The latest Dell XPS 13 9350 packs Intel’s new fast and efficicent Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 200V processors into a sleek, attractive chassis.
Dell XPS 13 (9350): Starting At $1,399 | $1,899 As ConfiguredThe new Dell XPS 13 (9350), powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 200V platform, offers great performance and even better battery life, though we’re looking forward to testing higher-end Lunar Lake chips in future releases. Excellent Single Threaded ResponsivenessExcellent CPU Per-Core Throughput Superb Arc 140V Graphics PerformanceGreat Battery LifeGreat Thermals And AcousticsDell’s Iconic XPS 13 Design Language Middling Multithreaded PerformanceNotable Performance Bleed On Battery PowerDell’s Borderless Trackpad Takes Getting Used To
The laptop market and tech enthusiast circles in general have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Intel’s new Core Ultra 200V Series of mobile platform processors, previously know by their code name Lunar Lake. From Intel’s first tease this year at Computex in Taiwan, to the company’s more recent coming out party earlier this month at IFA, there has been much anticipation of what the follow-up to Intel’s Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs will deliver for laptops in the run-up to the holiday shopping season.
Intel made bold claims about Lunar Lake performance, sharing multiple data points versus the new crop of stiff competition from both the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series. And so, to say that we were equally as eager get some quality hands-on testing time with Intel Lunar Lake retail-ready laptops, would be a monumental understatement. The good news is, we can shareu our deep dive shakedown of Dell’s new XPS 13 (9350) today, that has an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V 8-core processor under its hood driving the Windows 11 Copilot+ experience. We should underscore that we have yet to receive machines in house with Intel Core Ultra 9 288V or Core Ultra 7 267V series processors on board, to match-up with Intel’s previous performance claims, though we’re told by multiple OEMs that time frame is looking like mid October, which is right around the corner.
