XPS 13 Plus - Cleaner And Faster Than A MacBook! 

this thing is clean af

They really went and David Blained the trackpad hah incredible

When is the touchpad DLC coming?

Love that minimalist and clean design. It's giving you the "no stress vibe" while doing a "very stressful job" in Excel.

I love seeing these videos to see what the tech world pumps out. Never would get a laptop like this, but its nice to see.

This looks sick! That David Blaine magic act was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

this design looks amazingly cool and i guess futuristic looking. just straight up excellent design. gives off epic minimal and aesthetic vibes. in love with this design

What is love about Dave is the minimalistic feature , from his room,outfits to his technologies.

This thing is incredible. Respect to Dell for trying something unique in the often stale PC laptop space.

A very underrated transition at 07:23; the frame changes from the white to black model while the game keeps running! Reaaaaallly smooth Dave! 👏

My previous laptop, HP EliteBook, had a glass touch pad and it was one of my favorite features. It just felt so smooth. Additionally, I did drop it more than once and the touch pad glass never broke.

Dave excellent vlog. Loved the quality and animation. You explained the model pretty well. I am surely gonna jump out and buy this thing in the morning...

I had a chance to check this out in December and the touchpad is actually pretty good to use I like the haptics on it and like Dave said becomes natural to use pretty quickly.

Imagine if Dell cared about Alienware like they do xps.

Dell used the capacitive buttons for volume and so on since 2007. They were always pretty innovative and sturdy, design wise .

I had the first XPS13. Also had a good design and great keyboard but even 12 years ago there was the problem with the missing ports.

Wow this is actually a really good looking laptop.

It actually looks great until I realize there is no physical esc key.

Very beautiful room ! I really like this minimalistic space ship style.

Thank you Dave! I love your content! Please dont stop doing a great job!

This is what concept laptops looked like 10 years ago...now it's real

As an XPS 15 owner and an IT pro who has worked with Dell for over 15 years and gave them a chance by rolling them out to my company over Lenovo I can say with extreme confidence that Dell is by far the most unreliable major computer manufacturer I've ever dealt with. At least two out of 10 laptops needed to be sent in for repairs in less than 3 months of use (a lot of display issues, keyboard issues and so many Wi-Fi issues). Then we have the mainboard issues that seem to happen around the 4-6-month mark. We've had some of these issues as soon as we took it out the box and powered it up. Dell’s QC is complete garbage. My CEO said to never, ever, ever buy Dells again. We rolled out over 400 Dell laptops and 100% regret it.

They could have at least added some LED borders to the trackpad lol, it's a crazy design indeed. I'd say, more companies should make the haptic touchpad a new norm. I absolutely love how the trackpad on MacBook works.

Thanks Dave. Getting this laptop for sure, upgrading from the original XPS 13

15" version of this would be awesome!

Loving the design, very smart indeed! 😍

I love this review because it starts right up with no intro or “alright let’s get right into the video”

0:56 Actually, it looks more like the capacitive buttons that HP used to use on their Pavilion laptops years ago, and unfortunately, they have the same inconsistencies those did. I find that if I want to repeatedly tap the volume "button" to increase or decrease, it drops inputs which can be a little frustrating. I notice the same issue with the escape key when I try to do combinations like opening Task Manager. It's a nice idea in concept, but I won't be deploying these to the rest of the staff for that reason as well as the fact that it has no headphone jack.

This laptop looks great. The lack of headphone jack is a bit of a deal breaker for me. Looks like Dell didn't take any hints from last years' Asus Zenbooks. Beyond that, I kind of wish they added at least some indicator of where the touchpad starts and ends. I can imagine a softly lit line on either side of the trackpad that would have _really_ made it look futuristic.

I was waiting so much for you to review this laptop!!! Thank you!

I was in constant awe with my jaw dropped just looking at this beauty. wow.

I love that beautiful, modern, minimalist aesthetic. Super clean. I used a white XPS 13 for a while in 2020, that I made myself from parts. Stunning little machine, but I always seem to find myself gravitating back towards Apple and ended up with an M1 MBA.

The $1k+ laptops are out of my budget but this new XPS line looks incredible. It's tough to re-design laptops when they are all rectangular portable computers but Dell made this design so cool.

The XPS has been the only personal laptop I've bought for myself since freshman year of college. i'm now on my 4th XPS 13 after buying one last year. I've had no issues with them and in a few years when I'm looking to upgrade again, I'll check out the latest models.

Thank you for this excellent review. Did the laptop keyboard deck really crack (at the 2:43 mark) while in your possession? Or was that some video magic by you to superimpose a different device's cracked screen onto the Dell XPS 13 Plus keyboard deck to show what a crack COULD look like? Thermals look fantastic for a change. Thank you again for your hard work.

This is a beautiful piece of engineering and design ....i'm pretty sure there must have been a huge debate in the dell hq before going for this design because it's a risk to make such bold changes but the employee who pushed dell to go for it kudos to you .

“Good design is more than just the removal of clutter. It’s the clarification of function. Material honesty. And as little noise as possible.” - Jony Ive (although Dieter Rams said something similar in the 60s)

I love how the video just starts, no intro no sponsor. Nice

Just got mine in today and absolutely love it. Coming from last year's XPS 13in you really cannot compare the two. I have the i7, 16GB memory and highly recommend this laptop in glacier.

Great review as usual! As an XPS user, it's a must for me that they keep the headphone jack. Hopefully they bring it back.

This thing is awesome! I'm a Mac user and if I were ever to move to Windows, this would definitely be my pick. Also really impressive performance while still packing only 2 hours less battery life than the MacBook. It's Windows PCs like these that are going to make the whole market better.

Longterm XPS 9300 user here. Pretty much resolved all of the issues in this iteration. Headphone jack had driver problems, track pad wasn't the best, thermals are pretty weak and fiberglass shell was chipping. Plus will be pretty bulletproof.

Love this review !!! and your vibe as well :)

Damn! Both of the colors and overall design looks aesthetically pleasing 😍

I would prefer the 2mm thicker laptop than one without physical keys. The laptop is insanely clean though.

Love the Grey Casi-Oak on your wrist Dave, great with your general aesthetic.

Wow, this is incredible work!😇

Surprised you were very positive about the capacitive everything. Thought for sure it was gonna be form over function here from Dell but looks like they’ve done this right. And double the performance from last year without affecting battery life is incredible. I’ve been using a MacBook Air last few years but might switch back to Windows with this one, it’s very tempting.

Dave2D has the ability to take a 9.30m video and make it feel like a 2min video 👍

Until I recently switched to Lenovo (T15G Gen 2), I used an XPS 15 9550 (2016) every day. I replaced the battery twice, each time the trackpad would extrude from the base plate. The last battery replacement lasted a year before the battery swelled up, now I run it as a second machine with no battery just off the mains. For the first couple of years it bluescreened a lot, but these issues were ironed out eventually. Dell use that "rubber"-like coating on this generation (and even the latest generation) XPS. This rubber coating will wear around the ports pretty quickly and eventually it will make the laptop look like shit. Every year I had to disassemble the laptop to remove dust and re-thermal paste the GPU/CPU heatsink. I managed to get more performance out of it by undervolting it, but this feature isn't available on newer generation intel CPU's. You also can't run the XTU software on Windows 11 with this laptop because it isn't officially supported by Microsoft (no TPM 2.0). The "Killer" wireless card is an absolute joke, cuts out all the time. The XPS is the only device so suffer from this, phone, PC, other laptop, mac mini, raspberry pi - all fine. Even though it was undervolted and cleaned thoroughly it would still thermal throttle most of the time. The 4K screen is beautiful, keyboard is not bad (but I prefer Lenovo's). The touchscreen still works perfectly but the gloss screen is a fingerprint magnet. I never spilt liquid on it but the keyboard has needed replacing after 3 years, I never got around to it as I use an external keyboard - around 25% of the keys don't work on first press. It has been well looked after but I probably will never buy an ultrabook again, I prefer a "desktop replacement", and I'm okay with the extra bulk of a workstation.

An excellent review. Just bought the XPS13 Plus and can't wait to get it. Looks like blazing speed, a cool design, and this is my third XPS13!

I feel like they missed out on making the trackpad extra wide (not the full width of the deck as that would just end up being annoying but they have quite a bit of room to extend it). Still this thing is really cool. I'd prefer function keys over the touchbar but it looks dope Edit: For those complaining about my comment for no reason; I didn’t mean make the trackpad the entire width of the deck, I just meant a few cm on either side. The only reason I suggested it is because this laptop is trying something new in the trackpad department. It was just an idea and I won’t be purchasing this device anytime soon but the criticism on my comment seems to assume I’m complaining and not suggesting 🗿

Been a fan of the XPS 13 since 2017, it's nice to see it made a comeback

Please always leave the links of Wallpapers you use, if possible. I just love them

This looks sick! That David Blaine magic act was 🔥

Anyone else find it funny that Dell, who have historically had quality control issues with their trackpads, would rather *_throw it out completely_* instead of finally fixing it? 🤣🤣🤣 or is that just me

Amazing engineering. Kudos Dell designers!

I ordered. I love the look. It'll pair nicely with my gaming rig.

this device looks amazing, i wish i can buy that :p, btw great review like always Dave

it's interesting to me that they removed the physical function keys, not to mention the headphone jack. Super clean design which is awesome to see but I feel like a laptop especially a smaller one like the 13" should have a headphone jack since it's geared towards media consumption

Id love to see them do this for a 14/15/16 version with a dedicated GPU. Absolutely love the new design and I would take it 10x over the already great) design

I saw the video and even though I have not watched it yet I smiled saying in my head, "Dave always delivers"

Lovely review man, it does look super sleek

This looks like a great product. Interesting choice with the function keys. It looks a lot like the Touch Bar and Apple just got rid of that. So i wonder how people will like this style of keys. Also the touchpad looks really cool.

I’d rather have a thicker laptop with less compromises on ergonomics. They could just get the extra 2mm space for thermal solution by making the laptop 2mm thicker and it won’t be noticeable by most users on daily usage.

this year are gonna absolutely crush this thing, but that it expected I guess.

Sick editing dave

I absolutely love this design, and the performance / battery life, it just looks amazing and ill surely consider it if im in the market for a windows laptop, the lack of the headphone jack really isn’t an issue for me, since I just use AirPods because they can connect with multiple devices, so I don’t need to deal with cables. I would use wired headphones on a desktop but not on a laptop, the thing that annoys me is that function strip, its just a Mac Touch Bar with all the cool features stripped out of it. (pun intended) The Touch Bar was rough on macOS even with apple’s control over it, now, dell doesn’t have the same control over windows, so I don’t think they can do the adapting buttons depending on the app like Macs do, aaaaand I think the XPS Touch Bar looks kinda ugly, other than that, it looks like an amazing laptop.

I mean Dave 2D 9min review itself means alot by It self cause u mainly spend like 5min to review a single laptop but 9min for this one means that how different it is among the bunch, thanks for review love you dave

Currently i am using XPS 13 from last 2 months. Its a great machine and wonderful user experience. I can play even some heavy games like Mortal Kombat 11.

I can't believe they don't use this keyboard design on all their products.

@6:02 "there is no headphone jack though" me : Alright, bye.

Holycow, I never imagined a day where a Windows laptop would seriously compete with my M1 Macbook. This XPS has almost double the CPU performance, a touch OLED screen and over 10 hours of battery life. And the design is sick, I still can't believe this is the actual final product not some CES futuristic concept.

Man, these machines never look as good in person as they do on Dave2D's videos.

This Dell is gorgeous, pure minimalism above all else 👌🏼

Honestly, disgusting to remove a headphone jack that takes absolutely no space. There is no way around justifying it. This is the most beautiful laptop I've ever seen, the perf is nuts. But stop fucking us over removing functions

Is there still any focus on the repairability like there has been on other XPS laptops in the past?

Good review. I have a XPS13 from 2015. it's getting tired. Looks like a positive choice

This is the first that I heard of the new chipset. I'm so excited for the competition with the M1 MacBooks!

2:45 jerryrigeverything definetely deserved a shoutout there lol

The windows laptop I have been waiting for. Can’t wait to get my hands on this. Finally a windows laptop that can compete the MacBooks in terms of aesthetics that comes with competitive performance.

This is a really good looking laptop! First time I actually said a laptop that is actually almost comparably or just as nice as a MacBook!

I currently have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with Amd (Great Laptop) but this, this looks like my next laptop i'll be looking at

Looks really awesome. Love the wallpaper. Can you share a link?

It's great that some Windows laptop is going for a more creative, modern design. Despite that some of the choices are questionable.

Feels so great to watch the review from the same laptop XPS 13 plus😜

Excellent review 👍

Wow! Dell sure hired some great product designers.

This is an exciting product. Looks like Dell is really bringing up the engineering skills to compete.

I had an HP Pavillion DV2 back in the day, this touchbar reminds me of exactly that.

RU-vid knows me. I was looking for those king of info since 3 days !!!!

Removing the trackpad visually is GENIUS! I never thought it would look this nice. Even the layout of the keys are SEXY. I'm an Apple fanboy but I can't deny, this is a BEAUTY!

Omg. I love that clean aesthetic. If they released 15" or 17", it would be a great upgrade for my 9560.

Removing the function keys for more heat-sink was pretty baller tho.

When I thought nothing could amaze me anymore about laptops, this XPS comes out 😳

I was skeptical when they announced this, but after watching the reviews, I think Dell did great! I'll be sticking with my previous gen XPS 13 though

I doubt anyone will answer this, but what was the typing test that Dave was using at 5:30?

wow that white laptop is so calming to look at

Imagine they make the whole keyboard 3D touch with haptic feedback, so that a glass panel can differentiate between resting hand and pressing key. They can probably make a double screen laptop with one of them a custom input panel.

Fun fact, lenovo's thinkpad x1 tried with the capacitive funtion row long before apple introduced the touch bar, in actuality it wasn't that great