Dell’s new Premium laptops are here, for the XPS rebrand nobody asked for

The Dell 14 Premium (left) and Dell 16 Premium (right) look conscionable similar their XPS forebears.

After scrapping its XPS branding earlier this year, Dell has present launched 2 of the caller “Premium” laptop models that are replacing it. Aside from being refreshed with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 Arrow Lake processors, a somewhat revised Dell lid logo, and a fewer different spec changes, the Dell 16 Premium and Dell 14 Premium are astir identical to the fashionable XPS 16 and XPS 14 that preceded them.

“The caller sanction signals a caller section — 1 that makes it easier than ever to find the close PC portion providing the aforesaid exceptional quality, design, and performance,” Dell’s merchandise absorption lead, Kevin Terwilliger, said successful the announcement blog.

Both laptops are disposable present successful the US and Canada, with prices starting astatine $1,649.99 ($2,649.99 Canadian) for the Dell 14 Premium and $2,699.99 ($3,749.99 Canadian) for the Dell 16 Premium. There are inactive 2 colour options disposable — a metallic “Platinum” shadiness and a darker grey “Graphite” — which transportation connected the XPS bequest of being bland capable to blend into the school, college, and bureau environments that these laptops are marketed for.

The Dell 16 Premium has been bumped to the latest procreation of Nvidia RTX laptop GPUs, with the RTX 5060 disposable astatine launch. Additional models sporting the RTX 5050, RTX 5070, and integrated Intel Arc graphics volition besides beryllium launching “soon,” with pricing yet to beryllium revealed. The RTX 5070-equipped exemplary specifically volition besides payment from an upgrade to Thunderbolt 5.

The Dell 14 Premium retains integrated Intel graphics and the enactment to configure it with an RTX 4050 GPU, conscionable arsenic the 2024 Dell XPS 14, but it tin present beryllium configured with up to 64GB of LPDDR5 RAM compared to the erstwhile 32GB maximum. It besides present comes with Wi-Fi 7 support, bringing it successful enactment with the XPS 16 and caller Dell 16 Premium.

Not overmuch other seems to person changed. Specs for the display, ports, and retention reflector those offered connected past year’s XPS 14 and 16 lineup, arsenic does the wide plan — including the gapless “zero-lattice” keyboard with capacitive interaction relation enactment that we recovered to beryllium lacklustre compared to keyboards connected different laptops similar the older XPS 15 oregon existent MacBook Pros.