Dell renames all the long-running laptop series (and bake immediately) to 2025. Today, the company announced its first wave of successors to its popular XPS laptop series: Dell Premium 14 and 16.
The two PCs feature Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, a slightly larger 120Hz display, and the Dell logo on the lid. (The brand name no longer revolves around it.) Otherwise, they look nearly the same as the predecessors, the XPS 14 and 16, and retain the polarized minimalist design using a gapless keyboard, seamless touchpad, and platinum and graphite finish.
Premium 14 and 16 now start at $1,649.99 and $2,699.99 on Dell, listing delivery dates from mid-July to late July.
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The more portable premium 14 features a 14.5-inch 2K LCD display, Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU, Inteltel 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 touch screen display and a dedicated NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4050 GPU. It has a battery life of up to 20 hours; you will get the most usage from the non-metamodel.
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At launch, the laptop maximized with 32GB of RAM and 4TB of storage, but Dell said it will eventually offer an option of 64GB of RAM.
Dell Premium 14 in Platinum.
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The more powerful Premium 16 offers a 16.3-inch 2K display with 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 should last up to 27 hours on a single charge, but its optional 4K OLED touchscreen display upgrade will be a bit lowered.
Dell Premium 16 in graphite.
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Like the Premium 14, some more advanced specs are not available yet. Dell said the Premium 16 will be “available” 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 able to support up to four 8K external displays.
It is worth noting that both new premium laptops have a neural processing unit (or NPU), but it has 13 top limits (trillions of operations per second, AI performance metrics). This is well below the 40 top thresholds, which will make them Copilot+ PCs. In other words, they won’t come with other popular AI features available in Windows laptops, such as recall, studio effects, and Cocreator Image Generator in Microsoft Paint. This could be a huge advantage for some shoppers: In the fall 2024 survey conducted by Intel, 44% of respondents said they considered AI PCs to be “gi headers or futuristic technology.”
New premium laptops won’t work with Dell’s Pro Advanced laptops are business-oriented models, and are actually co-pilot + PC.
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