@@Thechosenitalianone Yup I went to the dark side. I'm sick of constant issues with my XPS. I have bought them loaded because I am an aerospace engineer and everything runs on windows. My MacBook M3 Max blows every $4-5000 XPS out of the water. Parallels is so good now all my CAD and simulation software runs faster and better on the M3 Max. As a huge boost I went from 2hrs max battery (severely throttled on Intel) life to all day battery life at 100% performance. I look forward to seeing if Snapdragon can rise to the level of the M4 ultra in performance and graphics.
The older body from the XPS 9500 would have been perfect. Dell listened to too many of the tech influencers who wanted a new body for the sake of having a new body.
@AgentZeroNine1 Sometimes if it ain't broke don't fix it. Same with the Legion 7/7i from 2022; it was near perfect, but then that chassis was completely abadoned!
Thank you so much for this. I've been binging on ARM Laptop reviews over the past week or so (HP, ASUS, Microsoft, etc).. and all the "real world" hands-on experience here is really informative. Especially about Thunderbolt and Docks. I'm still leaning towards the Surface 7 Laptop,. but I'm also in no rush to spend my own hard earned money.
I like these power-efficient Snapdragon/ARM processors. Asahi Linux runs great on my ARM-based M1 Mac Mini. When these vendors of Snapdragon machines make a model on which I can run Linux, I'll buy one. These look like products I actually want.
@@jimcabezola3051 Sadly, even as of the development period of the Linux kernel 6.12, some things still don't work, like the keyboard and touchpad, which are kind of important for a laptop!
7:25 - Any Displaylink dock will work with Snapdragon. I use a Startech DK31C4DPPD quad 4K display dock with my Surface 7 laptop and it works without any issues.
I worked at Dell for 18 years. Back then, they had really good engineers, and I bet they still have solid ones on staff. That said, I'm surprised to see that the power/ battery life balance isn't great. I have a Surface Pro 11 that I bought on launch day, and it seems much more consistent in terms of performance and battery life, both on and off battery. Seems like Microsoft is leading the pack (at this early stage at least. Hope Dell improves on that front pretty quickly.
@@Okieant I have had the device for 24 hours and I am impressed. Battery life has been amazing, but I am an IT/Office guy. I don't. have fancy apps other than productivity. Only app I haven't been able to install is google drive, but not a dealbreaker. Keyboard is just new muscle memory and it doesn't make the sounds like his when pushing on the bottom. I definitely will get a docking station, but will feel good carrying it around all day without having to bring the power brick.
I'm a software developer with dotnet and NodeJS and I love the laptops with Snapdragon X Elite, they're fast and everything runs natively, which enables me to work faster than in my previous AMD 6900hx, at least after 15 minutes of usage (the old laptop got hot and performance went down).
Dell really lost it, the same laptop I have from 2016 has one thunderbolt 3 USB C, 2 USB 3.0 and a SD card slot and a SEPRATE charching port. DELL GET THE MEMO 2 USB C IS NOT ENOUGH AND YOU KNOW IT! And I HATE that no tech youtube ever dares to say this as bluntly as should be. This is a shame. We don't neer thinner and less ports. EVEN APPLE GOT THE MEMO. Give us at least 3 USB C one SD card slot and a separate Mag safe type charching port. You use one USB to charge and you only have one left for your mouse our something. This is suppose to be a portable laptop first and they keep fumbling. I have waited years for Dell to fix this fucking issue and they keep doing it. Your old XPS had them there is enough room, stop being dicks and fucking make a proper 13 inch laptop again. No wonder people are switching over to Surface and other brands. Dell is tone dead on purpose the entire design team should be fired at this point.
The creaking in the hinge and chassis is an issue with all 2024 XPS laptops. I returned mine 3 times. Then my replacement had a dead keyboard and was overheating. Returned it and got a MacBook Pro instead…
I've also returned 3 2024 XPS 13s. 1 with the creaking issue and other two screens were not flush with the keyboard when closed. This appears to be an issue with all 2024 XPS laptops - they made the hinge several mm longer to allow the heat to exit via the vents at the back. This is causing lots of issues elsewhere on the chasis. Also this haa resulted in 2024 XPS 13 been 3mm thicker than advertised.
I have the Lenovo Yoga with the X Elite. Today I plugged in a colleagues Thunderbolt dock they use with they MacBook and a couple of monitors (OWC I think). It just worked. Zero issues. The X Elite absolutely supports USB 4 including the thunderbolt speeds. Thunderbolt isn't really a protocol itself, it's more like a laundry list of other USB/Displyport/PCIe/PD protocols that a port has to support in order to meet the requirements to be called a Thunderbolt port. Probably a Dell firmware issue so hopefully they will be updating it soon.
The most interesting thing about this new family of XPS is its design and that they do not heat up as much as the previous generation, but other than that, many people do not like the keyboard or the mediocre performance, I like it, I am not demanding , the xps 16 has good battery life and looks beautiful, the performance is fine and the 4k oled screen is magnificent, but for others it will only be an object of criticism
Hi, thanks for your great review! What about the upper right corner of the display (3:40 in the video): it seems to me a very poor alignment of the screen with the external chassis
Thanks for giving us lots of real world opinions and information instead of a fan boy sponsored review (like most of them on UA-cam) that wastes our time.
Dell doesn't suc. Only the xps line because they just cared for the design and not the performance and usability. The other lines like the precision and latitudes are pretty good.
@FxtfulFinity Still underwhelming for the high price you pay. The Precision laptops are generally moving towards a pseudo XPS design, maybe not as bad as the 2024 XPS laptops, but it's happening slowly.
@cameronbosch1213 you have a point because like 5 yrs ago xps used to be the most popular and best laptop for gaming and schoolwork like overall work but now they are changing the design and doing many unwanted things which is ruining their reputation 😑
hopefully mediatek and other companies enter this race and add more competition, this way we'll get faster developement and improvements, for now, I don't think I will pay 1000+ dollars for a first gen laptop chip, gotta wait and see how it goes. amazing review btw, very detailed and informative, thank you
You can set Windows to right-click when you tap the touchpad with two fingers. That's what I do. Easier than moving to the right button. One finger for left-click, two for right.
I think Dell's reason for the strange function row was cooling. Still, I wish they would make the design a bit thinner to incorporate true function keys, as I haven't seen one person say they like the way Dell has it. With that being said, I think a few changes to this laptop (sacrificing some aesthetic for functionality) would make a huge difference. There's a lot of potential for Windows fans here.
@@cameronbosch1213 Yeah exactly. I just wish they would merge this design with the one they used previously (I think it used carbon fiber) which did have full function keys
I use two-finger taps for right clicking I have been for more than 5 years probably I find it more convenient and maybe it can help solve your problem with that trackpad
Good review! any chance you can get your hands on a Firefly 14 inch, g11 with the dreamcolor display? Those have the new Intel Core Ultra in them, would be interesting about power and thermals/fan noise.
I went with the base Surface Pro, but had I gone with a non-Microsoft brand, I probably would've gone with the HP Omnibook X. The XPS is nice and all, but Dell has very much gone form over function with it as of late. And I'm not limiting that just to the Snapdragon XPS.
I don't have the 9345, but I do have the 9340 for work, so I can't speak for the processor but I can express my thoughts on the form factor. I agree that I hate the the lack of boundaries on the touchpad. I don't hate the digital buttons but they seem rather pointless. Mac touch bar at least have more use.
@Melchiahdim As a programmer, I cannot stand non physical function keys. The escape key I use quite often, and same with delete. That would drive me nuts. The touchpad being invisible is also awful, as is the touchpad's haptic feedback. It feels so weak, like I can't tell if it clicked or not. This wasn't an issue on any haptic MacBook touchpad or even on the HP Spectre 14 from this year. Even Apple added back the escape key in 2019 before they ultimately killed the entire Touch Bar in 2021. No wonder Dell is having serious trouble with their client PC sales; their options suck!
Idk, I learned my lesson on the 2020 version everyone was recommending that Dell generally just doesn't make good laptops longevity wise. Hoping the Snapdragon would change that, but looks like they sitll need to work out some issues. I personally wouldn't get an ARM Laptop right now unless you. are working exclusively with popular apps that everyday users need, as the ARM compatability thing is going to be an ongoing issue for a while. The surface tablet however feels more of an interesting use case where windows has a potential strong alternative to iPads, primarily becuase it's a PC Operating system in tablet for
Here's something I really don't understand about Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite reviews: It's an amazing processor. Like it's the first, consumer available, open hardware spec (Asahi Linux is amazing but they shouldn't have to reverse engineer the M1, M2 and M3 chips), desktop ready ARM processor on the market and everyone and their dog is reviewing them with the worst of all operating systems. Windows is just objectively bad. Like if the first thing you have to do when you first turn on your brand new shiny computer is wait 15 minutes for updates, because Windows has NEVER had a sane update system, it's just bad. They've bought that shitty experience to ARM so... I guess... Yay them? We've got this amazing processor, and a whole lot of people who have been waiting for a desktop ready ARM processor (Linux users would probably buy this in droves), and reviewers are all out there going "this hardware looks just like the Macbook Air" and "it's just like Apple!" (sooooo much Apple envy) and then they get into the OS and it's just a shitty experience. Like it's not like Apple at all. I mean, the hardware may resemble Apple products. But otherwise, the experience is just awful. The software is shit. It'd probably be more fair to compare these running Linux to Apple devices. And if you were to do this, at least Linux users might get excited by the processor. Instead you've got a bunch of people who have accepted the shitty experience of Windows looking at these going "But it's just not quite the same shit experience I get on my desktop".
dell xps should be compatible with any of the thunderbolt docks in general; give it a shot. its just a certification thing, X-elite is still usb4 certified which means thunderbolt should work flawlessly
1080p for productivity and office work on a premium laptop is unacceptable. The text clarity boost you get with a high PPI display alone is worth it. I can’t imagine using a sub 200 PPI display for my work
@vedantdesai1 to be fair, at 13 inches, 1080p is not terrible. Above 16 inches, and I agree, it's not good. On a 24 - 27 inch monitor, 1080p is in fact unacceptable.
The problem with Sd X Elite is that it has different variants with different speeds but each laptop manufacturer did not specify which are you getting, all they show will be telling you it has an X Elite in it.
XPS had major issues as far back as 2017, they were doing dumb shit like fitting half sized batteries leaving large voids in the chassis, flexing rattly keyboard, putting the camera at the BOTTOM of the display Dell has been trading off it's old reputation for too long
I use an XPS 13 Plus from last year and it's been great with one exception. The trackpad. I freaking HATE it. Its always picking up phantom clicks while I'm typing and getting stuck for about 2 seconds at a time unless I stop and wait for it to unlick. It drives me crazy.
@@UnknownLamppost I came safely say you aren't alone in hating the touchpad. It feels like it isn't haptic; it feels like I'm clicking on unmoving glass with barely any feedback. On MacBooks and even HP laptops with haptic touchpads, this isn't an issue.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't get the whole Snapdragon hype. I'm so happy I got both the Surface laptop 5 and pro 9 last year, they've been great with everything. I know, the battery life could be better, but I came from a freaking Alienware gaming laptop that lasted half an hour max. Everything on Intel just works! Doesn't matter if it's a random 10 year old USB device or a modern Thunderbolt dock. Just plug it in and go! If they keep Surface ARM only going forward, this might have been my last Microsoft purchase. Great video btw man, keep it up! Been enjoying your channel a lot lately!
You should watch other laptop with snapdragon review. Dell just drop the balls this year. Beside gaming ( intel and amd still dominate the gaming industry ), snapdragon is faster, lower wat mean better battery life and less heat. Snapdragon is made for productivity. If you only use the laptop for work then snapdragon is the way. You will never see gaming laptop use arms or snapdragon chip
You obviously haven't had a Mac since Apple Silicon which lasts all day without charging, instead a a measly hour or two like Intel. Maybe four hours if you set it to Battery Saver and turn off wifi. You're not old-fashioned, just willing to settle for something that is less useful.
@@mattbosley3531 I should have maybe clarified it a bit more, I absolutely love what Apple is doing and would love to own a MacBook, but from experience I just can't use macOS and need Windows, it's just probably a fact that Windows will never be like Apple, even though Microsoft might want it really bad!
Ok, you're old fashioned Competition is a good thing and these snapdragons are going to push the boundaries, it's going to drive innovation and it's going to drive better development
@@lucasadams1506 to be fair, the AMD Zen 5 laptop CPUs actually seem to be much better than previous laptop CPUs, and Lunar Lake could be interesting, though I'll probably sit out this year because I want CAMM2 to become available as I need lots of RAM, which is currently hard to get with 2024 laptops.
I have the same laptop and I have zero complaints. I don't hear any fan noise ever, and I edit videos 90% of the time on DaVinci Resolve. The keyboard is fine, so the comment about typing errors because of the layout seems more like a user issue, not a Dell issue.
My 85 year old mom just bought one of these from Best Buy and asked me to help set it up. First of all, as you stated, there IS NO definable right click button and I also noticed; unless I'm missing something, that it doesn't come with a headphone/earpiece jack? Wtf?
I have the XPS 15 from 2017, looking at for a new laptop since the i7 in this is not supported by windows 11. I wanted them to adopt a Ryzen CPU since they're significantly easier to keep cool. So it still having thermal issues 7 years later is pretty disappointing. The Surface Laptops look promising though
Hey Everyday Dad! Just wondering how low you can set the laptop's brightness to. My biggest complaint with Dell's hardware is that you cannot set the brightness lower past a minimum point, and that minimum point is still extremely bright and blinding, especially in dimly-lit rooms. If Dell hasn't correct it here, I'm either going for the Surface or a refurbished M3 Mac.
Can you find out if it's the emulation that heats up the device so much? in this case it's the fault of Prism emulation. It would be interesting to compare the same software in arm and x86 and measure the temperature difference. Thanks in advance
Bummer. I'm in the market for a Windows laptop. I have been using a Mac Air for about a year and I just can't get used to it. I was hoping this one might be the one....will you be trying the new Samsung, Surface, Lenovo, or HP Snapdragon X laptops?
I really appreciate your content , I know your Apple lover but then you tried Samsung phones and tablets and also now you have tried different windows laptops
I don't like Dell laptops and this review doesn't surprise me. If I was going to get any of these new snapdragon laptops I would probably go for the Surface and thats saying something as historically i've not liked Surface devices either.
Dell should rebrand these experimental beta stage toys running windows apps in emulation low perf mode, calling them XPS is an insult to what once was a premium high performance lineup. Hard to believe that anyone would waste money on these machines.
Meh. I would rather get the Dell Latitude 7450. I would sacrifice the battery life and screen quality for ports and app compatibility. When the Dell Latitude 7455 gets the Snapdragon X Elite CPU and better app compatibility, I would take that over the previous mentioned ones.
You know, they should have put the Snapdragon chip in the Dell XPS 9315 chassis, where the ultraportableness would do well with an ARM chip. Its like Apple not putting M1 in the 12". Looks like we are still far away from 0.5" laptops becoming mainstream, if they ever happen.
Mate, Apple must pay you a wedge. Having used Windows machines all of my working life, unfortunately in 2020 I was persuaded to go with Apple. 13”M1 air. That got water damaged, but was generally naff. Then I ended up with a M2 MacBook Air. It failed after only 6 months. Had to ultimately get my money back through my insurance. Also I found the Apple OS essentially unusable, maybe that’s because I’ve always used windows. I’ve always had good experiences with Dell, having an Alienware machine amongst others in the past. Anyway despite many of the negative reviews I took a punt on the new Dell XPS 9440, pretty much maxed out spec wise (I know the 16” vastly outperforms it, but it’s just too big and heavy to lug around for business). The Dell seems much faster in real world use than the Apple’s ( all of the benchmark tests you guys mean nothing to me) and yes I know the maxed out 9440 costs as much as the MacBook Pro, but the OLED screen kills the Apple, I haven’t seen this massive difference Apple keeps advertising in terms of battery life and I can game on the Dell ! I was disappointed to learn that the RTX 4050 in the Dell is only rated at 30w, but I knew it wasn’t a gaming machine when I bought it. I can still run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p without the ray tracing on the gorgeous OLED display at 60fps and with the 30 watt card it doesn’t even get warm! No I will NEVER return to Apple, utter rubbish in my opinion!!
You are saying that apple doing this since 4 years now but you forget that even the 1st gen m1 soc was superior and never had such compatibility problems. I am a windows user btw.
I think Dell should instead show the 'XPS' logo on the lid instead of at the bottom. Dell laptops do look mostly the same on the outside and the XPS is like 2-3 times the price of most of them. I think it deserives some differentiation as it is their flagship product. That's kinda something that stops me from cosidering the XPS, because on the outside it just looks like boring laptops companies usually give you.
One thing is for sure. Apple nailed their 1st gen ARM laptops far better then everyone. And qualcomm had something to try and copy. Apple ALLLLL day folks. My M1 Air and M1 Max are both flawlesssly trucking along. Virtual Machines via UTM run flawlessly even on my 8gb RAM Air. Just butter
But dude. First M1's are fucking insane.I can text Androids and call androids from ALL my Macs. Even my old ass 2011 Macbook Pro that works flawlessly running Sonoma
They say it's a tandem OLED, so that would mean it's more expensive than a conventional OLED, but they made it 60hz and non touch while being overpriced and dimmer than the competition. What a shame.
Interesting USB support being so bad since the Surface devices have USB 4 support which I think has all the support for docking and monitors with a ton of ports...
This is probably the worst keyboard/trackpad combo on a laptop I have ever seen. They somehow managed to make it worse than 2016 macbooks, and those were literally faulty.
My wife just switched from her 15" XPS to an 13" M3 Air (16/512) and loves it... a good part of that is MacOS once she got use to it again after over 20 years away.
Windows laptops are loud because they run Windows. Put linux on it and it will run much cooler and quieter. Windows is pure bloatware with a million processes running in the background.
Wow that fan noise with Davinci sounds like my old Thinkpad X1. Glad the surface isn't having those issues. Always seemed weird to compare these first gen machines to the MBA and then fit them all with fans, you're just begging for a bad comparison.
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Feels like dell really cared only about the looks of this laptop. Maybe try the surface laptop!
I agree. Dell really went overboard on form over fucntion more than even Apple.
Exactly that results in an overpriced laptop that's worse than the cheaper counterparts like the Lenovo
I had XPS15 for 2 years and that fan noise drove me CRAZY
Yeah, every time I was expecting an angry call for unauthorized take-off from Air Traffic Control.
I think it's more like Intel issue more then dell but yeah dell sucks
I was a XPS only fanboy. Sadly Dell lost the way 10 years ago and I doubt I will ever buy Dell again.
Same. I've now grown to love the brick NPC ThinkPads
10 years? Wow
What do you use now?
@@Thechosenitalianone he will probably say a mac
@@Thechosenitalianone Yup I went to the dark side. I'm sick of constant issues with my XPS. I have bought them loaded because I am an aerospace engineer and everything runs on windows. My MacBook M3 Max blows every $4-5000 XPS out of the water. Parallels is so good now all my CAD and simulation software runs faster and better on the M3 Max. As a huge boost I went from 2hrs max battery (severely throttled on Intel) life to all day battery life at 100% performance. I look forward to seeing if Snapdragon can rise to the level of the M4 ultra in performance and graphics.
The older body from the XPS 9500 would have been perfect. Dell listened to too many of the tech influencers who wanted a new body for the sake of having a new body.
@AgentZeroNine1 Sometimes if it ain't broke don't fix it. Same with the Legion 7/7i from 2022; it was near perfect, but then that chassis was completely abadoned!
The carbon design is nice. This one’s too though. Unfortunately the regular design format is not produced as of now
I love this design, IDK what are you talking about... no other laptop has this much personality
I love the new look of Dell XPS 13. I have intel core ultra version and i am very satisfied with it.
I have Snapdragon Elite X/15"/32gb/1tb Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 and i love it.
Bummer, Gary. I was hoping Dell had nailed a Windows alternative to the MacBook Air. But thanks for the great review.
Thank you so much for this. I've been binging on ARM Laptop reviews over the past week or so (HP, ASUS, Microsoft, etc).. and all the "real world" hands-on experience here is really informative. Especially about Thunderbolt and Docks. I'm still leaning towards the Surface 7 Laptop,. but I'm also in no rush to spend my own hard earned money.
I like these power-efficient Snapdragon/ARM processors. Asahi Linux runs great on my ARM-based M1 Mac Mini. When these vendors of Snapdragon machines make a model on which I can run Linux, I'll buy one. These look like products I actually want.
@@jimcabezola3051 Sadly, even as of the development period of the Linux kernel 6.12, some things still don't work, like the keyboard and touchpad, which are kind of important for a laptop!
I had dell xps 9300 and for me 13" is quite small. Later I've realized that 14" is perfect size for me. So now I am thinkpad x1 carbon fan.
7:25 - Any Displaylink dock will work with Snapdragon. I use a Startech DK31C4DPPD quad 4K display dock with my Surface 7 laptop and it works without any issues.
I worked at Dell for 18 years. Back then, they had really good engineers, and I bet they still have solid ones on staff. That said, I'm surprised to see that the power/ battery life balance isn't great. I have a Surface Pro 11 that I bought on launch day, and it seems much more consistent in terms of performance and battery life, both on and off battery. Seems like Microsoft is leading the pack (at this early stage at least. Hope Dell improves on that front pretty quickly.
Dells non arm optimised bloatware is probably a big factor
@@cooltwittertag It's not just not using ARM. It's the fact that they made the machines form over function even more than Apple ever did.
Mine arrives tomorrow. Will let you know.
I'm gonna need to know. Not sure whether to get the Snapdragon or Intel one. I have the 9320 and only hate the battery life
@@Okieant I have had the device for 24 hours and I am impressed. Battery life has been amazing, but I am an IT/Office guy. I don't. have fancy apps other than productivity. Only app I haven't been able to install is google drive, but not a dealbreaker. Keyboard is just new muscle memory and it doesn't make the sounds like his when pushing on the bottom. I definitely will get a docking station, but will feel good carrying it around all day without having to bring the power brick.
I'm a software developer with dotnet and NodeJS and I love the laptops with Snapdragon X Elite, they're fast and everything runs natively, which enables me to work faster than in my previous AMD 6900hx, at least after 15 minutes of usage (the old laptop got hot and performance went down).
Dell really lost it, the same laptop I have from 2016 has one thunderbolt 3 USB C, 2 USB 3.0 and a SD card slot and a SEPRATE charching port. DELL GET THE MEMO 2 USB C IS NOT ENOUGH AND YOU KNOW IT! And I HATE that no tech youtube ever dares to say this as bluntly as should be. This is a shame. We don't neer thinner and less ports. EVEN APPLE GOT THE MEMO. Give us at least 3 USB C one SD card slot and a separate Mag safe type charching port. You use one USB to charge and you only have one left for your mouse our something. This is suppose to be a portable laptop first and they keep fumbling. I have waited years for Dell to fix this fucking issue and they keep doing it. Your old XPS had them there is enough room, stop being dicks and fucking make a proper 13 inch laptop again. No wonder people are switching over to Surface and other brands. Dell is tone dead on purpose the entire design team should be fired at this point.
The creaking in the hinge and chassis is an issue with all 2024 XPS laptops. I returned mine 3 times. Then my replacement had a dead keyboard and was overheating. Returned it and got a MacBook Pro instead…
I've also returned 3 2024 XPS 13s. 1 with the creaking issue and other two screens were not flush with the keyboard when closed. This appears to be an issue with all 2024 XPS laptops - they made the hinge several mm longer to allow the heat to exit via the vents at the back. This is causing lots of issues elsewhere on the chasis. Also this haa resulted in 2024 XPS 13 been 3mm thicker than advertised.
I have the Lenovo Yoga with the X Elite. Today I plugged in a colleagues Thunderbolt dock they use with they MacBook and a couple of monitors (OWC I think). It just worked. Zero issues. The X Elite absolutely supports USB 4 including the thunderbolt speeds. Thunderbolt isn't really a protocol itself, it's more like a laundry list of other USB/Displyport/PCIe/PD protocols that a port has to support in order to meet the requirements to be called a Thunderbolt port. Probably a Dell firmware issue so hopefully they will be updating it soon.
The most interesting thing about this new family of XPS is its design and that they do not heat up as much as the previous generation, but other than that, many people do not like the keyboard or the mediocre performance, I like it, I am not demanding , the xps 16 has good battery life and looks beautiful, the performance is fine and the 4k oled screen is magnificent, but for others it will only be an object of criticism
Hi, thanks for your great review! What about the upper right corner of the display (3:40 in the video): it seems to me a very poor alignment of the screen with the external chassis
Appreciate the detailed update👍👍
There is an XPS 13 9345 External Display Connection Guide available now.
I do find dells XPS lineup esthetically pleasing, especially the keyboard, track pad, and touch bar. All of it looks sexy.
Thanks for giving us lots of real world opinions and information instead of a fan boy sponsored review (like most of them on UA-cam) that wastes our time.
Yeah, not unexpected, Dell sux
What's new here? 😂
Dell doesn't suc. Only the xps line because they just cared for the design and not the performance and usability. The other lines like the precision and latitudes are pretty good.
@@FxtfulFinitycouldve told me this before i bought one and it broke just outside of warranty
@FxtfulFinity Still underwhelming for the high price you pay. The Precision laptops are generally moving towards a pseudo XPS design, maybe not as bad as the 2024 XPS laptops, but it's happening slowly.
@cameronbosch1213 you have a point because like 5 yrs ago xps used to be the most popular and best laptop for gaming and schoolwork like overall work but now they are changing the design and doing many unwanted things which is ruining their reputation 😑
I got the galaxy book 14 and it's actually really good!!
hopefully mediatek and other companies enter this race and add more competition, this way we'll get faster developement and improvements, for now, I don't think I will pay 1000+ dollars for a first gen laptop chip, gotta wait and see how it goes.
amazing review btw, very detailed and informative, thank you
MediaTek is a joke lol.
@@alphatumeric When it comes to Wi-Fi cards, I agree, but we should praise more competition for CPUs.
You can set Windows to right-click when you tap the touchpad with two fingers. That's what I do. Easier than moving to the right button. One finger for left-click, two for right.
Dell! Bring back function keys, usb type a, 3.5 jack. We don't need a trash called hub in the bag 😢
On Dell's X-Elite XPS 13 product page they claim both USB-C ports sustain 40Gbps data rates, the a same as Thunderbolt.
I think Dell's reason for the strange function row was cooling. Still, I wish they would make the design a bit thinner to incorporate true function keys, as I haven't seen one person say they like the way Dell has it. With that being said, I think a few changes to this laptop (sacrificing some aesthetic for functionality) would make a huge difference. There's a lot of potential for Windows fans here.
@@xeon3081 And yet it still overheated. 😂
@@cameronbosch1213 Yeah exactly. I just wish they would merge this design with the one they used previously (I think it used carbon fiber) which did have full function keys
Great review, really appreciate the honesty! Really sucks that these laptops still have classic windows problems. Hopefully it gets better!
I use two-finger taps for right clicking
I have been for more than 5 years probably
I find it more convenient and maybe it can help solve your problem with that trackpad
Good review! any chance you can get your hands on a Firefly 14 inch, g11 with the dreamcolor display?
Those have the new Intel Core Ultra in them, would be interesting about power and thermals/fan noise.
Thanks Bro, waited for that.
Tbh you can never say Dell without a “L” 😅
"Deo"
Though tbh, ye they did L here with this laptop 🤣
I went with the base Surface Pro, but had I gone with a non-Microsoft brand, I probably would've gone with the HP Omnibook X. The XPS is nice and all, but Dell has very much gone form over function with it as of late. And I'm not limiting that just to the Snapdragon XPS.
I don't have the 9345, but I do have the 9340 for work, so I can't speak for the processor but I can express my thoughts on the form factor. I agree that I hate the the lack of boundaries on the touchpad. I don't hate the digital buttons but they seem rather pointless. Mac touch bar at least have more use.
@Melchiahdim As a programmer, I cannot stand non physical function keys. The escape key I use quite often, and same with delete. That would drive me nuts.
The touchpad being invisible is also awful, as is the touchpad's haptic feedback. It feels so weak, like I can't tell if it clicked or not. This wasn't an issue on any haptic MacBook touchpad or even on the HP Spectre 14 from this year.
Even Apple added back the escape key in 2019 before they ultimately killed the entire Touch Bar in 2021.
No wonder Dell is having serious trouble with their client PC sales; their options suck!
Really interested to hear if your experience with this unit improved as you used it more.
Idk, I learned my lesson on the 2020 version everyone was recommending that Dell generally just doesn't make good laptops longevity wise. Hoping the Snapdragon would change that, but looks like they sitll need to work out some issues.
I personally wouldn't get an ARM Laptop right now unless you. are working exclusively with popular apps that everyday users need, as the ARM compatability thing is going to be an ongoing issue for a while. The surface tablet however feels more of an interesting use case where windows has a potential strong alternative to iPads, primarily becuase it's a PC Operating system in tablet for
The caldigit TS4 dock works with the Surface Pro and Galaxy Book4 Edge 14”
Here's something I really don't understand about Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite reviews:
It's an amazing processor. Like it's the first, consumer available, open hardware spec (Asahi Linux is amazing but they shouldn't have to reverse engineer the M1, M2 and M3 chips), desktop ready ARM processor on the market and everyone and their dog is reviewing them with the worst of all operating systems.
Windows is just objectively bad. Like if the first thing you have to do when you first turn on your brand new shiny computer is wait 15 minutes for updates, because Windows has NEVER had a sane update system, it's just bad. They've bought that shitty experience to ARM so... I guess... Yay them?
We've got this amazing processor, and a whole lot of people who have been waiting for a desktop ready ARM processor (Linux users would probably buy this in droves), and reviewers are all out there going "this hardware looks just like the Macbook Air" and "it's just like Apple!" (sooooo much Apple envy) and then they get into the OS and it's just a shitty experience. Like it's not like Apple at all. I mean, the hardware may resemble Apple products. But otherwise, the experience is just awful. The software is shit. It'd probably be more fair to compare these running Linux to Apple devices. And if you were to do this, at least Linux users might get excited by the processor. Instead you've got a bunch of people who have accepted the shitty experience of Windows looking at these going "But it's just not quite the same shit experience I get on my desktop".
You should try the Surface Laptop 7 next, reviews look good for it.
dell xps should be compatible with any of the thunderbolt docks in general; give it a shot.
its just a certification thing, X-elite is still usb4 certified which means thunderbolt should work flawlessly
1080p for productivity and office work on a premium laptop is unacceptable. The text clarity boost you get with a high PPI display alone is worth it. I can’t imagine using a sub 200 PPI display for my work
@vedantdesai1 to be fair, at 13 inches, 1080p is not terrible. Above 16 inches, and I agree, it's not good. On a 24 - 27 inch monitor, 1080p is in fact unacceptable.
The problem with Sd X Elite is that it has different variants with different speeds but each laptop manufacturer did not specify which are you getting, all they show will be telling you it has an X Elite in it.
Used to be a huge XPS fan boy and owned 3 different gens. Once the M1 came out and Mac's became cheaper than Dells, it was KO for them.
XPS had major issues as far back as 2017, they were doing dumb shit like fitting half sized batteries leaving large voids in the chassis, flexing rattly keyboard, putting the camera at the BOTTOM of the display
Dell has been trading off it's old reputation for too long
I use an XPS 13 Plus from last year and it's been great with one exception. The trackpad. I freaking HATE it. Its always picking up phantom clicks while I'm typing and getting stuck for about 2 seconds at a time unless I stop and wait for it to unlick. It drives me crazy.
@@UnknownLamppost I came safely say you aren't alone in hating the touchpad. It feels like it isn't haptic; it feels like I'm clicking on unmoving glass with barely any feedback. On MacBooks and even HP laptops with haptic touchpads, this isn't an issue.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't get the whole Snapdragon hype. I'm so happy I got both the Surface laptop 5 and pro 9 last year, they've been great with everything. I know, the battery life could be better, but I came from a freaking Alienware gaming laptop that lasted half an hour max. Everything on Intel just works! Doesn't matter if it's a random 10 year old USB device or a modern Thunderbolt dock. Just plug it in and go! If they keep Surface ARM only going forward, this might have been my last Microsoft purchase. Great video btw man, keep it up! Been enjoying your channel a lot lately!
You should watch other laptop with snapdragon review. Dell just drop the balls this year. Beside gaming ( intel and amd still dominate the gaming industry ), snapdragon is faster, lower wat mean better battery life and less heat. Snapdragon is made for productivity. If you only use the laptop for work then snapdragon is the way. You will never see gaming laptop use arms or snapdragon chip
You obviously haven't had a Mac since Apple Silicon which lasts all day without charging, instead a a measly hour or two like Intel. Maybe four hours if you set it to Battery Saver and turn off wifi. You're not old-fashioned, just willing to settle for something that is less useful.
@@mattbosley3531 I should have maybe clarified it a bit more, I absolutely love what Apple is doing and would love to own a MacBook, but from experience I just can't use macOS and need Windows, it's just probably a fact that Windows will never be like Apple, even though Microsoft might want it really bad!
Ok, you're old fashioned
Competition is a good thing and these snapdragons are going to push the boundaries, it's going to drive innovation and it's going to drive better development
@@lucasadams1506 to be fair, the AMD Zen 5 laptop CPUs actually seem to be much better than previous laptop CPUs, and Lunar Lake could be interesting, though I'll probably sit out this year because I want CAMM2 to become available as I need lots of RAM, which is currently hard to get with 2024 laptops.
I have the same laptop and I have zero complaints. I don't hear any fan noise ever, and I edit videos 90% of the time on DaVinci Resolve. The keyboard is fine, so the comment about typing errors because of the layout seems more like a user issue, not a Dell issue.
@@chrislugo2154 nah it's a Dell issue, unless yOu'Re HoLdInG iT wRoNg.
@@cameronbosch1213skill issue
@@Pomegrante460 You mad brah?
"Early adapter" phase? Do you need a power converter to use this laptop? 😉
My 85 year old mom just bought one of these from Best Buy and asked me to help set it up. First of all, as you stated, there IS NO definable right click button and I also noticed; unless I'm missing something, that it doesn't come with a headphone/earpiece jack? Wtf?
What happened to all the laptops you bought for testing?
Just a heads up, but it’s “early adopter,” and not “early adapter.”
I have the XPS 15 from 2017, looking at for a new laptop since the i7 in this is not supported by windows 11. I wanted them to adopt a Ryzen CPU since they're significantly easier to keep cool. So it still having thermal issues 7 years later is pretty disappointing. The Surface Laptops look promising though
Hey Everyday Dad! Just wondering how low you can set the laptop's brightness to. My biggest complaint with Dell's hardware is that you cannot set the brightness lower past a minimum point, and that minimum point is still extremely bright and blinding, especially in dimly-lit rooms. If Dell hasn't correct it here, I'm either going for the Surface or a refurbished M3 Mac.
The Dell Latitude 9440 is what the what the XPS Should be…
I'll wait for the Thinkpad and Linux support
Can you find out if it's the emulation that heats up the device so much? in this case it's the fault of Prism emulation. It would be interesting to compare the same software in arm and x86 and measure the temperature difference. Thanks in advance
Bummer. I'm in the market for a Windows laptop. I have been using a Mac Air for about a year and I just can't get used to it. I was hoping this one might be the one....will you be trying the new Samsung, Surface, Lenovo, or HP Snapdragon X laptops?
Heard Samsung throttles performance on their SD laptops, the Microsoft ones seem to be the most interesting
Can you install Ubuntu or other Linux distros to see how it works?
@@HisLoveArmy Until kernel version 6.11, it won't. Just Josh tried nearly every distro possible (including ARM Debian and Ubuntu), and nothing booted.
I really appreciate your content , I know your Apple lover but then you tried Samsung phones and tablets and also now you have tried different windows laptops
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x with the Elite is awesome
Dell have had partially digital function keys as far back as 2007 in their Inspiron laptops (which is as far back as I can remember)
@@veez. those still had the traditional function keys in addition to the digital ones. Heck, even the Apple touch bar was better than this!
I don't like Dell laptops and this review doesn't surprise me. If I was going to get any of these new snapdragon laptops I would probably go for the Surface and thats saying something as historically i've not liked Surface devices either.
LINUX YAY!
Dell should rebrand these experimental beta stage toys running windows apps in emulation low perf mode, calling them XPS is an insult to what once was a premium high performance lineup. Hard to believe that anyone would waste money on these machines.
When were XPS premium high performance products? My 2017 was trash from day 1
@@scod3908 back around the time Dell acquired Alienware.
Meh. I would rather get the Dell Latitude 7450. I would sacrifice the battery life and screen quality for ports and app compatibility. When the Dell Latitude 7455 gets the Snapdragon X Elite CPU and better app compatibility, I would take that over the previous mentioned ones.
You know, they should have put the Snapdragon chip in the Dell XPS 9315 chassis, where the ultraportableness would do well with an ARM chip. Its like Apple not putting M1 in the 12". Looks like we are still far away from 0.5" laptops becoming mainstream, if they ever happen.
you should've went with vivo s15 it looks like the best deal from sd x series
Whats the point of going to arm if the fans are loud?
The keyboard and trackpad are deal breakers for me. The rest of the issues could be fixed by software. Maybe.
From all the vids I've seen on these new laptops it seems like the surface laptop is the way to go
We need a The Everyday Dad "reviewed units" shop.
Definitely change it out. Mine does not creak like yours does. I got the Best Buy configuration because of the screen.
How's your battery life?
@@Okieant Doing vscode and a hour of java minecraft with youtube got me 6 hours with battery dropping from 100 - 55%.
I'm literally just waiting for them to fully support Davinci Resolve and I will buy it in a heartbeat 😢
Mate, Apple must pay you a wedge. Having used Windows machines all of my working life, unfortunately in 2020 I was persuaded to go with Apple. 13”M1 air. That got water damaged, but was generally naff. Then I ended up with a M2 MacBook Air. It failed after only 6 months. Had to ultimately get my money back through my insurance.
Also I found the Apple OS essentially unusable, maybe that’s because I’ve always used windows. I’ve always had good experiences with Dell, having an Alienware machine amongst others in the past.
Anyway despite many of the negative reviews I took a punt on the new Dell XPS 9440, pretty much maxed out spec wise (I know the 16” vastly outperforms it, but it’s just too big and heavy to lug around for business). The Dell seems much faster in real world use than the Apple’s ( all of the benchmark tests you guys mean nothing to me) and yes I know the maxed out 9440 costs as much as the MacBook Pro, but the OLED screen kills the Apple, I haven’t seen this massive difference Apple keeps advertising in terms of battery life and I can game on the Dell ! I was disappointed to learn that the RTX 4050 in the Dell is only rated at 30w, but I knew it wasn’t a gaming machine when I bought it. I can still run Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p without the ray tracing on the gorgeous OLED display at 60fps and with the 30 watt card it doesn’t even get warm!
No I will NEVER return to Apple, utter rubbish in my opinion!!
You are saying that apple doing this since 4 years now but you forget that even the 1st gen m1 soc was superior and never had such compatibility problems. I am a windows user btw.
Windows on ARM has been a thing for longer than MacOS on ARM. Which is sad.
Glad i opted for the Surface Laptop instead
I think Dell should instead show the 'XPS' logo on the lid instead of at the bottom. Dell laptops do look mostly the same on the outside and the XPS is like 2-3 times the price of most of them. I think it deserives some differentiation as it is their flagship product. That's kinda something that stops me from cosidering the XPS, because on the outside it just looks like boring laptops companies usually give you.
Kinda really like how it looks, would love to give it a spin, but seems like those are not Linux friendly.
is this laptop capable of handling ai ml tasks? I want to build projects for my college
Laptops are always a nightmare. I stick with my stationary any day of the week.
some honest useful words
While I think that ARM laptops are the future, if I needed a Windows laptop right now I would still go with an x86 machine.
One thing is for sure. Apple nailed their 1st gen ARM laptops far better then everyone. And qualcomm had something to try and copy. Apple ALLLLL day folks. My M1 Air and M1 Max are both flawlesssly trucking along. Virtual Machines via UTM run flawlessly even on my 8gb RAM Air. Just butter
@@Mbro-dq2do How's Apple Intellegence working for you, oh wait! 😂
@@cameronbosch1213 My M1 Max I think can dial the AI natively. I wont really use it. Im on Linux mostly
But dude. First M1's are fucking insane.I can text Androids and call androids from ALL my Macs. Even my old ass 2011 Macbook Pro that works flawlessly running Sonoma
I cant do any reaching out to people on my Dell. Its useless. Also always in Linux on my intel machines cause Windows and Google are bloated shit
@@Mbro-dq2do I use Linux too. And no, not on ARM until Qualcomm is better supported in the Linux kernel.
You would have to use regular USB-C Non thunderbolt docks.
You should try out the Surface Laptop. It seems to be better than the XPS.
I just want a Surface Pro OLED, Elite X/Plus, 5G, and fanless. I want a proper Surface Pro X successor. That's pretty much about it.
They say it's a tandem OLED, so that would mean it's more expensive than a conventional OLED, but they made it 60hz and non touch while being overpriced and dimmer than the competition. What a shame.
Interesting USB support being so bad since the Surface devices have USB 4 support which I think has all the support for docking and monitors with a ton of ports...
No boundary touchpad and non-physical fn key rows are the best design Dell brought out.
I thought the main reason to get away from intel or amd was to allow cell compatibility built into the laptops? But they only come WiFi
@@KenMrKLC that would be one reason, but you can still have Intel or AMD and have 4G/5G. That generally requires a separate modem card.
This is probably the worst keyboard/trackpad combo on a laptop I have ever seen. They somehow managed to make it worse than 2016 macbooks, and those were literally faulty.
My wife just switched from her 15" XPS to an 13" M3 Air (16/512) and loves it... a good part of that is MacOS once she got use to it again after over 20 years away.
Windows laptops are loud because they run Windows. Put linux on it and it will run much cooler and quieter. Windows is pure bloatware with a million processes running in the background.
Wow that fan noise with Davinci sounds like my old Thinkpad X1. Glad the surface isn't having those issues. Always seemed weird to compare these first gen machines to the MBA and then fit them all with fans, you're just begging for a bad comparison.
"click click click click click" like XPS bottom's cover does.
Can't make any excuses for Qualcomm because they've been making arm chips for decades now. And this is their 2nd time making arm chips for windows
I would not touch them yet. Someone should review how WSL works on the arm devices.