Dell 14 Premium: XPS 14 successor announced with Arrow Lake-H CPU and older Nvidia GPU

Dell's spiritual successor to the XPS lineup is finally here with slightly less confusing names than the rest of the company's 2025 lineup. They arrive as the Dell 14 Premium and Dell 16 Premium, and both laptops come with hardware suitable for a thin-and-light design. The Dell 14 Premium, as its name suggests, is the more compact offering. Unfortunately, the small chassis size has affected its hardware choices. 

The Dell 14 Premium can be configured with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H and Core Ultra 7 265H. Dell hasn't specified if other CPU choices will be available later on. For the GPU, one can stick with the integrated Arc 140T or upgrade to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050. To make matters worse, its wattage is limited to a paltry 30 Watts. 

Dell offers the 14 Premium with a variety of screen configurations. The top-spec model features a 14-inch 3.2K (3,200 x 2,000) OLED panel with a peak brightness of 400 nits and 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut coverage. Alternatively, one can get a 2K (1,920 x 1,200) IPS LCD panel with 400 nits peak brightness and 100% sRGB colour gamut coverage. Both panels refresh at up to 120 Hz. 

Like its display, the Dell 14 Premium also offers two RAM configurations. One can either get up to 64 GB of DDR5-6400 memory or DDR5-8400. Do note that 64 GB of DDR5-8400 memory is only an option with the RTX 4050 model. And there isn't much in the way of I/O, either, because the laptop only comes with three Thunderbolt 4.0 ports and a 3.5 mm audio jack. Storage maxes out at a 4 TB PCIe Gen4 SSD.

However, the Dell 14 Premium is just 18 mm thin and weighs 1.66 kg (1.76 kg for the OLED model). A 70 Wh battery powers the laptop, and you get a 100-Watt charger only if a dGPU is included; otherwise, it is just 60 Watts. The notebook also comes with a 1080p Windows Hello-ready IR webcam, an aluminium chassis, a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass (OLED only), Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. You can buy the Dell Premium 14 now starting at $1,649.99.