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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Dell unveils new Premium 14 and 16 laptops, its first XPS replacements
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Dell kicked off 2025 by rebranding all of its long-running laptop lines (and promptly getting roasted for it). Today, the company announced the first wave of successors to its popular XPS laptop series: the Dell Premium 14 and 16. The two PCs feature Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, slightly larger 120Hz displays, and a tweaked Dell logo on their lids. (The brand name no longer has a circle around it.) Otherwise, they look almost identical to their forebears, the XPS 14 and 16, retaining their polarizing minimalist designs with gapless keyboards, seamless touchpads, and Platinum and Graphite finishes. The Premium 14 and 16 are available now at Dell starting at $1,649.99 and $2,699.99, respectively, with delivery dates listed for mid- to late July. Shop the new Dell Premium line: Dell Premium 14 Starting at $1,649.99 Shop Now Dell Premium 16 Starting at $2,699.99 Shop Now The more portable Premium 14 features a 14.5-inch 2K LCD display, an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU, integrated Intel Arc Graphics, 16GB to 64GB of RAM, up 512GB to 4TB of SSD storage, and newly added WiFi 7 support. Optional upgrades include an OLED touchscreen display and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU. It's rated at up to 20 hours of battery life; you'll get the most usage out of a non-OLED model. At launch, this laptop maxes out at 32GB of RAM and 4TB of storage, but Dell said an option with 64GB of RAM will be available eventually. The Dell Premium 14 in Platinum. Credit: Dell The more powerful Premium 16 offers a 16.3-inch 2K display, up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, an RTX 5060 graphics card, 16GB to 64GB of RAM, and 512GB to 4TB of storage. It's supposed to last up to 27 hours on a single charge, but its optional 4K OLED touchscreen display upgrade will bump that down a bit. The Dell Premium 16 in Graphite. Credit: Dell Like the Premium 14, some of the more advanced specs aren't available yet. Dell said the Premium 16 will be "available soon" in other GPU configurations, including models with Intel Arc 140T, RTX 5050, and RTX 5070 graphics. The latter comes with three Thunderbolt 5 ports and will be capable of supporting up to four 8K external displays. Notably, both new Premium laptops have a neural processing unit (or NPU), but it caps out at 13 TOPS (trillions of operations per second, an AI performance metric). That's well below the 40 TOPS threshold that would make them Copilot+ PCs. In other words, they won't come with certain AI features that are available in other popular Windows laptops, like Recall, Studio Effects, and a Cocreator image generator in Microsoft Paint. For some shoppers, that might be a huge plus: In a fall 2024 survey conducted by Intel, 44% of respondents said they considered AI PCs to be "a gimmick or futuristic technology." The new Premium laptops aren't to be confused with Dell's Pro Premium laptops, which are business-oriented models that are, indeed, Copilot+ PCs. SEE ALSO: Best Windows laptops for 2025: Our top pick lasts longer than the M4 MacBook Pros
The Verge
26-06-2025
- Business
- The Verge
Dell's new Premium laptops are here, for the XPS rebrand nobody asked for
After scrapping its XPS branding earlier this year, Dell has now launched two of the new 'Premium' laptop models that are replacing it. Aside from being refreshed with Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 Arrow Lake processors, a slightly revised Dell lid logo, and a few other spec changes, the Dell 16 Premium and Dell 14 Premium are nearly identical to the popular XPS 16 and XPS 14 that preceded them. 'The new name signals a fresh chapter — one that makes it easier than ever to find the right PC while providing the same exceptional quality, design, and performance,' Dell's product management lead, Kevin Terwilliger, said in the announcement blog. Both laptops are available now in the US and Canada, with prices starting 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 still two color options available — a silver 'Platinum' shade and a darker gray 'Graphite' — which carry on the XPS legacy of being bland enough to blend into the school, college, and office environments that these laptops are marketed for. The Dell 16 Premium has been bumped to the latest generation of Nvidia RTX laptop GPUs, with the RTX 5060 available at launch. Additional models sporting the RTX 5050, RTX 5070, and integrated Intel Arc graphics will also be launching 'soon,' with pricing yet to be revealed. The RTX 5070-equipped model specifically will also benefit from an upgrade to Thunderbolt 5. The Dell 14 Premium retains integrated Intel graphics and the option to configure it with an RTX 4050 GPU, just as the 2024 Dell XPS 14, but it can now be configured with up to 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM compared to the previous 32GB maximum. It also now comes with Wi-Fi 7 support, bringing it in line with the XPS 16 and new Dell 16 Premium. Not much else seems to have changed. Specs for the display, ports, and storage mirror those offered on last year's XPS 14 and 16 lineup, as does the overall design — including the gapless 'zero-lattice' keyboard with capacitive touch function row that we found to be lacklustre compared to keyboards on other laptops like the older XPS 15 or current MacBook Pros.
