Dell launched its new Pro Max laptops Thursday, unveiling three tiers of its top-performing laptops with a mixture of high-end {hardware}: AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Extremely processors, and the brand new Nvidia RTX Professional Blackwell GPUs.
Nvidia introduced the Blackwell-generation GPUs on its RTX Professional platform earlier this yr — first for desktop workstations and servers, then for laptops. The Nvidia RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs use fifth-generation Tensor cores for as much as a powerful 4,000 TOPS efficiency — designed for the pro-user engaged in essentially the most demanding workloads.
Additionally: Nvidia’s latest coup: All of Taiwan on its software
Dell’s Professional Max laptops are among the many first client laptops with this new {hardware}, centered on the enterprise power-user demographic, and designed to convey uncooked energy to accelerated AI and graphics capabilities onto glossy gadgets.
The three tiers of laptops in Dell’s Professional Max lineup embody the bottom Dell Pro Max, the Dell Pro Max Plus (in 16- and 18-inch variations), and the high-end Dell Pro Max Premium. Dell outfitted the bottom fashions with both the AMD Ryzen AI 5, 7, or 9 sequence processors or Intel Core 5 or 7, and the second and third tier fashions with Intel Core Extremely 7 or 9 chips.
The best-tier laptop computer, the Dell Professional Max Premium (say that 5 instances quick) is available in a 14- and 16-inch mannequin, and is totally stacked with {hardware}: as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 285H vPro Enterprise CPU, 64GB of reminiscence, and Nvidia’s RTX Professional 2000 GPU.
Moreover, each the 14- and 16-inch fashions could be outfitted with OLED shows, with the 16-inch providing some significantly spectacular UHD+, 500nit, 120Hz tandem OLED contact display screen with 100% of the DCI-P3 shade gamut.
Additionally: This Dell laptop is my top choice for both work and travel – and it’s on sale
Bodily, the bottom Professional Max and Professional Max Plus look relatively nondescript, with glossy, black clamshells, full-sized keyboards, and the standard number of I/O. The high-end Professional Max Premium, nevertheless, retains extra bodily DNA from the XPS sequence, with the signature zero-lattice keyboard and upward-firing audio system on both facet of the keyboard.
All that {hardware} is not precisely feather-light, nevertheless, because the Professional Max Premium weighs in at 4.82 kilos and measures virtually an inch thick. Equally, the Dell Professional Max 18 Plus weighs a hefty 7.17 kilos, and encompasses a minimalist, center-aligned trackpad and recessed keyboard that appears so much like a MacBook M3 Pro Max.
These new laptops place Dell favorably within the unending AI race, securing market share of a use case the corporate is already well-established in: enterprise-ready, dependable machines with highly effective {hardware}.
Additionally: I found a 16-inch Windows laptop that could replace my MacBook Pro
As anticipated, all of those laptops include substantial worth tags. The bottom-tier mannequin, the 14-inch Dell Professional Max with the AMD Ryzen 5 Professional 340 begins at $2,472, and it goes up from there.
There are quite a lot of configuration choices accessible for all of those laptops, together with assist for Linux Ubuntu out of the field. Kitting out the Dell Professional Max, nevertheless, brings the worth sky-high, upwards of $6,000 for 64GB, an Intel Core Extremely 9 285H, 4TB of storage, and the UHD+ tandem OLED show.
For sure, that is an unique product reserved for the higher tiers of professional creators, engineers, programmers, and designers who leverage on-device AI for complicated, demanding duties and wish to go all-in on efficiency.
Get the morning’s high tales in your inbox every day with our Tech Today newsletter.
