Dell's XPS series should be the favorite of many high-end business users, with ultra-narrow bezels, exquisite portability, and a burst of quality. Now, the series has been updated with XPS 14 (9440), a high-performance business laptop that combines lightweight and performance at the same time.
To put it simply, the Dell XPS 14 is an enlarged version of the XPS 13 Plus, the whole machine is made of CNC integrated carved body and glass, using a new meshless keyboard, capacitive touch function bar, seamless glass pressure-sensitive touchpad. The sleek keyboard, function bar, trackpad, and palm rest make up a neat, lightweight, signature look that's perfectly aligned with the pretty curved edges for a clean, harmonious finish.
However, this machine uses a larger 145 inches, so the speaker decoration cutouts are left on both sides of the keyboard, and the body size is larger, 18mm thick and 1.68kg or 1With a weight of 74kg, portability has decreased.
Dell XPS 14 has improved interface design, adding a MicroSD card reader and audio interface, with 3 Thunderbolt 4s. Although there is still no A port, it is much better than the XPS 13 Plus with only 2 Thunderbolt 4.
The new product upgrades the Core Ultra 7 155H processor in terms of configuration, with 6 large, 8 small, 16 cores and 22 threads, and the highest turbo boost frequency of 48GHz, CPU performance has not changed much compared with the previous generation i7-1370P (including i7-13700H), but the GPU core display has been upgraded from Iris XE 96 to ARC Ruixuan, 3D performance has doubled, and the joining of NPU has also allowed it to enter the door of the AI PC era.
It should be noted that the Dell XPS 14 screen exists in LCD and OLED specifications, the former is FHD resolution, 100% SRGB high color gamut, 120Hz refresh rate and 500nits brightness. The OLED screen supports touch function, the resolution is increased to 3K, and there is a 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, 120Hz refresh rate, support Dolby Vision and Rheinland hardware anti-blue light, and the display effect and functionality are better.
Available with 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5X-6400 onboard memory, 512GB or 1TB PCIe 40 SSD, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 discrete graphics version is optional, but limited by the small body and positioning, the power consumption of the discrete graphics card is only 30W, which is not used to play games, but is used to accelerate productivity applications.
The Dell XPS 14 has a built-in killer wireless card, a 1080p camera, support for face recognition, and 4 speakers with Dolby Atmos support. Judging from the official disassembly manual, the nuclear display version has a built-in dual fan and three heat pipes, while the independent display version has two fans and two heat pipes, covering a larger area of vapor chambers.
Overall, as a large screen enhanced version of Dell XPS 13 Plus, the new XPS 14 has a relatively larger field of view, so you can work for a long time without bothering your eyes, and the combination of upgrading the Core Ultra 7 155H processor and RTX 4050 discrete graphics card can also release enough powerful productivity between square inches. The more modern minimalist design with the retained capacitive touch function bar, seamless glass trackpad, and meshless keyboard is laid out in a row of machines that you can instantly recognise (without thinking about **) and be willing to pay for it. The biggest problem with XPS 14 is that the starting price of 14999 yuan is too expensive, if you want 32GB memory and OLED touch screen, you need 16999 yuan, and the independent display version is more expensive, which is destined to be only a mobile companion for a few business elites.