Dave now becoming our math and science professor especially with that hair style.

XPS AIO 👀

Dad Joke's

I would love the XPS 16 😢

Ew white mode laptop

if you're gonna copy Apple's homework, don't copy a test they've already failed

And to make it worse than it already is, they got much less functionality, apples Touch Bar resembled more of a mini display rather than a top bar, meanwhile the dells looks like a led calculator

It was only a VERY vocal minority that cared about the MacBooks having the touchbar. It was people in tech who used them. The majority of people buying laptops don't use function keys as often. I know dozens of people with MacBooks and they don't care. It's not a work machine, it's just their home computer. The same demo Dell is going for. Tech workers don't drive sales, it's the common person. The mom and pops. The student writing papers. If it hurt their sales on the Plus for the last few years they wouldn't have committed it across the entire lineup. If it doesn't mesh with your workflow just don't buy it, I don't understand the complaints. They're literally just following what sells for them.

And to make it even worse, they could have just put these programmable glorified LED calculator buttons above the function row instead of deleting the function row for them.

@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise Either I'm not reading your comment properly, or you're confused. Apple *did* remove the touchbar from all their laptops... Also, your "dozens of people" is not a valid evidence lol. You could know a hundred people who don't use the function row, and it'll still not be an adequate sample. Considering Apple decided to remove it when they redesigned the keyboard, that's evidence enough that it was hurting their bottom line more than helping it.

just change it in software

@@exansis is your suggestion seriously to remap the numbers to function keys??

@@exansis he points the touch version of functions keys hows it can be changed through software

Exactly, "form over function"😡

i agree, has to have physical keys for me and my job

Yeah. That gave me a WTF moment. Looks like Dell's XPS laptops won't be getting my recommendation this year...

It has the same port layout for 5 years at this point, not new at all.

Don't care, Not a deal breaker for me and am starting to save for it now

@@mikelay5360 good for you! I've given up on windows after almost 30 yrs owning every single brand

@@mikelay5360 Okay then, enjoy a thermal throttling poor quality control fashion statement...

Same here, I completely agree.

Same here. It is no possible to work on CAD without esc key at least...

@@Ok_Mountain_8698 Especially because there are other good options running Windows. With macOS, you are pretty much stuck with Apple. With Windoes, there are many other good options that will kill this Dell XPS lineup easily.

You could 'repurpose' the CAPS lock as Esc I guess..

@@nikolaikrustev1159 this. i even went further with the remapping. now i'm using capslock key as an esc key and ctrl key combined together. i can achieve this due to different behavior when you pressing each keys (esc = quickly tap and release, ctrl = hold it with other combination keys)

what he said. sorry dell you screwed up.

The XPS 13 had a wider than usual keyboard. The XPS 14 and 16 definitely has a more normal sized keyboard, you can tell by looking at the pics. Dave said it got smaller, but technically it just became normal sized. As far as the touch function row, yeah, I agree. Always hated when Macbooks had it, still hate it now.

Since they try to compete with mac, they are going for all the features that mac offers should be present here right.

Really weird that they're trying to compete with Apple in this sense. This isn't even up-to-date Apple, it's their deprecated design for MacBook Pro's that even they admitted wasn't the way to go.

The design is clean, but you’re right. No function keys (even on the 16) makes no sense. Completely kills it for my architectural software needs. Bummer.

It is really sad to see that none of these expensive & powerful devices (except 🍎 ) have HDMI, absolute madness

I guess if they are aiming for just a media cocsumption device, then a good screen and a good looking yet useless keyboard make sense. But if that's the case, the branding, price tag and spec are way overkill. What's with this looks good but useless trend...

@@Hassansyed369 The ThinkPad X1 Carbon does, but it's not as "pretty" as these other devices.

@@claytongearhart7671 Love Lenovo!! especially their keyboards, I have had two laptop first was an ideapad and now a really old ThinkPad but both with great keyboards and ports.

Yes but with Microsoft Co-Pilot you can sync your brain to Windows 11 and mind control the function keys if you squint hard enough. No need for physical keys.

you never get used to keys like those, I've had a laptop with no space between the keys for more than 3y and I still havent gotten used to it

Because laptops development cycles are 3+ years long, so Dell made those decisions 3y ago and now had to stick with them and launch the product even if they know it's a bad choice, but in 2020 it was the next great thing done by Apple so they had to copy it...

@@Jack-bb9wjLmao this is a perfect demonstration of tech companies’ tendency just blindly follow what Apple does with seemingly no regards to the user experience.

Fn touch bar is nonsense. Also ram soldered means they will overpriced ram upgrades. Is a scam!! They want to make money scamming us like apple

@@Jack-bb9wj nah they had this Sh** ready in 2021 when they made the 13 Plus as a "concept" and for some reasons decided to apply the same bad ideas on the whole line-up even if they had plenty of time to put a normal keyboard on the thing. the 16" is truly ridiculous, it should be for pro users and such but with missing functionalities I don't see the appeal

maybe this is a weird questions, but somehow till now i still find myself getting confused why people hating this kind of design espeially for the function key....cuz i often find many of my friends using a MacBook Pro 13 that has a touch bar, and they seems has no problem wih it and kind of enjoying it hahhahaha (note: my friends profesion majority is a graphic designer) and maybe there are some kind of tasks that really need that function keys, it'll really nice if i can get some educations here

They basically employ them, hard to get into this space without ending up as shill. It's why i only take just josh seriously, he's made his wealth from a traditional high paying career and buys his own laptops.

Dave 2D used to be good and hes just now a shill.

But this is not real review - he said it's demo preproduction unit...

​@@Yunghamz I'm also waiting for Just Josh’s review. His reviews are a class apart.

@@morsikpl so the production unit will have a functional keyboard?

Wouldn't recommend buying a new laptop until PCs are released with Qualcomm's newest ARM chip (rumored to be ready this year).

@@Rapunzel879 yeah coz windows on arm is totally ready and very stable and compatible with all apps 😂

XPS 16 didn't exist till now (unless you count the Dell Studio XPS 16 from 2009), wdym you have an XPS 16 from 2018?? There were only XPS 13 and 15 back then.

I've got the 9570 from back 2019, but man I really am struggling with the performance, also with some heasty thermal issues.

99.9 of all the laptops are like a jet engine when cranked. One of the primary reasons I stopped doing intensive work on laptops.

I'd look elsewhere. This year, they've seemed to copy 2016 - 2019 Apple, not a good look.

I’ve had the same one but my battery life is terrible and I’ve always had problems with overheating/fans spinning loudly even for simple tasks. Do you have any of these issues? Just curious if it’s only my unit. Probably gonna make the switch to a Macbook because of these issues tbh.

​@@nipundit2719 I have a XPS 13 2020 with the exact same issues as you, loud fans overheating, battery is virtually unusable. I thought of switching to XPS 15 (very disappointed that it's not continued) or Lenovo. Seems like it'll be a Lenovo Slim Pro 9i

@@nipundit2719Strange. I own the XPS 15 9530 and even before I repasted the processors I had zero heating issues. My fans only kick in when I'm doing processor-intensive tasks. Is it just the 13 Plus models that experience such symptoms?

it does have USB-C ports on both sides...

@@iansteelmatheson I'm talking about TWO usb c ports on both sides

I mean taking away HDMI is pretty good. It's crap standard that makes pc's more expensive because of excessive licensing fees, DP is better anyways. And if you need to regularly plug into something, you can just have adapter or dock there waiting. I mean in many workplaces for example you already have those for monitors and projectors. And you can always carry one in backpack or whatnot. USB a, that's bit harder to justify, personally I'm fine without it for same reasons I put out beforehand, but I wouldn't really defend removing it either since it's so prominent still. Overall, USB-C is just far more useful port for anything. It makes no sense to put some other port there since it would reduce utility of the machine. Only reason I see for having very specific ports, is if you are literally running around laptop in your hand and plugging in to various devices on move, which some probably do, but it makes zero sense to cater to that very small audience. You could get something like framework laptop where you can customize your ports.

I'm getting a Framework Laptop 16 too, but those Dell XPS laptops just look ugly, as if they were prototypes...

​@cameronbosch1213 This has to be the most nonsensical comment of today, you are getting one of the ugliest laptops (framework) and you call XPS ugly?

@MrMalam1234 Then by that logic you're saying all laptops are ugly.

Same here, Dell's quality control is nonexistent. I had the 15" 9560 back in 2017-2018 and replaced three units in five months, all of which had serious issues. I ended up asking for a refund. Never again.

A sign of the times as we move towards the advantages of a system on chip including many benefits. Modularity only existed because that was the only solution 40 years ago; now we have a better solution. It is similar to why we went from HD to SSDs, from floppy disks to DVD, from USBA to USBC. People always complain wanting legacy features to go on forever, but MS has finally realised this causes more problems and finally we see Windows OEMs having the guts to move on. Though I suspect Intel forced the issue to save costs and improve efficiency, performance and latency. I understand the latest fastest RAM is soldered only.

​@@andyH_EnglandYou realize that xps does not have SOC, rather standard laptop processors + standard (soldered) ram modules which are used on sodimm sticks?

Just about 10 year ago, we could get 1dvd drive + 2.5" hdd in a 15" laptop..... now, even when these two big components have gone, they are not able (or not trying) to fit 2 ram slots in a 16" laptop.

@@andyH_England It's not about legacy features, it's about reparability. I still run a xps15 9550. Replaced the battery a couple times. Upgraded the ssd now that bigger sizes are cheaper. Will replace the keyboard and cover as that's showing clear signs of use by now.

​@@andyH_Englandlies and lies and lies. Only reason modularity dies is the profit, nothing about speed or features. If there's a will, there's a way, CAMM proved that laptop RAM can be both modular and fast, only the matter of time until the tech matures. Those who don't want to find the way, they find reasons to not to.

Dell also had something similar in the XPS 15 L502x, very nice layout indeed.

They have it. Above mechanical keyboard. they are in top touch pad. You can see 1:09

@@utopiakj i meant there is no physical escape key, just the strange one in the touch pad.

@@swtuber Oh, ok I see. I agree with that. it sucks.

Okay, but consider this, 14.5 inch 16:10 It's literally perfect imo, 14 inch was too small and 15.6/16 is too big. Helps that there have been some really good 14.5 panels recently, like that cheap 2.8k oled 90/120hz in the Zenbook 14/14X.

I have a Yoga 14". I picked up a 17.3" gaming laptop (which doesn't feel big at all). I love the real estate on the my new laptop.

femboy attitude. men the f up and get a 16. Real men dont notice the weight difference!

@@notfunny3397 The XPS 14 does indeed use a 14.5 inch 16x10 display.

@@torpedospurs that's neat. We got some pretty cool 14.5 inch laptops recently too, the Lenovo legion slim and the yoga pro 9i. Very cool, but honestly I have to say I'm a little disappointed with 'just' 1080p for the base model screen on both the XPS 14 and 16. Even way cheaper laptops use 1440p or even 2.8k/3.2k screens for the base model

lmao ridiculous

😂😂😂

And only 1 SSD instead of 2.

Lol, yes, but this is Dell, so don't hold your breath waiting for them to address those issues.

This seems very biased and untruthful. Especially compared to his XPS 13 Plus review. I think he intentionally left out negative criticism so Dell will send him more tech in the future.

It looks the same as the XPS 13 Plus from 2yrs ago, just in different sizes and front facing speakers. I wouldn't call that "new design".

A new design that is worse than the old one in every possible aspect

​@@Riga89Exactly. This looks like Dell was trying to out Apple Apple and failing.

With just one SSD slot and the battery to maintain, that's going to be so true!

"Sorry we are retarded" is their excuse

I guess form over function and congruencey in the lineup, but even that is too much; it looks bad imo and objectively isn't as good as physical keys. Control alt delete is going to suck!

Doubt it. The MSI Prestige 16 also has Meteor Lake and a 99.9 whr battery. My guess is that it will last longer.

No longer necessary with these new Intel Chips

​@basnijland they run cool?

@@basnijlandit is absolutely necessary. The igpu might be equal but cpu efficiency is still not AMD’s level

I agree. If they had started putting in AMD chips in the last year or 2, they would be ready to drop in new Zen 5 APUs with up to 16 CUs, which would really up the game on the 14 &13 inch models. Core Ultra chips are great, but didn't really move the needle past AMD much (the new IGP is now finally better than AMD, but not by a crazy amt). I mean, I'm not invested in the XPS line, so I think not offering AMD won't hurt Dell, but eh, would have been nice I suppose

@@tjl2836 Well it's certainly close! The efficiency of these new intel chips is in the same range as newer AMD chips. I still like AMD's laptop chips better though, they run cooler somehow

Unfortunately it's a Dell

@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster it has the latest Intel chip on it. Heard and read some great reviews that it matches the apple performance. Also dell is not that bad too but yeah it's indeed a costlier one than my MacBook

@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster what is this? Brandshaming? Brandcism? Well, with no doubt I can say that this is stupidity.

It's a beautiful device but their "touch bar" is worse than even what apple made back in the day, and even that one was terrible for most of its users. Not to mention the keyboard having bad reliability and pretty subpar price to performance. A framework 16 would be a better investment instead of an xps 16.

@@heroninja1125 yes, i completely agree that exactly this device has a huge downsides, I just do not agree with the reasoning "Dell == bad", every brand has something to offer if it exists and alive.

Yep. Pretty much every XPS in recent history has shipped as a hot dumpster fire.

Dell consumer products have always been terrible like this especially as of lately. Right now they are basically making a worse version of an apple laptop. You know, cause apple axed the touch bar macbooks because nobody liked it, but heres dell making a worse touch bar with even less functionality. And of course keyboard reliability issues. Except unlike the macbook pros these dell xps laptops are going to stink with battery life. If you are getting a laptop like this especially a 16 inch just get a framework if you like windows and linux or a macbook pro 16 if you like macOS (I personally would advise towards a framework as it will last longer)

my XPS 9370 (2018 laptop) was horrible with Win 10 but as soon as I threw Ubuntu/Linux on it it was actually quite a fast machine for the limited hardware in it and extended battery life by +- 2-3 hours. Still runs just as great 6 years later.

They'll learn once they see their sales go down like crazy. This went from being the best designed Windows laptop to one of the worst one ever existed

@@Riga89 As not a pro but someone that relies on F and arrow keys to program on the go i would instantly write this machine off for the cumbersome keyboard alone. That's really a stark regression imo. This is something apple for the longest time were prioritizing above all else. Jobs knew to never cut corners here and boy did they ever on this new laptop. Design for designs sake. Give me usability and a clean design. They already have the benefit of an m.2 slot to win over a lot of folks. Why overcomplicate it like this?

The MacBook Touch Bar and the xps touch function row isn’t even that bad

yeah, not to mention the OLED display thats gonna wear out unevenly from white docs and static content. On top of it even the base 11c m3pro smokes the living hell out of this core 9 185h

@@josephle2381 The macbook touch bar was good for some users, but really bad for others especially developers. In the case of the touch row in the dell laptops its way less functional then the macbook touch bar but still has no tactile button presses. Most of the really cool and intuitive usages of the apple macbook touchbar do not exist in dells touch row. So at best its a gimmick.

Very cheap

Can you afford it?

​@@rionvaletno, because its too cheap for me

​@@rionvaletI don't know about him but I definitely can :)

​@@rionvaleteveryone can