After going via a controversial branding change that eradicated the beloved XPS identify, Dell has launched its alternative. The brand new Dell 14 Premium and Dell 16 Premium Home windows 11 laptops characterize the excessive finish of Dell's enterprise lineup and provide options like Intel Core Extremely 9 16-core CPUs, NVIDIA RTX 5070 GPUs and battery life as much as 27 hours.
The XPS identify could also be gone however final 12 months's design largely stays. Each fashions preserve the easy and chic wedge-like type from earlier than, with barely greater (16.3 and 14.5 inches), largely bezel-free shows coated with Gorilla Glass 3. Dell guarantees top-notch craftsmanship and a brand new thermal design that permits for a skinny and light-weight design, maximal airflow and minimal noise. Simply because it did with the branding, Dell has adopted Apple with the 2 obtainable colorways: Platinum and a darker Graphite.
New 3.2K and 4K 16:10 120Hz OLEDs at the moment are obtainable on the high-end fashions (14.5- and 16.3-inch, respectively) and 2K LCD 120Hz variations (1,920 x 1,200) within the base fashions. The OLEDs are licensed DisplayHDR 500 with 400 nits of brightness and 100% DCI-P3 protection, whereas the LED fashions common round 500 nits. Audio additionally seems strong with Dolby Atmos, "studio-quality tuning," quad audio system, a twin microphone array and a common headphone jack with head monitoring.
On the efficiency entrance, Dell is wedded to Intel's newest power-efficient Core Extremely 7 255H and 256H 16-core processors, together with an Intel Core Extremely 9 285H 16-core model on the Premium 16 solely. These provide as much as a 33 p.c efficiency enhance over the earlier XPS fashions (18 p.c on the 16 Premium), together with a 2.4x enhance in AI efficiency.
Nonetheless, the principle profit is way boosted battery life with as much as 20 hours of Netflix streaming on the 14 Premium and 27 hours on the 16 Premium. These figures are with the 2K LCD shows and drop to 11 and 9 hours on the upper decision 3.2K OLED (14.5-inch mannequin) and 4K OLED (16.3-inch mannequin) respectively.
The Premium 14 and Premium 16 differ probably the most by way of GPU choices, with help for NVIDIA's new RTX 5050 GPU, together with the RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 on the 16.3-inch mannequin, however simply an NVIDIA RTX 4050 on the Premium 14. Choosing a kind of, notably the RTX 5070, ought to make them strong gaming and graphics machines however you'll be paying extra and sacrificing some battery life. In any other case, you'll be getting Intel's Arc 140T GPU on the 14 Premium and 16 Premium base fashions, designed largely for enterprise and leisure.
Different key options embody WiFi 7, additional safety for enterprise customers, as much as 64GB of LPDDR5x twin channel 8400 MT/s reminiscence, encryption prepared SSDs, as much as 4TB storage and a FHD webcam. They're now on sale at Dell.com beginning at $1,650 for the bottom 14 Premium (Core Extremely 7 255H CPU, 16GB reminiscence, 2K LCD show, Intel Arc 140T graphics). The identical mannequin with an NVIDIA RTX 4050 GPU, 32GB of reminiscence and the three.2K OLED show is $2,350.
The Dell 16 Premium, in the meantime, begins at $2,700 with a Core Extremely 7 255H CPU, 32GB of reminiscence, 2K LCD show and NVIDIA RTX 5060, whereas a model with the 4K OLED show and Intel Core Extremely 9 CPU is $3,050. Different choices aren't but obtainable on Dell's on-line retailer.
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