Dell Latitude 7350 Detachable
(Credit: Dell)
At Mobile World Congress, Dell teased a huge refresh of its Latitude and Precision business laptops designed to ride the “AI PC” wave.
Dell is upgrading the PCs with Intel’s “Meteor Lake” Core Ultra chips, which feature a dedicated “NPU” processor to handle AI-based workloads locally, rather than over the internet. They will also contain a dedicated key to access Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant on Windows 11.
The “hero” product of the group is the Latitude 7350 Detachable, a device similar to Microsoft’s Surface tablet. The Latitude 7350 functions as a 13-inch tablet built with a kickstand, though it can also connect to an optional keyboard cover.
“It’s really designed to bring the versatility of a tablet, but the performance of a laptop,” Dell’s VP for the Latitude line, Kevin Terwilliger, said in a press briefing. The same keyboard cover comes with a built-in stylus pen, which can be recharged in 30 seconds.
Another notable feature is on the keyboard’s “collaboration” touchpad. During a Zoom or Microsoft Teams video call, the touchpad contains four icons that’ll light up with actions you can take, including muting or unmuting the audio or turning off the camera.
The Latitude 7350 Detachable also features an 8-megapixel front-facing camera, which can record in HDR. The back of the device has a second 8MP camera as well. Users can configure the product with either Intel’s Core Ultra U7-164U vPro processor or an Ultra U5-134U vPro chip. In addition, the spec sheet says the tablet convertible will support Wi-Fi 7. Dell plans on launching the product sometime in Q2.
The rest of the Latitude portfolio is launching on March 12 through updates to the 5000, 7000, and 9000 series, with the goal of offering a variety of prices to customers. These laptop-focused products—which span nine different models—will also be the first commercial PCs to offer HDR technology in cameras, according to Dell.
The company is also releasing five Precision laptops through the 3000 and 5000 series on March 12. They're designed to offer workstation-like performance for power users, such as engineers, video editors, and animators.
Although pricing wasn’t announced, the laptops will probably cost more since they can include support for dedicated Nvidia graphics chips, including the RTX Ada GPUs for laptops. In a demo, Dell showed the Precision laptops can run the AI image generator Stable Diffusion locally with either Intel’s Meteor Lake CPU or even faster using the dedicated Nvidia GPU.
For desktop users, the company is also launching the Precision 3280 Compact Form Factor, which is small enough to sit behind a monitor. Dell says the product is the smallest workstation that supports Nvidia’s Tensor Core GPUs, including up to the Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada.
“Just because it’s small, doesn’t mean it’s not powerful,” says Dell’s General Manager for the Precision line, Charlie Walker. For example, the Precision 3280 is tailored to run Intel 65-watt CPUs at 85 watts to squeeze out even more performance. It launches on March 26.
The company also plans on launching a traditional desktop PC in the Precision 3680 Tower, which will also arrive on March 12. It’ll be equipped with Intel’s 14th-generation desktop Core processors and can be configured with up to Nvidia’s RTX 6000 Ada graphics cards.
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