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Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite is available for pre-order for $1299 and up
The Dell XPS 13 laptop is a premium thin and light notebook that’s been around for more than a decade. This year Dell updated the XPS 13 with a major redesign that’s controversial, to say the least. But it looks like the company is sticking with the new design, because the company’s first XPS 13 laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor looks virtually identical to the models with Intel Meteor Lake chips that launched earlier this year.
Like the Intel models, the new Dell XPS 13 (9345) is a 2.6 pound notebook that measures less than 0.6 inches thick, while sporting a 13.4 inch display and a 55 Wh battery. It’s available for pre-order starting today for $1299 and up.
The starting price is for a model with a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100) processor with CPU speeds up to 3.4 GHz, dual-core boost speeds up to 4 GHz, Adreno integrated graphics with up to 3.8 TFLOPS of GPU performance, and a 45 TOPS NPU for on-device AI processing.
Other features for this entry-level configuration include a 1920 x 1200 pixel, 120 Hz non-touch IPS LCD display, 16GB of LPDDR5x-7467 dual-channel memory, and a 512GB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
But Dell will also offer higher-priced configurations with up to 64GB of RAM, up to 2TB of storage, and 2560 x 1600 pixel. 120 Hz touchscreen LCD display or a 2880 x 1800 pixel, 60 Hz OLED non-touch display. The company also plans to offer a cheaper model for Chinese customers that features a 10-core Snapdragon X1 Plus (X1P-64-100) processor.
The laptop has a CNC aluminum body with a very limited set of ports: there’s one USB4 Type-C port on each side of the notebook. Each of these can be used to charge the laptop, connect high-speed peripherals, or for hooking up an external display thanks to DisplayPort 2.1 Alt Mode support. But you may need to use a dock if you want to plug two or more things into the laptop while charging it at the same time.
Dell equips the notebook with a 1080p webcam with a Windows Hello-compatible IR camera, quad speakers, two microphones, and Dolby Atmos audio.
The keyboard area may be the most controversial part of Dell’s new XPS laptop design. Dell’s keys are flat and wide, with little space between them. And there’s a set of capacitive touch keys above the keyboard where you’d normally find Fn keys. The nice thing about these capacitive keys is that they can alternate between showing F1 – F12 or other functions like volume and brightness depending on the context. The less nice things about this row of keys are that you can’t actually feel them since they don’t move when you press them, and you may not always be able to see them since they’re only supposed to light up when you’re using them.
Dell also uses an ambient light sensor to control the keyboard backlight brightness. While users can turn the backlight on or off, they can’t manually adjust the brightness.
I’m also not a huge fan of the “seamless” glass touchpad, which blends invisibly into the palm rest area. While it looks pretty sleek, it’s also harder to feel with your fingers where the touchpad begins and ends.
Still, it’s nice to see that the starting price for the XPS 13 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor is the same as the starting price for Intel Meteor Lake models. It’s also kind of impressive to see just how little Dell had to change this laptop to swap out the processor, even though the ARM-powered version almost certainly has a different mainboard to accommodate Qualcomm’s processor.
Dell XPS 13 (9345)Dell XPS 13 (9340)Display13.4 inches- 1920 x 1200, 120 Hz non-touch LCD
- 2560 x 1600, 120 Hz touchscreen LCD
- 2880 x 1800, 60 Hz touchscreen OLED
- Intel Core Ultra 5 125H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
- Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
- Intel Arc
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050M (6GB GDDR6, 30W)
- 8GB LPDDR5-6400
- 16GB / 32GB /64GB LPDDR5x-7467
PCIe Gen 4 SSDWirelessQualcomm FastConnect 7800
WiFi 7
BT 5.4Intel Killer 1750 (BE2200)
WiFi 7
BT 5.4Ports2 x USB4 (DisplayPort 2.1 Alt Mode)2 x Thunderbolt 4 (DisplayPort 2.1 Alt Mode)Webcam1080pAudioQuad speakers
2 x 2W main
2 x 2W tweeters
dual microphonesBattery55 Wh69.5 WhCharging60W USB-C adapterInputBacklit zero-lattice keyboard w/ambient light sensor
1mm key travel
Capacitive touch function row
Glass haptic touchpadSecurityFingerprint reader
Windows Hello IR cameraMaterialsAluminum with Gorilla Glass 3 palm restDimensions295 x 199 x 15mm
11.6″ x 7.8″ x 0.6″Starting Weight1.19 kg
2.6 poundsStarting Price$1300$1300#aiPc #copilotPlusPc #dell #dellXps13 #dellXps139345 #snapdragonXElite