Dell's New Pro Max Lineup Offers Top-tier Laptops For Sky-high Prices

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Dell launched its caller Pro Max laptops Thursday, unveiling 3 tiers of its top-performing laptops pinch a operation of high-end hardware: AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra processors, and nan caller Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell GPUs. 

Nvidia announced nan Blackwell-generation GPUs connected its RTX Pro level earlier this twelvemonth -- first for desktop workstations and servers, past for laptops. The Nvidia RTX PRO Blackwell GPUs usage fifth-generation Tensor cores for up to an awesome 4,000 TOPS capacity -- designed for nan pro-user engaged successful nan astir demanding workloads. 

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Dell's Pro Max laptops are among nan first user laptops pinch this caller hardware, focused connected nan endeavor power-user demographic, and designed to bring earthy powerfulness to accelerated AI and graphics capabilities onto sleek devices. 

The 3 tiers of laptops successful Dell's Pro Max lineup see nan guidelines Dell Pro Max, nan Dell Pro Max Plus (in 14- and 18-inch versions), and nan high-end Dell Pro Max Premium. Dell outfitted nan guidelines models pinch either nan AMD Ryzen AI 5, 7, aliases 9 bid processors aliases Intel Core 5 aliases 7, and nan 2nd and 3rd tier models pinch Intel Core Ultra 7 aliases 9 chips. 

The highest-tier laptop, nan Dell Pro Max Premium (say that 5 times fast) comes successful a 14- and 16-inch model, and is perfectly stacked pinch hardware: up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H vPro Enterprise CPU, 64GB of memory, and Nvidia's RTX Pro 2000 GPU. 

Additionally, some nan 14- and 16-inch models tin beryllium outfitted pinch OLED displays, pinch nan 16-inch offering immoderate peculiarly awesome UHD+, 500nit, 120Hz tandem OLED touch surface pinch 100% of nan DCI-P3 colour gamut. 

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Physically, nan guidelines Pro Max and Pro Max Plus look alternatively nondescript, pinch sleek, achromatic clamshells, full-sized keyboards, and nan accustomed action of I/O. The high-end Pro Max Premium, however, retains much beingness DNA from nan XPS series, pinch nan signature zero-lattice keyboard and upward-firing speakers connected either broadside of nan keyboard. 

All that hardware isn't precisely feather-light, however, arsenic nan Pro Max Premium weighs successful astatine 4.82 pounds and measures almost an inch thick. Similarly, nan Dell Pro Max 18 Plus weighs a hefty 7.17 pounds, and features a minimalist, center-aligned trackpad and recessed keyboard that looks a batch for illustration a MacBook M3 Pro Max. 

These caller laptops position Dell favorably successful nan never-ending AI race, securing marketplace stock of a usage lawsuit nan institution is already well-established in: enterprise-ready, reliable machines pinch powerful hardware. 

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As expected, each of these laptops travel pinch important value tags. The lowest-tier model, nan 14-inch Dell Pro Max pinch nan AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 340 starts astatine $2,472, and it goes up from there. 

There are a awesome woody of configuration options disposable for each of these laptops, including support for Linux Ubuntu retired of nan box. Kitting retired nan Dell Pro Max, however, brings nan value sky-high, upwards of $6,000 for 64GB, an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, 4TB of storage, and nan UHD+ tandem OLED display. 

Needless to say, this is an exclusive merchandise reserved for nan precocious tiers of pro creators, engineers, programmers, and designers who leverage on-device AI for complex, demanding tasks and want to spell all-in connected performance. 

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