Dell Pro 13 Premium review: The almost perfect business laptop

[Redaktion]

We're seizing the opportunity to review the 13-inch business laptop in Dell's product line. Aimed at demanding business users and designed to appeal to entrepreneurs with its modern ports, the Dell Pro 13 Premium has a sturdy yet lightweight magnesium chassis, AI and also enjoys very long battery runtimes.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Pro-13-Premium-review-The-almost-perfect-business-laptop.982644.0.html

[Pierre]

Thanks for the review.
This is the first time I hear about glass to protect a non touch screen.
Combined with the dual fan on a 13 inch enclosure, this new lineup seems like one of the biggest update ever

[N.]

Good port selection, considering laptop size PLUS, excellent usb-c layout - one for each side. Shame they saved on micro-sd card port, as usual.
HOWEVER, be aware about the ABOMINATION, the power button sits next to'delete' button and it's VERY EASY to make a fatal mistake in haste (I have experience with my wife's lattitude).
Also, given the very high price, lack of touch screen seems a serious fail. I always thought touch screen is a gimmick, but sometimes, with smaller laptops, it's just so much quicker / easier to reach out with your finger than fiddle with touchpad or mouse.

[Mr Majestyk]

Crap screen in both resolution, brightness, and colour gamut. Weak network speeds, poor ssd, barely a 79% score. This would be the last laptop you'd buy for photo processing or any colour aware work.

My old 2016 Dell XPS 15 has a 98% AdobeRGB colour gamut, showing how far and fast the quality of these has fallen and you could option fast Intel NIC and replace hdd with ssd.

[Ish]

"Almost perfect"... 37dB average under load. Yeah... hard pass. Maybe someday there will be a decent PC laptop.

[Huh]

How in the world does this laptop score 90% with a low-res 60hz panel, terrible performance, and a diving board trackpad?

[Ronnie]

Dell Pro 73 Premium PA 73250
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Sustainability
According to Asus, the Pro 13 Premium is ENERGY STAR certified, EPEAT Gold registered,
and has a Climate+ seal. It also meets the latest TCO Generation 9 certification for power
consumption and repairability.

[Krstevski]

Dell repeats the same mistake again and again.... Display brightness can be adjusted Minimum: 26.2 cd/m².
that's a big problem when working at night. Dell needs to learn how to do it from Lenovo Thinkpad Laptops, or MacBook Pro.

In the Review for the HP Elitebook Ultra G1i, your colleague Andreas noted that this Laptop with Minimum: 20.7 cd/m² is also too high.
very unprofessional Dell :(((

[Results45]

As others have mentioned, a machine that costs $2,000 should AT LEAST have a faster storage drive (at least on-par with the WD SN770/Samsung 990 Pro or better), a stock/base config display calibrated to 96%+ DCI-P3 coverage if not an OLED touchscreen, and probably 3 years of Accidental Damage Protection or the "Pro Support" upgrade included alongside the complimentary 36-month manufacturer warranty.

But if there's one justification of value for splurging two grand on this: having 2-3 working days of battery life on tap while still being a Windows machine.

Compared to other models on the Battery Life Leaderboard*:

• [55Wh] Dell XPS 13 9345 @ 1,575 minutes or 26.25 hours
• [60Wh] Dell Pro 13 Premium @ 1,440 minutes or 24 hours
• [58Wh] Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 Qualcomm @ 1349 minutes or just over 22.25 hours
• [55Wh] Dell XPS 13 9350 @ 1,236 minutes or just over 20.5 hours
• [99.6Wh] M3 Pro Macbook Pro 16 2023 @ 1204 minutes or just over 20 hours
• [99.6Wh] M4 Pro Macbook Pro 16 2023 @ 1178 minutes or just over 19.5 hours
• [77Wh] LG Gram Pro 16 2025 @ 1176 minutes or just over 19.5 hours
• [86Wh] Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen 2 @ 1,130 minutes or just over 19 hours
• [78.6Wh] HP Elitebook 1040 G7 @ 1,128 minutes or just over 18.75 hours
• [68Wh] HP Elitebook X Flip G1i 14 @ 1,102 minutes or just over 18.25 hours
• [99.9Wh] MSI Prestige 16 B1MG @ 1,100 minutes or just over 18.25 hours

Until Microsoft and Qualcomm - Nvidia & AMD too based on murmurs - get native ARM64 software performance as consistent on Windows 11 as Apple has gotten on MacOS running on M-series APUs (fixing GPU drivers, overhauling hardware-accelerated emulation, and/or integrating x64-to-ARM64 recompiling into Windows Installer) users of non-Apple laptops and desktops will be better off not adopting ARM CPUs and APUs for general use.


*Real-world battery life is typically 25-40% shorter than the tested runtimes when factoring-in full display brightness, operation on "balanced" power mode, and 10% battery degradation within a year as Notebookcheck conducts WLAN/WiFi benchmarks on each model at 150 nits with "activated power-saving measures" while "ultralight web browsing".

[dsev]

How is the sustainability overall score calculated? and Why was repairability scored so low, if it has so many modular internal components, few accessible Phillips captive fasteners on the base, non-soldered USB-C ports, CAMM modular memory, and QR code labels on internal parts? Thanks!