also this all of these are 1080p
this is a 1080p screen 1080p doesn't
weigh as much as the fourteen oh really
okay lighter okay on Dell you can no
longer get touch and a 1080p I believe
it's only in the 4k so when you add
touch you had glass you had the
digitizer it just gets heavier so I
didn't know if this is the lightest way
to go the other interesting thing though
that really could mix you up is this
this is the new XPS Dell two and one
it's a 15-inch laptop and big of course
it's a two-in-one
right so this gives you two and one
capability in a 15-inch laptop which if
you want to talk about portability sure
these are smaller and lighter but you're
kind of getting a little bit more
functionality out of this because you
can use it in different ways than iced a
traditional laptop so there's there's
kind of that to bring into the equation
even though it's a 15-inch the next
section is a ports yeah that's a good
one so again this one big controversy
note type a ports same thing XPS two and
one Dale said hey you know what there's
no room for it in fact I really need to
mention this this has Dells Maglev
keyboard which has less travel and it's
louder this is slightly better than the
butterfly I prefer the keyboard and the
only new XPS 13 okay but you know the
big deal of course is no type-a this is
a pretty big laptop to not have type 8
on here you get two terrible three ports
on this side you get you
all three ports on this side all of them
support charging all support display out
I believe because also a mic SD port and
a lock port which is actually very
important this is not a Kensington lock
this is a noble lock so you've gotta
make sure you buy the right height okay
but if you're in a dorm or if you're in
a cafe you want to go to the can you can
actually lock this to the table so
people can't just answer okay the new
XPS 93 71 Thunderbolt 3 on this side
micro SD headphone port all of them have
headphone ports noble Lock another two
USB C port this forget the side is
actually a USBC that supports charging
and DisplayPort out these two are
Thunderbolt out oh okay so Thunderbolt
both these are full four lane
Thunderbolt implementations hmm so no
type-a that's kind of burn a lot of
people how big of a problem is it that
these two don't have type-a these still
have type a I mean it seems like in the
future Dells going away from Taipei like
how big of a deal is it going to be in
the future I personally think it really
trying to live it annoys you there are
times when you're just can be like I
don't have a dongle I can't some lot of
people give you USB keys that give you
information on so this is coarse
old-school XPS 13 still on Dells website
93-60 look at this Thunderbolt 3 2 lane
a Taipei on this side handphone you get
your own dedicated charging port which
is nice and I'm gonna point it out no
block type a SD card reader full full SD
card full SD card reader and what's what
I like about this this laptop the older
XPS 13 which it's thicker but you can
charge this laptop using the charger and
then you'd still have to Taipei's and
your your USB see this one when you
charge you plug into one of your three
ports it does limit you it's the same
thing even though we have four ports
here you say again same thing one of
them is gonna be one of them dollars can
be taken up by your charger so of course
people say go out and buy a third of all
three monitor yeah
nobody does that no one's gonna do that
so it's gonna go on by a monitor just to
charge their laptop if you want your
ports XPS 15 class or here look at this
what do we get yeah what do you get you
get a Taipei
Nestea get your noble walk decide
full-sized HDMI HDMI another Taipei and
a thunderbolt three by four I believe in
this configuration of this version and a
headphone port of course and your
charging port so you plug this in you
can plug in an HDMI HDMI monitor and you
still got to type ace and a USB C
available so antenna ball 3 so if you
need if ports are a major concern for
you obviously this is the guy to go with
right because it literally has the most
so we've already talked a little bit
about specs what are the different
configurations each one of them has so
this one gives you their all 8th gen
parts core i7 8750 h6 core 45-watt part
this thing just screams just screams for
cpu performance and you're getting
geforce gtx 1050 TI max-q
right so that's gonna be the winner
performance we can already tell we can
already tell you that right now none of
these other ones have discreet GPS nose
has discreet number 2 interestingly so
we have the Dell XPS 15 to 1 with KB
Lake G this particular one is the core
i5 80 705 G I believe ok quad-core high
performance 8th gen cores plus Radeon
Vega AM graphics which plus but it's
really high tech stuff it's all on the
little tiny package really really
respectable performance this thing does
scream sigh can't be as fast as this but
it does scrape both of these actually
interestingly also have 8th gen KB Lake
are processors which are quad core chips
they both have integrated graphics but I
will say there's a big difference this
older model the 93-60 got one fan this
one has two fans beer heat pipe Oh
interesting this is an i5 core I've
keeping a card this is a core i7 then
this is you will surprise you in
performance Wow and far as Mexico
both of these are lpddr3 so max ram 16
gigs they come in four to sixteen
configurable configurable 4i is a little
tough on some of these yeah XPS 15
everywhere from 8 to 32 gigs of DDR for
this one also is ddr4 as well I think
it'll go 8 to 16 832 probably all four
of these used SSDs are all m2 SSDs Dell
does sell various levels of SSDs I
believe every single one of these has a
256 gig and baby driving them oh nice
this one is 97 watt hours 74 watt hours
60 watt hours and 51 ok so there's just
more space for more hardware speaking of
price though let's go over as configured
you know what what the prices are here
so this is I believe $1500
this is $1500 okay this is $1,200 and
this is about eleven hundred dollars to
a thousand dollars the best bang for
your buck is actually out of the XPS 15
okay because you are getting 16 gigs of
ram you're also getting at discrete
graphics part 1500 bucks there are all
1080p this one is eight gigs steps
you've done eight gigs of ram the same
size SSD at $1500 interestingly the new
XPS 9370 is not exactly achievable
you're the only real difference you're
getting is not a bigger SSD you go from
a core i5 to a core i7 far as
performance goes you will get better
single-threaded performance out of the
core i7 marginally you may feel it in
chrome some office stuff but I mean does
anything ever really feel slow with the
modern machine I don't think it's rather
I don't think it's really worth it but
Core i5 this thing is actually faster
than this thing in a lot of multi thread
testers proceed why if you're running
something like you're running a really
long encode or just doing something that
is really heavy on CPU word the fans are
running and is heating up because of the
better cooling in this XPS 13 and will
actually outperform the core i7 even
though in the same generation processor
then the older XPS 13 well so the newer
ones actually faster taking all of these
configurations and all everything that
we just went over which one would you
say is the one that you wish you had I
gotta say I'm gonna I'm gonna be a
little weird I I actually think I may
pay the weight penalty
for the 15 just the two in one to two
Mele yeah because honestly the XPS 15 is
a great powerhouse laptop it gets a
little heavy I kind of like the fact
that in the XPS toon one I'm getting
sort of like the best of best of all
worlds here I get it I get it
convertible I get my Windows hello I get
touch I get pen not a huge fan of this
keyboard I wish you had a type-a port on
it but I also get quad-core better
quad-core performance and I get actually
very decent gaming performance this is
very close to the GeForce 1050 TI max it
in some things
something some things it'll be 25%
slower some things will be dead on even
okarin depends on the game kind of
depends on the workload so I kind of
like like if I had this is would do
everything it's definitely heavy though
my number two choice is the new XPS I
love this for the size you know the wave
it's just it's just you you put this in
your bag you don't know it's there yes
so the actually I just realized it said
something about my priorities because I
complain about Taipei I complain about
this I complain if I had to pick I'd
probably pick and I would give up that
easy
is that Taipei pork really worth me
taking a moral stand
no well I would say for me because I
need the most performance and I do
really care about ports especially when
I'm out on the road doing video editing
and even some gaming I'm gonna go with
this guy I would personally want this in
my backpack because I need the most
power out of it for you for a video
editor six-course it's really worth it
ya know I don't do enough on the road
that I would ever need a six-course yeah
I so thank you for for stepping through
all this with me Gordon and I want to
hear what you guys think you know which
ones have you picked you know which ones
did you like which ones would you wish
you had in the future and which ones are
you thinking of buying so let us know in
the comments below and stay tuned to PC
world for more awesome laptop and
general PC hardware coverage so thanks
Gordon no problem