Dell has started selling the XPS 13 Plus, a new take on the company's popular ultrabook. While the XPS 13 Plus looks like a concept, its capacitive function keys and invisible trackpad raised eyebrows following the device's announcement in January at CES 2022.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Dell-XPS-13-Plus-is-now-orderable-with-its-futuristic-invisible-trackpad-capacitive-function-keys-and-an-OLED-touchscreen.616158.0.html
"XPS 13 Plus has no visible function keys or a trackpad... keyboard sits almost flush with the chassis... no space between each key... opted for an invisible trackpad"
Imagine, a car with 2D touch-capacitive handle and foot pedals with no space between each pedals, buttons, and gears.
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Quote from: Dorby on April 28, 2022, 18:01:47
"XPS 13 Plus has no visible function keys or a trackpad... keyboard sits almost flush with the chassis... no space between each key... opted for an invisible trackpad"
Imagine, a car with 2D touch-capacitive handle and foot pedals with no space between each pedals, buttons, and gears.
I know, right? Could it be any worse? They could be like: lets put together as many bad designs as we just can!
A pristine sample of form over function ::)
Quote from: Dorby on April 28, 2022, 18:01:47
"XPS 13 Plus has no visible function keys or a trackpad... keyboard sits almost flush with the chassis... no space between each key... opted for an invisible trackpad"
Imagine, a car with 2D touch-capacitive handle and foot pedals with no space between each pedals, buttons, and gears.
lol exactly...
So they put together a bunch of ridiculously unusable "features", a premium price tag, and just when you think it can't get worse, you see that it has 8GB of ram. Really? Utter garbage from Dell, which is par for the course at this point.
Quote from: Hardware Geek on April 30, 2022, 01:29:31
So they put together a bunch of ridiculously unusable "features", a premium price tag, and just when you think it can't get worse, you see that it has 8GB of ram. Really? Utter garbage from Dell, which is par for the course at this point.
Well, there is a 32 GB option. The worst thing about this is that it might actually sell well. Because, who cares about function, right? Computers are toys for children, it seems.
Quote from: _MT_ on April 30, 2022, 11:24:21
Quote from: Hardware Geek on April 30, 2022, 01:29:31
So they put together a bunch of ridiculously unusable "features", a premium price tag, and just when you think it can't get worse, you see that it has 8GB of ram. Really? Utter garbage from Dell, which is par for the course at this point.
Well, there is a 32 GB option. The worst thing about this is that it might actually sell well. Because, who cares about function, right? Computers are toys for children, it seems.
It definitely seems that way. Most of these things have the ram soldered to the board so they can't be upgraded The company I work for uses Dell computers and it's always the c level idiots that want these fancy paperweights, then complain about how slow they are. I can't fathom how people so utterly helpless that they can't so much as turn on a computer without help get into these high level positions then treat us IT people like garbage. They'll spend ridiculous amounts of money on these ultralight computers but then cheap out on the ram and processor and expect a brand new one every year but force everyone else to make do with 5+ year old machines and blame us for the computers being slow. They can't fathom the concept that getting newer computers with higher end specs will end up saving money in the long run, or they don't care because their bonus is slightly bigger if they "save" money by ordering the cheapest crap possible while we have to waste hours setting up these old computers for everyone else. Then they complain about how long it takes to get anything done but when we tell them it would be more cost effective to buy faster computers they act like we don't know what we're talking about.
After watching this video I immediately ordered the absolute top spec of this laptop from Dell at a cost over £2200. I should have read the small print.
This is a 1260P model, not 1280P like the one tested in the video. Maybe this is a new release thing or a UK prejudice thing but the difference is a slightly slower, less cached and crucially lower core count CPU. Basically a crippled version of the machine they sent for test.
Beware of the deception!
Quote from: David Bridge on May 10, 2022, 12:13:53
After watching this video I immediately ordered the absolute top spec of this laptop from Dell at a cost over £2200. I should have read the small print.
This is a 1260P model, not 1280P like the one tested in the video. Maybe this is a new release thing or a UK prejudice thing but the difference is a slightly slower, less cached and crucially lower core count CPU. Basically a crippled version of the machine they sent for test.
Beware of the deception!
Misreading a 5 digit model number...ok, not surprising coming from somebody who "immediately ordered the absolute top spec of this laptop from Dell at a cost over £2200"?