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Dell XPS 15 7590 – Is It Actually Any Good? Full Laptop Review!

December 3, 2019

The Dell XPS 15 is a premium laptop with high
end build quality that’s packing some fair specs in a thinner package. In this detailed
review I’ll show you the good and bad aspects of the XPS 15, and help you decide if it’s
a laptop you should consider. For the specs mine has an Intel i7-9750H CPU,
Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics, 32gb of memory in dual channel, a 15.6” 4K OLED screen and
a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD. For network connectivity it’s got WiFi 6
and Bluetooth 5, but it’s too thin for an ethernet port, so you’ll need to use a dongle
if you need it. It’s also available with i5 or i9 CPU, you
can find examples of other configurations and check updated pricing in the description. The chassis is CNC machined aluminium, the
lid is silver metal, while the interior has a black carbon fiber composite with a sort
of rubberised feeling texture. There were no sharp corners or edges anywhere and the
whole laptop felt extremely well built and premium in terms of materials and design. The weight is listed at 2kg for the larger
battery option I’ve got, and mine was right on this. With the 130 watt power brick and
cables for charging the total weight rises to 2.4kg. The dimensions are 35.7cm in width, 23.5cm
in depth, and 1.7cm in height. This thinner footprint allows it to have 8mm thin screen
bezels on the sides. The 15.6” 4K 60Hz OLED screen has a glossy
finish and looks excellent, however it’s also available with a 1080p 60Hz 500 nit IPS
screen too, or a 4K IPS touch screen. I’ve measured the colour gamut of the panel
using the Spyder 5 Pro and got 100% of sRGB, 95% of NTSC, and 98% of AdobeRGB. At 100%
brightness I measured the panel at 508 nits in the center and with a 500,000:1 contrast
ratio, so extremely impressive results for a laptop panel, perfect for content creation. As each pixel is lit individually there’s
no backlight, so backlight bleed does not exist with OLED. There are some downsides to the OLED screen
though. The main issue is that it uses pulse-width modulation, or PWM, to adjust brightness.
I don’t have the tools to properly measure this, however I could pick it up on camera
with a high shutter speed. This can cause eye strain for some people over long periods
of time, however I didn’t personally have any problems. The other potential issue is burn in over
time, though apparently that takes a long time to develop with these new generation
panels, but unfortunately it is not something I’m able to uncover in just a few weeks.
Otherwise the glossy finish can be distracting in a well lit room as it easily shows reflections. There was almost no screen flex, it’s solid
metal, and the hinge running along most of the space below the screen made it feel very
sturdy. It wasn’t possible to open up with one finger,
not the end of the world, but it does help show there’s more weight towards the back,
it felt fine on my lap though. Despite the thinner bezels, the 720p camera
is found above the display in the center, no Windows Hello support though. This is what the camera and microphone look
and sound like on the Dell XPS 15. The webcam is a bit below average and quite blurry and
the audio is about average. The chiclet keyboard has 1.3mm of travel and
white backlighting which can be adjusted between two levels of brightness or turned off with
the F10 shortcut key. It illuminates all keys and even secondary key functions, however
by default I found it would turn off pretty quickly after just 10 seconds. You can adjust
the timeout period in the BIOS though, with different limits for AC and battery power. Overall I liked typing on the keyboard, it’s
got no numpad which some people may not like, personally I only didn’t like the small
arrow keys which Dell always seem to use. Here’s how it sounds to give you an idea
of what to expect. There’s an optional fingerprint scanner
in the power button, which is found on the top to the right of the keyboard, and I found
it to work very fast. There was only a little keyboard flex when
pushing down hard, overall the body felt very solid and I found the letter keys needed 61
grams of force to actuate. The glass touchpad uses precision drivers
and worked very well, it feels very smooth, gives a satisfying click and has all the usual
gestures. I liked its size and had no problems using it. Fingerprints and dirt show up on the black
interior, but they’re harder to see due to the carbon fiber pattern, and despite it
being kind of rubbery feeling it was easy enough to clean. On the left from the back there’s the power
input, USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A port, HDMI 2.0 output which goes via the Intel graphics,
USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C port which also offers Thunderbolt 3 with 4 PCIe lanes, power delivery,
and DisplayPort 1.2 output, followed by a 3.5mm audio combo jack. On the right from the front there’s full
size SD card slot, USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A port, a button you can press to show the battery
charge level, and a wedge lock slot. There’s nothing at all on the back, air
is exhausted out below the screen, while the front has holes for the microphones and white
light in the center. The metal lid is all matte silver with the
Dell logo in the center with a shiny mirrored finish. Underneath is pretty clean looking, there
are just air intake vents towards the back. To get inside you need to remove 10 TR5 screws,
then underneath the XPS logo there’s two Phillips head screws. The flap uses magnets
to stay closed to keep the bottom looking clean. Once inside we’ve got the WiFi 6 card up
the top left corner, single M.2 drive on the left in the middle, battery along the bottom,
and two memory slots in the middle just below the heatpipes. The two speakers are found down the front
on the left and right. They sounded quite clear even at higher volumes with a little
bass, I’d say they’re above average for laptop speakers. At maximum volume they can
get pretty loud, however the latencymon results weren’t looking good. The XPS 15 is powered by either a 3 cell 56wh
or 6 cell 97Wh battery, I’ve got the larger 97Wh option here, so expect lower results
with the smaller battery. I’ve tested it with the screen brightness at 50%, background
apps disabled, and keyboard lighting off. While just watching YouTube videos it lasted
for 8 hours and 11 minutes, and it was using the Intel integrated graphics due to Nvidia
Optimus. This is one of the best results I’ve ever had with this test, especially with this
level of hardware. While playing the Witcher 3 with medium settings
and Nvidia’s battery boost set to 30 FPS the battery lasted for 1 hours and 45 minutes,
and it ran at 30 FPS for the whole test without any dips, so well above average battery life
and good results. The 130 watt power brick that’s included
with the XPS 15 seemed to be adequate in terms of there not being any battery drain while
gaming or under heavy stress test, though as we’ll see next that may just be due to
harsh power limitations. I’ll only briefly cover thermal performance,
you can check out the detailed thermal testing with the card in the top right if you want
all the juicy details. The Dell power manager software allows us
to select from four different performance modes. When under combined CPU and GPU stress test,
I found that the temperatures were on the lower side. The exception was with the highest
ultra performance mode in use, for the first 3 minutes where I saw higher temperatures,
but these dropped down after the first 3 minutes. This was because the CPU power limit was capped
to 30 watts for the first 3 minutes or so, after this PL1 drops down to 15 watts, which
results in less performance in terms of clock speed for long term workloads. CPU performance outside of combined CPU and
GPU workloads was a different story though, the power limit for CPU only load was 56 watts
and the limitation was thermal throttling as the fans don’t get very loud, here’s
how they sound to give you an idea. The fans were silent at idle, and even when
under heavy load the fan noise was considerably quieter compared to most laptops I usually
test, which generally exceed 50 decibels easily. The keyboard area was comfortable to use when
under heavy load, only the parts between the keys showed up as hitting around 50 degrees
Celsius, the actual body and keys were just a little warm. The main limitation seems to be that power
limits are dynamically adjusted after around 3 minutes, which results in lower levels of
performance while under combined CPU and GPU workloads. This does however have the advantage
of offering cooler temperatures for sustained heavy load, while short duration burst style
workloads were able to perform better for the first few minutes. Based on the performance that I saw with the
XPS 15, I find it difficult to recommend the $500 upgrade to get the 8 core i9 CPU. Dell
seem to be prioritizing cool and quiet operation, and given we’re not getting the most out
of the i7 an i9 just feels like a waste unless you do a lot of multicore work and don’t
mind lower clock speeds than what other laptops could offer. Although the XPS 15 isn’t designed to be
a gaming laptop, given we’ve got GTX 1650 graphics it should still be capable of playing
some games. Battlefield 5 was tested in campaign mode,
and it was still possible to run with above a 60 FPS average with medium settings, however
in my testing I still thought high and ultra were quite playable, probably as there was
minimal difference between 1% low performance. Control was very playable with low settings,
which is the setting preset that was required to play with 60 FPS averages. Medium settings
felt a bit worse, and I wouldn’t want to use ultra on this hardware. Apex Legends was tested with either all settings
at maximum, or all settings on the lowest possible values, as it doesn’t have predefined
setting presets. In this game even with all settings maxed out it was still a playable
experience. Fortnite was tested with the replay feature,
and as a less demanding game even epic settings was playing with 60 FPS, so definitely usable
and honestly just fine given we’ve got a 60Hz screen anyway, however much higher was
possible with lower settings should you wish to further reduce input lag. CS:GO was tested using the Ulletical FPS benchmark,
and as a game that depends primarily on CPU power the results aren’t all that much lower
compared to a laptop with higher graphical power. Don’t get me wrong, there is a difference,
it’s just smaller compared to most other games. Rainbow Six Siege was tested with the built
in benchmark. Even the maximum ultra setting preset was able to hit 60 FPS for the 1% low,
and that’s with a 100% render scale, so another game that should play quite nicely
on this machine. PUBG was tested using the replay feature,
and high settings was still able to run over 60 FPS, with very low settings it was still
possible to reach 100 FPS and above. Dota 2 was tested playing in the middle lane,
and as another primarily CPU heavy game the results at lower settings aren’t really
that much different compared to other laptops with the same CPU. At ultra settings where
we’re presumably a bit more GPU bound, it was a little lower now, however 150 FPS is
still plenty for this game. If you’re after more gaming benchmarks check
the card in the top right corner where I’ve tested 20 games in total on the XPS 15. Let’s also take a look at how this config
of the XPS 15 compares with other laptops, use these results as a rough guide only as
they were tested at different times with different drivers. In Battlefield 5 I’ve got the XPS 15 highlighted
in red near similarly specced machines. I haven’t tested that many GTX 1650 laptops
yet, but out of the ones I have covered, surprisingly the XPS 15 was out in front, at least in terms
of average FPS. These are the results from Far Cry 5 with
ultra settings in the built in benchmark. This time the XPS 15 was behind the Aorus
5 with same specs. This kind of makes sense when we consider the lower CPU performance
of the XPS 15 noted earlier. These are the results from Shadow of the Tomb
raider with the built in benchmark at highest settings. It’s only just 1 FPS behind the
Aorus 5 with similar specs now, and 1 FPS ahead of the L340, so quite similar when compared
to the other 1650 laptops that I’ve covered on the channel. Despite not being a gaming laptop, the GTX
1650 graphics is definitely making the XPS 15 capable of gaming. Although most modern
games at higher settings didn’t go too well, low to medium settings was definitely playable
in most titles. Now for the benchmarking tools, I’ve tested
Heaven, Valley, and Superposition from Unigine, as well as Firestrike and Timespy from 3DMark,
just pause the video if you want a detailed look at these results. I’ve used Crystal Disk Mark to test the
storage, and the 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD was performing well, however this will vary based on your
drive selection. The SD card slot was also performing very nicely with my V90 card. For updated pricing check the links in the
description, as prices will change over time, as Dell frequently run sales. At the time
of recording, in the US the XPS 15 starts at $1000 USD, although that’s with i5 CPU
and without any discrete graphics. The specific configuration I’ve tested in this video
goes for $1850 USD, but it’s around $500 more if you want the 8 core i9 CPU. Here in Australia, my configuration is over
$4300 AUD, though it starts under $1900 for the i5 and no graphics. With all of that in mind let’s conclude
by looking at the good and bad aspects of the Dell XPS 15 laptop. Overall the XPS 15 is a nice looking machine,
it feels like it’s built very well with quality materials. The OLED screen looks amazing,
though it’s not without its drawbacks which include glossy finish, use of PWM to adjust
brightness, and potential burn in later on. Despite not being a gaming laptop the GTX
1650 is definitely capable of running modern games well with low to medium settings. It’ll
also be a nice addition for other GPU accelerated tasks like video editing or 3D modelling. The actual performance when under CPU and
GPU load left a bit to be desired, at least when compared against other laptops I’ve
tested on the channel that are available for less money. Based purely on the specs, the
XPS 15 ticks off a lot of boxes for a laptop I’d want to use personally for video editing
while travelling. It’s got the SD card slot, good screen, large battery, even Thunderbolt
3, however the lack of performance under heavy load has put me off it. The plus side of this
though is that in general it tends to run on the cooler side with the fans being relatively
quiet compared to other laptops even under worst case stress testing. If cool and quiet
is your preference, the XPS 15 could be a consideration. Then there’s the price, even if I got half
the memory and half the storage space, you could still get something like the MAG-15
from Eluktronics for less money with a GPU that will blow the 1650 away. Sure you can’t
get the MAG-15 with an i9 or OLED screen, but based on the performance with the i7 in
the XPS I seriously doubt it’s worth paying $500 USD more to get the i9 anyway. That said, in my opinion, the build quality
of the XPS 15 is a level above the MAG-15, and yeah if you really need the OLED screen
then it could be worth considering, but then the Gigabyte Aero 15 also becomes another
option, again for less money and a much better GPU. Of course if you’re just after a laptop
for gaming, there are much cheaper options without all the extra features on offer from
these machines. So to summarise, I think the XPS 15 is a decent
laptop, but for the price it’s lacking performance compared to the competition. The superior
build quality and cooler and quieter operation wouldn’t be enough for me to pick it over
an Aero 15 or MAG-15. Let me know what you thought about the XPS
15 laptop from Dell down in the comments, and if you’re new to the channel consider
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Dell XPS 15 7590 REVIEW – The best laptop for content creators or gaming?

December 2, 2019

>>Hello, everyone
and welcome to Orange83. In this video, I’m going to review
the new Dell XPS 15 from a content creator’s perspective. Although the design
hasn’t changed that much in the last four iterations, the Dell XPS is still
a good looking, thin but powerful laptop. It also has some good
connectivity options like USB 3, HDMI, a headphone jack, thunderbolt 3 and an SD card
reader built-in as well. So, Dell has clearly
chosen this strategy to don’t fix anything
that ain’t broken. But the question is
did they fix the things that were broken? Well, they at least
fixed one thing and that’s the position
of the webcam. In the latest version, they’ve moved the webcam
to the top of the screen, which is a lot better
in my opinion. And it now also has
a fingerprint reader to unlock in the power button, and this works
pretty well, actually. And they have also
upgraded the Wi-Fi card. Now, they use a Killer 1650x. It is a big improvement
to the previous version and it also supports Wi-Fi 6. There’s one thing that they didn’t change
and that’s upgradability, and I’m very happy with that. Of course, it’s all
at your own risk, but it’s really easy to upgrade
the memory, SSD or Wi-Fi card in this Dell XPS laptop, and that’s also
exactly what I did. I bought the Intel i7
9th gen model with 16 gigs of DDR4 memory, and I manually upgraded this
to 32 gigabytes afterwards. To do this, simply remove the screws
on the back, unplug the battery
and then replace the memory. I’ve also replaced
the pre-installed version of Windows 10 home with a clean installation
of Windows 10 Pro. And for this all together,
I spent around 1640 Euros, which is about $1,800. If you compare this
with a MacBook Pro or a Microsoft Surface Book
with similar specs, it’s relatively affordable. Before we dive into
the performance of this laptop, I want to thank Squarespace
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in the video description. So how about performance? A thin and lightweight laptop
often comes with a trade-off and that is thermal limitations, and it’s no different
with the Dell XPS. And that’s one of the reasons
why I bought the i7 instead of the I9, which needs even
more cooling capacity. And that is also why I
wouldn’t recommend to buy this laptop for gaming only. It simply cannot play games to the full extent
of what this hardware should be capable of due to
its thermal limitations. Don’t get me wrong. It does play games, but you will get a lot
of dropped frames if it all gets too hot. And the games that are not very demanding like
Fortnight will run just fine. There are ways to improve this
like undervolting the CPU, but that’s something that the average user
probably won’t do. But on the other hand, the same goes for upgrading
memory in a laptop. So if you’re into
that kind of tweaking, you can boost
the performance significantly by undervolting the CPU. That’s it. Although it has
some thermal limitations, it still performs very
well with the photo and video editing apps
like Adobe Premiere Pro, Lightroom and Photoshop. Editing 4K footage in Premier runs
surprisingly smooth and even if I put the playback
at full resolution, it still doesn’t
drop any frames. Also if you run CPU and
GPU intensive tasks, it still stays very
quick and responsive. I’ve also done an exporting
comparison in Premiere Pro on my full-blown PC, my Surface Book 2
and the Dell XPS. On my PC, this took
6 minutes and 51 seconds. And on the Surface Book 2, It took 10 minutes
and 2 seconds. And exporting the same project
on the Dell XPS took 8 minutes and 43 seconds. I know that these are
all different devices with different specifications, but it’s good to have some real
life performance numbers instead of benchmarks. Speaking about real
life performance, the NVME SSD performs very well with read
speeds up to 3 gigabytes and write speeds up to
2.8 gigabytes a second. I also really love
the display of this laptop. It has very small bezels. And the screen hits
up to 500 nits of brightness and it’s high brightness means that you can use
this almost anywhere. There are a couple of versions available
like the OLED 4K touchscreen, but I chose
the full HD IPS panel. This full HD panel is
really sharp and you probably won’t notice the difference
next to a 4K screen. This screen also covers
a hundred percent of the SRGB color space, which is what I use most
for my online content. But if you need
hundred percent coverage of the Adobe RGB Colour Space, you might want to check
the 4K IPS panel, which has even
better color accuracy. But still the full HD panel
is a lot more affordable and the lower resolution
will also save you some battery. Oh and by the way, my screen has got
some minor backlight bleeding. It is nothing noticeable
in daily usage, but it’s worth mentioning. Next, we also need to talk
about the keyboard. The XPS 15 has
a really nice keyboard. It’s definitely one of the best that I’ve used
on a laptop so far. The key layout is great, its backlit and there’s
enough key travel and feedback. To be fair,
I didn’t expect it, but the carbon fiber interior
feels really good. It’s a little
sensitive to fingerprints, but it can easily be cleaned. And the trackpad is also good. It’s very responsive, but I would have appreciated
a bit more room for performing gestures. Then a few things that need improvement
in my opinion. Let’s start with
the power connector. Lots of modern laptops
have a magnetic connector. So if someone accidentally
get stuck behind the cable, it just releases instead
of breaking the connector or dragging the laptop
from the table. The dell XPS still has
this old-fashioned connector. It’s not a big deal, but I hope they fix this
in the next version. Another minor thing is
the way this laptop opens. Its kind of stiff
and you need two hands to do it. Again, not a big deal, but this could have been
better in my opinion. And there’s one thing
that you should avoid if you buy this laptop and that’s the Dell
support assist tool. This app made by Dell
makes the laptop unusable. You will get a lot
of blue screens if you use this. I almost got to the point
of returning this laptop, but luckily, it was only
a matter of uninstalling this app by Dell. And that’s it for my complaints. Let’s move over
to the conclusion. So to summarize, the Dell XPS 15 is a well-built,
good-looking laptop that performs excellent
with content creating apps, but struggles with
gaming because of its thermal limitations. It is relatively affordable and it’s easy to upgrade
hardware components. The screen is beautiful. The keyboard is great and no complaints
about connectivity options. I would like to see
some minor improvements in the next version, but for now I can highly
recommend the XPS 15 for content creators. And that’s it for this review. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did,
then please like the video. Thanks again for watching. See you next time on Orange83. [MUSIC]

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Aero 15 OLED Review – Best Lightweight Gaming Laptop? – vs Razer Blade15!

July 12, 2019

hi team it's Josh and I'm on a quest to find the highest powered portable laptop that runs cool and quiet which brings me to this laptop the gigabyte arrow 15 OLED this is a great laptop with some gotchas but it gets a solid Buy rating from me and I'll likely be keeping it I've got here the 1660 ti 8 gig of ram 256 gig SSD model the reason I chose this model is they have plenty of sticks of RAM around the house and extra nvme SSDs so I was able to easily open up the back of the laptop and replace the single AP exams and stick with 2 8 gig of ram sticks bringing it to a total of 16 gigs at 266 megahertz next the 1660 ti this is a 4k panel neither this model the 2060 or the 2070 max-q versions will be able to run games at high settings for modern titles at 4k therefore I'll be down scaling this to 1080 now it's my belief that that 1660 Ti in this model should be great for running games at 60fps on modern titles more on this later alright let's get into the review I'm going to review this laptop my way which means I'm going to focus on the experience of what it's like to actually use this laptop for content creation gaming programming or browsing the web I'm not going to shower you with endless benchmarks because there are already great laptop reviewers out there that do that links below let's hit performance straight out of the gate neither this laptop nor the Razer Blade 15 are the top performing laptops with this CPU that's because these laptops are designed to balance performance with Portability and of course low fan noise coming from heat generated from the CPUs this machine and the blade are both under voted out of the box but it still isn't enough they take very different approaches to thermal management with the fan set to the normal fan curve the Aero thermal throttles once the CPU temps hit 90 Celsius and the cause drop initially to 3.4 gigahertz and eventually stabilized around 2.8 with a power draw of 50 what's the blade takes a different approach limiting the CPUs power delivery to 45 watts for all but the shortest tasks it quickly drops straight to 2.8 gigahertz on all cores but it keeps the CPU substantially cooler and the Machine quieter than the aro 15 OLED all in all the aro 15 outperforms the razor blade for CPU tasks my cpu results for this laptop on Cinebench r15 and Geekbench 4 are about 15 percent slower than what I got on my legion y 7000 which had last year's 8750 H CPU GPU wise you can see on screen the scores for the Aero 1660 ti4 fire strike and now time spy and for comparison here are the scores for the razor blade 2070 max q for fire strike and now time spy what you'll see here is the blade with the 27 t max Q is about 25% faster in these tests just as a point of reference on the arrow I get about 55 to 60 FPS on battlefield 5 at high settings at 1080p Nick's TTI and I get about 70 to 80 FPS on the blade 2070 max Q this surprised and a little disappointed me as I really thought I'd get a minimum of 60 FPS on high settings 1080 resolution for that 1660 Ti to important notes on performance I would likely have been able to eke out more performance from this laptop if I wrap up the fans further that being said I really wanted to run the test on a mode that I would actually use if I was happier with louder fan noise I would be looking at a different laptop and secondly this laptops chasis run substantially cooler than the Razer Blade 15 on high performance tasks which makes it a more comfortable experience to use let's get into the pros this OLED screen is absolutely awesome and seriously it's ruined me for all other screens it is so bright and vibrant and one surprising thing I found which is the opposite of what other reviewers are saying is I found on fast-paced FPS games like Battlefield 5 it was easier for me to play on this screen at 60fps then on a high refresh rate screen going to like 80 FPS like my razor blade that's because I found it so much easier to make our enemies with the clarity and brightness of this screen the screen is covered with glass and it is a little bit reflective but they handle it pretty well and with that brightness it's actually a okay performer outdoors the laptop chasis is an all-metal build and feels a very well-built but lightweight at the same time they really have done a great job here here it is side-by-side with the razor blade 15 as you can see it's a very similar form factor except the arrow is a little deeper let's talk about the keyboard and trackpad this is one of the best keyboards I've ever used it has the right amount of click eNOS and ample key travel the trackpad is good and I've had absolutely no problems with it now the laptop runs pretty quiet which is great and something I'm very fussy about it's not as quiet as the Razer Blade 15 where the fans are almost always off but it's still quiet enough for sure and there's no high-pitched whine coming from the fans when the fans really speed up take a listen at the gigabyte Aero fifteens fans and then the Razer Blade fifteens fans for comparison battery life on this laptop is very good for one with an OLED screen I'm getting about 4 to 6 hours of usage for everyday tasks with screen brightness set to 80 that's much better than I was getting on the Razer Blade 15 where I was only getting around 2 to 3 hours now gigabyte does cap all the CPU cores at 2 gigahertz on battery power and I found no way of changing that in the software provided a couple of other benefits of this laptop the SD card reader in the laptop is such a relief and it is really really fast and lastly but very importantly this laptop doesn't crash I have had absolutely no crashes freezers or blue screens on it we're going to get into the cons now and some of these are going to sound bad but please bear in mind that in my opinion these are livable firstly let's talk about coil Warren when this machine is being pushed something like rendering video from this area of the laptop I hear substantial electrical noise take a listen now in my usage case and I believe I am a bit of a power user I hear this around 1% of the time I'm using the laptop or less it's not common I am going to send the laptop back to get it replaced to see if another unit has this problem I am somewhat tempted to try the 8 core model let me know in the comments below if you'd like me to do that in the replacement unit that being said based on what we discussed earlier for thermals I'm not expecting that much performance out of an 8 core for this model the speakers on this laptop aren't great they're acceptable but they're not anything to write home about out of the box the sound wasn't that loud and their downward facing which means if you plan to use this laptop propped up in bed your comforter might actually block the speakers a little bit I once able to download the majimak audio app from the Microsoft Store which enabled me to boost the volumes a bit overall after the adjustment the sound was certainly better but it still wasn't that great there are no lights on the function keys which is definitely frustrating and when I try to use gigabytes command center software to set different colors for the function keys to indicate things like screen brightness the application frequently crashes that being said I was able to set the colors in the end I really hope they fix the stability of this app the screen can be opened with one hand but the screen hinge isn't the most sturdy as you can see here the power cable connector isn't in the most ideal place but honestly it's not that bad it's located here they do provide a right-angle connected to it so it runs down the back that being said if you are right-handed your wall sockets over there you know there is a slight chance that it might pull along where the mouse is that being said I am right-handed my wall socket is over that side and I haven't noticed an issue with it on moderately intensive tasks such as editing video in Premiere and not talking about rendering the fans do spin up more than I believe is necessary even on quiet mode that being said they're not overly loud or annoying now the webcam is terrible I won't go into any more details here it's been widely covered there's glass on the display and it would have been really nice if they put in a touch screen anyway in summary this laptop is phenomenal it really correctly balances power with a great experience it's got an awesome display it's got a great keyboard it's got a good trackpad it doesn't get overly loud when running intensive tasks and it doesn't get uncomfortably warm to the touch if you liked this video I would greatly appreciate it if you click that subscribe button hit the thumbs up or if you've got questions on this laptop or any other laptop reply with comments till next time I will catch you later

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