After scrapping its XPS branding earlier this 12 months, Dell has now launched two of the brand new “Premium” laptop computer fashions which are changing it. Except for being refreshed with Intel’s Core Extremely Sequence 2 Arrow Lake processors, a barely revised Dell lid emblem, and some different spec adjustments, the Dell 16 Premium and Dell 14 Premium are practically an identical to the favored XPS 16 and XPS 14 that preceded them.
“The brand new identify alerts a contemporary chapter — one which makes it simpler than ever to search out the precise PC whereas offering the identical distinctive high quality, design, and efficiency,” Dell’s product administration lead, Kevin Terwilliger, said in the announcement blog.
Each laptops can be found now within the US and Canada, with costs beginning at $1,649.99 ($2,649.99 Canadian) for the Dell 14 Premium and $2,699.99 ($3,749.99 Canadian) for the Dell 16 Premium. There are nonetheless two coloration choices out there — a silver “Platinum” shade and a darker grey “Graphite” — which keep on the XPS legacy of being bland sufficient to mix into the college, faculty, and workplace environments that these laptops are marketed for.
The Dell 16 Premium has been bumped to the financial system technology of Nvidia RTX laptop computer GPUs, with the RTX 5060 out there at launch. Extra fashions sporting the RTX 5050, RTX 5070, and built-in Intel Arc graphics can even be launching “quickly,” with pricing but to be revealed. The RTX 5070-equipped mannequin particularly can even profit from an improve to Thunderbolt 5.
The Dell 14 Premium retains built-in Intel graphics and the choice to configure it with an RTX 4050 GPU, simply because the 2024 Dell XPS 14, however it will probably now be configured with as much as 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM in comparison with the earlier 32GB most. It additionally now comes with Wi-Fi 7 help, bringing it in keeping with the XPS 16 and new Dell 16 Premium.