they just revamped basically their entire lineup of PCS including a
complete Rebrand Inspiron gone XPS gone
latitude gone Alienware stays but that's
about it and D sponsored this video to run you guys through the new branding
and what it means we've also got the new devices and they look sick but first I
want to explain this graphic on the left are all of the old names that Dell used
to use to specify the target segment of their PCS here's your basic consumer
models here's your step up with more premium materials here's your workplace
Workhorse and here's your high performance workstation oh yeah and over
here's gaming okay now we take that and we just put it here here are the three
new categories Dell is what most consumers will be looking for and will
cover many work play and school tasks Dell Pro is for professionals where
security and productivity take center stage and Del Pro Max is for those
professionals that really tax their computer and need the horsepower for
Mass of calculations simulations and CAD models and I can see how this could be a
little confusing change Always is but one thing I appreciate about Dell's
branding streamlining here is that words mean what they mean for instance Pro
means that the machine is actually designed for professional use not just
that it costs more and makes your blue bubbles even shinier of course there are
still more basic and more premium machines within each slice here so how
do we differentiate those base plus and
premium so derivative yes easy for the
average person to understand also yes maybe let's try it out I want a gorgeous
laptop that I can pose with while I sip an expensive coffee okay go D
premium great now I want a stable work
laptop but my workload is actually pretty light go I need a d Pro all right
then without further Ado let's take a look at some of the most exciting
machines in our lineup starting with the Dell Pro 13 premium where Dell has
turned around what I would consider to be one of their largest past mistakes on
the previous latitude 9000 model that this replaces for Io you got USBC and
USBC but no more here we get usba HDMI
2.1 two Thunderbolt four ports okay those are kind of USBC but you also get
a headphone microphone combo Jack meaning you no longer have to choose
between having the sleekest Dell and being able to easily connect to the
boardroom projector but that isn't even the most exciting news reports in the
entire Del Pro lineup every single laptop now gets replaceable USBC ports
wait like serviceable yeah oh that is so
cool we're going to look at that more in a bit but first as the name suggests
everything about this laptop is premium the chassis is magnesium to cut the
weight down to just over a kilogram we've got their zero lattice keyboard
but with a tiny bit more space between the keys than what you would find on the
XPS and its 13-in touchscreen display goes up to 500 nits at QD plus
resolution although the screen we're most excited to check out is the QD plus
tandem OLED panel that will be coming on the pro premium 14 later this year one
more thing that professionals will appreciate is that the Del Pro Plus and
premium can be equipped with a 5G modem allowing you to work from anywhere
without worrying that the coffee shop Wi-Fi might be as insecure as
15-year-old lonus this is what happen happens when I don't review The Script
before we shoot now let's have a look at the Pro Plus model where we find some
very thoughtful cost cutting you still get access to great performance with an
Intel Core Ultra 7 with an npu for AI and later in the year there's going to
be some AMD ryzen models coming but gone
is the more expensive magnesium chassis and here is a more reasonable aluminum
one the webcam gets downgraded from 8 megapixel to 5 megapixel but you still
have the option for Windows hello facial recognition and a fingerprint reader on
the power button for for the most part you can configure the laptop to be just
as powerful as a premium model but if you want to save a bit you can foro
things like Wi-Fi 7 or 5G connectivity and for the 13in the screen tops out at
a 1200p
resolution that's still really good at this size moving on to the Dell Pro this
is the base model you can see that once again the materials have been downgraded
a little bit now we got a plastic chassis the touchpad is also a touch
smaller and although the process processor is still the greatest it isn't
the latest in the Del Pro 14in we've got an Intel Core 7 250u which you might
have noticed doesn't have the ultra branding of the laptops we just talked
about but you do get more upgradeability let's see who can take apart their
laptop first philli screws love to see it are these all captive yeah that's
great it makes it so much harder to lose screws which is the bane of every it
Tech's existence when you're working on things like laptops and smartphones that
just have all these custom stupid length screws and everything I need
yours I win Alex we weren't racing you
literally just said it was a race when you had a lead on me we're not racing
anymore GG wow you can really see that
as similar as they look from the outside they are not that similar when you get
to the inside a lot of the space in the premium model is taken up by that 5G
modem dual fans to keep noise to a minimum and even a sideways SSD because
there's so much stuff packed in we've also got oh that is so cool these
replaceable USBC Port modules that is so
cool I mean it's the io Port that you're going to use the most especially because
it's going to be where you're plugging in for charging where you know mishaps
can happen so being able to pop them out with just two screws without also
replacing the rest of the board I love it I mean it's still a fair bit of work
cuz the screws are on the other side so you got to kind of pull the motherboard
out but dude this is progress It's the sort of thing that I would invest in
meanwhile in the Dell Pro things are a bit more laid-back with a single fan
allowing for a simpler PCB design and
very welcome support for so dim memory with 64 gigs currently installed maybe
you want all that RAM though and the latest processors and upgradeability
well then we need to stop looking at these pros and switch over to the pro
Max we'll look at the outside of this bad boy in a second but this is the Dell
Pro Max 14 and it is one of the first laptops to hit the market with LP cam
memory we made a full video on this stuff two years ago when Dell pioneered
this standard but the TL didn't watch is that cam memory allows for higher memory
density and more importantly lower memory profile while also getting
replaceable modules close enough to the CPU shortening the traces enough that
they can run at very high speeds in real world terms that means that while our
replaceable so are running at 5200 megat
transfers per second our cam module is running at
7,467 megat transfers per second and that is while maintaining
upgradeability so cool in this area here
we can see we're in NVIDIA RTX 500 class GPU can be optioned what previously
would have been called a Quadro and below that we've got an impressively
sized 72w battery it's a that's a nice
size for a 14-in machine dude the Pro Max is all Philips head captive screws
too yep all of them except for the pro Max premium which for whatever reason is
Torx but we'll look at that in a bit and fairness to them Torx is more better
it's just not always convenient because I don't always have one on me although I
probably should thanks to my LTT Precision driver and bit set with
Magnetic Parts tray detachable LTT
store.com moving to the outside of this machine we've got another solid
selection of I/O with 3 and 1/2 mm audio usba and ether
two Thunderbolt 4S more usba and HDMI
this is a base model but it's the Bas Pro Max so we still get a Quad HD Plus
display and Windows hello facial recognition but the thing that impressed
me most about this laptop is actually the quality of the keyboard This is far
from a thin laptop and Dell has clearly used that space to allow for one of the
most desktop-like keyboards that we've encountered in quite some time the
travel is long the key stability is great and a fair bit of force is
required to actuate the making for a very satisfying typing experience enough
of this though let's look at the big boy
the new Dell Pro Max 16 premium on the
left we get HDMI and two Thunderbolt
five ports which feature double the throughput of Thunderbolt 4 then on the
right we get 3 and 12 mm audio oh my goodness we still get Thunderbolt 4 yes
we do and a full-sized SD card reader
which I'm sure many camera operators and video editors are going to love to to
here we're not entirely sure what the exact specs are for this guy Dell said
that they might actually change between now and the Planned release later this
year but we do know that this display is QHD plus it's touch and it is freaking
fantastic looking finally it's time to look at the consumer side of things it's
going to be a bit confusing for a little while see Dell is renaming their laptops
as they are releasing new ones meaning that the current consumer lineup is
going to be Inspiron then Del Plus and then finally XPS but as the lower
Inspiron get replaced then they'll get turned into just Dell laptops and XPS
will be rebranded to Dell premium if you ever find this confusing and you're
wondering which ones are the old ones and which ones are the new ones the new
ones just say dell and the old ones say
dell with a circle let's take a look at the new Dell plus 16 and 162 in one the
real highlight here is the QHD plus mini LED touchscreen that goes up to 600 nits
Peak bright and has a 90 HZ refresh rate Dell also
has continued this new trend of including usba and HDMI in addition to
USBC this guy will be available February 18th starting at $9.99 moving forward
all Dell laptops are going to have a s digit model number that tells you the
category tier form factor shipping year
and CPU vendor putting all the important info in one place just like it's
important for me to thank Dell for sponsoring this video wow that ended
really abruptly if you guys enjoyed this video go watch the cam explainer cam is
super cool and is not getting enough attention that video got like no views
go watch it cuz it's awesome