@Robert Ratskywatsky she mentioned stripping stuff out , needing decent tools so says to me she knows lil bit about the frustrations or more detailed parts of the trade. maybe not everyday muscle but i'm sure she know how things tick.
@@superlativeb better tools arent about stripping screws, thats operator error. quality tools are more about good design, weight, and durability. cheap tools dont last and break easily, but a good ratchet you can jump on and it wont slip at all.
Yep, I put myself through college and grad school by both repairing and selling cars. I specialized in sports cars but did some pickups too. Continued after graduating for 10 years too, as a side income. I loved it, but it did result in arthritis in my hands (grandma was right when she said it would too!).
I love your channel Lisa! I've been watching you for at least 5-8 years now! Made a lot of purchase based on your reviews! I appreciate you doing these reviews!
Ditto +1. I even have copied a few of her catchphrases...like "you can kill a rat with that power brick". or "these fans sound like squirrels in your backyard..."
YES iFixIt Sponsored u guys. Perfect combo. A great reviewer and a great repair company. I love when reviewers focus on wprability like u do Lisa KEEP IT UP Girl awesome content!!
I bought last year's model (7590). I think I am glad I did. The 7590 has the legacy ports (full HDMI, usb- a). This new model looks nice but I misplace dongles. No dongle life for me if I have a choice. As always Lisa, a great review!
Thank you for the review. You helped me make up my mind. I went for the Big Boy, the XPS 17. Yeah it cost $3K with the toys. Got to pay to play, it is what it is.
Your knowledge/understanding of tech just makes me wanna be you when I grow up, Lisa. LOL! Thank you for this review. I've been researching replacement laptops for my son, studying AutoCAD. His old Dell didn't meet the system requirements, and my MacBook Pro 13" doesn't help when they're teaching the Windows version and AutoCAD for MAC is so different. Unfortunately, the XPS 15 9500 was out of my budget range at this time, so we're going with the HP Omen 15 AMD Ryzen 7, fingers crossed it proves to be a good choice . . .
I ordered my 9500 in 8/2020. The trackpad clicks work intermittently. It's very frustrating to use the laptop with the touchpad. I called Dell and they sent a repair technician to my house. The new palm rest/keyboard/trackpad also has the wireless antenna. The cable for the antenna was defective. The technician tried for over an hour to get the cable to work, losing his temper and throwing his tools in my livingroom. The technician also said that Dell doesn't know how to design a laptop. He also got mad when he had an extra part he didn't remember where it went back to. He couldn't get the antenna cable back on but did something with a screw to hold it next to it and told me he didn't have all night to sit here and try to fix it. After the machine was "finished" it still had the same click problem. I called Dell and the first two customer service reps hung up on me. I have been trying to speak to a manager for almost a week now to get a replacement unit sent. I'm telling you, I will never buy another Dell product as long as I live. I should have bought a MBP.
Last time I got an XPS (a 9560), I spent weeks on and off chat with Dell because of recurring hiccups (especially during video playback) and BSODs. It was a nightmare, and then the replacement had staticky sounds coming from both speakers and headphones when there was nothing playing. Regardless of how nice this laptop is, Dell has lost at least me as a consumer because their laptops just don’t have good QC.
they go year after year after YEAR with shitty maxxaudio drivers and acpi latency bugs that causes popping and stuttering and crashes and they literally don't care enough to pay a firmware dev intern to fix it or give up whatever kickbacks they're getting from maxxaudio to install their shitware
I got the exact same model and on top of the shitty maxxaudio drivers, the fan broke after two months. Had to spend a lot of hours on the phone before a tech came out to fix it. Then the biometric drivers kept causing bluescreens so I had to disable the fingerprint reader and now the graphics card is not running properly so I have to down res my nice 4k screen to HD if I don't want it to randomly shut off. Can't even play games casually because it bluescreens. NEVER BUYING DELL AGAIN.
Bought this laptop in the midspec i7 set-up. Amazing laptop so far ! Just have to keep the power settings on optimized instead of high performance to ensure a better balance of cooling and no throttling
@@unknownmyst_7826 pretty good ! There was a new BIOS update recently released and things are even better now. I got one without trackpad issues and its going well so far. Can play CSGO at approx 120fps, with external monitor on high settings, (with hosting your own server running bots). The CPU is definitely excellent for high CPU intense games and workloads. The ONLY downside is battery life, I did expect it to be a little better, but that's what happens with a powerful lappy
Lisa, I listen to your reviews at night to fall asleep to your soothing, pragmatic voice! I know you appreciate this comment! (Waiting for white XPS 15!)
The problem with the trackpad wobble/double-click on the Dell XPS 15 (9500) has emphatically NOT been fixed. Once Dell finally acknowledged the defect, they claimed they had resolved it and that as of June, it was no longer an issue on shipping units. That was a flat out lie. I ordered a Dell XPS 15 in October and it arrived with the same defective trackpad issue that Dell claimed to have resolved. I contacted them immediately. At first, they denied that it was in fact EVER an issue (never mind all the reports on the various review sites - you can go to Dell's own support site and find their acknowledgement of it along with their false claim that it is no longer a problem). I didn't budge and they agreed to replace the model for me (which took a whole month after I had waited a month for the initial unit). When the second unit arrived, it too had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. I was disgusted and returned them both for a refund. Then in November, Dell had a sale on again and I thought (stupidly) "hmmm... they MUST have fixed the issue by now" so I ordered another unit on November 13. It finally showed up on December 23. I pulled it out of the box and guess what - IT HAD THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. That's three units, all three with the same defective trackpad, all shipped long after Dell claimed to have fixed the problem. If quality control and user experience matter at all to you, do NOT BUY the Dell XPS 15. Dell's QC on this unit, not to mention their dishonesty in claiming to have fixed this problem and their UTTER CONTEMPT for their customers in continuing to ship defective units while advertising it as a premium product should not be rewarded with your hard-earned cash. Look elsewhere for your solution.
Lisa, I trust this channel for laptop reviews and information more than virtually any other on RU-vid. Thank you for another excellent review. Any plans to review the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga X1 Gen 5? Thanks.
Superb review.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I’m on my third watch and I’m still learning stuff, filling in the gaps that other reviewers don’t reach. One suggestion: The Razer isn’t the obvious performance notebook alternative any more. It’s probably the 2020 HP Envy 15 with the RTX 2080 and the 4K OLED.
The Dell XPS line is what I call your typical CEO/Supervisor laptop that has all the power and performance they would want without having any issues while traveling or working on the go and all the ports and software needed for conference meetings and easy for their IT guys to work with.
Still stuck with my 2015 MBP (M370X, 16GB, 512SSD). I love its quality, but Mojave was the last good MacOS and now Apple messes up more and more things. Just Metal only, no CUDA, Vulcan or current OpenGL (huge middle finger towards all 3D/CAD users). No more 32bit, and now, x86/Bootcamp is gone as well. Did I mention everything is soldered? Hardcore vendor lock-in! 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢 𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟! Want to switch back to Windows and the 9500 seems like the best alternative available. Sleek, small footprint, SD slot, great display and speakers. But their QC gives me a big headache...
That second m.2 slot is used in the Precision 5550 (the Precision version of the xps 15). It can be configured with a second nvme drive with a possible RAID 0 or 1.
I'll be purchasing some of these soon for work to replace the 7590 series. The touchpad issue has been around for some time. I've watched a Dell repair tech dispatched to my office bend the spring on the underside of the touchpad to get rid of that bit of play on a brand new (refurbished?) keyboard/touchpad assembly on the 9575 2 in 1. Then the same thing for an older 9570.
It is not only a good display, it is a gorgeious display, just as beautiful as any you have raved about on your show, so why is one, only good, LOL, enjoy your reviews
Thanks Lisa love your reviews as always. Could you I ask that you consider something additional - having installed many new laptops with Thunderbolt 3 I find that many of them simply do not work out of the box and have to wait months for firmware updates to work properly. Maybe you could include a comment after testing these on at least some Thunderbolt dock running 4K monitors and an external GPU as a test.
The new Dell XPS 15 and 17 laptops are very buggy and still can't handle real time audio. The trackpad issues are also massive. I don't understand why Dell is shipping this defect laptops. Also I got blue screens while converting a video. For me not worse the price. I returned my XPS 17 9700 due to all these issues. Sad because this could have been the perfect notebook for me.
@@isbestlizard unfortunately yes. tbh... me personally will never consider Dell again. I had 3 models in 1 year and returned them all. It's a waste of time. My next one is a Schenker KEY 15. I expect it beginning of August. Schenker is knows for great latency so hopefully this notebook will be the one I was always looking for. It will also save me some € compared to Dell.
@@mobiletechreview Hi Lisa, yes I have seen it. I heard about some more people saying the XPS 15 has less problems with latency. But tbh... I don't trust these results. If you are interested watch my recent upload and you see the massive dropouts in traktor pro 3 with the xps 17. Even if the latency would have improved... my device had also a faulty trackpad, whirling speakers when running on power adapter and bluescreened after 20 min of video converting. When I use a device just for 4 hours and it has so many issues for a price of 3,200 € I lose all my trust in this brand. Also because my 4 year old and cheap hp 800 € notebook has none of these issues. It's very disappointing because in general I really like the xps 17.
Lisa. We need you. Son headed off to summer college program. He’s looking at This laptop, Dell XPS 15 over MACBOOK, HP. Your choice? Great channel. Thank you.
i bought it a month ago, it's a beast but it gets heated and it has problems with the intel graphics center and the webcam is not recognized 99% of the time.
How were you able to test the nits of brightness? Does DisplayHDR only show the results in 00's (like 300,400,500, etc.) or does it show specific values? I got the Dell XPS in the UHD+ display and when I ran the test, it says it only had a maximum output of 400 nits when it's supposed to be 500...
great video. on the adobe premiere "20 percent improvement", so you found 20 percent improvement despite having six core versus 9 core in the previous generation model? if so, that is quite an improvement!
I'm thinking of buying the XPS 15 with the 6 cores, core i7, 32 GB of Ram, 1 TB SSD and the 4K touchscreen but my question is would it make sense to lower the resolution to QHD+/FHD+ (while surfing the web or writing documents, etc.) in order to save battery then put it back on 4K when editing photos/videos or watching content (movies/series/videos) in native 4K?
For me, the 9700 and 9500 are hard to open. I mean hold it down and find a spot to pry open the lid hard to open! We had the 9500 for my son and he could not open it.
Why does nobody talk about the 1080p version's battery life? I cannot find an estimate for it anywhere. Everyone's only doing tests for the 4k version. Kinda annoying
Laptops keep getting thinner and thinner and thinner. How much longer before we have to buy cases to protect the laptop during use like we do for smartphones now.
same here Lisa homie , me and me pa did the car thing for like 15 years. way more fun to give ppl what they want instead what they need esp like they'll never appreciate that 0xygen snsr to pass inspection but sit down with a 4k oled they like "oooooooooohhhhhhhh"
In your opinion how do the speakers compare to the Lenovo Yoga C940? Are they as good? Also did you notice any distortion at maximum volume? I'm currently deciding between both of those in the 15 inch variant or the 16inch MacBook Pro if it comes to that.
Hi Lisa ...I’ll be getting my xps 9700 on delivered on Friday ....I’m worried about the Dell customer service reviews . Apple has been good to me in the past with customer service and quality control hasn’t been an issue either. What are your thoughts about this Dell ?
Again, I'm curious: does this unit have fan bearing rattle when the fans start to spin up (not while spinning)? or it is just restricted to Razer devices?
Hey, I have the 2019 XPS15, does it make sense to get this new XPS15. I’d have to sell my current one for a loss. It looks amazing but is it worth a loss of 400$ ?
Either make the wifi card replaceable or use Intel hardware. Killer NIC = nope. I know Intel bought them but they still aren't the same. Every PC/laptop I've used with killer nics live up to their name, that is killing your connection when you're doing something important!
They shouldn’t pit an i9 because they can’t even cool the i7. They should just put AMD chips and a 2060 because a 1650 ti is horrible for what they are charging.
I just Got am HP Envy Intel i7 512GB 32GbInte Opt 16GB Ram 4k screen RTX 2060 for $1599 Dell charges you an extra $600 and u still get a just "OK" graphics card, to me the HP is a no brainer
@@DeanT1987 that is exactly the model of I was looking to buy, but I've been waiting on some reviews to pull the trigger. Can the laptop cool down the i7 and the 2060 with the vapor chamber? Have you noticed any quality issues? The 4k panel is also touchscreen right? How is the battery life?
I need your help. Everyone talks about gaming. No one ever talks about high-end laptops for extreme productivity. I am a Doctoral student, own an investment firm, and run a nonprofit. At any given time I am running Word, Excel, & Powerpoint with 5 or 10 projects on each one. Then, I am running 3 internet browsers (Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Chrome) with anywhere from 100 to 150 tabs at the same time. Multi-tasking is critical. I run a 13" HP Spectre (4 years old) with 8GB RAM which freezes up constantly. I also run a 17" HP Envy (Almost 5 years old) with 16GB RAM which freezes up a lot as well. I am constantly having to shut down and restart. Under normal usage, both laptops are awesome. What is a great high-end laptop for productivity that won't freeze up? I am running two 27" Dell P2720D monitors. Finally, I travel a lot and being portable would be helpful. Thanks
