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Dell Announces New XPS Line-up: Futuristic Design, with Built-in AI

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With our XPS portfolio, we have a long history of taking risks, being inquisitive and asking big design questions. At CES 2022, we showcased our vision of the future with XPS 13 Plus—an elegant and modern device, designed with simplicity at the core. The design turned heads and continues to do so today, with headlines calling it elegant, stylish, stunning, beautiful and our personal favorite—referring to the design as "the future is here."

This bold design has forever changed the ID of the XPS brand. Now, we are unifying the design across our XPS portfolio, introducing new screen sizes with the XPS 16 and XPS 14 and revamping the XPS 13 Plus to XPS 13. This trio of laptops share elements that eliminate distractions and place the focus on productivity.




The new XPS designs take a minimalistic approach that elevates the brand. The portfolio is made of CNC machined aluminium and Gorilla Glass 3, and tone-on-tone colors (available in Graphite and Platinum). The striking, unconventional look has key components that amplify the laptop experience. They feature a touch function row to switch between media and function keys easily, a seamless glass touchpad with haptic feedback and larger keycaps that provide a comfortable and smooth typing experience with every keystroke.

Style Meets Performance
Each new XPS laptop features InfinityEdge panels with OLED touch options, variable refresh rates, high-resolution options, stunning color and Dolby Vision for rich detail. The new portfolio boasts an exceptional audio experience starting with a quad speaker design, support for Dolby Atmos immersive audio and 3D stereo surround from MaxxAudio Pro by Waves. Plus, the new intelligent FHD 1080p webcam provides crystal clear video calls.

The lineup also brings new AI-enabled features, with AI acceleration built into the device thanks to Intel Core Ultra processors and experiences brought to life by Windows 11. These experiences enhance creativity and productivity while also providing better performance and longer battery life. (If this sounds too good to be true, read more about the efficiencies created from on-device AI here.) And speaking of battery life, all XPS laptops feature ExpressCharge to recharge 80% of battery life in just 60 minutes, so you can keep your creative flow going.



Introducing the New XPS Portfolio
Dell pioneered the art of engineering narrow bezels to minimize the device's footprint and maximize screen size. Now you can say hello to our new immersive 16- and 14-inch screens. The new XPS 16 and XPS 14 bring more portability to our XPS laptops and place the focus on performance and design.

The XPS 16 is the frontrunner of the portfolio, with supercharged performance for complex workloads. Featuring the latest Intel Core Ultra processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs (up to the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU), the XPS 16 is our most powerful XPS laptop with up to 80 W of sustained performance. Whether editing videos or testing the latest AI software, it's ideal for those running demanding apps, providing a smooth and fast experience.

Combining performance, design and portability, the XPS 14 is a great option for those who need the freedom of working from anywhere. The XPS 14 is 21% lighter than the XPS 16 but still delivers powerful performance to complete challenging tasks with ease. With optional NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs (up to the GeForce RTX 4050 GPU), you can edit and play high-resolution videos effortlessly. And with long battery life, it's a refined laptop made to move with you.

Both XPS 16 and XPS 14 are NVIDIA Studio-validated systems, meaning they deliver industry-leading performance for demanding creative tasks such as 3D rendering, video editing and live streaming, while offering exclusive access to the Studio AI-powered suite of tools and enhanced stability with NVIDIA Studio Drivers.

XPS 13 started our design revolution and set our vision of the future with its iconic design. Starting at just 2.6 pounds, it's our thinnest and lightest XPS, so you can carry the device wherever you're headed. The renewed laptop has three new display options to choose from (including FHD+, QHD+ touch and 3K+ OLED touch) to provide you with a versatile visual experience, suitable for everyday productivity to high-resolution content creation. The XPS 13 is the ideal multitasking machine to balance school, work, personal projects or entertainment.

AI, Your New Best Friend
AI and generative AI (GenAI) are driving the latest wave of innovation and unlocking new possibilities on the PC. It's exciting to see PCs built with AI acceleration into the device—something we touched on earlier, but let's take this a step further.

The new XPS portfolio, powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, features a built-in AI acceleration engine with the addition of a neural processing unit (NPU). This means the PC no longer needs to rely solely on the CPU or GPU for processing and performance. Imagine you are a creator who is always on the go and editing photos in Adobe Lightroom. The addition of the NPU automatically leverages the right compute engine for your workload—in this case letting you edit images faster than before while preserving battery life.

The laptops all come with Copilot in Windows 11, harnessing the capabilities of AI to make the things you do every day easier, faster and effortless. The portfolio also features a Copilot key designed to make it even easier to get things done and stay in the flow of work. Now, with the press of a key, you can have quick access to your everyday AI companion.

Sustainable From Top to Bottom
We continue our commitment to incorporate more sustainable materials in both our products and packaging. The new XPS family has the highest level of sustainable materials yet, and for the first time, the new XPS family is designed with recycled aluminium and low emissions aluminium made from a renewable energy source. This reduces the carbon footprint of this material by up to 89%. Made from 100% recycled or renewable content, the packaging used to protect XPS laptops brings us one step closer to meeting our ambitious 2030 Advancing Sustainability Goals.

The new XPS family is registered EPEAT Gold and complies with EPEAT's new and stringent climate criteria to achieve the EPEAT Climate+ Designation. With the Climate+ designation, these laptops have met industry's best practices for decarbonization.

Pricing and Availability
XPS 13, starting at $1,299 (US) and $1,749 (CA), will be available soon.
XPS 14, starting at $1,699 (US) and $2,299 (CA), will be available soon.
XPS 16, starting at $1,899 (US) and $2,549 (CA), will be available soon.

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Hi,
Glad I bought a new laptop when I did and an amd as well
No AI anywhere except the nvidia gpu nonsense nvclean install works :cool:

Dell was never on my radar nor HP.
 
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Maybe one day they'll use AI to design laptops that don't keep coming with those shitty split / half-sized cursor keys and the newest "Great Idea (tm)" trend - putting the power button as a regular key on the keyboard right next to backspace...
 
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Oh wow, just friggin W>>O>>W.....

yet anutha MacBook wannabe....

Yea they look nice and seem good on paper, but how will they actually perform.....patiently awaiting reviews :)

My IT guys @the office recently demo'd several brands & models of brand new lappys with various configs (but not these Dellz), and within the 1st hour of trying them out, it became crystal clear that our CAD teams were NOT happy with any of them that used the lowly 4050 GPU. The 2 models that had 4070's were deemed as "bare minimum", so for those of us that are in this biz, take that for what you will :D

split / half-sized cursor keys and the newest "Great Idea (tm)" trend - putting the power button as a regular key on the keyboard right next to backspace

Agreed, this, among other things, make these an auto no-buy for me, regardless of use case...
 
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Yeah I wanted a 4070 but those were still stupid priced and never dropped past 1500.us

Settled for a 4060.
 
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You might want to look at the specs of your 7840HS a little closer. :laugh:
Confused Gary Coleman GIF

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Yeah ready and ready to be removed :p
 
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Do we have any major cross-architecture NPU benchmarks yet or is 2024 going to be the year of vague-yet-unsubstantiated AI claims from anything with any kind of modern silicon on it, no matter how powerful or worthless it actually is for AI.

I mean, my new kitchen dishwasher has an AI logo on it, FFS.
 
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No F keys row, Enter the BIOS or choosing which device to boot will be annoying.


I also hate the FN key now at the left, 4 keys in the left suck (CTRL | FN | Win | ALT).
 

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No F keys row, Enter the BIOS or choosing which device to boot will be annoying.


I also hate the FN key now at the left, 4 keys in the left suck (CTRL | FN | Win | ALT).
But the touch sensitive row above the keyboard is acceptable to you?
 
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Hi,
Wonder what they got planned for this key ?
Is that saved for ET when AI flops :laugh:
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I don't think that's a key.
Guess someone will have to buy one and find out
Looks like one to me.
Rushed article ?
Hope Dell didn't use AI to make the announcement :p
 
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Guess someone will have to buy one and find out
Looks like one to me.
Rushed article ?
Hope Dell didn't use AI to make the announcement :p
Could be either the power button, a fingerprint reader, or both.
I don't see any power buttons on either of the sides from the other images and there needs to be some way to turn it on.... ;)
 
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Ow you're good :rockout:
 
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Ow you're good :rockout:
I wonder how many thousands of hours of time will be wasted for customers and Dell tech support agents because people don't know how to turn it on, LOL
Terrible, ambiguous ergonomics for the sake of style - and who on earth buys a Dell for Style, anyway?! :D

During COVID lockdowns, I probably accrued tens of cumulative hours explaining to a few hundred people how to use poorly-labelled webcam privacy shutters or on/off Fn+hotkeys. On my current Lenovo laptop it's a completely unmarked physical switch on the side of the laptop that is almost as far away from the webcam as physically possible and almost invisible because its on a recessed, bevelled edge that faces the desk. It probably had a sticky label next to it when the laptop was unboxed but that would have been discarded with the rest of the plastic shipping peels and never seen again!
 
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Hi,
Indeed
My old lappy the power button is on the top left
Now new one its on the top right
I keep looking to the left though :laugh:
 
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The variable refresh rate screens are definitely interesting! This is something new and could be a good feature to save power on laptops.
 
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The variable refresh rate screens are definitely interesting! This is something new and could be a good feature to save power on laptops.
I've had VRR screens on the last three of my work laptops and both of my personal laptops, going back to the 2700U Ideapad I issued myself in 2018. I think VRR displays are normal now, outside of extremely cheap and basic fixed 60Hz models you see on budget laptops (that will probably be ewaste soon anyway with their soldered 8GB of RAM and flimsy plastic construction that doesn't really survive treatment the way most people seem to treat cheap laptops).

I was very surprised to learn that an HP Envy I bought myself had a VRR panel rated for 48-100Hz, even though HP didn't advertise VRR and hadn't added >60Hz to the driver/EDID for the panel. Enabling VRR was a toggle in the control panel and a custom 1080p100 resolution took me 15 seconds to create and another 15 seconds to test and set as the default.
 
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Hi,
Yeah I don't use the right side winkey but do the left
Left side looks like they didn't mess with it.

Story also refers to the space bar triggering AI dialog to that would be very very bad like messing with jobu's rum :/

 
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Motherboard Dell Inc. 08HPGT (CPU 1)
Cooling Dell Standard
Memory 24GB ECC
Video Card(s) Gigabyte Nvidia RTX2060 6GB
Storage 2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD//2TB WD Black HDD
Display(s) Samsung SyncMaster P2350 23in @ 1920x1080 + Dell E2013H 20 in @1600x900
Case Dell Precision T3600 Chassis
Audio Device(s) Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 // Fiio E7 Amp/DAC
Power Supply 630w Dell T3600 PSU
Mouse Logitech G700s/G502
Keyboard Logitech K740
Software Linux Mint 20
Benchmark Scores Network: APs: Cisco Meraki MR32, Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR and Lite Router/Sw:Meraki MX64 MS220-8P
see apple you don't need those silly big notches lmao!!

laptop screens w notches are lmao distracting....

Hi,
Wonder what they got planned for this key ?
Is that saved for ET when AI flops :laugh:
View attachment 328280
it's for cats

The AI key is just replacing the Menu key which never gets used because Right Click. So no loss there.
here's my inspiron 15 3525 layout it shares w ctrl and a fn
Picsart_24-01-04_18-55-02-405.jpg

I've had VRR screens on the last three of my work laptops and both of my personal laptops, going back to the 2700U Ideapad I issued myself in 2018. I think VRR displays are normal now, outside of extremely cheap and basic fixed 60Hz models you see on budget laptops (that will probably be ewaste soon anyway with their soldered 8GB of RAM and flimsy plastic construction that doesn't really survive treatment the way most people seem to treat cheap laptops).

I was very surprised to learn that an HP Envy I bought myself had a VRR panel rated for 48-100Hz, even though HP didn't advertise VRR and hadn't added >60Hz to the driver/EDID for the panel. Enabling VRR was a toggle in the control panel and a custom 1080p100 resolution took me 15 seconds to create and another 15 seconds to test and set as the default.
This dell inspiron 15 3525 That I'm typing this on has 120Hz WVA (IPS) display and it's very nice. And non soldered RAM, 1tb m.2 nvme ssd, and is quite easy to repair and stuff... I only paid 450 for this too!
 
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System Name Bragging Rights
Processor Atom Z3735F 1.33GHz
Motherboard It has no markings but it's green
Cooling No, it's a 2.2W processor
Memory 2GB DDR3L-1333
Video Card(s) Gen7 Intel HD (4EU @ 311MHz)
Storage 32GB eMMC and 128GB Sandisk Extreme U3
Display(s) 10" IPS 1280x800 60Hz
Case Veddha T2
Audio Device(s) Apparently, yes
Power Supply Samsung 18W 5V fast-charger
Mouse MX Anywhere 2
Keyboard Logitech MX Keys (not Cherry MX at all)
VR HMD Samsung Oddyssey, not that I'd plug it into this though....
Software W10 21H1, barely
Benchmark Scores I once clocked a Celeron-300A to 564MHz on an Abit BE6 and it scored over 9000.
This dell inspiron 15 3525 That I'm typing this on has 120Hz WVA (IPS) display and it's very nice. And non soldered RAM, 1tb m.2 nvme ssd, and is quite easy to repair and stuff... I only paid 450 for this too!
Yeah, Inspirons are fine budget workhorses - they're a far cry from the disposable e-waste netbooks with eMMC and soldered everything at <$300.
 
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Messages
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System Name RemixedBeast-NX
Processor Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9Ghz (8C/16T)
Motherboard Dell Inc. 08HPGT (CPU 1)
Cooling Dell Standard
Memory 24GB ECC
Video Card(s) Gigabyte Nvidia RTX2060 6GB
Storage 2TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD//2TB WD Black HDD
Display(s) Samsung SyncMaster P2350 23in @ 1920x1080 + Dell E2013H 20 in @1600x900
Case Dell Precision T3600 Chassis
Audio Device(s) Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 // Fiio E7 Amp/DAC
Power Supply 630w Dell T3600 PSU
Mouse Logitech G700s/G502
Keyboard Logitech K740
Software Linux Mint 20
Benchmark Scores Network: APs: Cisco Meraki MR32, Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR and Lite Router/Sw:Meraki MX64 MS220-8P
Yeah, Inspirons are fine budget workhorses - they're a far cry from the disposable e-waste netbooks with eMMC and soldered everything at <$300.
yeah! I was so close to buying a lenovo ideapad or thinkbook I think but so many horror stories w those and too many soldered on components and it's a hell to get into the system to do anything...

chose this because of the upgradability and better specs!! glad I did!
 
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