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I picked this up two weeks ago when the same configuration was on sale at the same price with 3x Dell rewards.
I honestly can't recall being more pleased with a laptop in 30+ years of working with them. For the kind of office work, research, and and media consumption I do, it's near perfect:
-LED Screen is very bright and crisp, with good touch responsiveness.
-The 32g onboard (soldered) RAM is generous enough so not having an expansion slot isn't a problem, as is the 1 TB storage.
-Very light yet solid case. Very good looking to boot.
-Very smooth and fast performance while maintaining silence virtually all the time. The new Intel Ultra chips are a great fit for people who prioritize quiet and efficiency.
-Great that (like many newer models) it's powered by a standard USB C connector, so no need to carry a proprietary power brick around.
I haven't tried any of the AI functionality yet.
There are just a few nitpicks. I'd like a USB C on the right side, so you could power it on that side and have another connector. It's too bad the speakers are down-facing, producing a needless muffling on the sound. But I can live with these.
If your use case is like mine, I don't think you'll be dissapointed.
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I have your linked one, as it has been on sale for $999.99 at Costco. There have been alternatives from other brands at around the same price, the lowest I saw was $100 less but lacked the pen (but had a numpad with a correspondingly smaller keyboard) from ASUS. It's the same hardware generally except for the screen. OLED versus mini-LED in the case of this Dell.
Assuming you want this CPU with the 32GB of LPDDR5X, it largely comes down to the screen. You can get IPS and/or non-touch more cheaply. It's worth getting this CPU in the line for 32GB (which also means 16GB max over 8GB for the iGPU) and I consider touch a requirement. That makes the 256V a poor choice, and the 288V when thermally and power limited scores around the same as the 258V (in fact, the Tom's Hardware review has the 258V performing better[futurecdn.net] in some cases). This makes the 32GB OLED options very attractive at 120Hz, but mini-LED is also quite good if you prefer the Dell brand.
As far as the 258V goes in terms of power, this is designed to be power efficient and compete with ARM-based options (and roughly with some AMD, which seem subjectively less responsive), it's not made to be a powerhouse. The iGPU (Arc 140V) is actually very powerful for what it is, though. This is less a content creation or desktop replace/workstation replacement CPU and more a productivity one. The NPU/AI focus supports this as does the 32GB of very fast RAM (in terms of bandwidth) which makes it great for everyday office work, virtual meetings, cloud apps, social media/comms/email, things of that nature. For me it's dedicated to remote work tasks.
As for the linked HP, I chose that as I wanted the pen and preferred a larger keyboard to having a numpad. A convertible laptop of this type (with touchscreen) is an effective document marker if that's something you want or need. I've used it for note-taking and signing documents. A touchscreen calculator or bluetooth tenkey can replace the numpad. HP bloat from Costco is not too bad, needs a few uninstalls (McAfee), I'd prefer Dell if they had something equivalent with OLED. I can't understate how good the Samsung OLED panel is in the HP, but that's not something everybody needs. (mine also came with an OEM 990 EVO Plus SSD from Samsung, which is quite good for a laptop of this type)
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I honestly can't recall being more pleased with a laptop in 30+ years of working with them. For the kind of office work, research, and and media consumption I do, it's near perfect:
-LED Screen is very bright and crisp, with good touch responsiveness.
-The 32g onboard (soldered) RAM is generous enough so not having an expansion slot isn't a problem, as is the 1 TB storage.
-Very light yet solid case. Very good looking to boot.
-Very smooth and fast performance while maintaining silence virtually all the time. The new Intel Ultra chips are a great fit for people who prioritize quiet and efficiency.
-Great that (like many newer models) it's powered by a standard USB C connector, so no need to carry a proprietary power brick around.
I haven't tried any of the AI functionality yet.
There are just a few nitpicks. I'd like a USB C on the right side, so you could power it on that side and have another connector. It's too bad the speakers are down-facing, producing a needless muffling on the sound. But I can live with these.
If your use case is like mine, I don't think you'll be dissapointed.
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Same processor, 1TB HD, 32G RAM, OLED, built in NPU. I wanted a processor more powerful than the 258V but maybe it's fine.
https://www.costco.com/hp-omniboo...55164
Same processor, 1TB HD, 32G RAM, OLED, built in NPU. I wanted a processor more powerful than the 258V but maybe it's fine.
https://www.costco.com/hp-omniboo...55164.html [costco.com]
Assuming you want this CPU with the 32GB of LPDDR5X, it largely comes down to the screen. You can get IPS and/or non-touch more cheaply. It's worth getting this CPU in the line for 32GB (which also means 16GB max over 8GB for the iGPU) and I consider touch a requirement. That makes the 256V a poor choice, and the 288V when thermally and power limited scores around the same as the 258V (in fact, the Tom's Hardware review has the 258V performing better [futurecdn.net] in some cases). This makes the 32GB OLED options very attractive at 120Hz, but mini-LED is also quite good if you prefer the Dell brand.
As far as the 258V goes in terms of power, this is designed to be power efficient and compete with ARM-based options (and roughly with some AMD, which seem subjectively less responsive), it's not made to be a powerhouse. The iGPU (Arc 140V) is actually very powerful for what it is, though. This is less a content creation or desktop replace/workstation replacement CPU and more a productivity one. The NPU/AI focus supports this as does the 32GB of very fast RAM (in terms of bandwidth) which makes it great for everyday office work, virtual meetings, cloud apps, social media/comms/email, things of that nature. For me it's dedicated to remote work tasks.
As for the linked HP, I chose that as I wanted the pen and preferred a larger keyboard to having a numpad. A convertible laptop of this type (with touchscreen) is an effective document marker if that's something you want or need. I've used it for note-taking and signing documents. A touchscreen calculator or bluetooth tenkey can replace the numpad. HP bloat from Costco is not too bad, needs a few uninstalls (McAfee), I'd prefer Dell if they had something equivalent with OLED. I can't understate how good the Samsung OLED panel is in the HP, but that's not something everybody needs. (mine also came with an OEM 990 EVO Plus SSD from Samsung, which is quite good for a laptop of this type)
Same processor, 1TB HD, 32G RAM, OLED, built in NPU. I wanted a processor more powerful than the 258V but maybe it's fine.
https://www.costco.com/hp-omniboo...55164
they have an asus with 285h