Pro 14

Dell XPS 14 & 16 is designed to rival MacBook Pro 14” & 16”. putting it against the Air is just weird in the first place and intentionally misleading for the people less familiar with this stuff… not to mention the Air models have significantly smaller battery capabilities than the Pros MacBook Pros

I'm not familiar with the UK market, but IMO you should be looking for Intel Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 2xxV) machines. These should be on clearance now that Panther Lake is out, but they offer more than enough performance for you use case, a competent iGPU, and very good battery life (10h+ should be at

I work for an org using only Dell hardware, those plastic chassis models will feel like crap. Although the new panther lake chips should hopefully improve battery life and performance. Our base model that we purchase is the dell pro 14, usually alloy chassis. These are a great little machine. As for

Dell have again have clearly dropped in quality. We started using 5440s as a standard device and at least 20% of these have had to go back and had mainboards swapped out. 5450s were better but not much. Then they changes the naming so srandard device is now Pro 14. Build quality is laughable, servic

i would look at intel core ultra 7 256v/258v256v for 16gb 258v for 32gb ramsthey the same cpu essentiallylast i checked most affordable model with it is dell pro 14single core performance with them is very decent, battery life is extremly good (cpu specifically)if u mean to train stuff or run big mo

Dell Pro 14 Essential (PV14250) is a solid entry level business laptop with a modern display, good battery options, up to 2 TB SSD, and great durability (17 MIL-STD tests), with no widely reported, model specific bugs in current internal materials. It’s a solid pick for office work, remote or mobile

Unfortunately, I had to turn to AI on this one. But CoPilot explained the differences pretty well for me: Why Dell Charges Over $1000 More for the Pro 14 Premium Even though the XPS 14 is objectively superior in performance, display, battery life, and build, Dell prices the Pro 14 Premium higher due

I own both a Dell Pro 14 Plus and a MacBook Neo. The former lasts around 6 hours. The latter lasts around 10.

kinda depends how serious you are about cs2. the g14 with its 6700s or 6800s gpu will crush cs2 at high fps, but battery life is meh. the dell pro 14 has better build and battery but integrated graphics will struggle above low settings 60fps. if gaming matters most, grab the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. f