Dell announces new XPS 15 and XPS 17 with Intel 11th-Gen chips and 3.5K OLED display
More powerful processors, GPUs, and a new 3.5K OLED panel are top-billing for this generation.
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Dell has today announced the brand new versions of its popularXPS 15andXPS 17laptop range, now featuring the latest 45W Intel 11th-generation chips for extra performance and a new 3.5K OLED display panel for the 15.6-inch variant. Featuring the same great design as last years XPS line, but with the latest and greatest specs.
The new XPS 15 can be configured with an 11th-Generation Intel Core i5-11400H, Core i7-11800H, or Core i9-11900H. But the biggest new change on the XPS 15 is the new 3.5K OLED panel, featuring a rich 3456x2160 display resolution in a 16:10 aspect ratio, with support for Dolby Vision and inky blacks. There’s also an LCD 1080p version for those who don’t need to be pushing that many pixels, and Dell still has an LCD 4K panel too if that’s what you’re looking for.
In the graphics department, you can get the XPS 15 configured with either integrated UHD Graphics, or dedicated graphics in the form of an RTX 3050 or 3050 Ti from NVIDIA. The dedicated graphics will provide excellent video editing capabilities, and even some gaming depending on the screen resolution.
Flipping over to the XPS 17, Dell has packed its top flagship with one of the most powerful processors you can find in a laptop; the Intel Core i9-11980HK, which is a 45W processor that will be able to do most workstation related tasks. You can get it with either s 1080p or 4K LCD panel, up to 64GB RAM, and either an RTX 3050 or RTX 3060 graphics card from NVIDIA. The RTX 3060 will provide quite a jump in graphics power over the 3050.
Dell calls the XPS 17 the smallest 17-inch laptop on the market, thanks to its InfinityEdge 4-sided display that gives it super thin bezels on all four edges. Both the XPS 15 and 17 have this, along with an excellent keyboard, large trackpad, great speakers, and Windows Hello.
The Dell XPS 15 and XPS 17 begins shipping this summer and starts at $1,249.99 and $1,449.99 respectively. What are your thoughts on the new Dell XPS’s? Let us know in the comments.
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