Dell's Premium XPS 13 Laptop Now Starts at $599

Dell's XPS 13, a top-tier slim laptop for over a decade, now starts at $599 for students and $699 for everyone else, challenging Apple's MacBook Neo. The base 2026 model includes an Intel Core 5 320 processor and 8GB of memory. Performance tests show it runs at about half the graphics speed of the 2024 Snapdragon X Elite version and one-third that of the 2024 Intel Core Ultra 7 model.