Thankfully, the inside is magnesium.
Overall, the Dell Pro 14 Premium will last a long time without a charge.
Its single-thread performance is good, but its not a great multi-threaded platform.
For US customers, it comes with only 512GB of storage and costs $2,559.
Elevating it to the 1TB storage capacity increases the price to $2661.50.
Thats still not ultra-light, and I suspect much of that weight is from the internal 60 Wh battery.
Overall, this design doesnt give this reviewer a Premium vibe, or justify its cost.
There are no touch-screen options in this range, and there is no 1440p display either.
The panel is reasonably sharp and performed reasonably well in our calibration testing.
Its strengths are its decent gamut and high contrast.
It achieved 98% of RBG, 75% of AdobeRGB and 75% of P3 colours.
It only delivered 54% of the Rec2020 gamut.
This screen is fine for office work, but it isnt anything that might attract a creative worker.
However, once you get inside, things get decidedly less helpful.
The lack of drive space is a head-slapping moment for the Dell Pro 14 Premium.
Its also significantly better in the single-core mode that can utilise that 5GHz turbo clock.
The Cinebench 23 multitasking score is 9567, which looks decent against the older series 100 CPU.
But looking back at even older data, Ive reviewed at least two laptops that have exceeded that score.
It has several problems, some of which involve the underlying hardware platform.
But for light tasks, theyre good, and the battery life is exceptional.
The cost that Dell is asking is just adding insult to injury.
Should you buy a Dell Pro 14 Premium?
Its as efficient as a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite system, which is impressive.
Im sure better AI solutions that dont use local processing are available, but the choice is yours.
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