PRE-ORDER NOW: Set for a mid-September launch, the brand new Lunar Lake-powered Dell XPS 13 is now up for preorder on the Dell web site beginning at $1,399.99.
Dell’s smallest XPS machine is getting upgraded with new Intel Core Extremely 200V processors, and preorders open immediately.
The American tech big introduced Tuesday that its new XPS 13 laptop computer will characteristic contemporary “Lunar Lake” CPUs with a devoted Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for seamlessly dealing with AI features like content material technology and modifying. It may be configured with as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 288V processor, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage beginning at $1,399.99 on Dell’s web site, with supply as quickly as Sept. 19 on the time of writing.
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AI is not new territory for the XPS 13: Dell has been promoting a “CoPilot+ PC” model of the skinny 13-incher with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X collection CPU since mid-2024. This new mannequin will help the identical Home windows AI options, however it needs to be barely higher at optimizing them with as much as 48 Tera Operations per Second of AI efficiency (or TOPS) in comparison with the Snapdragon chip’s 45 TOPs. And, extra crucially for most individuals, it will not run into the identical Arm-related app compatibility points.
Past its CPU, the brand new XPS 13 is principally an identical to its predecessor: Its keyboard and glass haptic touchpad each span edge to edge, and it is out there in the identical monochromatic Graphite and Platinum finishes. It is also nonetheless upgradable with a tandem OLED show (à la Apple’s newest iPad Professional), a brighter and extra power-efficient choice than a standard OLED show. This OLED mannequin is simply 0.58 inches skinny and weighs 2.6 kilos, whereas the FHD+ and QHD+ configurations clock in at 0.6 inches and a couple of.7 kilos.
Dell stated the XPS 13 will provide as much as 26 hours of battery life with an FHD+ show, which is up from 18 hours within the earlier Intel-powered mannequin however a one-hour downgrade from the Snapdragon model — on paper, not less than. (As with every laptop computer, that will pan out in another way in testing.)
No phrase but on whether or not Dell’s different 14- and 16-inch XPS laptops will likely be getting the identical Intel Core Extremely 200V collection therapy. When requested about their destiny, the corporate’s rep instructed Mashable that “[it’s] Dell coverage to not focus on future merchandise and roadmaps.”