I Can’t Believe I Liked This… - Dell XPS 13 Plus Review

The Dell XPS 13 Plus features a lot of bold design decisions... and I like it?

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Dell stealing Apple's ideas...
0:36 - Warthunder
0:55 - Touchbar?
2:02 - Keyboard
2:56 - Keyboard modification
3:15 - Trackpad
4:14 - The IO is terrible.
7:02 - Performance
8:24 - Display and Battery Life
9:15 - Speakers
10:03 - Repairability
10:49 - Pricing
11:28 - AnyCubic!
12:26 - Outro

[GaAnRu]

Hands down, the best part of the video is Alex, "improving" the chassis with the grinder.

[thefirehawk]

Dell: We can't fit a headphone jack because it's too big
Also Dell: Let's put 4 speakers in the laptop

[IggyMobileLegends]

I like how Alex approached us as if his quick fix was something anyone could do

[APKLL]

saying the awesome segway to the sponsor I couldn't help but notice the entire office shaking every time Linus moved xD

[Enstrayed]

Apple sells a USBC headphone dongle for the iPads that works on Windows and Android and the audiophile community found that the DAC in it is surprisingly good.

[Herr_U]

On the lack on 3.5mm jack - could you do a test of bluetooth headset where the microphone doesn't suck.

As in, play music in the headset while talking or singing into the microphone - and I mean bluetooth here, no extra dongles (since - face it - if you need to hook up a dongle you'll just get a DAC/ADC anyways in case audio carries any worth to you).

(What irks me is that implementing the CSR hack (or having each pair of devices pair twice (one to push to headphones, and one to push from mic) and push AD2P) would solve this), but no, most drop to HSP if you want to use the mic and have the headphones active).

[ernie]

3:00 did he really do that?! I own also an xps 13 with sharp corners and was thinking of doing it :D

[Piketom]

The lack of a headphone jack would be a dealbreaker. Windows is just terrible at dealing with wireless audio compared to MacBooks and AirPods. I have never used the headphone jack on my MacBook but used it constantly on the XPS 15 it replaced.

[นิพนธ์จักษุจินดา-วว]

HELLO, I'M NEW TO CRPTO AND FOREX TRADING AND I HAVE BEEN MAKING HUGE LOSSES TRADING ON MY OWN BUT RECENTLY I ESS A LOT OF PEOPLE EARNING FROM IT. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME A NEW STRATEGY OR AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT I'M DOING WRONG?

[philb]

Everyone’s talking about Alex buffing the edge, but I want to give credit to David for his shadow lurking beast acting.

[speedysam]

LOL, the moment Alex took a polishing/buffer wheel to the edge of it I lost it!

[mohankai]

Dell really has some good engineers. Just someone needs to guide them in good direction.

[supericeg]

I've been using my Dell XPS 13 9310 as my first ever personal computer for 2 years now. And I must say, I have no complaints. It's never had heat issues even when compiling software or playing games and never had driver issues. I think Dell did a pretty nice job. The only thing I hate about it is the I/O though.

[starwarscentral]

Not a huge fan of some of the features, but damn is the engineering impressive.

[darrenm]

I was thinking he would put a strip of black tape along the front of the case to make it less sharp on the palm. But grinding down the aluminum also works…

[dominikhanus]

I think the comparison should’ve had both the m1 13 and M1 pro 14. Honestly if you choose the higher end version you’re basically paying M1 pro 14 price and the Oled version is trying to target that audience for 1850USD with 1260P and comparable 512/16 config.

The 1280P is probably going to be over 2K in this config

[maksymfedoriaka]

I can't get past removal of escape key and function row. Hated it on my MacBooks, glad Apple turned 180 and brought them back
Also, never touching Dell again after countless QC and longevity issues on my XPS 15 from 2019 which made me hate the product and the company

[thewalkingforest]

As someone with a 2017 MacBook Pro, this has everything I hate about my laptop. Plus less ports

[Trukkerkeps]

A company that's a client of mine has been using Dell laptops for many years now. Lately it seems as if there has been a lot of issues with them. The old XPS 13 very rarely had any problems, but many of the new XPS 13 plus and Precision 5570 models show issues with overheating and shitty battery life. No one there likes the new XPS 13 plus either. Once the "ooh shiny" effect wears off, you're left with a less practical machine which sucks as it is a tool, not a vase.

[VoidOperator]

This is a small thing but I really like seeing the follow through on your commitment to point out that you invested into Framework whenever you review something similar