I've had this laptop for about two weeks and although it's small, it's quite powerful. I've never had a laptop this small, so I was interested to see how it would my handle my daily work load (primarily coding).
Out of the box, the laptop has a great feel; the quality of the materials used is evident. However, after about 20-30 seconds of trying to open it, I was a bit tired of the feel... not really, but it's a chore opening this laptop. I was expecting a small 'bump' that I could grab with a finger tip, but there was none. I finally had to pick it up off the table before I could get it open. It has gotten easier since that initial opening, and it's not something that would make me not buy the laptop, but I was completely caught off guard by the difficulty.
The initial setup (windows updates, etc) took about an hour. After that, I decided to install some of my own software and see what happened. The screen is very nice; 1080p and crystal clear. I did find that the default scaling (I believe 125% or 150%) caused some problems with some of my installs (sometimes buttons didn't appear where they were supposed to). I wound up reducing the scaling to 100% although I did increase this within Visual Studio and IE. However, even at only 100% the labels on desktop icons are clear and easily readable.
The keyboard doesn't feel cramped at all (and I don't have small hands) and overall has a great feel to it; the buttons have a slight rubbery feel and typing is very smooth and effortless. The touch-pad is nice as well and is very responsive to light touch. That said, I love using a mouse when I can, so I paired my Bluetooth mouse which worked great and left me with an open USB port when the power adapter was plugged in. I have never had a laptop with only two USB ports, but with a laptop this small, there isn't much room, and using BT devices means you really don't need them for things like mice.
I was able to do about 5 hours of work and web-browsing and still had about 15% battery life. The only problem I had was that I initially started out with the laptop on my lap, and after about 30 minutes, it became evident that wasn't going to work without something underneath it. This laptop is small, but it puts out some heat. I was surprised at how hot it got. I did like how I was able to flip the screen all the way over and basically turn the laptop into a tablet when I was taking a break from work. I did try the tent mode, but didn't really see the purpose. I also don't know why Dell put the camera way down at the bottom of the screen. I personally don't use the cameras that much, but this one is so low it's silly. I was just testing it but the angle looked like something out of an old western; from the ground level, looking up at a 30 degree angle.
I wanted to install a game just to see how the integrated graphics would handle it, so I installed World of Tanks (the full blown version not the mobile version). It installed without issue so I also installed XVM. The game defaulted to 'medium' graphics settings, ran fine and actually looked quite good. I had some trouble using the mouse; there was quite a bit of lag. I thought this might be because of the BT mouse, so I used a USB mouse instead and the lag disappeared. I also paired a set of BT headphones with the laptop and the sound was great except for occasional static when things in the game got a bit crazy; I would definitely stay away from BT devices if you're going to play any graphics intensive games.
Overall, I really like this laptop. It's been great just using it around my house, but I'm sure it'll be even more impressive when I travel. It's small, but doesn't really feel that small, and has the power to do almost anything you would want it to do, including some light gaming. If you're in the market for a small laptop that can double as a tablet, I don't believe you could go wrong with this one.