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Hello everybody! 

 

I have always loved to have the xps 13 with ifinity edge display, but the fact that it was so small turned me down. Now the 15 inch version is out! 

The expensive one is rocking the latest I7 skylake cpu with a Nvidia 960m and 16GB ram. Pretty beast specs imo.

 

What do you guys think about this? I'm thinking about buying it but I'm a bit woried about the heat. All that power in a pretty slim ultrabook?

 

 

 

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Hello everybody! 

 

I have always loved to have the xps 13 with ifinity edge display, but the fact that it was so small turned me down. Now the 15 inch version is out! 

The expensive one is rocking the latest I7 skylake cpu with a Nvidia 960m and 16GB ram. Pretty beast specs imo.

 

What do you guys think about this? I'm thinking about buying it but I'm a bit woried about the heat. All that power in a pretty slim ultrabook?

how long does the battery last? an hour? maybe two?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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how long does the battery last? an hour? maybe two?

why would it be so bad? I don't understand. You can get one with 84WHr battery. 

 

it'll heat up fast.

If you can, get the version with the non dedicated GPU

Its not meant for gaming. You'll kill its battery in an hour if you put it under load 

No one games on battery. Ever. Gaming laptops have much smaller batteries than that laptop and they still last longer than an hour.

 

 

 

 

Both of you just talked shit without anything to support your shit talking.

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why would it be so bad? I don't understand. You can get one with 84WHr battery. 

 
No one games on battery. Ever. Gaming laptops have much smaller batteries than that laptop and they still last longer than an hour.

 

 

 

 

Both of you just talked shit without anything to support your shit talking.

i'm not talking shit, i'm just curious. 

 

sometimes it sucks to try to program or watch movies for an hour or two on a laptop that can't power it's screen that long.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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i'm not talking shit, i'm just curious. 

 

sometimes it sucks to try to program or watch movies for an hour or two on a laptop that can't power it's screen that long.

Since it has 84 WHr battery I would say it should last about 6-10 hours watching a movie or programming.

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Since it has 84 WHr battery I would say it should last about 6-10 hours watching a movie or programming.

LOL my dell studio 1747 has an 85Whr battery and because it's a touch screen it still only lasts 1-1.5 hours. 

radeon 5xxx molbile GPU.

 

it doesn't last.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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LOL my dell studio 1747 has an 85Whr battery and because it's a touch screen it still only lasts 1-1.5 hours. 

radeon 5xxx molbile GPU.

 

it doesn't last.

That's because of the old processor. Macbook Pro 15 has 99.95Whr battery. It lasts 9 hours web browsing. Last generation Dell XPS 15 lasted 7 hours web browsing.

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That's because of the old processor. 

you aren't going to get 10x more power efficiency out of a newer CPU, while still putting in a dGPU.

 

it's hard to get 6-10 hours of life out of any products nowadays. go buy a dell xps15 laptop and tell me what you get in terms of battery life.  

 

check this out:

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2015

there is a graph at the bottom showing 7 hours of websurfing battery life. that's a light load. 

i'd wager it gets something more like 4hrs on average, which is fine, that's pretty decent.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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you aren't going to get 10x more power efficiency out of a newer CPU, while still putting in a dGPU.

 

it's hard to get 6-10 hours of life out of any products nowadays. go buy a dell xps15 laptop and tell me what you get in terms of battery life.  

 

check this out:

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/dell-xps-15-2015

there is a graph at the bottom showing 7 hours of websurfing battery life. that's a light load. 

i'd wager it gets something more like 4hrs on average, which is fine, that's pretty decent.

Well yes, it's a light load, so is watching video. And dGPU has absolutely no impact on web browsing and video watching battery life. It's off.

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Well yes, it's a light load, so is watching video. And dGPU has absolutely no impact on web browsing and video watching battery life. It's off.

there is never an 'off' 

it's still sippin' juice, but not full throttle. 

 

again, i don't think it will last the 7hours they claim, but even if it's 4ish it's reasonable.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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there is never an 'off' 

it's still sippin' juice, but not full throttle. 

 

again, i don't think it will last the 7hours they claim, but even if it's 4ish it's reasonable.

Actually Dell claims 17 hours, but that's most definitely idle.

 

4 hours is way too little. My dads shitty ass dell laptop with 56whr battery lasts 4 hours with screen on full brightness.

 

Gaming laptops like GS60 last 4 hours with their tiny batteries.

 

 

 

Your old laptop is just old, that's it.

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The price though.

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I think the battery will do well, but I'm still concerned about the heat. I hope linus will do a review of this! I now have an Asus zenbook ux303 with a i7-5500u no dedicated gpu. I can play a few simple games on this on low but it's not really a good experience...

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there is never an 'off' 

it's still sippin' juice, but not full throttle. 

 

again, i don't think it will last the 7hours they claim, but even if it's 4ish it's reasonable.

Heard of graphics switching? Yup. The dGPU is turned OFF.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/476415-amd-gemini-dual-gpu-card-specs-leakrumourwccf/?p=6386334

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Actually Dell claims 17 hours, but that's most definitely idle.

 

4 hours is way too little. My dads shitty ass dell laptop with 56whr battery lasts 4 hours with screen on full brightness.

 

Gaming laptops like GS60 last 4 hours with their tiny batteries.

 

 

 

Your old laptop is just old, that's it.

My GS60 never lasted close to 4 hours. Maybe 2 hours max doing light web browsing with min brightness. Was one of the worst things. 

 

I imagine the 960m would give off less heat than the 860m that was in my gs60 but that thing got HELLA hot. Like to the point you couldn't touch the bottom of it. I wouldn't try to go any thinner than the gs60 if you intend to game on it ever. 

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