 Hey guys, Thundie here and today I've got a special video for you. I'm going to be taking a closer look at how well the Dell XPS 13 performs. Now I've gone ahead and partner with our friends at Intel to give you a deep dive into why this device right here is awesome. So let's go ahead and jump in. The Dell XPS 13 is a lovely device. It looks great design style build is really fantastic. It's really thin. It's very portable and it's got a whole host of features that you've seen. Some videos I've done from other people that showcase how well this laptop works. But why does it perform really well? Well, it's because of what's underneath the hood, right? We've got the brand new Intel Tiger Lake processor. This is the 11th gen Intel processor with the Iris XC graphics. And this is also part of the Intel Evil line, which means any device that has those set requirements are part of the Evil line. And this is one of those devices, the Dell XPS 13. What I like with what the Intel processor does here, Tiger Lake processor does here, is something truly unique. One of the first things, of course, is battery life. Like how long does it last? How long can I use it? For a while, we're used to about 10 hours of battery life and we thought that was great. But with this, you can do 14 hours of battery life, which has been really impressive. So the kind of performance has been built into that SSC allows for Dell to take advantage of it in this laptop. And in my case, I've been using for over three weeks now and I've been able to get consistently about 14, sometimes 15 hours of battery life with this laptop. Day to day, whether I'm just surfing the web, I'm checking out stories, I'm doing some like editing, maybe even some gaming mixed in there. You can do all that quite effectively. Now, performance wise, we're looking at 2.7 X performance boost in terms of content creation, you're looking at about 20 percent more performance in productivity for office use and a 2X performance in terms of gaming. And you're going, huh, that's a lot of extra power here that this device has given us, right? Thunder E, how does it actually perform? So let's first take a look at what we can do content creation wise, because that's what I do for you guys on a day to day basis. How am I going to use this laptop to create content? I'll show you. We're checking out some really cool software from Cybelink with their Cybelink Director Suite, which has a ton of software that takes full advantage of what this processor can do. One of the first ones is just a screen recorder, which I'll be using to capture more content. And what I like about it is you've got full screen recorder, you can do games, you can customize it, but also it's the frame rate. You can go up to 120 frames per second as a gamer capturing some of that gaming content. It makes a whole lot of sense to use this. So we're going to go ahead and hit record. And then we're going to go ahead and check out a couple of the pieces of software they have. Now, the first one is PowerDirector. And with PowerDirector, what I like about it is the fact that it allows me to jump in and do a couple of things. It's got a couple of modes, full storyboard mode and slice your creator. Different modes for different functionality or I can go jump into the full creator itself, allowing you to customize and use it the way you want to use it. Now, the cool thing about this is that you can switch between 16 by 9 or 9 by 16 quite easily. So if you want to do something on YouTube, you want to create something for Instagram and so on and so forth. It is quite easy to do that. But we're going to create some files here. And what I'm going to do is going to go and open this up, drag some files from Connell Singala, because of course, this is the kernel. And I'll show you some content creation here that's quite cool. One of the cool things is a plugin called AI, AI plugin, which takes full advantage of the GPU here in the Tiger Lake processor. And we can go ahead and do a couple of things with it. So I can pick a style, for instance, say painting, and then I can select my video file as a source, media room and just select the kernel there, hit OK. And what this does is creates an AI style for you. This is a much longer clip, so I wouldn't do the full rendering for you here. But you can see it creates a different style. I can pick and choose different ones to use. But this is using the GPU to give you that performance real time. You can go ahead and scrub through, you can see how it looks. And then you can render that out. What's really cool is once you render it out, some of the other things you can actually do with it. So I'm going to go ahead and hit transform and that will transform it for you. All right, so something else you can do is use a plugin that is called video collage designer. I like this because this is one that allows you to create collages for your social platforms and create some really cool content quite easily. So I'm going to use three image clips and let's pick one that we like. Let's go with this. We'll take that kernel footage that I transformed. I'm going to drop that in there. I'm going to drop this image here. I'm going to drop this one right here. And you can customize the border size, the inter clip size, all that fun stuff, the animation and do a few things. But it's easy because you don't have to do anything other than dragging and drop it. And then you have this clip. I mean, that's just pretty nice and cool to just throw up on Instagram. I'll put it up on my Instagram page so you guys can check it out. But it's easy to have something like this that you can create from your clips and boom, jumps on your timeline and then you can render out. Done. Now, the next piece of software in the suite that's really interesting to look at is photo director. Now, for the director gives you the full suite of photo editing. You can do go into adjustments to do all the adjustments you need. As a typical editor, you can go into edit as well. But what I do like is the guided for someone who wants something nice and simple. But a lot of things do guided really brings things forward. So let's go into guided and you've got a couple of tools. There's the AI style transfer. It's one's pretty easy. I like you do some AI defaults here. You can do this maple leaf. You can also select an object out like the human hand. So you can see that there. Very simple, really easy. And again, you can see how quick that actually worked. Again, using the power of the 11th gen processor and doing those effects quite easily. The glitch effect is also one that's pretty nice. We're going to go to our subject here. We can pick a glitch effect and then we can also just separate our outs. So some of that effect is still there. You can see it right there. Really nice. It's simple and again, easy to use. Now, one I do like quite well is just doing some of the photo animations. And this is on the animation effects. I picked this here and it's really simple and easy to play with. It's going to set some guide marks. I've got the rocket blasting off here going into space. And then once we hit animate again, see how quickly does that right off the bat? There's almost no processing time and it feels like, you know, the effects of the rocket are blasting off is just really showcasing around the surroundings, which is really nice. So easy tools, really nice. Taking advantage of Intel's 11th gen processor. You can see how well the XC graphic does in terms of just video editing, creating content and also just photo editing and creating some really cool visuals using cyber directors suite. All right, so let's talk about gaming. It's a pretty small, light laptop. This is not what you think of when you think about gaming. You think about a gaming laptop, but you can do quite serious work on the Dell XPS 13. Thanks, of course, to that Intel Tiger Lake processor. Now, taking a look at a game like, of course, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, playing at medium settings or normal, if you will, we're getting about thirty one frames per second, which is really nice to see. So you can at least run it at thirty one per second and that's good. And then we go to the lower settings. We get up to about thirty seven frames per second on Shadow of the Tomb Raider. So that is quite impressive. You can do your gameplay sessions, jump on steam, all that fun stuff. Gaming. Now, a game, of course, a lot of people tend to play on, you know, on different machines is Overwatch. Now, Overwatch at its lowest settings, we're able to get sixty five to about seventy frames per second, which is nice to see. So Overwatch is definitely playable. Again, above sixty frames, a fast paced game like this, which is night. And even going down to high settings, we're able to get between forty seven to around almost sixty frames per second. So this machine is very capable of getting some of your gaming needs covered, you know, so if you're playing games like Overwatch, you know, Counter Strike, you can definitely jump in and play on the system. And that Intel XC graphics definitely shows the kind of performance upgrade that we're getting here to see that we can actually push those limits in the gaming segments and giving us the kind of performance that we want to expect, plus, you know, combined with that bad with life, it makes a whole lot of sense. So hopefully this video gives you a good idea of what to expect from the Dell XPS 13, as well as devices powered by Intel's 11 gen processor, part of that Intel evil line. I think you'd be quite impressed to see what it has to offer. And I think Intel has done a really good job in showcasing processor for laptops that make it just unique enough for you to go. You know what? I can work. I can play and I've got something that's really portable. So thank you very much, guys. If you have any questions or any comments, don't forget to leave them down below and also like, share, subscribe and enjoy entertainment.