this is the laptop everybody has been chasing for the last few years I know a
lot of people like to say macbook killer nobody cares about the MacBook here
anymore this is the XPS 13 I think
Internet we should officially transition and I mean you media outlets with your
clickbait headlines which I love you want to know do you have an XPS 13
killer not a MacBook Air 13 killer because this is what you care about XPS
13 9380 yes of course the last four digits mean the model number it is
essentially a fairly minor update to the previous one on paper probably something
that's very important we're doing an unboxing you just saw me cut the tape on
it it's not faked in the box we get a dongle USB C to a of course you get your
white cord and actually significantly smaller I wish I could find my other one
but this power brick is pretty tiny and look at this in the box I just want to
point out you get your what they call a duckbill I think so you can plug this in
that is a pretty tiny little alright let's cut this this is a 45 watt USB C
power brick so you can charge up your android-based phones that use usb C and
your iPad if you have it maybe same wattage as well same wattage is a
previous model so but it looks to me like the power brick is actually gotten
smaller I'll have to find the other one to compare it's all white which I think
we're gonna know what's in this box uh yes it is I know this one's silver this
one's the gold version I'm gonna get into this in a second and Melissa
actually check this one out in New York yeah they do have a slightly new white
color oh there's a new white color yeah this might I forget what all its
exciting but this is brushed aluminum again check out missus video she goes
over overview of what sort of the major changes
we're gonna get a little bit we'll just do a little bit got your white decklid
keyboard looks to be the same actually it's a better keyboard than previous
model the big deal though the thing that every cares about I'll show you a Dan
point that camera at me but lower the camera now lower that you don't want to
look at this logo no no this is a this is a bad way to do your video
conferences if you're wondering why nobody is listening to you it's because
of all the neck waddle then not net chin that is accentuated on the previous
model the Dell XPS 9370 because the cameras low so when you are on your
keyboard you see your fingers you're seeing all that neck waddle as they call
it that's basically neck fat that I just showed you my own I'm not afraid to show
you Dells just had enough of your whining about the location of the camera
just said screw you we're gonna move it to the top look at this so gone from the
bottom not here anymore it's now at the top Dell said though the cameras about
2.5 millimeters my battery is dying on this but it is just stupidly tiny where
do we have to put 2.25 is what they say let's call it 2.3 I can't my hands are
not steady enough to and my battery's going but well that sucker is tiny look
at that we are so right there we go huh I am what are we seeing here right damn
this thing is just damn this thing is just losing it the batteries going on in
my my care yeah but I'm actually seeing this if I'm right that is looking like
1.5 millimeters Delock see specs it at 2.5 millimeters for the camera and they
said it's just not your your off-the-shelf cheap camera this is
actually something that they said uses similar precision as the cameras you
would find in a smartphone because I guess there's a lot of slop and webcams
nobody really cares about camera quality out of a webcam and a laptop so they
said we wanted to have really super of precise elements put in this thing is
just really assembled so you get a great picture
Artez webcam they say but i will say what's missing is there's no windows
hello look the previous model the 9370 windows
hello here great Adel apparently says we're not gonna do it there is actually
an option for a fingerprint reader in the power button I find it I think
interesting it's an option I think Windows hello is great should be
included by default what would you rather have a higher camera or Windows
hello I would take Windows hello in the low camera but that's me I never had
problems location of the camera you know because I don't do a lot of
videoconferencing and also I you know most people are so paranoid about the
camera they cover it up with tape anyway so it looks to me keyboard looks the
same which is a great keyboards actually
improvement we're actually seeing three generations of the XPS hero the logos
slightly different to the 9360 right here which is actually still on sale
interesting than two years old this is basically the original XPS 13 with the
the infinity edge narrow bezels that sort of lit the world on fire blew
everybody's mind has Type A on it they use this same chassis made minor updates
to it for maybe two it almost feels like three years and then they went to the
9370 from the 93-60 big differences no type a microSD and you get two
Thunderbolt threes both sides there is not under Bowl three with USB power
charging on the ninety 360 which still is for sale but like the other big
difference was the performance these both have very similar coffee Lake you
KB Lake are processors but I will say the core i5 on this actually outperforms
the previous model even though this is the core i7 because the improved
thermals of the 9370 really just smoked everybody Dell says hey we've taken that
great cooling and we've put it into the 9380 come on this is what it's about
folks with Intel's new whiskey like you CPUs it is yet again another coffee Lake
iterative bigger difference higher clocks three
point I think gosh I'll have to look it up later but it's definitely 500
megahertz faster on the top end on the boost over an equivalent KB Lake are so
whiskey Lake you gives you just about 500 megahertz across the board I'm gonna
be interested to see how this performs apparently the range has changed a
little bit too let's just test it out this is the big difference Melissa
mention this in her video but a lot of people apparently have been complaining
for a long time about the if you take a most of your PC laptops this is an Apple
thing you it's a little hard to open so like you sort of they say takes two
hands open it I just open it with one but you take they say it takes two hands
to open that up I guess they worked on this lid so now
you can just shit open with less resistance let me just do with one hand
this if I can do okay yeah okay it opens up almost you do get a little body lift
at the end because it does torque tighter at the very end yeah so at the
end we see we get to right about here you get more resistance because you want
it to be tighter you don't want this screen to flop around all over the place
so that's not bad so for the people who this is like this is like Dells version
of the XPS 13 made to address all the whiners I want the webcam on top I got a
big fat neck don't show that I need one hand my other hands do another stuff
well I'm open to my level it just put the cup of coffee down and open up
laptop but but these are small improvements I think they just keep
adding up so you keep picking you know iterative changes you know hopefully
they keep doing better right yeah and actually let's see physically they
should be almost the same let's compare 9380 on the bottom 9370 XPS 13 9370 on
top we're saying st. port selection looks like a very very similar chassis
they have tweaked the hands of course as we just showed you go to the other side
we get we get another Thunderbolt 3 and then there's USB c4 power charging
you've got your button that tells you if it's choice or not speakers
bottom looks yeah similar clothes I don't think you could tell the
difference yeah close I don't think you could tell the difference you know but
the main thing is hinge tweaks camera tweak they do say 21 hours of
battery-life with the 1080p screen that's gonna be interesting to see I
don't I wonder if that means they've actually changed their panels a bit the
the new lower wattage stuff that Intel's been talking because 21 hours out of the
battery this size is would be impressive I'm actually very interested in
performance up because we are gonna do some quick benchmarks I have existing
benchmarks for these again but I'm gonna see how the new 9380 with the whiskey
lake you performs against previous kb lake are oh this is a core i7
unfortunately i say that because this is a core i5 but you know and a lot of the
multi thread tests shouldn't matter too much let's just see core i7 8th gen vs.
cry 5 8 gen versus core i7 8th gen in the older 9360 the crazy thing is you
can still get the 93-60 the 9370 right now adults website I'm wondering if
they're gonna just simply replace this one or simply will just sell them all
maybe you want the IR camera the bottom we'll find out but more importantly
we're gonna turn off the cameras come back we'll show you a couple numbers on
how they do okay so we're back and we have a few quick results of the whiskey
whiskey Lake u versus 2 KB Lake our laptops Core i7 core i5 core i7 first up
Cinebench r15 you know well it is a rendering benchmark it's a good stand-in
for heavily multi-threaded performance don't take this to perform everywhere
but core i7 8550 you in that black Dell at the back there 569 single fan can't
run as hot just can't handle the heat so they have to crank clocks back it loses
to the core i5 8250 you right here in the middle the the 9370 is faster with 5
6 55 for its verses 5 69 but what you want to know is how does the new dell
how is the brand-new dell XPS 93 93 82 705 so sev
five and the core i7 versus the 655 in the choir five that is very decent bump
and what you'd probably expect out of a 500 megahertz clock let's also look at
single turret performance same thing on the far left because we have core i7 and
we know qui seven is better that means that's where you see it lighter load so
Cinebench with a single thread 159 on that core i7 8550 you in the XPS 9360
the core i5 8250 you 134 that is because it is it is of course intentionally
nerfed by Intel because they want you to pay more for core i7 a few at the
radford so fewer threads so very much if you're doing a word Office Outlook
Chrome and believe it or not Photoshop most of the time this performance is
probably worth more than the previous chart but whiskey leg you look at this
this is where you're getting all the Mads I got a whiskey like you that 500
megahertz increase in overall clock leads to a 100 a score of 181 versus 159
for core i7 KB Lake are in a less thermally good laptop and basically in
the same laptop in a core i5 you're looking at 134 so whiskey like you core
i7 if you're into those light threads pretty much worth it as you know though
you do often do things that heat up a laptop and what happens when you heat up
a core i7 is the clock start to fall back you really don't get all that
goodness it's for light loads so we ran handbrake on all three of these laptops
and you can see the performance shorter is better and no surprise core i7 8550
you in the 93 60 XPS 13 3 5 6 7 so that's that's basically an hour right
3500 67 seconds to run that handbrake encode the XPS 9370 actually performed
the best but I would call it a tie 34 44 clearly a small increase over that core
i7 because again that core sevens advantage of a prizes once you
heat it up the 9380 throw with the same cooling system is a dead tie reason why
again core i7 core i5 once you burn off those turbo boosts it's pretty much
you're not gonna see that much more and all these are folded over because I also
have on here a XPS 95 70 which is the 15 inch with a 6 core and the XPS 15 2 and
195 75 which is the KB Lake G laptop I love that laptop and you can see that
there is a big difference on these heavy loads where you're heating the laptop up
and you sort of burn off all those high clock speeds that's six core if you're
looking at XPS 15 6 is better than for folks on heavy loads and that quad core
in the KB Lake G is also better cool it's a bigger laptop it's got more fans
it's faster but they're also both heavier when you're looking at the XPS
13 the 95/60 95 79936 t90 370 93 80 this one's gonna be the fastest because
whiskey like you generally is just gonna run at higher clocks but it's not that
significant I feel like if you're looking for performance you're gonna
just that better you're better off stepping away from the 13 to like a 15
then trying to go like from generation and generation the difference is in that
major no it's not major it frankly you'd be you'd have to be crazy to go if you
have an XPS 13 95 70 if you have a key be like are you would you'd have to be
rich or somebody's buying it for you to upgrade to the 93 80 or in vanity or the
vanity you're really and honestly some people like the one-handed opening that
might be worth it you're getting to this there's definitely a significant
performance Delta between 95 90 360 and 93 80 it's pretty big and if really this
is a cable a car so you're probably not looking to upgrade but if you're looking
to a Broadwell or skylake version of the XPS or a KB Lake version then you know
you're getting a lot more performance you're getting more cores so I would say
it's a very decent upgrade for older laptops I don't think he'd it'd be hard
to even justify going over this 95 60 although definitely the performance
crown looks like it's going to go to the 93 80 and you can open the screen up
with one hand so we'll be running more benchmarks graphics are all the same so
we didn't do any NS stuff folks but clearly to fans whiskey Lake U is
probably the best we're ever gonna see out of an Intel you-you class part in in
this generation of laptop