If you needed another sign that it’s been a very strange year for PC hardware, check out Dell’s latest XPS 13 revision. Intel’s just announced Core Ultra 200V processors. Dell has updated its popular ultraportable device for the third time in the past year. First, he got it the original Core Ultra chip in Apriland then released Dell in July Snapdragon powered Copilot+ variant. And, as is usually the case with PC hardware, it pays to wait.
The new processors feature 48 TOPS (tera operations per second) NPU (neural processing unit) cores for AI-related tasks, as well as dramatically faster performance and efficiency. Intel also claims the new Xe2 GPU built into the chips is 32 percent faster than the previous Core Ultra, 16 percent faster than AMD’s HX 360, and 68 percent faster than Qualcomm’s 12-core X Elite chip.
Since it’s a Core Ultra 200V x86 processor, it has none of the app compatibility and performance issues I saw on the Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ XPS 13. The only major downside compared to the previous Intel XPS 13 is that you can. t upgrade a new system’s memory — Intel’s Core Ultra 200V chips have built-in RAM that cannot be upgraded in any way.
Aside from the new chip, Dell says this latest XPS 13 is the first laptop to feature a tandem OLED display, a technology that stacks two OLED panels on top of each other for better brightness. The new XPS 13 should also be able to get up to 26 hours of battery life when streaming video on its 1080p+ screen.
You can pre-order the XPS 13 with Intel Core Ultra 200V chips today for $1,400.
