Dell’s Revised XPS 13 Promises ‘Multi-Day Battery,’ Even Though It Still Can’t Quit Invisible Trackpads

It’s been a small little than 2 years since Dell showed disconnected its redesigned and very arguable XPS 13. It hasn’t yet discontinue the fascination with an invisible touchpad, a super-flat, spaceless keyboard, and LED relation row. The caller XPS 13 includes the soon-to-launch Lunar Lake chips from Intel promising capable ratio to watercourse for 26 hours. It’s besides packing a tandem OLED show that promises quality and brightness each successful one. If you inactive hatred the design, nary of that astir apt matters excessively overmuch to you.

As Dell described during IFA connected Tuesday, the XPS 13 redux claims it has a “multi-day battery,” though that means watching Netflix movies continuously for 26 hours astatine a debased brightness setting. If the 55Wh artillery combined with the Intel Core Ultra 7 256V offers adjacent to 20 hours, it would beryllium a important betterment implicit the erstwhile XPS 13 models oregon the much caller XPS 14 with Meteor Lake.

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It’s inactive the aforesaid thin, 2.6-pound laptop design, but the caller XPS starts astatine $1,400 for the low-end mentation that comes with 512 GB of SSD storage, 16 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core Ultra 5 226V. There are options for 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. The CPU tin scope from aggregate Core Ultra 7 chips up to the highest-end mobile processor, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V. The laptop is presently up for pre-order.

We person yet to benchmark immoderate of the chips ourselves, but Intel promised immoderate monolithic improvements successful productivity benchmarks and adjacent immoderate ample leaps successful gaming show for specified bladed laptops. 

The laptop’s 13.4-inch show is getting a large boost with the upgraded OLED. Apple archetypal introduced the wide marketplace to tandem OLED displays with the iPad Pro with M4. The surface benignant is fundamentally 2 layers of OLED connected apical of each other, allowing for amended brightness than these kinds of displays typically offer. Dell says you should get a emblematic 500 nits of full-screen brightness. More layers means it’s much costly to produce, which is apt wherefore the laptop starts $350 much than the aforesaid instrumentality from 2022.

Despite each that, it’s inactive going to person the aforesaid aged problems. I don’t overmuch attraction for the flat, near-seamless keyboard oregon a trackpad that doesn’t amusement you the edges. I tin unrecorded with some of those, but the LED interaction relation enactment is simply a unspeakable plan that feels little intuitive than a elemental button. It’s besides an accessibility nightmare for anybody with imaginativeness issues. If you tin past the design, a importantly amended artillery life, and a amended surface would marque the XPS 13 a large slim productivity machine, though astir apt not arsenic casual arsenic the latest MacBook Airs. 

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And if you’re looking for thing overmuch slimmer, little pricey, and with a much emblematic keyboard, Dell besides shared info for the caller Inspiron and Latitude models. The Inspiron 14 and Latitude 5455 person the enactment for a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus 8-core CPU. The latest slimmed-down signifier of the Qualcomm ARM-based spot packs less cores than the previous Snapdragon X Plus that’s been stuck successful the much budget-end Copilot+ PCs. A cheaper spot necessitates a cheaper laptop, and the Inspiron 14 starts astatine $900, $100 little than the aforesaid laptop with the 10-core X Plus.

Both laptops volition beryllium disposable starting Sept. 24. The spot is expected to outperform Intel’s low-end Core Ultra 5 125U chips with acold amended powerfulness efficiency. We don’t cognize yet however the Core Ultra 5 226V volition stack up, particularly since Intel is much keen to amusement disconnected the benchmarks connected its mid—or high-end CPUs.