Dell’s ultra-popular XPS 13 exclusively used Intel chips – until today
Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite powers the new XPS 9345, instead.
And that’s not all. The Dell Latitude 7455 uses the Snapdragon X Elite, and the slower, slightly less powerful Snapdragon X Plus will ship as part of the Latitude 7455, too, as well as the Latitude 5455, Inspiron 14 and Inspiron 14 Plus.
We knew that Dell had signed up to use the Snapdragon X Elite as early as last October, when nine PC makers committed to supporting Qualcomm’s new X Elite processor. We didn’t know as much about the Snapdragon X Plus, which uses a cut-down version of the Elite without the turbo boost options. But it seems that Dell is even more committed to the X Plus than the X Elite.
Presumably, these will be Copilot+ PCs, offering the AI benefits of features that Microsoft announced Monday Those include Recall, which will allow you to hunt down information on an explorable timeline; Live Captions with AI-generated captions of streamed audio; Auto Super Resolution; and Cocreator, the AI art generator within Microsoft Paint. All have Copilot keys.
Dell XPS 13 9345
The Dell XPS 13 9345 goes on sale today, but will ship “later this year,” Dell says, for a starting price of $1,299.
On paper, Dell’s Snapdragon-powered XPS 13 is very similar to the existing XPS 13, which uses an Intel Core Ultra processor. While the processor differs, of course, the weight (2.70 pounds) is the same. Dell offers the same 13.4-inch screen options (2560×1600, 120Hz; 2880×1800, 60Hz; and 1920×1200, 120Hz) as it does on the existing Intel-based XPS 13. Even the dimensions are exactly the same (11.62 x 7.84 x 0.58-0.60in) as the Intel-based XPS 13, which implies that one of the selling points of the X Elite platform was a minimal redesign of the platform.