I work in Houston as a repair technician for a subcontractor of Dell that does the repairs that get done when people send in their laptops and desktops. I actually got to get hands on with the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 today for the first time and i gotta say, damn that thing is gorgeous! All the techs around me that i showed it too were oohing and ahhing. I love the design of it, its basically a macbook without all the garbo that makes apple so bleh. Anyway, if anyone has any questions on how the repair process works and such I'd be happy to answer!
@@caffeinefederation339 it is really not great. We have guys employed by dell in our building that are basically who you take it to when you don't know something, and when the guy first pulled up the tear down diagram that showed the like, 40 screws you have to remove to take the thing apart, he actually said "wow". Keep in mind this is one of the engineers who helps design them xD
@@Admiral__ It has soldered RAM and soldered SSD. ): But hey Garrett here's the questions: What's the solution for someone who has had their XPS 13 2-in-1 die but can't recover the data? Apple actually made a Simpson's reverse flushing toilet to get data from its first soldered-in-place-SSD models. I'm wondering if there is a procedure for it other than: "Well, you had a backup right?"
@@FakeGordonMahUng we don't deal with data at all at my work. If your drive dies, we give you a new drive, if it's sautered we give you a new board. Keeps it simple
its mid July 2020 and I told dell on the phone I bought their product based off your review. XPS 15 7690 4k, I9, 64gb, 2TB hd. I cant wait for them to deliver it. I liked the way you did this review as well as the setting you did it in. plan to use mine for video editing and some basic Computer science task.
As a dell xps 15 user myself if your doing any audio work don’t buy any of these the DPC latency issues will mess with all ur interfaces and cause clicks and pops in your audio playback and monitoring. These issues won’t affect general users but those doing any music production and recording will get poor performance from audio devices
From an onwer: If you intend to only game, I agree with whay they say: get a gaming laptop. But if you want to work as well and want only ONE laptop...this thing can game really well, especially if you play some older titles like Overwatch, Dota 2, WoW, Rocket League. I can play all of these in 4k60fps. But also new titles play really well in 1080p. This is perfect for people that want an allrounder with great battery.
Read my review on PCworld.com, particularly the section about gaming with it. Yes, not pretty and I recommend you go with a larger gaming laptop instead. However, I did three long encodes on it, as well as Premiere CC encodes on CPU and GPU. It was difficult to induce throttling with the load I used. Gaming though where you heat up the GPU and CPU at the same time for a couple of hours? Yeah, not pretty. But, I think people have to realize there are limits to putting an 8-core i9 with GTX 1650 in a 4.5 lbs. laptop. I think for people who care about content creation but do want to keep total weight (brick too) fairly light, it's not a bad choice. Gaming laptops would be the alternative, but then you're talking probably 2 lbs. more total in your bag. www.pcworld.com/article/3438659/review-dells-xps-15-7590-reaches-for-8-cores-of-cpu-power.html
PS: WHEN DELL INTRODUCES A 17 INCH XPS LAPTOP W/HDMI CONNECTIVITY ETAL, THEN I'LL GET INTERESTED. BUT UNTIL ANY FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY DELL INC, THEN I'LL WAIT AWHILE UNTIL SUCH A LAPTOP BECOMES AVAILABLE. WE AWAIT GOOD NEWS SOON.
Just got my XPS 13" 2 in 1 $400 off at Costco. Ive seen similar sales elsewhere as well. $1299 and you get the i7 with 512GB of storage and 16gb of RAM with the nice FHD+ screen.
Do one on the Spectre series. I've had the x360 for almost a year now and it's criminally underrated. The privacy guard model is amazing because it's the only ultraportable that has a 120hz screen. Once you get used to high refresh rates you can't go back.
We should. I'm a HUGE fan of the Spectre x360 series and have had friends and family buy the Spectre x360 13 because I think the versatility can't be beat.
@@screenwatcher6224 I love OLED but have become so accustomed to higher refresh rates that I couldn't go back to 60hz, even if the picture is significantly better. Wouldn't mind having the smaller bezels though. The huge forehead and chin is unsightly in an otherwise beautiful laptop.
@@EliSantana yeah I wish it was a 120hz screen. But the beauty of the slim bezels is insane. Also the fact that they fit an IR camera in this one and Dell didnt was pretty much the determining factor. Well that and USB A and better price for more specs lol.
you can read the reviews of the laptops. All laptops are basically compromises in performance, acoustics, weight, battery life. If you mean the XPS 15's throttling? We talked about the fact that the XPS 15 is not a recommend for a primary gaming laptop. Go read my review here: www.pcworld.com/article/3438659/review-dells-xps-15-7590-reaches-for-8-cores-of-cpu-power.html
Love the video! Keep it up. Don't listen to the haters Adam. Gordon, do you think we'll get that beautiful white finish and 2 in 1 form factor in the 15 inch category from Dell? Hoping Dell sticks with the new aspect ratio. Love to hear your thoughts on that
I can forward your love for the white. It is nice. I prefer taller aspect ratios and well. I suspect it's a pricing issue though and volume buying helps. Volume as in in Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus.
13 or 2-in-1? On the XPS 13, it uses LPDDR3 which doesn't support higher densities to get to 32GB of RAM. On the XPS 13 2-in-1, it uses LPDDR4X which will soon hit the densities for 32GB of RAM.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Thank you very much, can you believe that a Sales Rep in Dell told me that I can buy extra Ram and install it later..jajajj, I appreciate your answer with technical arguments, again Thanks
I just bought this xps 13 7390 2in1 yesterday, and it has coil whine noises and also the fan sound is really loud even though im not using any heavy apps. Any suggestion? Thanks
ive found that the dell power manager helps a little on my xps 13 9370, but the fan is still obnoxiously loud. I would try to exchange yours before the return period is over, I regret not doing that with mine every day :(
love your no nonsense show....kudos guys. would love to see you put some lenovo models up against comparable xps models. i'm seeking a good allrounder to replace my 12 yr old slow as hell laptop. need 14-15'', prefer touchscreen but not essential, no gaming, no cad/video editing. prefer to have thunderbolt 3 for some future proofing...good keyboard, great screen, wifi 6, fast cpu for everyday surfing, youtube etc. suggestions from you guys, since i trust you 150% are most welcomed. (maybe look at the new inspiron series too?) thanks
The Dell website only shows 256 and 1 TB for SSD on the 2 in 1. I think they planned that out. One will run out faster making people get something new and the other is the most expensive option that nobody will get if they had the 512 SSD option.
I love ypur reviews gordon! Anyway, do you think a 7390 xps 13 will do good for my music production? Or should I get the xps 15 7590? :O thanks in advance
@@FakeGordonMahUng @JavasBest it looks like it might be a glennztees shirt. atleast the style looks very similar. try the store and see if you can find it store.glennz.com/
They should test the gaming capability by playing Minecraft for us and turning on the info in the top left. They light a few dozen TNT and we see which drops to the lowest frame rate and which recovers faster.
That's an odd config. I do think most normal use, 8GB is fine, but 16GB is preferred today. What's odd is a 6-core part implies you're doing more "work" so, why not also pair it with enough RAM that might be used for more work? I suspect the cynical answer is people will buy on core count because more cores = better and those cores won't actually ever be used. anyway, it depends on what you are doing. If 8GB is enough sure, but then, if you really don't need the core count, why not just save and get an i5 instead?
The 15 absolutely can game, they don't just stick a graphics card in there for no reason. It's actually just false to say the 13 2in1 has good gaming capability while rubishing the 15.
Agreed, the black carbon-fiber is getting boring, even though it's become an XPS signature feature by now. However, the white glass fiber weave available with the XPS 13s is 🔥🔥🔥.
Although I haven't touched a "10th gen" quad-core Core i7-10510U in the XPS 13 7390, the differences are likely minimal from the Core i7-8565U in the XPS 13 9380. Both are quads with the 10th gen part getting a 300MHz higher turbo. It's likely faster, but the impact is likely to be minimal for most people's needs. I think the appeal of the XPS 13 7390 is mostly for those who need 6-cores for short, bursty workloads. That's my read of the choice anyway. Check our 10th gen buyer's guide (based on a forecast that's mostly turning out to be true) as well both the CPUs in the laptops: www.pcworld.com/article/3432718/10th-gen-ice-lake-vs-comet-lake-cpu-buyers-guide.html And here are the differences in the CPUs on ARK. ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=149091,196449
Great review guys and timely, since I'm looking to buy an XPS over Black Friday. Would have liked to hear something about the 13" 2in1 with the 6 core configuration. I need portability and something that handles video editing and was wondering if that unit would do the job?
Bryan thank you - I'm a professional speaker and need something light/that can handle some basic video editing and powerpoint, that I can toss in my backpack. I've had a 13" ASUS Zenbook for the past 5 years and its time to put it out to pasture.
Sorry, no 6-core 2-in-1. It's Ice Lake 10nm quad core. 6-core is only in the XPS 13 clamshell using a Comet Lake U chip. I think basic video editing will work. An H part with GPU is better, but then it's heavier too.
Exactly the video , I was looking for. There is great deals in Costco starting thanksgiving day and prices are slashed down $300-$450. Great time to buy one of these. If you do only photo editing and video once in a while , should we go for XPS 15 , i7 and DDR4 ram or XPS 13 10th gen CPU and DDR3 ram. Can you please help.
A firmware update bricked my 15 7590 for the 2nd time. dells Pro support is useless as no parts are available.3 week wait for a motherboard. Something to bear in mind before purchase. dell does not have their act together.
Great review! Really helpful! I’m not getting the XPS 15, but I will be doing some video editing and digital drawing. Will the 13 2 in 1 still do okay or would it push it a bit?
I think if you're going to do basic, light duty video editing with expectations of it being slower it will work. It won't be fun or great, but it will work. But if you are going to video editing 75% of the time, it's better to have an H-class CPU which can maintain higher clocks since they have more thermals and also have discrete graphics. There is no pen option on the XPS 15 unfortunately so not sure if that'll work. I guess it just depends on what you're willing to live with.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Thank you so much for replying and so quickly! I'm not going to be editing all the time, just for certain projects here and there. Mainly I'll be using my drawing program. I can probably make it work! Edit: Actually ended up going with the Spectre ×360 15". So far, spot on! And for a cheaper price.
@@AUA-camLady Yeah, just grit your teeth. Remember: make sure to spec out with 16GB of RAM and the largest SSD you can afford. At some point once things calm down on desktop hardware, I'm going to fire up a Premiere test on both of the 13-inch laptops to see how usable they are.
Can I still do some reasonable photo and video editing with the XPS 13 when it's just the quad core? Cause, you can't get the six core in Europe but I'm not sure if I want to buy the XPS 15 or if I even need it (also I don't know how portable it is and if the battery life is any good) Please give me some advice...
I just ordered the XPS 13 7390 4K and I got for good deal cos of student discount from the dell website but I'm still considering for the extra £200 is it worth getting the 15 inch screen instead going back and forth. I'm more of a causal user but will use it for video editing watching movies sometimes
Watching this video makes me feel like my XPS 13 9380 i7, 8gb Ram, 256gb SSD is shit now lol Ps. I know nothing about computers, as I’ve been a Mac user for most part of my life and they’re pretty self forward
So I’m about to buy a laptop, I do mainly school work photo editing and I might dabble in video editing in the future. I’ve had my mind set on the 15 for $1499 but I wonder if that’s a little overkill. I kinda wanted to buy the xps 15 to future proof it but it’s a lot on money. I don’t want a 2-in-1would the 13 be better for me than the 15
Seeing the amount of stuff u get out of this and looking at what u get from macs at the same price im just so confused as to why content creators are still buying macs other than for airdrop and emojis
Hi PCWorld, regarding the XPS 15 7590, I watched you're previous video, would you recommend the 7590 with the i7, 16gb RAM and the full-HD display. I am going to be using it for university, programming, general productivity? Thanks.
@@FakeGordonMahUng I agree, and if you did want a higher-resolution display, you can always just plug one in at your desk. The 1080p display will get you better battery life on the go.
@@elenchus I'm planning to buy XPS 15 for photo editing and video play. Do you think is it better 4K OLED version or FD ? In 4K version, Windows character is to much small ?
@@michelebarbieri1208 From what I've read, the OLED version's color calibration seems to change at different brightness levels--for that reason, I'd probably not use it for photo editing. Both the 4K IPS and HD IPS panels seem to have excellent gamut and calibration out of the box, as well as brightness, so either would be fine as long as you're ok with the resolution. Personally, I don't find resolution to be that important in terms of working on graphics, but it can make life easier to be able to fit more on the screen in the native resolution. Because of the panel's 16:9 aspect ratio, you should be able to bring the resolution down without black bars (you could use 2560x1440, for instance). In my opinion, the 4K IPS (non-OLED) panel is probably the best as a result. The HD panel is good from the reviews I've read, but the flexibility you can get at 4K (the ability to change the resolution to what you want, whether higher or lower.
I'm a student and I'm confused about buying the dell xps 15 2in1 or the new dell xps 13 2in1. I only do light gaming once in like a week. Both laptops are currently the same price. Please help
Regardless of the look and weight, a gaming laptop can do all the design or video editing or not? Such as running photoshop, AutoCAD, 2020 ect. I am thinking about the same price leave, some gaming laptop have higher core or RAM ect
We have not reviewed the Surface Pro 7 yet but for performance: XPS 13 2-in-1 because it's not a tablet design. Most tablet designs can't compete with 360 designs because they typically have less space for cooling etc. Keyboard/Trackpad: well, that's a toss up. I'm not a huge fan of the maglev 2 keyboard AND I love Microsoft's keyboards and trackpads. They're the best out if you ask me. I can't speak to screen quality as Microsoft typically uses very nice panels in Surface--but the XPS 13 2-in-1 is quite gorgeous too. For 360 vs. detachable? I was a fan of Surface Pro for a while as it has phenomenal weight/performance/capability but I'd take a 360 design over detachable design any day now. I just rarely used it in tablet mode and the awkward lap use is really kind of a pain. TLDR; both are perfectly reasonably fast platforms for what you're going to do. You should probably pick on price, form factor that works for you.
Great review. Thanks for putting it together. I am struggling between the two 13" models. Would much prefer the 2-1 but I need to use it for photo editing (not video) Lightroom and Luminar on occasion. How does the 2-1 handle this. The processing delays on some laptops make it unbearable.
I have not used Luminar but they recommend 7th gen i7 (so quad-core on a desktop) and discrete graphics. It sounds like there's a lot of GPU acceleration in it, so my guess the 10th gen 10nm "Ice Lake" Core i7-1065G7 would perform better. It is Intel's newest core and has new instructions, and despite its lower clocks, actually performs very well. The 10th gen 14nm "Comet Lake" Core i7-10710U is really the same thing, but six core. I don't know if Luminar is multi-threaded or not, but if it is the 6-cores might yield better performance. The problem is the GPU in the Comet Lake chip is the same old, same old. If it does lean on the GPU more, i'd say the the 2-in-1 is the right choice. of course an XPS 15 7590 with 6-core Core i7-9750H and GTX 1650 is probably going to be faster, but not exactly light.
be careful to buy this laptop there are two serious issues 1- screen flickering - factory issue 2- thermal throttling. even if you buy it actually dell technical support will do nothing for you as they did nothing for me I have 5 laptops i9 OLED screen and all of them have those issues.
hi im writing that from my new xps 13 7390,4k 16gb ram and 512 ssd all in that laptop is amazing except....SCREEN yes you got me right screen is awful I mean colors and brightnes sharpenes is amazing but damn that time response is not acceptable we have end of 2019 and so slow response make it unwatchable.when im watching NETFLIX dynamic scenes I see something like ghosting and blurring even at windows it looks awfull ;/ do yourself favor and buy something with 1ms respone not 33.6(black to white)why noone of that pseudo youtubers don't say shit about that.i bought that to editing videos when away and now I regret ;/
All 3 should support eGPU at this point (although I have not tested it some time since it's assumed to work.. With an eGPU, all should be fine for gaming. Remember: there is loss of performance from Thunderbolt 3 and a U-class CPU will give up clocks too. But enough to really matter? I don't think so. The XPS 15 will yield the best performance and since it's running an external GPU, and you move the thermals out of the chassis so the CPU can run at higher clocks. But again: if you're looking at 90 percent gaming, desktop or dedicated gaming laptop would be a better choice. But if you mean, maybe 75 percent work, 25% gaming or 60/40, not a problem at all with a good eGPU I'd bet. (actually, just confirmed in the control center for the XPS 15 that it supports eGPU. It does.) At this point, I'd imagine most are supporting it.
Hey! from what we've done in my time (official repair subcontractor for Dell) we usually just leave the ram and drive alone if the customer has changed them, and if they're causing issues with the system we replace them as long as the system is still under warranty. I've never seen an instance of a customer having replaced the ram or drive causing a voided warranty, unless they somehow stabbed a whole through the motherboard, in which case if they don't have accidental damage coverage they get contacted and requoted for the cost of the accidental damage.
If you're choice is Dell only, for $1,000, an "older" XPS 13 is the best bang for the buck. Core i5, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD is fine for a lot of people and it's under $1K. The previous Core i5 is really not that different than a current Core i5.
@@wpymes Keep in mind: when I mean "older" I mean the "previous" generation of chips (8th gen Whiskey Lake U) which were used in the 9380-series of XPS 13 laptops. I'm going to guess no one can tell the difference between them other than the sticker which, between that and may 300MHz of boost clocks, you won't feel at all. In fact, I almost prefer the older 9370 for the USB Type A, but hey, at least Dell gives you the USB-C dongle with the laptop.
@@wpymes Yeah, Dell has decent price discounts on the non "new" XPS 13 9380. And let me clarify: the 9360 with quad-core Kaby Lake R had USB A ports and older barrel charger. it's likely long of circulation. If you're looking at current models, kit's between the 8th gen Whiskey Lake XPS 13 9380 which and the "new" XPS 13 7390 with 10th gen Comet Lake U 6-core option at the top. The best bang for buck would be the 9380 in the line up since they're "older." Again, this is if you're set on Dell. Good hunting.
@@pcworld Not much of one, unfortunately. Mobile CPUs are a second thought for AMD. It makes sense, though, they've been shunned by OEMs for about a decade and have had most of their success with enthusiast builds, servers and so on, basically made-to-order products, so they've had to emphasize that element of their business. It wouldn't matter if the new 3700u was twice as fast as a current 10th gen, most OEMs would put it in their bargain bin laptops. Maybe that'll change over the next few years. I hope so.
What would be better the Dell xps 13 2in1 or ms surface laptop 13 (or 15 is light too)? Both are good for portability. Would mainly use for productivity, web browsing, media but not so much gaming or extreme video or photo editing.
Pretty tough choice. Both are good laptops (based on previous SL13). I'd probably give the keyboard the edge on the Surface Laptop 13, but I do like convertible laptops. The Surface is clamshell only. And for what you're going to use it for, choose based on the "other" things like color, keyboard, trackpad, price. Sorry, this doesn't help.
@@kuljitchhaitra5652 For screen real-estate yes. I think a lot of people want to lump the Surface Laptop 15 into the XPS 15 category, but it's not really the same class. XPS 15 is heavier and much, much faster. Surface Laptop 15 is more about larger screen with decent performance. I think the most disappointing thing about it is the under-sized battery. With AMD's APU not as power efficient as Intel's chips, why put a 41 Watt hour battery in it when the XPS 13 7390 has a 51 Watt hour battery in it? However it still gets fair battery life, just not as stellar as it could have been it feels like. Plus you get the MS keyboard and trackpad which probably is the best out there with Apple deciding to stop making good keyboards.
It's a design compromise. There's no room to put the drivers in the screen bezel and the wider, flat keys go right to the edge of the keyboard "C" deck.
As a student who travels far by train, I'll go for xps 13 2-in-1 4k, not only it helps me do some of my stuffs at school, it also helps me entertain myself with netflix for 4k. I do considered the Oled screen, however I couldn't have the same experience of folding and watching like a mini 4kTV
ThePr3acher TV On a 13 inch display, you have to be a lot closer to the screen than normal viewing distance to notice the difference between 1080p and 4k.
@@thepr3achertv905 4K on a 13-inch screen is really, really dense pixels. It looks stunning--unless you have an app that doesn't do scaling well. Also: you'll give up maybe 30 percent of battery life going from FHD+ to 4K UHD. If you are talking XPS 15 vs. m15 do the Alienware if you are going to play a lot of games. The XPS 15 is fine as a content creation, work laptop but I don't recommend it over a gaming laptop unless you know its limitations. The extra weight of the m15 and its power brick is worth it for gaming.
Dell XPS 15 was the worst thing I ever bought. I decided to go for a Microsoft instead of a mac despite going into the art industry. The laptop has seen 3 motherboard replacements in under a year. Bearing in mind I never took it out of the house except for 1 day a week for certain ZBrush Tutorials. The Fan underneath is broken and I'm now out of warranty to fix it. Dell wouldn't give me a replacement despite buying directly from them They just kept repacing the faulty Parts in my faulty laptop. I had a problem in the start where it wouldn't turn on constantly it would take three tries then is gave up 2 DAYS BEFORE A DEADLINE. DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP
Hello out there tech person with more knowledge than me. I'm currently looking for a great computer for music production. I'm looking for something with a higher generation i7, 16gb RAM, 256 or 512 SSD for boot drive and 1-2TB HDD for memory, although I can settle for something with just a SSD and use external HDD. So far I've only been able to come up Dell G7 and XPS 15. Please comment other suggestions if there are better options. Huge thanks to anyone who takes time to read this!
@@FakeGordonMahUng benchmarks are soo misleading... see the Dave 2D review. That shit handles 5 min workloads and than starts performing like 5th gen garbage. Whats the point of a 6core if all the pros cease to exist bc of the chassis
@@brunolopes2205 read my review and watch the actual video. 6 core is actually slighty faster than core i5 quad 9th gen and faster than 7th gen H parts in long encodes. You also get much faster nT burst perf. But vs. H quad parts Do you some how magically think 6 core 2.8 lbs U will outperform 6 core 4.6 lbs H part? Have realistic expectations of the hardware.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Coil whine on a premium notebook that costs more than a monthly salary should be totally absent. I never heard about coil whine on a notebook, not before the XPS line.
@@metallurgico Coil whine in laptops and electronics is not new. Certain GeForce cards have exhibited and other laptops have as well. It is not unique to the XPS 13. Again, I could occasionally hear coil whine on the i7 XPS 13 9380, but the XPS 13 7390 was very hard to detect. And yeah, pretty much all U-laptops this thin, and this light will eventually throttle if you push them hard enough and long enough. I mean, I know you just want to snark, so I'll let you. It's a free country.
@@FakeGordonMahUng I'm just saying I never heard about coil whine in a laptop before and they should fix it for the entire line. I shouldn't hope to not hear it. I watch and read reviews since the Core 2 Quad days and in LAPTOPS this problem was never mentioned. Could you tell me any past laptop that had coil whine? I don't know what's wrong in saying they should make good products. I work in a computer shop since 7 years and we sell hundreds of laptops in a year, I repair 1300 PCs per year. I'm no Luis Rossman but I see few computers every day.
@@metallurgico Again, I'm saying this isn't a new issue. It isn't like the XPS 13 is the first to ever exhibit it. It certainly is the poster child but coil whine happens. Is it good? No. Is it 100 percent? I don't know. Some people report it under certain clock speeds. i5 vs. i7, charging , not charging. etc. Sometimes you have to put your head literally on the keyboard to hear the whine, sometimes you can hear it in a quiet room.l I could do a search for on coil whine and laptops and there will be anecdotal reports of whine from various makes and models. But it is there. I'm surprised you have never seen it in a computer in your shop. You are misreading what I'm saying: I'm not saying having coil whine is good. I'm saying, it is not something easy to measure, find so I can say: 100 percent of this laptop has coil whine. We speak to samples of 1 and like all--we have anecdotal experiences. I can tell you with reasonable accuracy how they will perform, how long the battery will be under certain conditions, but no, I can't say for certain that every single laptop will or will not have coil whine. But again, it seems you just want to come and snark on throttling and coil whine. It's quite all right. It's a free country and you can do that. I'm surprised you didn't take a shot at the no USB Type A either because that truly sucks.
Actually, it's only been since January of 2018 for this current chassis. 9370 had quad Kaby Lake R, added more cooling and deleted the USB Type A. They took the 9370, dropped in a Whiskey Lake U (not exactly a big deal) in the 9380 and then with the model you see here, introduced a 6-core Comet Lake version in the--wait for it--XPS 13 7390. So, it's actually not that old but it''ll probably get a respin pretty soon I guess.
Gordon Ung Hey Gordon! I didn’t think you would actually reply to my comment. I’m a big fan of the channel. I was referring to the general look of the chassis since the 9550 and not the internals. They’ve made minor changes annually but I’m not a fan of that fake carbon fiber look. Btw it’s annoying with the model numbers too. How did they go from 9550 to 7590 now? That makes no sense.
Buying Dell 9560 with top specs was the worst decision I'v ever made on laptops - and I've bought almost like a dozen in the last decade.. Very unstable performance, 3 battery replacements in 3 years.... Never Dell for me again. And more over - searching for the battery problem just recently I realized that the problems have not yet been fixed even for newer models. And Dell techs claim that 1 year is a normal life span for a battery? Tell it to my ASUS battery with 5+ years and 89% battery still available for long long hours.
Sorry man. Everyone makes lemons. I have an Asus laptop with a dead batter after 2 years and same with others too. It happens. The good news is with PC--you can give your money to another brand the next time. It's the only way to do it.
Sorry, can't tell you hard numbers, but I would assume beefier visualization apps need beefier graphics so 2-in-1 or XPS 15 with dGPU and with a buttload of memory and fast storage. Depending on plugins, you might hit more core usage, but typically these apps are not very well optimized for core counts.
Read our review. If you hammer GPU and CPU, it can fall off the cliff, but we ran back to back to back to back encode tests on GPU and CPU and experienced no major performance degradations. But yes, the laws of physics apply. A sub 5 lbs. XPS 15 will not outperform a 9 lbs. gaming laptop. As to the XPS 13 with Comet Lake U--read our review. It's best confined to burst performance no, it won't outperform a 6-core H part, but it DOES equal or best H-class 7, 8 and 9th gen quad parts. I can confirm the caps lock key works.
I work in Houston as a repair technician for a subcontractor of Dell that does the repairs that get done when people send in their laptops and desktops. I actually got to get hands on with the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 today for the first time and i gotta say, damn that thing is gorgeous! All the techs around me that i showed it too were oohing and ahhing. I love the design of it, its basically a macbook without all the garbo that makes apple so bleh. Anyway, if anyone has any questions on how the repair process works and such I'd be happy to answer!
How is the reparability of the 2-in-1? I heard most 2-in-1s are harder to repair than ordinary clamshells
@@caffeinefederation339 it is really not great. We have guys employed by dell in our building that are basically who you take it to when you don't know something, and when the guy first pulled up the tear down diagram that showed the like, 40 screws you have to remove to take the thing apart, he actually said "wow". Keep in mind this is one of the engineers who helps design them xD
@@Admiral__ It has soldered RAM and soldered SSD. ): But hey Garrett here's the questions: What's the solution for someone who has had their XPS 13 2-in-1 die but can't recover the data? Apple actually made a Simpson's reverse flushing toilet to get data from its first soldered-in-place-SSD models. I'm wondering if there is a procedure for it other than: "Well, you had a backup right?"
Hi Garrett. I've heard many instances of Coil Whine for the XPS 2in1 7390 model. What would be the cause of this? And is it fixable?
@@FakeGordonMahUng we don't deal with data at all at my work. If your drive dies, we give you a new drive, if it's sautered we give you a new board. Keeps it simple
Someday someone will make the first touch screen TV that can be a big laptop. The first Dell XPS 24” the flatscreen TV you can take anywhere.
its mid July 2020 and I told dell on the phone I bought their product based off your review. XPS 15 7690 4k, I9, 64gb, 2TB hd. I cant wait for them to deliver it. I liked the way you did this review as well as the setting you did it in. plan to use mine for video editing and some basic Computer science task.
As a dell xps 15 user myself if your doing any audio work don’t buy any of these the DPC latency issues will mess with all ur interfaces and cause clicks and pops in your audio playback and monitoring. These issues won’t affect general users but those doing any music production and recording will get poor performance from audio devices
Great review/comparison, as always :)
From an onwer: If you intend to only game, I agree with whay they say: get a gaming laptop. But if you want to work as well and want only ONE laptop...this thing can game really well, especially if you play some older titles like Overwatch, Dota 2, WoW, Rocket League. I can play all of these in 4k60fps. But also new titles play really well in 1080p. This is perfect for people that want an allrounder with great battery.
Which one do you have? I play mostly League so I was hoping the 13" variant could play it at 1080p 60fps
xps 15 7590
Thanks for taking the time to break it down. Really helpful
Thanks for your insight guys, love it but can you do a recommendation on a laptop or three for music production???
XPS 13 White is great. But Dell Computers are so expensive. Especially for people who live in outside of USA as Turkey.
been looking forward to this video! thanks!
Still on an XPS 13 9360 with an i5-8250U. Very nice laptop. It's got type-A ports too!
But the i9 on that chassis is a non-starter. The thermal throttling is insane
Read my review on PCworld.com, particularly the section about gaming with it. Yes, not pretty and I recommend you go with a larger gaming laptop instead. However, I did three long encodes on it, as well as Premiere CC encodes on CPU and GPU. It was difficult to induce throttling with the load I used. Gaming though where you heat up the GPU and CPU at the same time for a couple of hours? Yeah, not pretty. But, I think people have to realize there are limits to putting an 8-core i9 with GTX 1650 in a 4.5 lbs. laptop.
I think for people who care about content creation but do want to keep total weight (brick too) fairly light, it's not a bad choice. Gaming laptops would be the alternative, but then you're talking probably 2 lbs. more total in your bag. www.pcworld.com/article/3438659/review-dells-xps-15-7590-reaches-for-8-cores-of-cpu-power.html
PS: WHEN DELL INTRODUCES A 17 INCH XPS LAPTOP W/HDMI CONNECTIVITY ETAL, THEN I'LL GET INTERESTED. BUT UNTIL ANY FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY DELL INC, THEN I'LL WAIT AWHILE UNTIL SUCH A LAPTOP BECOMES AVAILABLE. WE AWAIT GOOD NEWS SOON.
Hmm, XPS 17...
Just got my XPS 13" 2 in 1 $400 off at Costco. Ive seen similar sales elsewhere as well. $1299 and you get the i7 with 512GB of storage and 16gb of RAM with the nice FHD+ screen.
Really? I'm gonna go check it out tomorrow.
FYI; I think the 13 inch screen size you guys got wrong... 13.4" for the 2 in 1 and 13.3 in the reg. xps
Yeah, it's 13.4
Do one on the Spectre series. I've had the x360 for almost a year now and it's criminally underrated. The privacy guard model is amazing because it's the only ultraportable that has a 120hz screen. Once you get used to high refresh rates you can't go back.
We should. I'm a HUGE fan of the Spectre x360 series and have had friends and family buy the Spectre x360 13 because I think the versatility can't be beat.
I just got the brand new 13inch with super small bezels, 1TB, 16gb 10th gen, OLED
@@screenwatcher6224 I love OLED but have become so accustomed to higher refresh rates that I couldn't go back to 60hz, even if the picture is significantly better. Wouldn't mind having the smaller bezels though. The huge forehead and chin is unsightly in an otherwise beautiful laptop.
@@EliSantana yeah I wish it was a 120hz screen. But the beauty of the slim bezels is insane. Also the fact that they fit an IR camera in this one and Dell didnt was pretty much the determining factor. Well that and USB A and better price for more specs lol.
Get 500 GB onboard and a a big honking RAID network drive (Synology is my jam) for backup and infrequently used files.
You didnt touch the fact that the cpu doesnt perform propperly because of a bad cooling solution on all this laptops.. Why
you can read the reviews of the laptops. All laptops are basically compromises in performance, acoustics, weight, battery life. If you mean the XPS 15's throttling? We talked about the fact that the XPS 15 is not a recommend for a primary gaming laptop. Go read my review here: www.pcworld.com/article/3438659/review-dells-xps-15-7590-reaches-for-8-cores-of-cpu-power.html
Love the video! Keep it up. Don't listen to the haters Adam. Gordon, do you think we'll get that beautiful white finish and 2 in 1 form factor in the 15 inch category from Dell? Hoping Dell sticks with the new aspect ratio. Love to hear your thoughts on that
I can forward your love for the white. It is nice. I prefer taller aspect ratios and well. I suspect it's a pricing issue though and volume buying helps. Volume as in in Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus.
he said period lol.
Quick question
Xps 13 2 in 1
7390 Core-i7-1065G7
8gb ram
256 ssd
Or
Dell xps 7390
Intel-Core-i7-10510U
16gb ram
512 ssd
G7
Why the XPS 13 does not come with more ram?? all the configurations are limited to 16 GB of RAM that now a days it's a little low for power users
13 or 2-in-1? On the XPS 13, it uses LPDDR3 which doesn't support higher densities to get to 32GB of RAM. On the XPS 13 2-in-1, it uses LPDDR4X which will soon hit the densities for 32GB of RAM.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Thank you very much, can you believe that a Sales Rep in Dell told me that I can buy extra Ram and install it later..jajajj, I appreciate your answer with technical arguments, again Thanks
@@BusinessIntelligence you definitely CANNOT add RAM later. That is common in most industries though.
I just bought this xps 13 7390 2in1 yesterday, and it has coil whine noises and also the fan sound is really loud even though im not using any heavy apps. Any suggestion? Thanks
Is it set to optimal in the Dell power manager or is it set to performance. When are you getting coil whine? Charging, left port or right port?
Could be windows does something in the background, for example indexing files
ive found that the dell power manager helps a little on my xps 13 9370, but the fan is still obnoxiously loud. I would try to exchange yours before the return period is over, I regret not doing that with mine every day :(
I got an XPS 15 9530 or otherwise known as the Precision M3800.
It's already that time again!! Wow
love your no nonsense show....kudos guys.
would love to see you put some lenovo models up against comparable xps models.
i'm seeking a good allrounder to replace my 12 yr old slow as hell laptop.
need 14-15'', prefer touchscreen but not essential, no gaming, no cad/video editing.
prefer to have thunderbolt 3 for some future proofing...good keyboard, great screen, wifi 6, fast
cpu for everyday surfing, youtube etc. suggestions from you guys, since i trust you 150% are most welcomed.
(maybe look at the new inspiron series too?)
thanks
The Dell website only shows 256 and 1 TB for SSD on the 2 in 1. I think they planned that out. One will run out faster making people get something new and the other is the most expensive option that nobody will get if they had the 512 SSD option.
Select 256GB model and then they give you option to upgrade to 512GB during customization
I love ypur reviews gordon! Anyway, do you think a 7390 xps 13 will do good for my music production? Or should I get the xps 15 7590? :O thanks in advance
Gordon, I love that shirt!!! Were can I get one? Better yet, send me one... lol
It was a gift from my sister. So sorry, dunno where she got it.
@@FakeGordonMahUng @JavasBest it looks like it might be a glennztees shirt. atleast the style looks very similar. try the store and see if you can find it store.glennz.com/
They should test the gaming capability by playing Minecraft for us and turning on the info in the top left. They light a few dozen TNT and we see which drops to the lowest frame rate and which recovers faster.
I just buy xps 15 7590 😘
Hello please opinion i need to buy one
Do you still recommend the XPS 13 hexa-core with 8GB ram? In the UK you cannot buy it with 16 GB.
Same problem comes in India buying macbook pro it only comes with 8gb ram
That's an odd config. I do think most normal use, 8GB is fine, but 16GB is preferred today. What's odd is a 6-core part implies you're doing more "work" so, why not also pair it with enough RAM that might be used for more work? I suspect the cynical answer is people will buy on core count because more cores = better and those cores won't actually ever be used. anyway, it depends on what you are doing. If 8GB is enough sure, but then, if you really don't need the core count, why not just save and get an i5 instead?
The 15 absolutely can game, they don't just stick a graphics card in there for no reason.
It's actually just false to say the 13 2in1 has good gaming capability while rubishing the 15.
Would the 2 in 1 be great for music production? The specs seem to be reasonable and the price is affordable
Of the two 13's which would be better for video editing?
I am still waiting for them to release a Spacegrey/Gunmetal FULL aluminum body design.
That black interior look is so fkn OLD
Agreed, the black carbon-fiber is getting boring, even though it's become an XPS signature feature by now. However, the white glass fiber weave available with the XPS 13s is 🔥🔥🔥.
9380 or 7390?
Is the i7-10510u worth it over the i7-8565u? 135€ Price difference between those two. (7390 vs 9380)
Thanks in advance :D
Although I haven't touched a "10th gen" quad-core Core i7-10510U in the XPS 13 7390, the differences are likely minimal from the Core i7-8565U in the XPS 13 9380. Both are quads with the 10th gen part getting a 300MHz higher turbo. It's likely faster, but the impact is likely to be minimal for most people's needs. I think the appeal of the XPS 13 7390 is mostly for those who need 6-cores for short, bursty workloads. That's my read of the choice anyway.
Check our 10th gen buyer's guide (based on a forecast that's mostly turning out to be true) as well both the CPUs in the laptops: www.pcworld.com/article/3432718/10th-gen-ice-lake-vs-comet-lake-cpu-buyers-guide.html
And here are the differences in the CPUs on ARK. ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=149091,196449
Great review guys and timely, since I'm looking to buy an XPS over Black Friday. Would have liked to hear something about the 13" 2in1 with the 6 core configuration. I need portability and something that handles video editing and was wondering if that unit would do the job?
Bryan thank you - I'm a professional speaker and need something light/that can handle some basic video editing and powerpoint, that I can toss in my backpack. I've had a 13" ASUS Zenbook for the past 5 years and its time to put it out to pasture.
Sorry, no 6-core 2-in-1. It's Ice Lake 10nm quad core. 6-core is only in the XPS 13 clamshell using a Comet Lake U chip. I think basic video editing will work. An H part with GPU is better, but then it's heavier too.
Gordon I ended up buying the 13” with the 6 core over Black Friday- still waiting on delivery
Michael Krisa how much money did you save
Exactly the video , I was looking for. There is great deals in Costco starting thanksgiving day and prices are slashed down $300-$450. Great time to buy one of these.
If you do only photo editing and video once in a while , should we go for XPS 15 , i7 and DDR4 ram or XPS 13 10th gen CPU and DDR3 ram. Can you please help.
A firmware update bricked my 15 7590 for the 2nd time. dells Pro support is useless as no parts are available.3 week wait for a motherboard. Something to bear in mind before purchase. dell does not have their act together.
Nice video 👌
Great review! Really helpful! I’m not getting the XPS 15, but I will be doing some video editing and digital drawing. Will the 13 2 in 1 still do okay or would it push it a bit?
I think if you're going to do basic, light duty video editing with expectations of it being slower it will work. It won't be fun or great, but it will work. But if you are going to video editing 75% of the time, it's better to have an H-class CPU which can maintain higher clocks since they have more thermals and also have discrete graphics. There is no pen option on the XPS 15 unfortunately so not sure if that'll work. I guess it just depends on what you're willing to live with.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Thank you so much for replying and so quickly! I'm not going to be editing all the time, just for certain projects here and there. Mainly I'll be using my drawing program. I can probably make it work!
Edit: Actually ended up going with the Spectre ×360 15". So far, spot on! And for a cheaper price.
@@AUA-camLady Yeah, just grit your teeth. Remember: make sure to spec out with 16GB of RAM and the largest SSD you can afford. At some point once things calm down on desktop hardware, I'm going to fire up a Premiere test on both of the 13-inch laptops to see how usable they are.
Can I still do some reasonable photo and video editing with the XPS 13 when it's just the quad core? Cause, you can't get the six core in Europe but I'm not sure if I want to buy the XPS 15 or if I even need it (also I don't know how portable it is and if the battery life is any good)
Please give me some advice...
I edit 4k just fine on my XPS 13 2 in 1 with the i7 1065G7. Those Iris graphics are a really a good boost.
I just ordered the XPS 13 7390 4K and I got for good deal cos of student discount from the dell website but I'm still considering for the extra £200 is it worth getting the 15 inch screen instead going back and forth. I'm more of a causal user but will use it for video editing watching movies sometimes
Watching this video makes me feel like my XPS 13 9380 i7, 8gb Ram, 256gb SSD is shit now lol
Ps. I know nothing about computers, as I’ve been a Mac user for most part of my life and they’re pretty self forward
So I’m about to buy a laptop, I do mainly school work photo editing and I might dabble in video editing in the future. I’ve had my mind set on the 15 for $1499 but I wonder if that’s a little overkill. I kinda wanted to buy the xps 15 to future proof it but it’s a lot on money. I don’t want a 2-in-1would the 13 be better for me than the 15
Seeing the amount of stuff u get out of this and looking at what u get from macs at the same price im just so confused as to why content creators are still buying macs other than for airdrop and emojis
Sydney Shields Cuz Windows Suks and macOS has so much more integration specially for iPad user/ Graphic Designers
Also how does the sound, webcam, wifi and speed compare between the 13 and 13 2-in-1
Hi PCWorld, regarding the XPS 15 7590, I watched you're previous video, would you recommend the 7590 with the i7, 16gb RAM and the full-HD display. I am going to be using it for university, programming, general productivity?
Thanks.
It's a good laptop with that config. Very balanced and can be easily upgraded.
@@FakeGordonMahUng I agree, and if you did want a higher-resolution display, you can always just plug one in at your desk. The 1080p display will get you better battery life on the go.
@@elenchus I'm planning to buy XPS 15 for photo editing and video play. Do you think is it better 4K OLED version or FD ? In 4K version, Windows character is to much small ?
@@michelebarbieri1208 From what I've read, the OLED version's color calibration seems to change at different brightness levels--for that reason, I'd probably not use it for photo editing. Both the 4K IPS and HD IPS panels seem to have excellent gamut and calibration out of the box, as well as brightness, so either would be fine as long as you're ok with the resolution. Personally, I don't find resolution to be that important in terms of working on graphics, but it can make life easier to be able to fit more on the screen in the native resolution. Because of the panel's 16:9 aspect ratio, you should be able to bring the resolution down without black bars (you could use 2560x1440, for instance).
In my opinion, the 4K IPS (non-OLED) panel is probably the best as a result. The HD panel is good from the reviews I've read, but the flexibility you can get at 4K (the ability to change the resolution to what you want, whether higher or lower.
@@elenchus Dell actually sells an IPS / Touch panel option too. I think most people just like the deep blacks and contrast ratios.
i like the 7590 but too heavy for daily commute. the 2-in-1 is nice, i just hoped it came with 2k display at least
The 2-in-1 is 2MP for 19x12, and there is a 4K option--but you give up a battery life for the denser panel.
I'm a student and I'm confused about buying the dell xps 15 2in1 or the new dell xps 13 2in1. I only do light gaming once in like a week. Both laptops are currently the same price. Please help
Regardless of the look and weight, a gaming laptop can do all the design or video editing or not? Such as running photoshop, AutoCAD, 2020 ect. I am thinking about the same price leave, some gaming laptop have higher core or RAM ect
Yeah but the 2 in 1 is almost the most expensive so if u don’t need the performance maybe something else
How does keyboard and typing feel compare from the XPS 13 and the 13 2-in-1 ?
xps 13 2 in 1 vs surface pro 7? need recommendation pls. needs - coding, media consumption, touch, similar config with lower cost.
We have not reviewed the Surface Pro 7 yet but for performance: XPS 13 2-in-1 because it's not a tablet design. Most tablet designs can't compete with 360 designs because they typically have less space for cooling etc. Keyboard/Trackpad: well, that's a toss up. I'm not a huge fan of the maglev 2 keyboard AND I love Microsoft's keyboards and trackpads. They're the best out if you ask me. I can't speak to screen quality as Microsoft typically uses very nice panels in Surface--but the XPS 13 2-in-1 is quite gorgeous too. For 360 vs. detachable? I was a fan of Surface Pro for a while as it has phenomenal weight/performance/capability but I'd take a 360 design over detachable design any day now. I just rarely used it in tablet mode and the awkward lap use is really kind of a pain. TLDR; both are perfectly reasonably fast platforms for what you're going to do. You should probably pick on price, form factor that works for you.
Great review. Thanks for putting it together. I am struggling between the two 13" models. Would much prefer the 2-1 but I need to use it for photo editing (not video) Lightroom and Luminar on occasion. How does the 2-1 handle this. The processing delays on some laptops make it unbearable.
I have not used Luminar but they recommend 7th gen i7 (so quad-core on a desktop) and discrete graphics. It sounds like there's a lot of GPU acceleration in it, so my guess the 10th gen 10nm "Ice Lake" Core i7-1065G7 would perform better. It is Intel's newest core and has new instructions, and despite its lower clocks, actually performs very well. The 10th gen 14nm "Comet Lake" Core i7-10710U is really the same thing, but six core.
I don't know if Luminar is multi-threaded or not, but if it is the 6-cores might yield better performance. The problem is the GPU in the Comet Lake chip is the same old, same old. If it does lean on the GPU more, i'd say the the 2-in-1 is the right choice. of course an XPS 15 7590 with 6-core Core i7-9750H and GTX 1650 is probably going to be faster, but not exactly light.
Whats better for autocad 2d? The 13 6 core or the 2 in 1 iris plus graphics?
Autocad isn't particularly multi-threaded so I almost think the 10th gen Ice Lake one is better for the increased graphics performance.
What’s the difference between the xps and jus the normal one . I really want a new lap top. I got a dell inspiron 15 5000
Could you review the yoga c940 please
yea i'm thinking of buying that too
@@Kysen10I ordered mine today
@@pcworld wow thanks please do
What's best for business?
Josef Lahlou probs the XPS 13 (non touch) unless you want the option to use it as a tablet although it’s not really a requirement for business
Guys you inverted the specs of the two XPS 13.
I dont think so. I just purchased the xps on our left with these exact specs
Isnt the 6 core 13 inch excellent for using with an egpu? Because CPU won't bottleneck so hard with that powerful CPU?
Asking, not stating
I haven't tested Whiskey Lake U quad vs. Comet Lake U six-core in gaming. I'd think it would have a slight advantage in clocks.
be careful to buy this laptop there are two serious issues
1- screen flickering - factory issue
2- thermal throttling.
even if you buy it actually dell technical support will do nothing for you as they did nothing for me
I have 5 laptops i9 OLED screen and all of them have those issues.
Could you edit youtube videos on the 2 in 1 ?
hi im writing that from my new xps 13 7390,4k 16gb ram and 512 ssd all in that laptop is amazing except....SCREEN yes you got me right screen is awful I mean colors and brightnes sharpenes is amazing but damn that time response is not acceptable we have end of 2019 and so slow response make it unwatchable.when im watching NETFLIX dynamic scenes I see something like ghosting and blurring even at windows it looks awfull ;/ do yourself favor and buy something with 1ms respone not 33.6(black to white)why noone of that pseudo youtubers don't say shit about that.i bought that to editing videos when away and now I regret ;/
Can you go in and see which panel maker you have? I know notebookcheck measured the Samsung OLED panel at way less than 33ms. Like, 2ms.
Thanks for sharing
i think the 2 in 1 has a 13.4 inch screen, not 13.3 inch
Correct.
Is it good for trading?
They didnt release the 6 core version of the 13 in the UK 😒
Do these laptops support external gpus and if so would you recommend it for gaming?
All 3 should support eGPU at this point (although I have not tested it some time since it's assumed to work.. With an eGPU, all should be fine for gaming. Remember: there is loss of performance from Thunderbolt 3 and a U-class CPU will give up clocks too. But enough to really matter? I don't think so. The XPS 15 will yield the best performance and since it's running an external GPU, and you move the thermals out of the chassis so the CPU can run at higher clocks. But again: if you're looking at 90 percent gaming, desktop or dedicated gaming laptop would be a better choice. But if you mean, maybe 75 percent work, 25% gaming or 60/40, not a problem at all with a good eGPU I'd bet. (actually, just confirmed in the control center for the XPS 15 that it supports eGPU. It does.) At this point, I'd imagine most are supporting it.
Xps Dell 13 is 9380 not 7390, last four digits are important
new one is 7390
we need a Dell xps 13 vs the new spectre vid pls
Yeah, it's coming soon.
👑
Get the 9350-9360 they're good enough if you're not fussy
Do you know if you lose warranty by upgrading ram and/or ssd on the 15?
Hey! from what we've done in my time (official repair subcontractor for Dell) we usually just leave the ram and drive alone if the customer has changed them, and if they're causing issues with the system we replace them as long as the system is still under warranty. I've never seen an instance of a customer having replaced the ram or drive causing a voided warranty, unless they somehow stabbed a whole through the motherboard, in which case if they don't have accidental damage coverage they get contacted and requoted for the cost of the accidental damage.
good for machine learning?
Personally, I'd go Gateway on this one.
Moo.
are these availanle in inspiron also 32 gb ram laptop
You can upgrade upto 32 gb ram in most of inspiron series
Great video. I need to buy my first Dell. Is there an offering for a non power non gamer non huge storage all around user for around $1000? Thanks.
If you're choice is Dell only, for $1,000, an "older" XPS 13 is the best bang for the buck. Core i5, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD is fine for a lot of people and it's under $1K. The previous Core i5 is really not that different than a current Core i5.
@@FakeGordonMahUng Thanks
@@wpymes Keep in mind: when I mean "older" I mean the "previous" generation of chips (8th gen Whiskey Lake U) which were used in the 9380-series of XPS 13 laptops. I'm going to guess no one can tell the difference between them other than the sticker which, between that and may 300MHz of boost clocks, you won't feel at all. In fact, I almost prefer the older 9370 for the USB Type A, but hey, at least Dell gives you the USB-C dongle with the laptop.
@@FakeGordonMahUng 9380 or 9370 going to do some deal seeking browsing. Thank you very much for the data! 👍
@@wpymes Yeah, Dell has decent price discounts on the non "new" XPS 13 9380. And let me clarify: the 9360 with quad-core Kaby Lake R had USB A ports and older barrel charger. it's likely long of circulation. If you're looking at current models, kit's between the 8th gen Whiskey Lake XPS 13 9380 which and the "new" XPS 13 7390 with 10th gen Comet Lake U 6-core option at the top. The best bang for buck would be the 9380 in the line up since they're "older." Again, this is if you're set on Dell. Good hunting.
Sound issues
someone tell me the xps 15 FHD srgb and Adobe srgb
Where can i get the 13" 2in1 can you provide the link for it?
Alan D'monte smh 🤦♂️ dell.com
i am gonna wait for amd 4000 mobile chip laptop
@@pcworld Not much of one, unfortunately. Mobile CPUs are a second thought for AMD. It makes sense, though, they've been shunned by OEMs for about a decade and have had most of their success with enthusiast builds, servers and so on, basically made-to-order products, so they've had to emphasize that element of their business. It wouldn't matter if the new 3700u was twice as fast as a current 10th gen, most OEMs would put it in their bargain bin laptops.
Maybe that'll change over the next few years. I hope so.
I want an xps 13....with a 1650
What would be better the Dell xps 13 2in1 or ms surface laptop 13 (or 15 is light too)? Both are good for portability. Would mainly use for productivity, web browsing, media but not so much gaming or extreme video or photo editing.
Dell has thunderbolt and a better keyboard. Also the bezels are thinner, which is great for portability, but not so if you use it a lot as tablet.
Pretty tough choice. Both are good laptops (based on previous SL13). I'd probably give the keyboard the edge on the Surface Laptop 13, but I do like convertible laptops. The Surface is clamshell only. And for what you're going to use it for, choose based on the "other" things like color, keyboard, trackpad, price. Sorry, this doesn't help.
Gordon Ung do you think the surface laptop 15” maybe be better with screen real estate and still being light enough for portability?
@@kuljitchhaitra5652 For screen real-estate yes. I think a lot of people want to lump the Surface Laptop 15 into the XPS 15 category, but it's not really the same class. XPS 15 is heavier and much, much faster. Surface Laptop 15 is more about larger screen with decent performance. I think the most disappointing thing about it is the under-sized battery. With AMD's APU not as power efficient as Intel's chips, why put a 41 Watt hour battery in it when the XPS 13 7390 has a 51 Watt hour battery in it? However it still gets fair battery life, just not as stellar as it could have been it feels like. Plus you get the MS keyboard and trackpad which probably is the best out there with Apple deciding to stop making good keyboards.
Gordon Ung I get the battery may not be good, but they do have an Intel version business side of the 15”? Would that be good?
Why not fire sound upwards?
It's a design compromise. There's no room to put the drivers in the screen bezel and the wider, flat keys go right to the edge of the keyboard "C" deck.
As a student who travels far by train, I'll go for xps 13 2-in-1 4k, not only it helps me do some
of my stuffs at school, it also helps me entertain myself with netflix for 4k. I do considered the Oled
screen, however I couldn't have the same experience of folding and watching like a mini 4kTV
ThePr3acher TV On a 13 inch display, you have to be a lot closer to the screen than normal viewing distance to notice the difference between 1080p and 4k.
@@wd9165 so you think its better to get XPS 15 OLED?
I noticed a difference, the 4K looks like a printed magazine on the screen, it’s stunning.
@@ElisDiaz are you talking about the OLED xps 15?
I am also contemplating between between these two or go for alienware m15 1080p, with 2060 GPU
@@thepr3achertv905 4K on a 13-inch screen is really, really dense pixels. It looks stunning--unless you have an app that doesn't do scaling well. Also: you'll give up maybe 30 percent of battery life going from FHD+ to 4K UHD. If you are talking XPS 15 vs. m15 do the Alienware if you are going to play a lot of games. The XPS 15 is fine as a content creation, work laptop but I don't recommend it over a gaming laptop unless you know its limitations. The extra weight of the m15 and its power brick is worth it for gaming.
Dell XPS 15 was the worst thing I ever bought. I decided to go for a Microsoft instead of a mac despite going into the art industry. The laptop has seen 3 motherboard replacements in under a year. Bearing in mind I never took it out of the house except for 1 day a week for certain ZBrush Tutorials. The Fan underneath is broken and I'm now out of warranty to fix it. Dell wouldn't give me a replacement despite buying directly from them They just kept repacing the faulty Parts in my faulty laptop. I had a problem in the start where it wouldn't turn on constantly it would take three tries then is gave up 2 DAYS BEFORE A DEADLINE. DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP
Don’t buy a dell. They have serious quality control issues. I have an XPS 15 9550 myself. See reddit comments before buying a laptop.
Hello out there tech person with more knowledge than me.
I'm currently looking for a great computer for music production. I'm looking for something with a higher generation i7, 16gb RAM, 256 or 512 SSD for boot drive and 1-2TB HDD for memory, although I can settle for something with just a SSD and use external HDD. So far I've only been able to come up Dell G7 and XPS 15. Please comment other suggestions if there are better options.
Huge thanks to anyone who takes time to read this!
Go for the dell precision workstations
Search for XPS 15 and latency issue for DAW work. I don't think it has been solved yet.
Give it to me
Why Dell? I have had Thermal issues with every Dell XPS I have owned.
Which laptop is not throttling in the same weight and class as the XPS models?
@@FakeGordonMahUng None. People are just too harsh on XPS 15
@@brunolopes2205 did you look at the benchmarks?
@@FakeGordonMahUng benchmarks are soo misleading... see the Dave 2D review. That shit handles 5 min workloads and than starts performing like 5th gen garbage. Whats the point of a 6core if all the pros cease to exist bc of the chassis
@@brunolopes2205 read my review and watch the actual video. 6 core is actually slighty faster than core i5 quad 9th gen and faster than 7th gen H parts in long encodes. You also get much faster nT burst perf. But vs. H quad parts Do you some how magically think 6 core 2.8 lbs U will outperform 6 core 4.6 lbs H part? Have realistic expectations of the hardware.
The One that does not thermal throttle and the one that does not have coil whine. So not an XPS
I found cool whine to be fairly minimal on the XPS 13 7390. I do have pretty good high freq ears too (got a hearing test in June).
@@FakeGordonMahUng Coil whine on a premium notebook that costs more than a monthly salary should be totally absent. I never heard about coil whine on a notebook, not before the XPS line.
@@metallurgico Coil whine in laptops and electronics is not new. Certain GeForce cards have exhibited and other laptops have as well. It is not unique to the XPS 13. Again, I could occasionally hear coil whine on the i7 XPS 13 9380, but the XPS 13 7390 was very hard to detect.
And yeah, pretty much all U-laptops this thin, and this light will eventually throttle if you push them hard enough and long enough.
I mean, I know you just want to snark, so I'll let you. It's a free country.
@@FakeGordonMahUng I'm just saying I never heard about coil whine in a laptop before and they should fix it for the entire line. I shouldn't hope to not hear it. I watch and read reviews since the Core 2 Quad days and in LAPTOPS this problem was never mentioned. Could you tell me any past laptop that had coil whine? I don't know what's wrong in saying they should make good products. I work in a computer shop since 7 years and we sell hundreds of laptops in a year, I repair 1300 PCs per year. I'm no Luis Rossman but I see few computers every day.
@@metallurgico Again, I'm saying this isn't a new issue. It isn't like the XPS 13 is the first to ever exhibit it. It certainly is the poster child but coil whine happens. Is it good? No. Is it 100 percent? I don't know. Some people report it under certain clock speeds. i5 vs. i7, charging , not charging. etc.
Sometimes you have to put your head literally on the keyboard to hear the whine, sometimes you can hear it in a quiet room.l
I could do a search for on coil whine and laptops and there will be anecdotal reports of whine from various makes and models. But it is there. I'm surprised you have never seen it in a computer in your shop.
You are misreading what I'm saying: I'm not saying having coil whine is good. I'm saying, it is not something easy to measure, find so I can say: 100 percent of this laptop has coil whine. We speak to samples of 1 and like all--we have anecdotal experiences.
I can tell you with reasonable accuracy how they will perform, how long the battery will be under certain conditions, but no, I can't say for certain that every single laptop will or will not have coil whine.
But again, it seems you just want to come and snark on throttling and coil whine. It's quite all right. It's a free country and you can do that. I'm surprised you didn't take a shot at the no USB Type A either because that truly sucks.
Unless you want fans that come on when your computer is idling or constant coil whine? None.
Im buying 4k. I'm still young lol
check screen response mate ;/ (33.6 ms)go to shop se for yourself its not nice to looking at that screen ;/
Dell needs to update the chassis for the XPS line. This is the 4th year for this current models. It's getting old!
Actually, it's only been since January of 2018 for this current chassis. 9370 had quad Kaby Lake R, added more cooling and deleted the USB Type A. They took the 9370, dropped in a Whiskey Lake U (not exactly a big deal) in the 9380 and then with the model you see here, introduced a 6-core Comet Lake version in the--wait for it--XPS 13 7390. So, it's actually not that old but it''ll probably get a respin pretty soon I guess.
Gordon Ung Hey Gordon! I didn’t think you would actually reply to my comment. I’m a big fan of the channel. I was referring to the general look of the chassis since the 9550 and not the internals. They’ve made minor changes annually but I’m not a fan of that fake carbon fiber look. Btw it’s annoying with the model numbers too. How did they go from 9550 to 7590 now? That makes no sense.
Gordon Ung Oh I was referring to to 15 inch model
@@TrungLeNOLA oh yeah. It is old AF at this point.
Gordon Ung Haha exactly!
I got a MBP i9 🤷♂️
No 15" 2-1, no Sound comparison.. pretty lame.
Buying Dell 9560 with top specs was the worst decision I'v ever made on laptops - and I've bought almost like a dozen in the last decade.. Very unstable performance, 3 battery replacements in 3 years.... Never Dell for me again. And more over - searching for the battery problem just recently I realized that the problems have not yet been fixed even for newer models. And Dell techs claim that 1 year is a normal life span for a battery? Tell it to my ASUS battery with 5+ years and 89% battery still available for long long hours.
Sorry man. Everyone makes lemons. I have an Asus laptop with a dead batter after 2 years and same with others too. It happens. The good news is with PC--you can give your money to another brand the next time. It's the only way to do it.
Wil 3D Cad work on the xps13
Sorry, can't tell you hard numbers, but I would assume beefier visualization apps need beefier graphics so 2-in-1 or XPS 15 with dGPU and with a buttload of memory and fast storage. Depending on plugins, you might hit more core usage, but typically these apps are not very well optimized for core counts.
THERMAL PROBLEMS??
Read our review. If you hammer GPU and CPU, it can fall off the cliff, but we ran back to back to back to back encode tests on GPU and CPU and experienced no major performance degradations. But yes, the laws of physics apply. A sub 5 lbs. XPS 15 will not outperform a 9 lbs. gaming laptop. As to the XPS 13 with Comet Lake U--read our review. It's best confined to burst performance no, it won't outperform a 6-core H part, but it DOES equal or best H-class 7, 8 and 9th gen quad parts. I can confirm the caps lock key works.