Dell resurrects XPS model with slick new laptop computer that's smaller than a MacBook Air, lasts 40 hours and depends on Intel's Panther Lake chip for gaming grunt
Together with teasing some very skinny new Alienware laptops, one of many highlights of Dell’s CES keynote was the return of the XPS model within the type of some very slick new moveable PCs. Notably, Dell is not providing discrete graphics choices with the brand new laptops, the implication being that the iGPU within the new Panther Lake CPU makes that pointless.
Placing apart the truth that killing off the XPS model by no means appeared like a good suggestion, Dell’s new laptops definitely appear to be a promising return for the XPS line. Initially, Dell is launching the XPS 14 and XPS 16, with a 13-inch mannequin to observe.
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Subsequent up is new battery tech. Dell claims it is the primary to implement 900ED (power density) battery cells. Our understanding is that current battery tech in commercially obtainable laptops tops out at round 700ED.
That is a rise of over 20% when it comes to power density and it has allowed Dell to make these laptops each extraordinarily compact and really lengthy lasting. Dells says the XPS 14, “is now extra compact than the MacBook Air 13, taking on much less desk area whereas providing you with extra display screen area.” Each fashions are simply 14.6 mm thick.
Regardless of being smaller than a MacBook Air, the XPS 14 has way more battery capability, coming in at 70WHr to the Air’s 53.8WHr. Together with the brand new Intel Panther Lake chip, the result’s unimaginable claimed battery lifetime of as much as 40 hours of native video playback and 27 hours of streaming video.
Barely oddly, the bigger XPS 16 has the identical 70WHr battery, maybe as a result of the battery tech is so new, Dell can solely supply one capability dimension, for now.
Anywho, talking of that new Intel Panther Lake chip, Dell appears to suppose it is so good {that a} discrete GPU possibility is now not vital for these XPS portables. As Andy has reported, Panther Lake is claimed to be as much as 77% quicker than Intel’s earlier finest iGPU in Lunar Lake, which itself was no slouch. Lengthy story quick, we will not wait to see simply how good Panther Lake’s graphics actually is.
Rounding out the brand new XPS 14 and 16’s highlights are non-compulsory tandem OLED screens. On this context, “tandem OLED” means simply what you’d suppose, specifically two OLED panels stacked atop each other.
This makes for a brighter, extra strong OLED panel. Dell quotes full display screen brightness at 400 nits, which is best than any desktop OLED monitor. It is price noting that the OLED screens include a battery life hit, although Dell is not quoting specifics for now.
Nonetheless, Dell has launched pricing, pegging entry pricing at $2,049.99 for the 14 and $2,199.99 for the 16. Each laptops can be found from in the present day.
Together with the XPS 14 and 16, Dell stated that an XPS 13 mannequin will arrive later this 12 months. It will get the identical premium construct high quality, however would be the thinnest and lightest XPS ever, measuring underneath 13 mm thick.
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