Dell XPS 16 9640 (2024)

If you look at the Dell XPS 16 laptop from the side of an "AI PC" then is it a good buy? Absolutely. You've got pretty much the same features across the board from the NPU inside of the XPS 16 as you do any AI PC right now, with the dedicated Copilot+ button ready for your AI workloads.

From productivity to gaming and everything in between, the Dell XPS 16 can do it all. This premium laptop has something for everyone starting with a solid-performing Intel Core Ultra 7 processor paired to a mid-tier discrete NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, which can run most modern gaming titles smoothly, with high image quality settings with all the bells and whistles enabled. This should be appealing to mobile professionals, gamers and creatives alike. Dell also sweetens the deal with an agile SSD, beautiful OLED touch panel, and comfortable keyboard -- all contained in a relatively slim, premium chassis. The design of the keyboard deck might not be everyone’s cup of tea, with it's minimalist look and invisible touchpad, but after a while most users will likely get over the absence of a demarcated touchpad as it’s a relatively small issue. Overall, we think the Dell XPS 16 is a real looker of a laptop. Depending on the XPS 16's configuration, you may have to pay a pretty penny for those premium specs. The OLED and RTX 4070 equipped machine we evaluated here has an asking price $3,399. Fort that kind of money, we'd expect a top of the line CPU. To that end, we're curious to see how the Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor 185H would fare. In the end though, the new Dell XPS 16 is an attractive machine, with distinctive style, that offers strong performance in a variety of applications, and good battery life. If you're shopping for a premium notebook in this class, the Dell XPS 16 is worth considering.