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Dell XPS 14 Ultra 7 155H 14.5" Laptop w/ 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD

Now at its best ever price, this 14.5" laptop features an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 1.4GHz processor, as well as 1920x1200 display, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It promises 2.3x faster performance than the last-generation XPS 13, thanks to its Intel Arc GPU.

Laptop Deal FAQs

How Much Do Laptops Cost?

This will, predictably, depend on what you're looking for. A very basic Chromebook can easily be yours for less than $200. Looking for something with a little more under the hood will move prices up — expect the best deals for fairly standard student laptop deals to start around $350, with extras like an i7 CPU, more storage or RAM, or fancy screen technology bumping those prices up to $500 and beyond. You'll very quickly start hitting (and exceeding) $1,000 for a laptop that's suitable for gaming, especially if you want to run relatively recent games at their best.

When Can You Save the Most on Laptops?

There are three times we'll always push as fertile ground for the best laptop deals, and these are they:

• Back to School season: The influx of students looking for a new laptop will have retailers fighting it out to offer the best prices, and that makes it open season for non-students to take advantage too. This is when you'll see stores like Walmart or Target offering their best deals on student-range laptops, like Chromebooks or i5 Windows laptops.
• Black Friday season: We can reasonably understand Black Friday season to stretch from Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days in early October through the holidays. Which is a large window, all the better for saving on your perfect laptop. Last year, Best Buy's Black Friday sale offered laptops from $129, while Lenovo's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals saw laptops marked up to 79% off.
• All the time at DealNews, where every day is Black Friday: It'd be silly to limit yourself to only shopping laptop sales in the last third of the year. We bring you the best laptop deals year-round, from Apple MacBooks to Alienware gaming beasts, whether they're new, open-box, or refurbished.

How Long Do Laptop Deals Last?

How long is a piece of string? Stores like Best Buy and Woot! will regularly offer great daily deals on laptops, which obviously limits you to 24 hours. At the other end of the scale, Lenovo will often tie its savings to coupon codes which can last for weeks, stock permitting. Where there's a hard and fast end to the deal, DealNews will be sure to note it; otherwise, assume it could end at any point.

What Should You Consider When Shopping Laptop Deals?

• Cost: It's wise to set yourself a budget, since you can quickly start letting extra features drive up the price, when you really don't need them, or convincing yourself that you don't need that strong a CPU, then finding your work hamstrung. Your budget can vary depending on your situation and needs, but laptops are an investment, and like any investment, you don't want to spend too much...or too little.
• Use: This might seem obvious, but you don't need a laptop with an RTX 4000-series GPU if you just want to do some word processing. And conversely, you don't buy a bottom of the barrel Chromebook and expect it to run Cyberpunk 2077. Think carefully about what you need your laptop to accomplish for you, because they're not modular — what you buy is more or less what you're stuck with.
• Specs: Here, we get granular in ways that can require a little research on your end. The difference between an i5 and i7 CPU (or Intel's newer Core lines — the naming conventions are a thing) might not be obvious, but figuring out which one of those suits your needs, or whether you'd be better off with 16GB of RAM instead of the more baseline 8GB, or deciding that you watch enough Netflix that you deserve a 4K OLED display instead of a regular 1080p display...all of these decisions add up to make your shopping expectations a little clearer.
• Longevity: Do you need a laptop to see you through your last year of college, or do you need a laptop you can comfortably game on for the next few years? Technology is a fickle thing: do you need a cheap and cheerful refurb, or one with a solid, lengthy warranty to fall back on? The more you're spending on your laptop, the more you'll expect it to hold up to a little wear and tear, so check reviews (especially user reviews, if they're available) to see how the laptop you're shopping endures.