Any ideas when XPS with alderlake will be released? Does dell do black friday/holiday sales?

Was going to get a 2021 xps 17 then I read alderlake is coming soon and will have significant performance boost so I can wait, any rough ideas?

I haven't bought a brand new laptop in a while I don't know the cpu release cycles. As well, what would be the best time to buy one, does dell do sales on new laptops?

thx.

 

Most likely 1th or 2nd quarter in 2022. Nothing before that.

 

thanks for reply, 2nd quarter is fine for me I need to save up a little it won't be cheap but hopefully will be a beast.

 

The new XPS notebooks will be released on May 2022. They will be 15-20% faster in single thread and nearly 20-30% in multithread (for 6p+8e CPU). The GPU will be mostly the same.

I don't think, that we would see the update earlier, because the Alder Lake H45/H55 chips will be announced in March or April.

 

thanks very much for this information, a few months later and a new GPU is coming out in october, argh. I'll pull that trigger in october.

 

Dell updates the XPS 15 and 17 models every May. I don't think that they will break the schedule with the new video cards from nVidia.

 

I see, that's a long time May 2023, probably May 2022 if I'm getting the xps 17 is fine, either that or if I find out a new gaming laptop is coming out in october like an asus rog 17 or something, that's longest I'll wait.

 

How do you know this? What is the source?

I don't deny your information, I just want to know if it's speculation or reliable facts. I want to buy a new laptop, but if new improved models are coming in May then it wouldn't make sense for me to buy now.

 

@ toronto

Speculation is always part of the equation. Having built a system with ADL already it's wise to wait as the new architecture is performing well with the hybrid cores. On the laptop side though it's still under shroud other than some random benchmarks at this point. My POV is to wait for ADL if you tend to hold onto tech longer than a couple of refresh cycles as it will hold up longer for future proofing.

There's not a huge leap in the supported technologies with ADL for laptops though as there was for desktops. The obvious is the cores being redesigned. Also the new iGPU bring Iris Xe jumping the EU's by 4X the UHD series.

Of course there's DDR5 as well but, right now that's negligible for the price difference as a DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 perform about the same but the DDR5 pricing is skewed right now.

 

Thanks

 

Thanks, that's what I expected. That's why his repeated use of "will be" was odd, as "will be" implies certainty and facts.

 

The preview articles are showing up on various sites like Ars Technica for Alder Lake XPS 9320 Plus. Apparently the entire handrest is a touchpad, I hope they've got that calibrated properly, and the rearmost keys are all touch senstitive instead of being part of the physical keyboard. OLED is available but slightly lower resolution than the 4K IPS screen. Alder Lake architecture seems quite the leap in capabilities, with slower more efficient cores to deal with humdrum tasks and faster ones for the heavy duty tasks. Hopefully that'll help with battery life which is pretty dreadful when running Ubuntu Linux.