Engineers at Dell must be on aFast and Furious kick too! They’ve clearly decided to live life a quarter-mile at a time, and swaddled their XPS 13 with carbon fibre.
MORE: Dell Joins The Ultrabook Army With The XPS 13
The composite-material base not only makes the XPS lighter, it actually adds rigidity and cuts down on the heat being transferred to your crotch. A big thank you to Dell for thinking about our crotches. Throw some Gorilla glass on the display, a soft matte finish to the touch surface, and a $US1000 price tag, and the Intel Core i5-powered Ultrabook our favourite of the show. [Dell]
MotorMouth
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:59 PMSo where is the heat going? The machine has to be developing as much of it as all the others do.
Svenz0r
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:59 PMI do believe that he means the carbon fibre doesn’t conduct the heat thru to your lap as much as a metal or plastic shell would.
MotorMouth
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 10:51 AMOf course that’s what it means, hence my question. The heat has to go somewhere and it makes me think this machine will either have some very powerful and noisy fans or it won’t be able to handle higher powered CPUs, like Core i7. My Zenbook is clearly designed to use its metal chassis as a giant heatsink, which I see as a good thing. I’ve never had a laptop that got too hot to place on my lap but they all get warm. It just makes sense.
BTW, my tiny little 11.6″ Zenbook just did something absolutely amazing. My left mouse button just stuck on and in my efforts to work out what was going on it launched 5 instances of Autodesk Combustion, 3 new Firefox instances and about 10 Explorer windows in a matter of a few seconds. Any of my old machines would have crawled to a stop but the Zenbook took it all in stride, allowing me to start closing windows while Combustion kept initialising over and over. Absolutely amazing!
Normandy_sr2
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 6:12 PMgive me a Mac book air…. ZZzzzzzz