This laptop brings a lot to the table in a surprisingly tiny package. The laptop has a 13.3 inch screen, but the body is only a little bigger than a typical 11.6 inch laptop. This is accomplished by having teeny tiny bezels framing the screen. The end result is a laptop with lots of display and very little footprint. The laptop has two USB type-C ports and comes with a type-C to type-A adapter. One of the two type-C ports does support Thunderbolt. The only other ports on this device are a micro-SD card slot and a headphone jack. The laptop supports pen input, but it doesn't come with a stylus (unfortunately). It's really hard to open the lid. You kind of have to pick it up and hold it like a book to pry it open. Trying it just lift the lid as it’s sitting flat on a table is an exercise in futility. The power button is a little hard to find by touch. It’s tiny and situated just up from the middle of the right side of the keyboard. As with anything this thin, it feels a little fragile. Premium build materials give it a fair degree of rigidity, but I’d still be careful when handling this screen as it doesn’t look like it could take too much abuse. The keyboard is buttery smooth with a rubberized, soft touch feel to the keys. This feel continues on across the palm rest as well. The rubberized texture on keys feels nice, but I keep worrying that my fingernail is going to scratch it (and I have short fingernails). The keyboard is well spaced, and it has a nice satisfying key press. It does sit a little flat for my taste though. I absolutely hate the positioning of the arrow keys. I keep on hitting page down when I want to move my cursor within a document. Keyboard backlight is subtle. Settings are backlight completely off, faint backlight, and . . . really faint backlight. The touchpad glides very smoothly, but it does pick up a ton of fingerprints. Speaking of fingerprints, the fingerprint unlock is a beautiful thing. The battery indicator button doesn’t seem to do anything while the laptop is on and open. Battery life is a little hard to gauge. Battery life typically goes down as screen brightness goes up. The battery estimates from Windows for this laptop make no sense whatsoever. According to Windows, the estimated battery life at 40% brightness was 3.5 hours, Battery life at 60% brightness was 5.5 hours, and the battery life at 100% brightness varied between 7.5 and 10 hours and at one point dropped to 6 hours. At 60% brightness, you should be able to squeeze out around six to seven hours with moderate usage (word processing and music streaming in my experience). Putting the screen flat back will NOT put it flush to the table top. There will be a good centimeter or so of space between it and the table. Pushing it back farther results in the screen sloping backward or the keyboard lifting up slightly. This is somewhat unfortunate for those of us who often work while standing and wouldn’t have minded using pen input on the touchscreen with the screen sitting flat and with the physical keyboard still accessible. Screen quality is great at 1080p. Out of the box, the screen has a faint yellow / green cast to my eye. Calibration would probably go a long way to resolving this though. The laptop has a nice wide screen. Wide screens are great for media consumption, gaming, and graphic design work if you like to move your tools off of your work area. They are not ideal for working in tablet mode, eBook reading or web surfing (still perfectly adequate for these purposes though). At the default 150% scaling, some of the fonts looked jagged and pixelated within application menus. My desktop and Microsoft Edge defaulted to 150% out of the box. I changed my desktop to 125% and Edge to 100% after playing with this for a while. Dropping down to 100% for the desktop made icons uncomfortably small. This also appears to have resolved some of the font scaling issues within applications. Icons and buttons in applications are small but usable at this scale. The camera is unapologetically bad. I can honestly say that I will never ever use it. The angle is awkward and unflattering (up my nose or examining the bottom of my chin), and the quality is awful. If you don’t mind putting the laptop into tent mode (honestly, this mode puts my teeth on edge so I will never use it), the camera is then oriented in a position that isn’t too bad. That being said, you will lose access to the physical keyboard in this mode. Still, with wireless keyboard and mice and/or the touchscreen, this isn’t impossible to work around. Overall operation of this laptop is smooth and enjoyable. The laptop ran hot enough to cook an egg when I first turned it on. I downloaded some updates and some additional drivers and that issue seems to have resolved itself nicely. The laptop now operates at a comfortably warm ambient temperature. There are apparently known software issues with the integrated graphics. The issues caused an odd white dot to appear in the upper left-hand corner at times (smack dab in the middle of the recycle bin with the default desktop positioning). Updating the Intel graphics driver seems to fix this completely. Dell’s support site was great. I ran an auto-diagnostic to update all drivers and scan for various issues. It needed very little input from me to run. The laptop came with the usual assortment of Microsoft bloatware. It has icons for the usual Word, Excel, Note, and PowerPoint. It also has icons for Access, Outlook, and Publisher. None of this software appears to be pre-activated for any kind of promo period though. Oddly there are two different instances of Note with different icons in the start menu. The system has one icon for “Note” and another for “Note 2016.” Otherwise system is fairly light on bloatware. As far as performance goes, it should be noted that this comes with an i7-Y processor and not an i7-U processor. Intel recently changed their naming conventions and rebranded their Core M chips as Y processors. The processor doesn't have quite as much raw power as its U counterpart, but it's more than adequate for daily tasks. The only time I noticed any dips in performance were when I tried doing some gaming and light video editing. It managed both tasks well enough, but performance was not up to what I would consider to be i7 standards. It should be noted though that this laptop isn't intended for either of these purposes. Hooking up to an external graphics card enclosure using the included Thunderbolt port may dramatically improve performance for these two tasks in the future. Overall, I'm very pleased with this laptop and would recommend purchasing it if you need a premium general duty laptop for word processing, light design work, and social media.