Dell Launches Lunar Lake-Powered XPS 13

The next Dell XPS 13 is available for preorder today. It’s powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, formerly code-named Lunar Lake.

Dell describes this PC as its thinnest XPS 13 yet, and it’s the first PC to offer a tandem OLED display, which improves brightness and enables longer battery life than traditional OLED displays. Indeed, Dell claims up to 26 hours of battery life, depending on configuration.

Looking at the preorder page, we can see that the Lunar Lake-based Dell XPS starts at $1399 in the U.S. for a configuration with an 8-core Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 256V processor, 16 GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 512 GB of M.2 PCIe MVMe SSD storage, and a 13.4-inch Full HD+ (1900 x 1200) non-touch InfinityEdge display.

Like its Snapdragon X-based sibling, this model offers two Thunderbolt 4/USB4 ports, and it weighs just 2.7 pounds (2.6 pounds when configured with an OLED display).

But the big deal here, of course, is Lunar Lake. Intel claims this processor gets up to 3.1x times the graphics performance of its predecessor, which offered its own dramatic performance advantages. And it of course has that 48 TOPS NPU and will support Copilot+ PC experiences starting in November with the upgrade to Windows 11 version 24H2.