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On the Laptop Transfer Test (duplicating 4.97GB of multimedia files), the XPS 12 finished in 34 seconds, a transfer rate of 149.7 MBps. That was less than half the category average (40 seconds) and just two seconds slower than the Duo 11, which has a 128GB Toshiba SSD. The 128GB Samsung M830 SSD inside our XPS 12 was blazing fast, booting Windows 8 in a mere 15 seconds. The Sony VAIO Duo 11, which has the same processor, came in just below, with a score of 4,683. On PCMark 7, the XPS 12's score of 4,727 topped the ultraportable average of 3,081. Outfitted with a 1.7-GHz Intel Core i5-3317U processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, the XPS 12 did fairly well on our tests. They could make out our features well, and could easily hear us, too.

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Also on board isare the Amazon Store, Kindle, and Microsoft Live Essentials 2012 (Photo Gallery and Movie Maker).Д¬lick to EnlargeThe 1.3-MP webcam above the display provided bright and clear visuals when chatting with a friend via Google hangout. The other Dell tile is for the Dell Shop, which is merely a portal to buy accessories from Dell. We hope that all Windows 8 notebooks come with similar guides.

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The most useful app is 'Getting Started with Windows 8 on Your New Dell.' As you might imagine, this opens a screen with several videos and FAQs showing just how to use Windows 8. We hope this is just a glitch.ДЇor its part, Dell keeps preinstalled apps to a minimum, which we appreciate. Strangely, when we were playing music via Pandora's website, the XPS 12 would stop the music when we swiped to a different app. However, we expect the Windows Store to improve rapidly. Also missing were apps for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. For instance, as of this writing, there were only 522 titles in the Games section while 'Fruit Ninja' was there, 'Angry Birds' wasn't. The marketplace is divided into categories such as Sports, Music & Video, Games and Social, but each has far fewer apps than you'd find in Apple's App Store or Google Play.

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Read our full review of Windows 8 for more details.Д¬lick to EnlargeCurrently, there are more than 3,400 apps in the small-but-growing Windows Store. Instead of a Start menu in the lower left, all you get is an Internet Explorer icon, next to a file explorer.

Selecting the Desktop tile brings you to a Windows 7-style interface, with a few notable exceptions. Swiping from the left side of the screen lets you switch between active programs if you swipe in, then out in one motion, open programs are shown as thumbnails along the left side. Swiping from the right bezel reveals the Charms menu, which has options for Search, Share, returning to the Start screen, Devices and Settings. We highly recommend pinning the Control Panel it's difficult to access otherwise. You can add additional tiles by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, and selecting 'All Apps.' Then, in the next screen, swiping down on an icon gives you options to pin apps to the Start screen, taskbar, uninstall it, open in a new window, run as administrator or open file location. Click to EnlargeTiles are divided into several sections, the first two clusters of which are Windows apps (Mail, Calendar, People, Internet Explorer, Maps, Photos, Messaging, Weather, News, SkyDrive, Store, and Desktop, to name a few).