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HD Online Player (Egpu Setup 1x): The Benefits of Using an eGPU for Gaming and Video Editing on Your

  • pfunrasohivezru
  • Aug 21, 2023
  • 3 min read


Great comparison. I recently bought a ThinkPad X1 Carbon from Costco for $1515 shipped and returned it do to premature paint wear and tear. The X1 Carbon is an amazing computer but my qualms were only 6-7 hours of battery, terrible speakers, got hot to the touch when plugged in or basically did anything, terrible finger print reader, trackpad was a tad too small, backlit keyboard had to be manually be activated, very dim FHD screen, and the pretty poor quality paint job. So anyone who has bought anything from Costco knows that they have a killer return policy. 30 days for price protection and 90 days for returns. I went to the store and the customer service rep didn't even ask me what was wrong with the computer but just asked me to assist her in finding the serial number. I was hoping to just exchange the laptop for a new one but the rep said I could only return it and then buy a new one. The problem was that the X1 Carbon had gone back to the original $1600 price and originally I bought the laptop online and had it shipped to my parents house in Maine where I wouldn't pay tax. Meaning if I wanted a replacement that day I would need to pay $1742 or would have to re-order online at $1600 with $15 shipping and wait until the next time I went to Maine. So I quickly looked around in the computer section and saw a loaded Dell XPS 9370 for $1399, so with taxes the computer costed about the same as my original X1 ThinkPad at $1500 and change. Now my last computer was a Dell XPS 9560 and I thought it was a very good computer but thought it was too heavy/thick and I never used the dedicated graphics card since I own a gaming desktop, so that is why when I bought the X1 I was trying to go for a very light and portable laptop. At 2.67 lbs the 9370 is noticeably heavier than the Carbon but by no means heavy. The tiny footprint of the 9370 for me is a plus. The configuration I got has the same 8550U i7, 16GB, 512GB HD, but instead a FHD screen it has a 4K touch screen. I have never thought Dell's 4K laptop screens were ever worth the extra money nor do I feel that touch screens are worth while, but since these are included in the $1399 price I am not going to cry about it since the UHD setup is leagues above the ThinkPad FHD setup, brighter and so much more crispier. Now this does effect battery life but I am still getting the same 6-7 hours of battery I was getting on my X1 Carbon, but just with a much better screen. Costco advertises the computer having a fingerprint reader but it is not included in the unit, however the Windows Hello IR cameras are and work so much faster than the X1's fingerprint reader which isn't as bad as mentioned (20% success rate). So the dongle life on the 9370 isn't terrible considering I once owned a 2017 Macbook 13" Non TB which only had two ports, plus Dell does provide a USB-C to legacy port adapter which is something Apple would never do. Honestly I mainly use my laptops as mainly as glorified netbooks and my desktop is my real workhorse, so on my laptop I am mainly surfing the web, using Office, or watching video so traditional USB ports and SD card readers aren't needed. The X1 Carbon really ran at the same temps as the 9370, but the XPS does a much better job in shielding you from the heat and keeping the fans silent. So which computer is better? Both are awesome computers and if you are a ThinkPad loyalist the X1 is the current halo devise but if you don't care about or for the ThinkPad brand then the cheaper 9370 which arguably gives you more for the money is an awesome computer that does many of the little things better than the X1.




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