Dell Inspiron 14 Plus (Snapdragon)

A fine debut for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Plus chip, and great speakers, but what a shame about the screen

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE As reviewed, £874 (£1,049 inc VAT) from dell.co.uk The Inspiron 14 Plus marks two interrelated firsts: it’s the first Copilot+ PC to include a Snapdragon X Plus chip rather than X Elite, and the first to duck under the £1,000 mark. If Dell had sent us this version of the 14 Plus with a 512GB SSD rather than 1TB then that’s the price you would see above. That’s because it uses the X1P-64-100 chip, with “P” standing for Plus. It has ten cores to the Elite’s 12, slower clock speeds and slower graphics. In single-core tasks, it’s almost identical to the X1E-78-100 in the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x (see p57), but switch to core-intensive applications and the Yoga pulls ahead – particularly in Cinebench 2024, with 1,044 versus 683. Don’t imagine that…

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