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I understand new designs are locked in for at least 12 months before release, and Apple suddenly bringing back all the ports late last year has caught all the other brands out for their 2022 releases, LOL.
@@cadenchurchill4296 It is justified, they can't cram in a 28W TDP processor without cooling it enough. More ports mean more space taken up inside for that. Especially a headphone jack, cuz it'll take wayy more space inside. Just open up your laptop and see.
Gigabyte is going full old Apple for some reason, Type-C ports only now on the new Aero creator series with an included dongle for Ethernet/HDMI/Type-A/DisplayPort 🙄 at least it's included I guess but still come on. The dongle doesn't even have SD, on a creator laptop
To be fair with the trackpad, you can probably assume it's directly below the spacebar, starting and ending at the same points. And for a laptop you use every day, you'll usually be using it without looking anyway, like muscle memory
I saw this, and I felt exactly the same was as you, and that was before I found out there are just 2 UCB C ports and no earphone port! The (not a) touchbar thing looks like something from 2 decades ago on a cheap electronic product. At least Apple's touchbar looked cool. Eventually I'll need to replace my XPS 15 but if it looks like this, I may go with a Macbook!!!
This was a very nice video... Sometimes Tech companies act stupid and we, as consumers, have got to be loud with our feedbacks because ultimately its us, who are gonna spend our hard-earned money on these tech items.
Credit to Sara for being fair b/c I guarantee ppl who complained a lot about the Mac doing exactly these dumb things won’t say anything about dell doing it. It was stupid when apple did it and it’s stupid for dell to do it (arguably more stupid considering how unpopular the MacBooks that did this were for 5 years)
This is the first time im seeing someone bring up fair criticism on PC's. All these years people LOVED to talk shit about MacBooks (2016-19) and basically projected Windows laptops like all hail lord WINDOWS!!. Refreshing to see someone call out companies that usually send or pay creators... (I mean imagine Apple removed the jack on the new MacBooks- it would be all over billboards)
LoL It's because it's not out yet Once they send that piece of shit to the reviewers U bet everyone will criticize it I remember hp launched a convertible or a ultra thin and light laptop with no headphone jack and most reviewers didn't recommend it Don't be such quick to judge dude
Great video Sara! Even on a bus stop my bluetooth headphones will disconnect several times because of the several people around me having their own connected to their phones, interfering with mine. Bluetooth is not a reliable connection, not to mention the lag when you’re watching a movie. Why would they remove the headphone jack is beyond me. It’s definitely not for space. The trackpad limits could be subtle if they wanted to blend them in the looks. There are so many ways of doing this without hurting the looks. I don’t know who is this laptop mainly addressed to as a potential buyer, but it’s definitely not for someone who would care for ergonomics and functionality.
It's also terrible for video conferencing. My $10 wired earbuds with a mic always work. Always. The only setup I've ever had to do is choose the built in laptop mic and speakers or my earbuds. I cannot afford to be futzing around with my earbuds trying to get them to stop pairing with my phone when a company director wants to meet with me via a video call.
wow, it's like Dell is beating Apple in the race to make products more minimalistic but less useful at the same time... If anything, Apple has more or less reversed their stance on this...
Most of the design decisions are supported with solid functional reasons.. A 14 core processor isn't fitting in such a small chassis without extra room for cooling. The headphone jack was getting in the way of that, as well as the function row. The new module is less than half the depth of a typical function key module. This laptop outperforms everything in it's class and price point by far.
Great info Sara. The 8 inch screen seems not great. writing on something that small would be a major adjustment for most people I think and for me specifically it would be unusable.
There’s no point of the new intel chips except to say they are faster than apple. The current chips already draw too much power for battery, require ridiculous fans that make way too much noise, get so hot you can’t lap it, and oh yeah I guess you don’t have to worry about battery life because it has to be plugged in to get any performance. My M1 max isn’t perfect or the fastest but it works as a LAPtop no matter what you throw at it. I had a specd out razer previosly that barely made it 2 years before turning into to complete turd inside and out. And even in normal tasks became too hot to touch. But at the time a 2018 or 19 MacBook was a turd too so there’s that….
Comforting your cat during construction is so relatable. No headphone Jack is a deal breaker for me currently. I’m on calls all day. There are times where I connect a set of headphones because my Surface Headphones are dead. That’s a big negative at least for me. Feel better Sarah!
I have the Dell XPS 13 (not the plus) and am actually really unhappy with it. The camera is THE WORST - I know inbuilts are bad, but its not usable. The mic is problematic and also pretty useless. No ports...when I use a doc its tempremental - wont run a blue yeti properly (the sound wobbles). Its fan runs LOUD when its not doing very much. I would need to see ALOT from dell to buy from them again.
I had a 2019 XPS 15 7590 that I got as a replacement for TWO electrical issues on previous Dell XPS 15 9575 2 in 1 laptops. After going through a nightmare with Dell's premium support and finally getting this model (while they were launching the XPS 9500), I had sleep wake issues to the point it was unusable as a laptop. I'm sorry, but I'm done. I will never buy a Dell laptop again if this is what they are going to do. I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon 7th gen and only had one issue with it since the 7th gen was released, which was fixed with a new SSD within one week. And nowhere near the hell Dell put me through...
Everybody: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Laptop Makers: "Let's screw around with the keyboard and ports and jacks and UI and form factor and..." KEEP ROASTING 'EM, SARA! After suffering through Apple's slowly-being-corrected design idiocy, now I'm trying to decide between laughing and crying at the same crap in the Windows world. Ugh. (BTW, I couldn't wait long enough so I have a MacBook Pro with the touchbar... and right now it says "Exit Fullscreen" even though YT's NOT in fullscreen mode... sigh.)
But M1 Pro screen suffers from easy dirt from keyboard while closing laptop. Once you clean the screen which has anti glare coating and after that you will see smudge, staingate. It is impossible to avoid...
I just love this new laptop, and'll buy one when they come out with the 15" or the 17" version! I don't understand the problem with headphone jack...the trackpad or the fubction keys. Realy. For me it's great and years ahead of that "thing" called apple, kind of expensive unjustified fruit... i love this Plus line of the best in the best of computers makers. Sorry...
If you care about sound quality, you want nothing to do with bluetooth or dongles, so the headphone jack is a huge think. I like this laptop, but will never buy it only because of the headphone jack. I own high quality headphones, and you just can't get the same level of quality from USB-C dongles, and even less so with bluetooth. Also, the new macbook air is a much better deal than XPS in terms of performance/quality for the money. I just personally don't like macOS but macs aren't unjustified or overpriced anymore, they got their uses and are definitely the highest build quality for laptops right now.
@@theburgundynetwork3432 ... If you care about sound quality you would buy an external DAC like the AudioQuest DragonFly ... in nearly every case the sound will be better with external DAC, rather than connecting your cans to your laptop,
@@silvestrocrino3256 Of course I do have a DAC at home. Why would you asume I don't? But we're talking about a portable computer. I work in cafes a lot cause I often need a change of scenery and I'm not always focused at home. I'm not going to brind an audio interface along with me everywhere I go, but I do bring my headphones. Your argument makes no sens for something that's meant to be portable. I know I don't represent most people that buys these, but for me, it's still a no.
You just reminded me of the touchbar ocatinaly glitching out. One thing I just now realised is that since I upgraded my MBP w/ touch bar to macOS 12 / Monterey, I've not once had it freeze on me. Having said that, it's still not bug free, the audio/playback control is still a hot mess, and the predictive words still sometimes doesn't work... I feel the touch bar could have been great (maybe like a mini version, part esc, vol key, etc part touchbar), but Apple gave up way to soon (on the software side). It had potential.
i feel sorry for the hardware that ends up in those dell xps plus machines. such a waste of silicon in an already tight market. Also we need to shame companies that do foldables, because we REALLY dont need them on laptops
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Given the issues, we are seeing 40 top-tier games on the 12th Gen processor architecture (See Jay's two cents for more details). I am skipping all-new Dell laptops for another 12 months. I was also disappointed that they only moved the XPS 13 to a 12th gen processor. In hindsight, it's a good thing they didn't propagate it through the entire product line. It's clear they are aware of a significant issue in using the 12th gen architecture with major software that Microsoft and the software vendors have yet to resolve. But, with the price increases of about 20% here in Canada and Dell tightening their financing requirements I just cannot see enough value to make it worth acquiring anything by Dell. I also recently had an issue with a 32" 4K monitor. It's taken me three months to get a replacement! Not acceptable. While the XPS is not strictly a gaming computer its specs make it a consideration. So Dell is off the list for 2022. Your point about the headphone jack and keyboard is valid but the inability to run major software on the 12th gen architecture makes this a hard pass for me. I also don't know if I can adjust to the "virtual Track pad" either. So just say no!
Bro, I am going to buy a laptop from Canada so I was planning to buy new XPS 17 laptop before may. In your opinion which is the best 17" laptop that I can buy in around 2000 canadian dollars?
@@akhilalexg Don't Get an XPS 17 this year. Wait till next year. Dell's support assists driver update tool is broken and failing to install or select the appropriate updates for the XPS 17 and it's ignoring an important memory leak in a custom WMD intel driver that they have customized.
@@PWingert1966 bro I can't wait because my class will start in this coming may and I have to buy a new laptop before that. So please suggest one. Requirements: 17" screen, 1tb ssd, i7 9th gen or higher, decent gfx card. But since i do gaming also, I am looking for rtx 30 series and 12th gen or new amd series processors if possible. Otherwise 11gen or around ryzen 5900 will do. So please some suggest some. I like zephyrus g14 or g15 but screen size is the problem. I couldn't find better laps at 17" segment. ( except asus s17)
@@akhilalexg I would go for the new mac book Pro that should be announced in March or grab the existing Mac book Pro. The XPS 17 is ok but not as good as the MacBook if you can use it. it depends on the software you will be required to run.
Did Lenovo forgot about left handed people... or you can change that when you order? the idea is pretty cool and the foldable tablets and phone are looking awesome the more they come out.
I want to see this laptop fail so hard. That well, Dell gets the message that we do not support these s**tty products! Thank you Sara for speaking up when these other reviewers won't!
I am constantly screaming for an SD card slot. I understand this is 13 inches. But what about those new 16 inches models? More and more manufacturers are shying away from a full sized SD card slot. If they give that, they will take away the USB A. As if its a deal- you get only either one. Why can't the 15 and 16 inches include at least 1 USB A, SD card slot, HDMI, headphone and 2 UCB C in all the laptops? This should be a standard.
I have see some conflicting reports on the new XPS 13+. If, as some say, the actual trackpad portion of the palm rest is just the middle part, then the fact that it is not labeled is just going to be a pain. Dell could have an should have imbedded some LED lighting into the bottom of the computer to mark the trackpad portion of the bottom.
You don't look at the trackpad when you use it, you're usually looking at the screen. And what people who have had the physical device are saying is its long enough that your finger doesn't run off the edge anyway. Also they don't mind the touch row cause the esc key is well placed and it actually works all the time.
I don’t understand these complaints. First, on a premium thin-and-light, I can’t imagine plugging in wired headphones, especially when hyper-mobility is the aim. If you’re a video editor, there are many better alternatives. Second, honestly - who looks at their trackpad? Ever? I can see my trackpad, and I never look at it. I don’t mean rarely. I mean never.
Right on Sara! I really wish that more folks who have viewership would call out company for bad or even mediocre design decisions. I feel like there isn't a good way to get feedback to companies that they actually read and getting the right feedback information to the designers of things is a fantastic way to push the world forward. my biggest tech complaints recently have come from the design of cell phones. my biggest gripe is that it's REALLY hard to find a phone that doesn't have a camera infringing on the screen area these days... it's all hole-punches (a literal hole in the screen) or stupid notches where the screen is notched out... ridiculous! just put the camera at the top where it's traditionally been until about 3 years ago. yes, that adds a couple mm of space to the top and bottom of the display, and THAT'S FINE! they can use the tiny bit of extra space to integrate high quality dual front firing stereo speakers! (another feature that's been notably missing). I think Sony is the only (barely) mainstream brand who are making phones with those 2 features and it's really annoying.
Really liked the video. I am kind of triggered and cannot resist sharing my thoughts here: 1. the moment i saw that keyboard on the xps 13 plus, i lost interest. the distance b/w the keys give things a professional look; plus, it helps differentiate the keys. That keyboard alone made this laptop ineligible for me to even read anything else about it. 2. that invisible touch pad on the xps 13 plus - useless. it is not helpful. If i am shuffling a lot between the keyboard and touchpad, i want the touchpad to be visible; so that i do not have to go through that extra step of identifying where it is located. Give form and functionality, both. If you cannot give both, give preference to functionality over form. 3. Thinkpads are the best windows based laptops in my opinion. I used the R51 (it was an IBM ThinkPad R51 back then, not Lenovo branded). It was the first laptop ever in my life that i used and since then, i have compared every laptop to them. The keyboard experience is unmatched. If you can get your hands on an ibm thinkpad, use it. You will forget every laptop keyboard after that.
Would love to see a couple low budget friendly laptop videos! Maybe $300-$500 range for college students! Also is that a gretsch I see on the desk behind you!? Getting back to playing again?
Oh god .. I loved last year's XPS and was waiting for the 12th gen version with intention on buying it right away - and now this crap pops up. I guess I'll look somewhere else for a 12th-gen laptop.
Why can't you combine a trackpad with a drawing tablet like the Wacom Intuos, so you can use a stylus to write on the trackpad and see on the screen what you are writing.
One point I need to point out is THEY👏 ARE 👏NOT 👏SACRIFICING👏 FUNCTION 👏FOR 👏LOOKS👏 All of this removal and supposedly absurd stuff was for the sake of making this laptop super thin and light aka compact. Let’s not overlook that guys, and from ppl who have received the product the problems mentioned above seemed to be fine/ not a problem
Sorry, never again Dell (never say Never). My 2020 XPS 15 has too many issues (constant fan running, bad webcam, and battery life are the biggest). Recently bought at Macbook 13 M1 16gb and even though I LOVE the XPS keyboard and the overall POWER, the macbook is a beast.
Yeah DELL really not realsiing the 14 inch market.They could have made a 14 inch QHD+ version with better cooling,larger battery ,more ports and front firing Quad speaker system,1080p webcam.Also resolve their QC issues. Instead they did everything people hated about apple going even further by removing headphone jack.
I love this Dell, it is simplistic, clean and a stroke of genius. It has Intel gen 12 that is both twice as fast cpu over last gen, double the ram speed & pci4 ssd speed. With 12 gen u get usb-c gen 4.0 w/dp 1.4 & thunderbolt 4. This means double the bandwidth, enabling 8k60hz and a donglelife whose transfer speeds are extreme. As your cat, I'm here to tell you, don't do this, just don't. Now, when you get well, order the new 40" 5k dell monitor, and let it both charge and connect to this little baby through usb-c. The toutch buttons do not change w/the apps, it's the same whatever program you run. The new track pad is toutch sensitive w multiple sensors. You'll change your mind.
Ugh I just hate how there are only 2 USB C and then 1 to charge so you actually mostly have 1 USB C... while my XPS 13 has a separate charging port, 2 USB A and 1 USB C and SD card reader.. It's the perfect thinness. It doesn't need to be any thinner. I don't understand why they can't put 3 USB ports (2 C and 1 A or 2 A 1 C or whatever) and have a separate charging port like the old ones. The only thing I don't really like about my old XPS is the carbon fiber... that thing needs to be cleaned every day because it gets so dirty and full of prints.
5:25 i happy they are removing headphone jack, like why would it be there in 2022? if you are willing to pay 1500-2000$+ for a laptop why not wanting to buy wire-free headphones for 50-150$? hassle free. i also dont understand what is wrong with newer BT headphones on laptops? i mean new stuff from 5.1 onward is very good, prob even better than on a phone in terms of audio quality
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its a much simpler touch bar than Apples. functionality doesn't move by app nor does position... so its less likely to freeze. Also, this and the sound port removal were done for a reason. the headphone port would not allow them to change the hinges which needed to move due to the new cooling system for more powerful CPUs. The touch bar is 2.2mm thinner than real function keys which allows for using the 28watt CPUs without having to thicken the body by much. It sounds like you haven't actually used this thing hands on. Your friend Linus loved it, and he has a tendency to be hard on vendor gimmicks, I suggest getting a loaded Dell and trying it out before drawing conclusions.
I love the new XPS 13 Plus. Keyboard looks amazing. Would rather have actual function keys vs capacitive but they do look nice. Not having a visible trackpad is hard to tell. I'd have to use it to give an opinion. No headphone jack is huge issue. I do use wireless buds but if they're dead then you're SOL. I don't want more adaptors considering barely any ports to begin with. I'm holding off for the 15 or 17 inch version anyway when they release in the summer. Not sure if they'll add a headphone jack or have actual function buttons or even more ports. But they normally do have more then the smaller models.
Frikkin exactly, why remove functionality???? Which dunce did Dell hire that decided we are going to thrust this onto our customers who buy Dell for very specific requirements..? Wtf
any editor or music engineer KNOWS analog sound is seamless vs bluetooth is pointless. No professional grade system would get rid of the headphone jack. Even podcasters know this.
All of my editing is always wired. I use an interface on my desktop, but any serious laptop designed to edit needs a headphone jack. I wouldn't be carrying around a USB C audio interface in a laptop backpack.
this just came out and i bought an i7 OLED. sucks everything's soldered, i never pay those extortionate component upgrade rates, but i'm typing this on a 9310. hope the june shipping date isn't accurate and i get it before i have to return this one, so i can a/b side to side
I still use headphone jack on both my android and laptop, vote with your wallets and you'll get what you need. People everywhere cry about notches and headphone jacks when they themselves buy apple products that began that regressive trend of sacrificing customer choice for their profits, not to mention the environmental factor introducing disposable earphones bring in.
Dell needs a clue, All USB-C ports is BAD! No Headphone jack is bad, Dell and all the other laptop makers need to take a page from Framework, get with the modular world.
Sara, we love cats, but it's tech channel first, at least we think so. Please value our time and tell us what you want to tell us about Dell, or whatever it is. First you showed laptop and about Mac and then almost 2 - 3 minutes was about showing cat and nothing about tech. again I love cats a lot, but If I'm subscribed to tech channel, I want to see tech news.
My guess how Dell came up with the XPS 13 plus: they told a design team to guess all the ways apple might go, and design a product to compete for each direction. They came up with a low probability design where apple leaned into thin and light. How far could apple take it? What about no edge next to the keyboard? What about the entire bottom half is a trackpad? What about the entire area above the keyboard is a touch bar? What about only wireless headphones? And then they tried their best to build that design so they would have a product to compete with apple just in case the rumors were wrong. But along the way they had to compromise: we can't make the entire bottom half a trackpad because our palm rejection software sucks, but we can make the trackpad edge disappear; we can't make a full on touch bar, but we can make a row of touch buttons; we can't make great wireless headphones, but we can take the headphone port away. My guess is what you see now is Dell hedging its bets on where apple was headed, and compromising along the way to get a product out the door. Either that or just a lot of drugs.
Sara, I dig your videos! I do have a question. I have been using computers since my Commodore 64 and am now a tech coordinator at my school. How do you use the function keys? I have never needed to use function keys for anything, whether it is programming, teaching, editing media, or gaming, I have never had need to use the function keys. And while I could take it or leave it, I found the touch bar a more efficient use of space.Just curious. Keep up the good work!
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I understand new designs are locked in for at least 12 months before release, and Apple suddenly bringing back all the ports late last year has caught all the other brands out for their 2022 releases, LOL.
I’m still surprised Dell removed the headphone jack before Apple did 😂
I'm waiting for them to get most apple users on the new MacBooks and then returning back to dongle life.
@@cadenchurchill4296 It is justified, they can't cram in a 28W TDP processor without cooling it enough. More ports mean more space taken up inside for that. Especially a headphone jack, cuz it'll take wayy more space inside. Just open up your laptop and see.
@@kunjupulla Good point!
@@cadenchurchill4296 My only fear is, if companies start copying this without any justifications. That'll be terrible 😔.
Gigabyte is going full old Apple for some reason, Type-C ports only now on the new Aero creator series with an included dongle for Ethernet/HDMI/Type-A/DisplayPort 🙄 at least it's included I guess but still come on. The dongle doesn't even have SD, on a creator laptop
I saw that! I'm still using my Aero Gigabyte with 2080 Ti with all of the ports and SD card. Been a great laptop for college
To be fair with the trackpad, you can probably assume it's directly below the spacebar, starting and ending at the same points. And for a laptop you use every day, you'll usually be using it without looking anyway, like muscle memory
to be fair thats still really stupid
I saw this, and I felt exactly the same was as you, and that was before I found out there are just 2 UCB C ports and no earphone port! The (not a) touchbar thing looks like something from 2 decades ago on a cheap electronic product. At least Apple's touchbar looked cool. Eventually I'll need to replace my XPS 15 but if it looks like this, I may go with a Macbook!!!
This was a very nice video... Sometimes Tech companies act stupid and we, as consumers, have got to be loud with our feedbacks because ultimately its us, who are gonna spend our hard-earned money on these tech items.
Windows laptops are terrible at bluetooth audio. If they don’t have headphone jack, don’t buy it , period (unless you are fine to use dongle).
Yea I'm gonna need a review bc of that trackpad issue
Credit to Sara for being fair b/c I guarantee ppl who complained a lot about the Mac doing exactly these dumb things won’t say anything about dell doing it. It was stupid when apple did it and it’s stupid for dell to do it (arguably more stupid considering how unpopular the MacBooks that did this were for 5 years)
This is the first time im seeing someone bring up fair criticism on PC's. All these years people LOVED to talk shit about MacBooks (2016-19) and basically projected Windows laptops like all hail lord WINDOWS!!.
Refreshing to see someone call out companies that usually send or pay creators... (I mean imagine Apple removed the jack on the new MacBooks- it would be all over billboards)
LoL
It's because it's not out yet
Once they send that piece of shit to the reviewers
U bet everyone will criticize it
I remember hp launched a convertible or a ultra thin and light laptop with no headphone jack and most reviewers didn't recommend it
Don't be such quick to judge dude
I wish companies would only do full depth SD slot so we can leave the cards in so we can store the laptop on that end, in a bag.
You can get half sized SD cards especially for this purpose
@@yitzele Maybe for Apple products, but my MSI GL65 has the card stick out 3mm. All the adapters I seen are too short.
@@themadatheist1976 yes you're right
No headphone port?!? Oh boy.
Love the lighting in this shot! I had a COVID scare with symptoms this week, so I can relate. Feel better soon!
Great video Sara! Even on a bus stop my bluetooth headphones will disconnect several times because of the several people around me having their own connected to their phones, interfering with mine. Bluetooth is not a reliable connection, not to mention the lag when you’re watching a movie. Why would they remove the headphone jack is beyond me. It’s definitely not for space. The trackpad limits could be subtle if they wanted to blend them in the looks. There are so many ways of doing this without hurting the looks. I don’t know who is this laptop mainly addressed to as a potential buyer, but it’s definitely not for someone who would care for ergonomics and functionality.
It's also terrible for video conferencing. My $10 wired earbuds with a mic always work. Always. The only setup I've ever had to do is choose the built in laptop mic and speakers or my earbuds.
I cannot afford to be futzing around with my earbuds trying to get them to stop pairing with my phone when a company director wants to meet with me via a video call.
@@whenhen thank you for that comment on those irritatating earplugs they hurt my ears and michael DELL if you'';re video conference/s
What? RUclipsrs are being timid about losing features on tech? Say it ain't sooooo!
wow, it's like Dell is beating Apple in the race to make products more minimalistic but less useful at the same time... If anything, Apple has more or less reversed their stance on this...
Most of the design decisions are supported with solid functional reasons.. A 14 core processor isn't fitting in such a small chassis without extra room for cooling. The headphone jack was getting in the way of that, as well as the function row. The new module is less than half the depth of a typical function key module. This laptop outperforms everything in it's class and price point by far.
Great info Sara. The 8 inch screen seems not great. writing on something that small would be a major adjustment for most people I think and for me specifically it would be unusable.
There’s no point of the new intel chips except to say they are faster than apple. The current chips already draw too much power for battery, require ridiculous fans that make way too much noise, get so hot you can’t lap it, and oh yeah I guess you don’t have to worry about battery life because it has to be plugged in to get any performance.
My M1 max isn’t perfect or the fastest but it works as a LAPtop no matter what you throw at it. I had a specd out razer previosly that barely made it 2 years before turning into to complete turd inside and out. And even in normal tasks became too hot to touch. But at the time a 2018 or 19 MacBook was a turd too so there’s that….
Comforting your cat during construction is so relatable. No headphone Jack is a deal breaker for me currently. I’m on calls all day. There are times where I connect a set of headphones because my Surface Headphones are dead. That’s a big negative at least for me. Feel better Sarah!
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Our cat Sumu, meaning Fog, passed on, had to put her to sleep. She was winding down fast. Doc said old age, it's time.
Hope you feel better soon. Keep fighting for our 3.5mm headphone jacks on laptops, please.
Love the Enron'esque sweatshirt
It gets worse, Dell also removed the headphone jacks from their latest WD-19 'S' docking stations last year as well.
...thk/s for that
I have the Dell XPS 13 (not the plus) and am actually really unhappy with it. The camera is THE WORST - I know inbuilts are bad, but its not usable. The mic is problematic and also pretty useless. No ports...when I use a doc its tempremental - wont run a blue yeti properly (the sound wobbles). Its fan runs LOUD when its not doing very much. I would need to see ALOT from dell to buy from them again.
I had a 2019 XPS 15 7590 that I got as a replacement for TWO electrical issues on previous Dell XPS 15 9575 2 in 1 laptops. After going through a nightmare with Dell's premium support and finally getting this model (while they were launching the XPS 9500), I had sleep wake issues to the point it was unusable as a laptop. I'm sorry, but I'm done. I will never buy a Dell laptop again if this is what they are going to do.
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon 7th gen and only had one issue with it since the 7th gen was released, which was fixed with a new SSD within one week. And nowhere near the hell Dell put me through...
Everybody: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Laptop Makers: "Let's screw around with the keyboard and ports and jacks and UI and form factor and..."
KEEP ROASTING 'EM, SARA!
After suffering through Apple's slowly-being-corrected design idiocy, now I'm trying to decide between laughing and crying at the same crap in the Windows world. Ugh. (BTW, I couldn't wait long enough so I have a MacBook Pro with the touchbar... and right now it says "Exit Fullscreen" even though YT's NOT in fullscreen mode... sigh.)
But M1 Pro screen suffers from easy dirt from keyboard while closing laptop. Once you clean the screen which has anti glare coating and after that you will see smudge, staingate. It is impossible to avoid...
Don’t waste your money on that dell 13 plus.
I just love this new laptop, and'll buy one when they come out with the 15" or the 17" version! I don't understand the problem with headphone jack...the trackpad or the fubction keys. Realy. For me it's great and years ahead of that "thing" called apple, kind of expensive unjustified fruit... i love this Plus line of the best in the best of computers makers. Sorry...
If you care about sound quality, you want nothing to do with bluetooth or dongles, so the headphone jack is a huge think. I like this laptop, but will never buy it only because of the headphone jack. I own high quality headphones, and you just can't get the same level of quality from USB-C dongles, and even less so with bluetooth.
Also, the new macbook air is a much better deal than XPS in terms of performance/quality for the money. I just personally don't like macOS but macs aren't unjustified or overpriced anymore, they got their uses and are definitely the highest build quality for laptops right now.
@@theburgundynetwork3432 ... If you care about sound quality you would buy an external DAC like the AudioQuest DragonFly ... in nearly every case the sound will be better with external DAC, rather than connecting your cans to your laptop,
@@silvestrocrino3256 Of course I do have a DAC at home. Why would you asume I don't? But we're talking about a portable computer. I work in cafes a lot cause I often need a change of scenery and I'm not always focused at home. I'm not going to brind an audio interface along with me everywhere I go, but I do bring my headphones. Your argument makes no sens for something that's meant to be portable. I know I don't represent most people that buys these, but for me, it's still a no.
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You just reminded me of the touchbar ocatinaly glitching out. One thing I just now realised is that since I upgraded my MBP w/ touch bar to macOS 12 / Monterey, I've not once had it freeze on me.
Having said that, it's still not bug free, the audio/playback control is still a hot mess, and the predictive words still sometimes doesn't work...
I feel the touch bar could have been great (maybe like a mini version, part esc, vol key, etc part touchbar), but Apple gave up way to soon (on the software side). It had potential.
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Windows Bluetooth is useless, this is the one thing Microsoft is capable of fixing.
Was that a peachy iPod case merch ad right before the vid?? Get it girl ⚡️
Hey Sara,
Have u ever thought about producing your videos in 21:9 or 18:9?
Judy accenting the entire video is my jam
so many quality control issues with the track pad so they just got rid of it LOL
I ranted so hard about that 13+ I just hope they do not push this to the XPS 15 and 17. It is a MacBook 12"
Dell is going crazy lol. I still have my XPS 13 9360 from 2018 and it has all the ports I need. Its sad to see them going to this old MacBook path.
i feel sorry for the hardware that ends up in those dell xps plus machines. such a waste of silicon in an already tight market.
Also we need to shame companies that do foldables, because we REALLY dont need them on laptops
"Hey friend, I got one of the foldable computer... you mean a laptop, yeah". Sara is hilarious!
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I agree with you in regards to the head phone jack also I've always had problems with Dell track pads. IMO the best laptops are from Lenovo.
...gotta admit i left LENOVA but going Back
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Given the issues, we are seeing 40 top-tier games on the 12th Gen processor architecture (See Jay's two cents for more details). I am skipping all-new Dell laptops for another 12 months. I was also disappointed that they only moved the XPS 13 to a 12th gen processor. In hindsight, it's a good thing they didn't propagate it through the entire product line. It's clear they are aware of a significant issue in using the 12th gen architecture with major software that Microsoft and the software vendors have yet to resolve. But, with the price increases of about 20% here in Canada and Dell tightening their financing requirements I just cannot see enough value to make it worth acquiring anything by Dell. I also recently had an issue with a 32" 4K monitor. It's taken me three months to get a replacement! Not acceptable. While the XPS is not strictly a gaming computer its specs make it a consideration. So Dell is off the list for 2022. Your point about the headphone jack and keyboard is valid but the inability to run major software on the 12th gen architecture makes this a hard pass for me. I also don't know if I can adjust to the "virtual Track pad" either. So just say no!
Bro, I am going to buy a laptop from Canada so I was planning to buy new XPS 17 laptop before may. In your opinion which is the best 17" laptop that I can buy in around 2000 canadian dollars?
@@akhilalexg Don't Get an XPS 17 this year. Wait till next year. Dell's support assists driver update tool is broken and failing to install or select the appropriate updates for the XPS 17 and it's ignoring an important memory leak in a custom WMD intel driver that they have customized.
@@PWingert1966 bro I can't wait because my class will start in this coming may and I have to buy a new laptop before that. So please suggest one.
Requirements: 17" screen, 1tb ssd, i7 9th gen or higher, decent gfx card.
But since i do gaming also, I am looking for rtx 30 series and 12th gen or new amd series processors if possible. Otherwise 11gen or around ryzen 5900 will do.
So please some suggest some. I like zephyrus g14 or g15 but screen size is the problem. I couldn't find better laps at 17" segment. ( except asus s17)
@@akhilalexg I would go for the new mac book Pro that should be announced in March or grab the existing Mac book Pro. The XPS 17 is ok but not as good as the MacBook if you can use it. it depends on the software you will be required to run.
@@PWingert1966 okay, will there be a 17 inch version of Mac?
Buying for design softwares.
Did Lenovo forgot about left handed people... or you can change that when you order? the idea is pretty cool and the foldable tablets and phone are looking awesome the more they come out.
Shout out Tim Dillon fake business
I want to see this laptop fail so hard. That well, Dell gets the message that we do not support these s**tty products! Thank you Sara for speaking up when these other reviewers won't!
Have you tried it? Cause i love it
The Lenovo basically has an iPad mini attached next to the keyboard
Dell?....🤔 MacBook Pro?.....🤔.......MAC! 👍👍
I am constantly screaming for an SD card slot. I understand this is 13 inches. But what about those new 16 inches models? More and more manufacturers are shying away from a full sized SD card slot. If they give that, they will take away the USB A. As if its a deal- you get only either one. Why can't the 15 and 16 inches include at least 1 USB A, SD card slot, HDMI, headphone and 2 UCB C in all the laptops? This should be a standard.
I have a dell xps 15 from 2020 and I love mine.
I have see some conflicting reports on the new XPS 13+. If, as some say, the actual trackpad portion of the palm rest is just the middle part, then the fact that it is not labeled is just going to be a pain. Dell could have an should have imbedded some LED lighting into the bottom of the computer to mark the trackpad portion of the bottom.
actually, this one is a really good idea. If they can do that on the "capacitive touch button", why don't do the same for that touch bar.
You don't look at the trackpad when you use it, you're usually looking at the screen. And what people who have had the physical device are saying is its long enough that your finger doesn't run off the edge anyway. Also they don't mind the touch row cause the esc key is well placed and it actually works all the time.
But idk I don't have it either, seems like they did some of these features well
Girl you stepped into the mech keeb world, no laptop keeb will ever make you happy BUT -- you absolutely right
Can u review some Linux laptops on here
I like your peachy passion! I couldn't fathom a laptop with NO JACK? Disgraceful.
I don’t understand these complaints. First, on a premium thin-and-light, I can’t imagine plugging in wired headphones, especially when hyper-mobility is the aim. If you’re a video editor, there are many better alternatives. Second, honestly - who looks at their trackpad? Ever? I can see my trackpad, and I never look at it. I don’t mean rarely. I mean never.
Please do get this piece of dell e-waste and tear it a new one in a review.
Indeed. The message needs to be raised again.
Hope you get better Sara.
Hopefully you'll be back at 100% soon.
Right on Sara! I really wish that more folks who have viewership would call out company for bad or even mediocre design decisions. I feel like there isn't a good way to get feedback to companies that they actually read and getting the right feedback information to the designers of things is a fantastic way to push the world forward. my biggest tech complaints recently have come from the design of cell phones. my biggest gripe is that it's REALLY hard to find a phone that doesn't have a camera infringing on the screen area these days... it's all hole-punches (a literal hole in the screen) or stupid notches where the screen is notched out... ridiculous! just put the camera at the top where it's traditionally been until about 3 years ago. yes, that adds a couple mm of space to the top and bottom of the display, and THAT'S FINE! they can use the tiny bit of extra space to integrate high quality dual front firing stereo speakers! (another feature that's been notably missing). I think Sony is the only (barely) mainstream brand who are making phones with those 2 features and it's really annoying.
Really liked the video. I am kind of triggered and cannot resist sharing my thoughts here:
1. the moment i saw that keyboard on the xps 13 plus, i lost interest. the distance b/w the keys give things a professional look; plus, it helps differentiate the keys. That keyboard alone made this laptop ineligible for me to even read anything else about it.
2. that invisible touch pad on the xps 13 plus - useless. it is not helpful. If i am shuffling a lot between the keyboard and touchpad, i want the touchpad to be visible; so that i do not have to go through that extra step of identifying where it is located. Give form and functionality, both. If you cannot give both, give preference to functionality over form.
3. Thinkpads are the best windows based laptops in my opinion. I used the R51 (it was an IBM ThinkPad R51 back then, not Lenovo branded). It was the first laptop ever in my life that i used and since then, i have compared every laptop to them. The keyboard experience is unmatched. If you can get your hands on an ibm thinkpad, use it. You will forget every laptop keyboard after that.
Would love to see a couple low budget friendly laptop videos! Maybe $300-$500 range for college students!
Also is that a gretsch I see on the desk behind you!? Getting back to playing again?
Oh god .. I loved last year's XPS and was waiting for the 12th gen version with intention on buying it right away - and now this crap pops up.
I guess I'll look somewhere else for a 12th-gen laptop.
A Judy sighting...video get's insta-like!
You missed the Thinkpad Z13
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Why can't you combine a trackpad with a drawing tablet like the Wacom Intuos, so you can use a stylus to write on the trackpad and see on the screen what you are writing.
One point I need to point out is THEY👏 ARE 👏NOT 👏SACRIFICING👏 FUNCTION 👏FOR 👏LOOKS👏
All of this removal and supposedly absurd stuff was for the sake of making this laptop super thin and light aka compact.
Let’s not overlook that guys, and from ppl who have received the product the problems mentioned above seemed to be fine/ not a problem
Get well soon. Stay healthy. Stay kittens.
I love your tech videos but more videos with Judy please :)
...yesss my kitty is '''TONY"" named after tony the Tiger '''
Sorry, never again Dell (never say Never). My 2020 XPS 15 has too many issues (constant fan running, bad webcam, and battery life are the biggest). Recently bought at Macbook 13 M1 16gb and even though I LOVE the XPS keyboard and the overall POWER, the macbook is a beast.
Yeah DELL really not realsiing the 14 inch market.They could have made a 14 inch QHD+ version with better cooling,larger battery ,more ports and front firing Quad speaker system,1080p webcam.Also resolve their QC issues. Instead they did everything people hated about apple going even further by removing headphone jack.
I love this Dell, it is simplistic, clean and a stroke of genius. It has Intel gen 12 that is both twice as fast cpu over last gen, double the ram speed & pci4 ssd speed. With 12 gen u get usb-c gen 4.0 w/dp 1.4 & thunderbolt 4. This means double the bandwidth, enabling 8k60hz and a donglelife whose transfer speeds are extreme. As your cat, I'm here to tell you, don't do this, just don't. Now, when you get well, order the new 40" 5k dell monitor, and let it both charge and connect to this little baby through usb-c. The toutch buttons do not change w/the apps, it's the same whatever program you run. The new track pad is toutch sensitive w multiple sensors. You'll change your mind.
Please more of this from everyone!
Please review the new models
Ugh I just hate how there are only 2 USB C and then 1 to charge so you actually mostly have 1 USB C... while my XPS 13 has a separate charging port, 2 USB A and 1 USB C and SD card reader.. It's the perfect thinness. It doesn't need to be any thinner. I don't understand why they can't put 3 USB ports (2 C and 1 A or 2 A 1 C or whatever) and have a separate charging port like the old ones. The only thing I don't really like about my old XPS is the carbon fiber... that thing needs to be cleaned every day because it gets so dirty and full of prints.
5:25 i happy they are removing headphone jack, like why would it be there in 2022? if you are willing to pay 1500-2000$+ for a laptop why not wanting to buy wire-free headphones for 50-150$?
hassle free. i also dont understand what is wrong with newer BT headphones on laptops? i mean new stuff from 5.1 onward is very good, prob even better than on a phone in terms of audio quality
Watching Sara's videos is the closest thing I have going on when it comes to interactions with girls.
Unless telling Alexa to turn on the lights counts... :D
its a much simpler touch bar than Apples. functionality doesn't move by app nor does position... so its less likely to freeze. Also, this and the sound port removal were done for a reason. the headphone port would not allow them to change the hinges which needed to move due to the new cooling system for more powerful CPUs. The touch bar is 2.2mm thinner than real function keys which allows for using the 28watt CPUs without having to thicken the body by much. It sounds like you haven't actually used this thing hands on. Your friend Linus loved it, and he has a tendency to be hard on vendor gimmicks, I suggest getting a loaded Dell and trying it out before drawing conclusions.
I love the new XPS 13 Plus. Keyboard looks amazing. Would rather have actual function keys vs capacitive but they do look nice. Not having a visible trackpad is hard to tell. I'd have to use it to give an opinion. No headphone jack is huge issue. I do use wireless buds but if they're dead then you're SOL. I don't want more adaptors considering barely any ports to begin with. I'm holding off for the 15 or 17 inch version anyway when they release in the summer. Not sure if they'll add a headphone jack or have actual function buttons or even more ports. But they normally do have more then the smaller models.
So you love the *look* of the XPS 13 Plus, cause functionality wise, it's like they hired Jony Ive to sabotage their premier small ultrabook line
@@pangolin83 yes, this exactly. I like the look but functionality is limited. Hopeful the 15 and 17 inch have more functionality.
Frikkin exactly, why remove functionality???? Which dunce did Dell hire that decided we are going to thrust this onto our customers who buy Dell for very specific requirements..? Wtf
any editor or music engineer KNOWS analog sound is seamless vs bluetooth is pointless. No professional grade system would get rid of the headphone jack. Even podcasters know this.
Is the orange light on your neck blown out? Idk that's how you say it but it looks like it's losing details
Apple didn't correct anything, they're making cheaper laptops - where has unibody go...??? - and selling them at higher prices...
All of my editing is always wired. I use an interface on my desktop, but any serious laptop designed to edit needs a headphone jack. I wouldn't be carrying around a USB C audio interface in a laptop backpack.
8:04 RAWR!!!! PLAY WITH ME PLS? HAHAHAHAHA 9:06 "that's it I gave up!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I definitely Need Something Specific.
Great job! Was very entertaining, and informative! Get well soon!!
this just came out and i bought an i7 OLED. sucks everything's soldered, i never pay those extortionate component upgrade rates, but i'm typing this on a 9310. hope the june shipping date isn't accurate and i get it before i have to return this one, so i can a/b side to side
I still use headphone jack on both my android and laptop, vote with your wallets and you'll get what you need. People everywhere cry about notches and headphone jacks when they themselves buy apple products that began that regressive trend of sacrificing customer choice for their profits, not to mention the environmental factor introducing disposable earphones bring in.
Dell needs a clue, All USB-C ports is BAD! No Headphone jack is bad, Dell and all the other laptop makers need to take a page from Framework, get with the modular world.
Sara, we love cats, but it's tech channel first, at least we think so. Please value our time and tell us what you want to tell us about Dell, or whatever it is. First you showed laptop and about Mac and then almost 2 - 3 minutes was about showing cat and nothing about tech. again I love cats a lot, but If I'm subscribed to tech channel, I want to see tech news.
My guess how Dell came up with the XPS 13 plus: they told a design team to guess all the ways apple might go, and design a product to compete for each direction. They came up with a low probability design where apple leaned into thin and light. How far could apple take it? What about no edge next to the keyboard? What about the entire bottom half is a trackpad? What about the entire area above the keyboard is a touch bar? What about only wireless headphones? And then they tried their best to build that design so they would have a product to compete with apple just in case the rumors were wrong. But along the way they had to compromise: we can't make the entire bottom half a trackpad because our palm rejection software sucks, but we can make the trackpad edge disappear; we can't make a full on touch bar, but we can make a row of touch buttons; we can't make great wireless headphones, but we can take the headphone port away. My guess is what you see now is Dell hedging its bets on where apple was headed, and compromising along the way to get a product out the door.
Either that or just a lot of drugs.
Sara loves 3.5mm jacks. Me too.
I don't think Dell XPS can replace M1 MacBook Pros. Let alone Lenovo ThikPads.
I love how the cat sits and listen to her lol
Fake Business is what I do lol
Sorry... Don't need headphone jack on the laptop. Get a dock for your desk... and you'll get your headphone jack.
Sara, I dig your videos! I do have a question. I have been using computers since my Commodore 64 and am now a tech coordinator at my school. How do you use the function keys? I have never needed to use function keys for anything, whether it is programming, teaching, editing media, or gaming, I have never had need to use the function keys. And while I could take it or leave it, I found the touch bar a more efficient use of space.Just curious. Keep up the good work!