Dell XPS 12

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Compact and certainly

If you do not watch carefully, you will see the Dell XPS 12 design is quite similar to the “brothers” in other Dell XPS 13 and Dell XPS 14. It has a silver rim design with familiar black shell is quite elegant, chic wear despite looks a little bit dark and dull. A closer look, we will find the XPS 12 has a larger screen and border screen shell thicker than the 13 and 14, although the overall feel was still quite compact machine. It is also understandable. The touchscreen laptops must always thicker than conventional screens by the manufacturer to equip external induction class.

The main difference of the Dell XPS 12 is part of the screen rotate. Only the silver metal frame is fixed, everything else remaining can … spin. Part of this screen are fixed by magnets and 2 clamps on 2 sides. Thus, part of the screen can be sure when the user used in laptop mode. However, when the lid is closed, the screen easily fallen out of the frame.

Dell XPS’s Ultrabook can say is best of Dell laptops as of this moment, and the XPS 12 is no exception. Thanks to good material used is carbon fiber, the XPS 12 brings the look of high-end laptop. Laptop tray with magnesium. Trackpad to hand them a mirror and feels soft to the touch, makes typing for long periods still feeling comfortable.

However, connectivity is one of the weak points. They have 2 USB 3.0 ports, Mini DisplayPort port, headphone jack. That’s all the ports on the machine. With the current demand is so equipped Dell XPS 12 for some common ports such as HDMI or USB port additionally arranged. Machines do not even have an SD card reader like the Dell XPS 13.

Lightweight laptop mode,Heavy if used as tablet

The transition from laptop to tablet mode is not always pleasant. And how the design of the XPS 12 seems to create less discomfort than with rivals, such as Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga. With yoga, you will have to touch the keyboard when using the machine in tablet mode.

When using the machine in tablet mode, you will feel quite uncomfortable due to their heavy weight. Seems to want to use hybrid devices, you will be prepared 1 … chair, because after using a few moments, you will need to sit down for more pleasant. This is also a common problem of this type of hybrid device, however, we can say that the device XPS 12 bring feels most uncomfortable. This can be considered as one of the biggest weaknesses of the XPS 12 in particular and the hybrid machine with a fixed keyboard in both tablet mode, compared to the hybrid device with keypad.

Keyboard, trackpad

It can be said of the computer keyboard is very good, and quite similar to the Dell XPS 13’s keyboard, although initially looked quite cramped. Island-style keyboard keys journey and feeling good. Hand part to relatively large area. The backlight of the machine is also a plus point. There are 2 options that your screen brightness can be controlled through keyboard shortcuts.

Another interesting point is the XPS 12’s keyboard enough “intelligence” to turn on the virtual keyboard when the user needs it. An example is when you use IE browser in Metro mode and enter the URL of the website you want, of the virtual keyboard will appear only when you use a tablet mode. However, this feature does not always work. There are times when we’re typing in Google Docs or desktop using IE version in tablet mode, we still have to turn on the virtual keyboard 1 manually.

Cypress Trackpad brand of machine, although quite spacious (10 x 6 cm) but not impressed with the keyboard. Manipulation by 2 finger tap to open the right-insensitive makes you uncomfortable when used. In desktop environments, such commands received trackpad finger pinch zoom, but try to manipulate and rotate the 3 finger scans are disabled. In the Modern UI mode, manipulate scanned in, scanning from left trackpad does not appear thumbnail columns are open applications, the remaining other fine movements.

Great screen

Dell XPS 12 is equipped with a 1080p IPS display (1920 x 1080 pixels) sharp, making the viewing experience of content such as video, images, text great. Viewing angle of the screen is also very good, up to 170 degrees. However, a bit uncomfortable is the high-resolution screen makes for selecting the icon on the Windows 8 desktop interface quite difficult because they are relatively small.

With 434 lux brightness, screen brightness XPS 12 is almost twice the average brightness of the light thin laptop under the current line, and beat Sony’s Vaio Duo 11 (brightness of 402 lux). Black level of the screen is also very low, making the entertainment experience and is working on the display of the XPS 12 are excellent. The screen is also protected by Gorilla Glass helps prevent scratches when used in tablet mode.

However, perhaps due to “conflicts” with Windows 8 (technology ClearType help render sub-pixel) to the devices using high-resolution screens like the XPS 12 still occur blurry font. Text in the benchmark programs we use are met as mentioned phenomena.

The sound quality of the machine can be said is wrong. Machines for high volume when you turn on the maximum volume, although slightly distorted sound. Decrease the volume down will help solve this problem while still large enough volume to be heard clearly in the many environments of using.

Temperature

In sleep mode, the temperature measured at the upper side along the keyboard is 34.8 degrees C. The temperature when the highest load applications is 39.5 degrees Celsius measured only machines running cool while the app is not running low. After the stream 1 video 15-minute with full-screen mode, the trackpad temperature is measured at 28 degrees C, the area between the G and H keys temperature of 34 degrees Celsius, the center of the underside of the machine is 30.5 degrees C. The left of the bottom machine the relatively high temperatures, up to 36 degrees C.

Fan’s noise is not caused around in idle mode and only when levels reach 48 decibels when load. This is good sound intensity with any laptop fan, especially when the XPS 12 belongs lightweight laptops.

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Weight and battery

One of the reasons cause quite heavy machine is battery 47Wh. This is the battery that we often find on most 13-inch laptops and 15-inch Ultrabook. The tests showed that the machine’s battery life is better than average. With continuous tests with WiFi web browsing and screen brightness to 40%, machines for 5 hours 46 minutes battery life, the VAIO Duo 11 take longer than 40 minutes. Due to the type of screen is quite bright so you can lower the screen brightness to extend battery life, but the display quality has not been impaired.

The XPS 12 is quite save electricity. Machine only consumes 12 watts of power in idle mode with maximum screen brightness. In the loading mode, the power consumption is 25 watts. With the first full HD screen, this is a great thing that Dell XPS 12 do.

Performance

The machine is equipped with an Intel Core i5-3317U, 4GB RAM, SSD 128GB (103 GB remaining users to use, the rest have installed operating systems and applications).

Experiment with PCMark 7, the XPS 12 scores 4727, far higher than the average level of 3081 points of lightweight laptops. Sony VAIO Duo 11 with the same processor, scores 4683.

SSD M830 of Samsung production for good performance, a reduction in boot Windows 8 takes just 15 seconds, only 2 seconds slower than the Vaio Duo 11 using Toshiba’s SSD.

Test copy 1 folder 4.97 GB contains different types of files, XPS 12 finish in 34 seconds, ie the average speed is 149.7 MB / s, slightly faster than Sony VAIO Duo 11 (145,4 MB/sec).

3DMark 06 and 3DMark 11 respectively 4534 and 584. This is the score that shows normal graphics capabilities, and not surprisingly, with the only Ultrabook graphics chip HD 4000 integrated graphics. Machine can still play a lot of games, but with a low level of detail and resolution is reduced.