Dell 14 Premium ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's latest high-performance laptop is currently on sale starting at $1,500.
It's superbly designed, with a sleek, modern build and powerful, but accessible, hardware.
It runs warm, and requires power management from the user to get the most out of the battery. View now at Dell
Dell's laptop rebrand may have resulted in some shuffling around of naming conventions, but the new Dell 14 Premium -- Dell's refreshed high-performance line of laptops -- looks a whole lot like the Dell XPS upon first glance.
If you're confused about this laptop's placement in Dell's product placement hierarchy, it's in the entry-level category, but the highest-tier model in that group. This makes it a premium, but accessible, laptop for pro creatives, designers, and tech enthusiasts.
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From the zero-lattice keyboard to the edge-to-edge OLED display and invisible trackpad, the Dell 14 Premium lives up to its name with a sleek, future-facing build. When sitting on a table, it gives the impression that it's hovering above the surface because of its clever recessed design.
Appearances aside, Dell wants to emphasize that this laptop is not an XPS, but rather an evolution of the line into something new. The idea here was to take what worked on its high-end machines and improve on the things that users saw as pain points, and it does that to some degree, despite obvious comparisons it to its predecessor.
In terms of hardware, the Dell 14 Premium comes with the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H "Lunar Lake" processor, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X, 8400MT/s dual-channel RAM, and either an Intel Arc Graphics or Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU.
Opting for the 32GB of RAM and OLED display will bring the price up to $2,250 -- the upper limit of what could be considered "accessible" for a premium-tier laptop.
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