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Dell’s caller Dell 14S laptop sounds a batch for illustration a MacBook Neo: it comes successful 4 colors, is aimed astatine students, and it starts pinch 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced astatine IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to beryllium beneath the precocious launched XPS 13 and connection different affordable laptop action arsenic astir different models proceed to climb successful price. The 14S will travel successful linen (beige), dusty roseate (pink), washed denim (blue), and velvet greenish (yep, that’s green). That’s overmuch much colorful than the XPS 13, and for illustration its fancier brethren, the 14S tin beryllium configured pinch 16GB of RAM and a 512GB aliases 1TB SSD.
The Dell 14S isn’t arsenic bladed aliases arsenic ray arsenic the XPS 13, but successful summation to the aforesaid 2 USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 ports pinch DisplayPort and Power Delivery, it besides has HDMI 1.4 and a 3.5mm audio jack. (Why the XPS 13 lacks a headphone jack, I’ll ne'er understand). But the 14S has overmuch much basic, non-touch show options: a 300-nit 1920 x 1200 / 60Hz LCD aliases a 450-nit 2880 x 1800 / 120Hz one.
1/5Those are immoderate decent colors each around. Image: Dell
There are immoderate different niceties for students connected the 14S, including a 1080p webcam pinch Windows Hello look unlock support, and artillery life that Dell claims tin past for up to 23 hours of Netflix streaming. For spot offerings, it’ll beryllium either the Intel Core 5 320 aliases Core 7 350 — the 14S won’t standard up to Intel Panther Lake options for illustration the XPS 13 is soon expected to.
We don’t cognize really overmuch immoderate of this will costs conscionable yet, arsenic pricing is TBD for now, but successful a virtual briefing Dell reps said the 14S will beryllium adjacent to the XPS 13’s $700 starting value yet somewhat much accessible. We’ll cognize existent prices person to its merchandise later this fall. I’m presently testing and reviewing the XPS 13, and I’ve been very impressed pinch the hardware (except for the missing headphone jack). I’m each for seeing much good, affordable laptops retired location — hopefully the 14S makes the correct compromises to get the value down.
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