Dell 14 Plus 2-in-1: What Real Users Say About Thermals

It will be a win for AMD when the new XPS has Ryzen and more importantly chassis & feature parity with Intel.

That's a weak spec for $850

Being in Dell's mainstream business line is a bigger win for AMD than the XPS because Dell sells more of these.

The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 is a powerful mobile processor from the Krackan Point family. The APU integrates 8 CPU cores (4x Zen 5 with up to 5 GHz and 4x Zen 5c with less cache and a maximum of 3.5 GHz) and a big 16 MB L3-Cache.

Terrible touchpad and keyboard. Nice move, Dell.

The AMD variant is worse than the Intel variants in every way according to their own review.

Strix point CPUs have more performance per watt than those conventional H SKUs from Intel

Got the prior gen Yoga 7 & quite pleased, good build. New gen like this has nicer OLED panel, a dream.

Reliability Lenovo >>>>> Dell

Been deploying these since they launched mid last year. Performance is great, build quality, battery life also great too. Drivers were iffy from Dell's part the first few months, but they've figured it out.

Like with all business devices, no one pays list, they'll be on a 3-5 year lease that has a volume discount.

It's $699 at BB for the 16gb/1tb

If it is a newly setup system there is a chance Windows is doing lots of background tasks. I would still advise to use Dell's Software to update your Bios and all Drivers.

2 grand for a laptop with touchpad problems is laughable

And soldered RAM lmao

Just bought 2 of the 16" plus models for my boss and sys admin. My boss seems to like his so far and I liked the solid feel of the chassis but feel like they skimped on a plastic bottom panel.

It's a Plus (not the most basic version) and still it's a straight downgrade from the last gen Inspiron in almost every way. Fascinating.

Assuming Dell has not removed it, Boost can be disabled in the BIOS.

UPDATE: I've been running it for a few days and have had no issues so you guys were right.

Touch-functions work, using Jack with audio & webcam don't work for me. I'm using latest kernel on NixOS. I would say Linux support is very poor.

As someone who regularly sees and tests all kinds of laptops, the Precisions/Pros with the large trackpad feel the best to use because of that huge space. I don't miss the physical left, right and center buttons at all.

Going AMD now and their Ryzen 5 220 on battery scored higher than my 125H plugged in.

4-5 hours intensive use (max light, high ram/cpu usage) 6-7 hours light use (energy saver mode + just browsing/listening to music.) Thermals leave much to be desired; be sure to enable 'cooling' on the provided 'dell optimizer' application so you don't burn your lap — otherwise, it just heats up and throttles cpu speeds.

That is what I was looking for - with this processor and this laptop size one could expect the thermals will be an issue as it is often the case

It's probably Windows background tasks. My latest laptop was basically a hot plate the first day I got it. Next day it runs at basically room temperature and silently.

Mine is still always on after a week.. lots of background windows processes and memory usage is always high.

Lenovo, but I would have gotten a ThinkPad if you really want reliability

Avoid HP consumer line due to hinge issues. If you want Dell for creators, go with a refurbished Dell XPS 13 9350 with Intel Lunar Lake CPU. Higher refresh rate.

I use 2/3 browsers at once with 10/15+ tabs open at a time. About battery I think it's okay, not best but you can't even say it's bad. It's all actually depends on how much you spend. If you get it below 1k euro, it's a solid piece.

When you use it on the bed, or any soft surface, you block the intake vents causing the fans not to be able to cool the laptop. Do this often enough, and you will damage the fans themselves. Every laptop that has active cooling (aka fans) should be used on a flat surface.