Dell XPS 12 Promises 2-Hour Battery Boost With Intel Haswell
Windows 8 has a shaken up the design of laptops and tablets, with the new emphasis on touchscreen technology resulting in some of the best hybrids we’ve ever seen. Dell has revealed its new PC line-up — including a revamped XPS 12 laptop / tablet hybrid which it says has significantly improved laptop battery life.
Dell has made one of the more compelling Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrids even better. The Dell XPS 12 now offers the latest Intel Haswell processors, which Dell claims should yield nearly 9 hours of laptop battery life. That’s an increase of more than 2 hours over the previous version.
Dell XPS 12 Windows 8 laptop-tablet hybrids update
As before, the Dell XPS 12 will have a 12.5-inch full HD IPS touch screen made of Corning Gorilla Glass, a machined aluminum frame and a carbon fiber lid and case. The XPS 12 still lacks an SD Card slot, but the integrated NFC chip lets users transfer data wirelessly with just a tap.
For a starting price of $1,199 on the XPS 12, consumers get a 2.6-GHz Intel Core i5-4200 processor, a 128GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM. Dell claims these components will provice a 63 percent increase in overall performance, while Intel HD 4400 graphics should be 68 percent more powerful than the previous generation. As we saw on our initial Haswell benchmark results, there is indeed a measurable Dell Xps 14 laptop Battery improvement. Other options will include a 3-GHz Intel Core i7-4500U and a 3.3-GHz Intel Core i7-4650U LE processor, up to 8GB of RAM, and a 256 or 512GB SSD.
Watching movies on trains and planes is certainly a good reason to use it, and so is providing a comfortable way to use touchscreen apps, which don’t exist yet. However, we’d wager that most Dell XPS 12 users will spend 90% of their time using it like a laptop.
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