Dell is turning up the heat when it comes to displays. The company has just announced the availability of a new hub monitor with touch capabilities. The new Dell 24 Touch USB-C Hub Monitor is built to help users create and be productive in a clutter-free environment.
The new 24-inch monitor comes with an ergonomic stand designed to work as a monitor and an interactive touch surface. The monitor is designed to fit seamlessly in any environment – retail, warehouse, home and office. More importantly, it’s designed to keep your workspace clutter-free and adapt to your workstyle. With its articulating stand, the monitor is able to move downwards at a 60-degree angle with a comfortable height and orientation for touch interaction.
It’s not just about viewing experiences with the new Dell 24 Touch USB-C Hub Monitor (P2424HT), it’s about being able to interact and be productive no matter how you work best. With its 10-point touch capability, the monitor allows you to zoom with an intuitive pinch, drag a file or folder with a press, or swipe to see the next slide. The intuitive gestures will not only allow you to interact with Windows but also design and fine-tune to meet what you see with your fingertips.
Connectivity is a key hallmark of the monitor. The monitor is built to provide quick and easy connectivity with a single-cable USB-C connectivity offering up to 90W power delivery and a single RJ45 allows for stable, wired connectivity via ethernet. There are two readily accessible USB ports on the side of the P2424HT for quick and easy plugging in of accessories. The built-in HDMI and DisplayPort round out the connectivity features of the monitor.
With all these features, it wouldn’t be surprising to think that Dell may have slacked off with the display itself. However, that isn’t the case. The Dell 24 Touch USB-C Hub Monitor comes with an IPS display which has 99% covers of the sRGB gamut.
Pricing & Availability
The Dell 24 Touch USB-C Hub Monitor is currently available in the Dell online store for MYR1,959 in Malaysia and USD$519.99 internationally.
Remote work and hybrid work are fast becoming commonplace after the pandemic. More and more of us are finding ourselves working in places other than our offices and it has slowly but surely changed what we need and look for in our devices. Dell is well ahead of the curve in delivering purpose-built devices for any price point. However, the shift in paradigm has also led to Dell rethinking and reconceptualising its approach to designing its solutions.
[Source: Dell Technologies] (from left) Paul Carter, Vice President – Client Solutions Group Sales, Asia Pacific, Japan (APJ); Rakesh Mandal, Senior Director & General Manager – Client Solutions, South Asia & Asia Emerging Markets Dell Technologies; Sudip Saha, Sr. Director and Head of Marketing – South Asia & Asian Emerging Markets (B2B and B2C).
“It’s not about the work, it’s about how we get it done,” were the words of Paul Carter, Dell Technologies’ Vice President of Client Solutions Group Sales for Asia Pacific, Japan (APJ) at the APJ launch of their new commercial line up of devices. He outlined the fundamental shift in Dell’s approach to creating its commercial solutions. The change has influenced the features and form factors offered by the refreshed Latitude, Optiplex and Precision lineups. This change is also ever present in the accessories and monitors that expand its commercial offerings. Dell’s approach caters to four personas shaped by their work and the nature of their functions: the builder, the connector, the producer and the specialist.
Devices for the Builders & Connectors in Organisations
Builders are people focused on building the business primarily dealing with people and company strategy while connectors bring people together and optimize outcomes by balancing collaboration and team interests. These workers need to be nimble and productive requiring devices that not only serve as productivity tools but also tools for presentations but more importantly, these tools need to be as portable and light as they need to be on their feet.
Source: Dell Technologies
Dell has created multiple devices across their Precision and Latitude lineups with multimode productivity. Laptops like Dell’s new Ultra-Premium Latitude 9440 are built with the power, portability and design that is not only meant to empower productivity but bring the prestige that comes with being a C-Suite and manager. However, for those needing something even more portable, Dell has the Latitude 7340 and Latitude 7440 ultralight that puts portability front and center.
In addition, the Dell Latitude lineup is also imbued with 2-in-1 laptops for the Latitude 7340 and Latitude 7440 which allow them to be tools for on-the-go presentation. The Latitude 9440 2-in-1 brings this feature set with the premium build and design fit for higher management.
Catering to the Producer and Specialist – A group that Needs More Power for Productivity
Dell has also identified a group called Producers who work on delivering outcomes and focuses on accomplishing tasks and productivity. This group works closely with the specialists in any organisation. Specialists perform detail oriented work and work on solving problems, delivering products, analyzing data and even creating content. These groups of people require machines that are packed to the brim with power to churn large amounts of data or render heavy graphical loads.
Source: Dell Technologies
The Precision lineup brings the required power with top of the line graphics powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Ada generation graphics. These setups range from mobile, portable laptops like the Precision Mobile Workstation 5480 that packs the powerful internals needed for detail oriented work into a slim, portable body to the Precision 7960 Tower that brings the power in a more convention desktop as well as the Precision 7960 Rack which brings the specifications to servers allowing remote access with data security.
Bringing Diversity & Sustainability to the Forefront
Dell’s Optiplex line up, on the other hand, falls squarely into the spaces between these personas bringing productivity focused machines into compact, space saving form factors. They allow users to stay productive without sacrificing desk space. The Optiplex line up also packs enough power for these workers to get a more diverse range of work done. Things from repetitive admin work to processing spreadsheets.
Source: Dell Technologies
That said, Dell’s solutions across the board are guided by the company’s many sustainability goals and moonshot goals. It comes as no surprise that all of these devices come with a substantial amount of optimisations and materials which reduce the environmental impact of the company and devices. Dell has incorporated things like Post Consumer Recycled (PCR) plastics, sustainably sourced metals and components made of recycled materials.
Dell has also brought some of their ideas and learnings from their many concept devices like Concept Luna to their new devices. They haven’t even more sustainability plans in the works which will make their debuts with future products.
This article is contributed by Mak Chin Wah, Country Manager, Malaysia and General Manager, Telecoms Systems Business, South Asia, Dell Technologies
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to evolve and grows in capability, it’s becoming a growing presence in every aspect of our lives. One needs to look no further than voice assistants, navigation like Waze, or rideshare apps such as Grab, which Malaysians are familiar with.
From machine learning and deep learning algorithms that automate manufacturing, natural language processing, video analytics and more, to the use of digital twins that virtually simulate, predict and inform decisions based on real-world conditions, AI helps solve critical modern-life challenges to benefit humanity. In fact, we have digital twin technology to thank for assisting in the bioengineering of vaccines to fight COVID-19.
AI is changing not only what we do but also how we do it — faster and more efficiently.
Advancing Human Progress
For companies like Dell Technologies who are committed to advancing human progress, AI will play a big part in developing solutions to the pressing issues of the 21st century. The 2020s, in particular, are ushering in a fully data-driven period in which AI will assist organisations and industries of all sizes to accelerate intelligent outcomes.
Organisations can harness their AI endeavours through high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure solutions that reduce risk, improve processing speed and deliver deeper insights. By extracting value through AI from the massive amounts of data generated across the entire IT landscape — from the core to the cloud —businesses can better tackle challenges and make discoveries to advance large-scale, global progress.
Continuing to Innovate
Through transformative innovation, customers can derive the insights needed to change the course of discovery. For example, Dell Technologies equipped Monash University Malaysia with top-of-the-line HPC and AI solutions[i] to help accelerate the university’s research and development computing capabilities at its Sunway City campus in Selangor. The solution aims to enhance and accelerate the university’s computation capabilities in solving complex problems across its significant research portfolio.
Financial services, life sciences and oil and gas exploration are just a few of the other computation-intensive applications where enhanced servers will make a difference in achieving meaningful results, for humankind and the planet.
At the heart of AI technology are essential building blocks and solutions that power these activities. For example, Dell’s existing line of PowerEdge servers has already contributed to transformational, life‑changing projects, and will continue to power human progress in this generation and the next.
The most demanding AI projects require servers that offer distinct advantages – specifically built to deliver higher performance and even more powerful supercomputing results, and yet engineered for the coming generation to support the real-time processing requirements and challenges of AI applications with ease.
In addition to helping deploy more secure and better-managed infrastructure for complex AI operations at mind-boggling modelling speeds, these transformative servers will help meet organisations’ biggest concerns in productivity, efficiency and sustainability, while cutting costs and conserving energy.
Transforming Business and Life
While organisations are in different stages with respect to their adoption of AI, the transformational impact on business and life itself can no longer be ignored. Human progress will depend on the ability of AI to make communication easier, personalise content delivery, advance medical research/diagnosis/treatments, track potential pandemics, revolutionise education and implement digital manufacturing. In Malaysia, while AI is progressively being recognised as the new general-purpose technology that will bring about revolutionary economic transformation similar to the Industrial Revolution, adoption of Industry 4.0 remains sluggish with only 15% to 20% of businesses having really embraced it. On the other hand, the government is taking this emerging technology seriously, having set out frameworks for the incorporation of AI by numerous sectors of the economy. These comprise the Malaysia Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap) and the Malaysian Digital Economy Blueprint (MDEB), spearheaded by the MyDIGITAL Corporation and the Economic Planning Unit.
Moving Forward
With servers and HPC at the heart of AI, modern infrastructure needs to match the unique requirements of increasingly complex and widely distributed workloads. Regardless of where a business is on the AI journey, the key to optimising outcomes is having the right infrastructure in place, ready to seamlessly scale as the business grows and positioned to take on the unexpected, unknown challenges of the future. To do that requires having the expertise – or a trusted partner that does – to help at any and every stage, from planning through to implementation, to make smart server decisions that will unlock the organisation’s data capital and support AI efforts to move human progress forward.
[i] Based on Dell Technologies helps Monash University Malaysia enhance its R&D capabilities with HPC and AI solutions Media Alert, November 2022
Servers are becoming commonplace for businesses as more of them navigate their journey to the cloud. From on-premises servers to the cloud, data storage, remote workloads, and automation have slowly become necessary for businesses to function. Dell has long been a hardware partner and provider for businesses and service providers. The PowerEdge portfolio has become integral to some of the largest, most resilient cloud service providers and on-premises servers for businesses.
Delivering Optimized, Sustainable Power with AI-enabled technology & Optimised Design
Dell is upping the ante when it comes to hardware and compatibility with purpose-built servers in their new PowerEdge portfolio. The new servers come in multiple form factors including 1U and 2U slices. They also come fully equipped with the latest server processors from AMD and Intel. These specifications and the myriad of form factors allow Dell to cater to any workload. The new Dell PowerEdge portfolio also comes with models that are able to accommodate multi-GPU servers for AI and ML workloads.
The new PowerEdge portfolio isn’t just about power, it’s also about sustainability. Dell Technologies has made their new offerings more power efficient with better cooling and AI. The new servers have been optimised from the chassis to their internals to provide better cooling and airflow. Paired with Dell’s AI-enabled CouldIQ, the new PowerEdge lineup is poised to provide customers with lower overheads and greener operations.
With Dell’s Smart Flow design, servers are able to cool more efficiently with up to a 52% reduction in fan power. They are also empowering customers to be more sustainable with the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.0 software which allows customers to better manage their operations efficiency. It also them to actively monitor carbon emissions and set power caps up to 82% faster. All these features come in addition to the insights it gives on server use, virtual machines and facility energy consumption and leak detection for liquid-cooled systems. It goes without saying that there are even more features built in. Dell’s new lineup also comes with EPEAT ecolabel.
A Server for Every Need
[Source: Dell Technologies]Complete lineup of Next Generation PowerEdge Server Portfolio
Optimised Cloud Service Provider Solutions
Dell’s new portfolio isn’t just for businesses. They’re also looking as cloud service providers with the Dell PowerEdge HS5610 and HS5620. These servers deliver services that are optimised and tailored to cloud service providers. Coming in 1U and 2U form factors, these two-socket servers are looking to provide cloud service providers with a new edge. They are even cold aisle serviceable. Dell has also equipped these systems with Dell Open Server Manager which simplifies multi-vendor fleet management.
Powerful Simplicity
Dell’s PowerEdge servers are looking to take conventional servers and turn them into efficient powerhouses. With offerings like the Dell PowerEdge R760, the company is able to deliver up to 2.9x greater AI inferencing with Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon processors. Intel’s Deep Learning Boost and Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions are key in delivering the performance boost. The R760 is able to accommodate up to 20% more VDI users than previous generations and over 50% more SAP Sales & Distribution users in a single server. It can be further enhanced with NVIDIA’ Bluefield-2 data processing units to provide additional power for private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
AI & High-Performance Compute
[Source: Dell Technologies] Dell PowerEdge R760 rack unit
Dell’s PowerEdge XE9680, XE9640 and XE8640 are all built and optimised for AI and HPC workloads. Designed in close collaboration with Intel and NVIDIA, the servers are built to enable AI for model training, HPC modelling and simulation, core-to-edge inferencing and data visualisation. Coming with power specifications like the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core or NVIDIA GPUs the systems are able to train and deploy machine learning models for automation and analysis. The new designs also allow for higher rack density with PowerEdge.
EPYC Performance
It isn’t just a one-sided thing with Dell. PowerEdge also embraces AMD’s EPYC technology. The increasingly power-efficient performance of AMD’s EPYC processors has allowed Dell to design PowerEdge systems that create the backbone of data centres. With 1U and 2U form factors, these PowerEdge servers are designed to enable data storage and performance computing with better power efficiency.
Easy Deployment for Scalability and Zero Trust
The PowerEdge servers are also built with security in mind. They empower Zero Trust deployments in any given organisation. Everything from hardware to software is fortified for better data security. Dell’s Secure Component Verification (SCV) works in tandem with silicon-based hardware root of trust to verify supply chain security from design to delivery.
In addition, Dell’s PowerEdge offerings are being deployed not only as hardware purchases which fall under CapEx. Instead, Dell is also deploying them in an “as-a-service” offering which allows companies to better optimise CapEx spending with OpEx flexibility.
Dell PowerEdge offerings will be available starting on 13 April 2023. Detailed availability is as follows:
Dell PowerEdge R760 is available starting 13 April 2023.
Dell PowerEdge HS5620, HS5610 are available globally in April 2023.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680, XE8640 and XE9640 availabilities are planned in the first half of 2023
Dell PowerEdge R7625, R7615, R6625 and R6615 are available starting 13 April 2023.
Additional next-generation Dell PowerEdge servers will be global availability throughout the first half of 2023.
ProDeploy Factory Configuration is globally available starting 13 April 2023.
Thin and light isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of cutting-edge technology and laptops. In fact, we’d be thinking the exact opposite! Historically, a high-performance laptop has always been synonymous with thick, bulky laptops. But that would also mean that designers, programmers, and video editors – among others – are stuck putting the breaking back in backbreaking work. However, Dell set out to change that a few years ago with their Precision lineup. Now, with the latest line of Precision laptops, they’ve managed to marry the two and inject some finesse.
The Dell Precision Laptop series is getting supercharged with more power in its stylish chassis. The new, extensive lineup will be equipped with Intel’s latest 13th Generation Core processors. Complementing this will be the cutting-edge NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPUs. These systems are configured to empower creatives, data crunchers, engineers and designers to work on the go with little to worry about. Coming with 14-,15-,16- and 17 displays, the laptops are built for immersive productivity. These productivity-focused 16:10 OLED displays can also be professionally calibrated for colour-sensitive workflows covering the sRGB and DCI-P3 gamuts. They also come with 4K resolution with HDR support.
The Precision Laptops are also fitted with the latest when it comes to connectivity with options for WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and 5G. They are also augmented with advanced thermals to endure resource-intensive workflows and increased durability with MIL-STD certification.
Diversifying the Dell Precision Setup
In addition to the Dell Precision laptops, Dell’s lineup is also available for desktops and server-grade setups. The Precision Tower brings all the ethos and performance of Dell’s Precision laptops into a familiar desktop tower. Fully equipped with the best in connectivity, the Precision Tower skews away from Intel Cores to more capable Intel Xeon processors for an extra kick when it comes to power. They also come with NVIDIA RTX professional or AMD Radeon Pro graphics prepared for higher performance.
Together with the Tower, Dell is also bringing the Precision line up to server racks with an ultra-scalable 2U Precision 7960 rack. With this setup, you can work on- and off-premises with the same power-packed setup while keeping sensitive data securely locked away. They come equipped with Intel’s W790 chipset with Intel Xeon Processors and professional grade NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon Pro graphics.
Pricing & Availability
The Precision lineup will be available starting on March 23, 2023. Detailed dates and prices are as listed:
Model
Availability
Price (USD$)
Price (MYR)*
Precision 3480 Mobile Workstation
March 23, 2023
starting from $1,439.00
starting from MYR6,344.87
Precision 3580 Mobile Workstation
March 23, 2023
starting from $1,459.00
starting from MYR6,433.95
Precision 3581 Mobile Workstation
March 23, 2023
starting from $1,699.00
starting from MYR7,492.31
Precision 5480 Mobile Workstation
April 20, 2023
TBA
–
Precision 5680 Mobile Workstation
May 18, 2023
TBA
–
Precision 7680 Mobile Workstation
March 23, 2023
starting from $2,529.00
starting from MYR11,152.47
Precision 7780 Mobile Workstation
March 23, 2023
starting from $2,829.00
starting from MYR12,475.42
Precision 5860 Tower
April 18, 2023
TBA
–
Precision 7960 Tower
April 18, 2023
TBA
–
Precision 7960 Rack
April 18, 2023
TBA
–
*Prices in MYR are converted using XE.com with the rate of 1 USD = 4.40942 MYR.
Dell’s Latitude laptops have long been one of the go-to devices when it comes to corporate and commercial customers. Latitudes are known for their durability and reliability when it comes to performance. This year, Dell is bringing even more power to the Dell Latitude lineup with more features and upgrades for work on the go. The lineup has been updated with Intel’s 13th Generation Core processors for added power and efficiency.
Introducing the Small but Powerful Latitude 9440
The new Dell Latitude 9440 infuses the Latitude lineup with portability, power and design from Dell’s flagship XPS series. The 9440 combines form with function with its unique 2-in-1 design that allows it to transform from a laptop into a tablet and even a presentation surface seamlessly. Perfect for the entrepreneur, salesperson or C-suite executive.
Together with the new design and aluminium chassis, the new Latitude 9440 comes with a zero lattice keyboard with miniLED backlights. The keycaps are larger with no gaps. They also have increased angles between keys and ergonomic curves on each key giving them easy tactile separation. The miniLED backlights bring power efficiency with up to 75% less power usage providing up to 3 hours of increased battery life.
The Lattitude 9440 is also the smallest commercial 14-inch laptop. The small, compact chassis incorporates a 14-inch display in what has conventionally housed a smaller 13-inch display. It also keeps things crisp with a high-resolution InfinityEdge QHD+ panel in a functional 16:10 aspect ratio.
The 9440 also builds on its predecessor, the 9330. Where the 9330 made conferencing and video calls easier, the 9440 brings a customizable haptic touchpad for better collaboration. Users will be able to adjust and personalise the haptics of the touchpad to suit their work style. Together with this, the touchpad comes with quick toggles that allow users to toggle their mic and camera as well as quick toggles for screen sharing and chat which integrate with Zoom out of the box. Compatibility with Microsoft Teams will come later this year.
Ultralight Portability with the new Dell Latitude 7000 series
While the 9440 shines with its premium build and features, the Latitude 7000 series brings many of those features to a more accessible price point. It also brings a new focus on being Ultralight and portable – perfect for those who need to work on the go and in the field.
The Lattitude 7340 and 7440 ultralight bring the same miniLED backlit keyboard technology as the 9440. It also shares the 14-inch display of 9440 but comes weighing under 1kg for its 13-inch version and slightly more than 1kg for the 14-inch version. The magnesium chassis makes it one of the lightest in Dell’s portfolio but preserves the durability that the Latitude lineup is known for. The 7000 series is also available with aluminium chassis and a larger 16-inch option.
Together with these features, the Latitude 7000 series is also getting better connectivity on the go thanks to 5G. This combined with a 5-megapixel IR camera makes it perfect for working remotely.
Completing the Lineup with Latitude 5000 Series
Rounding up Dell’s Latitude lineup is the 5000 series which brings all the essentials when it comes to working remotely. It comes complete with options for 2-in-1 laptops and a Chromebook in the Latitude 5430.
The Latitude 5000 series focuses on enabling remote work with a complete array of ports, a long-lasting battery and cutting-edge connectivity. This year, the series comes with 14- and 15-inch options with a smaller footprint than before. It also focuses on key experiences which include privacy-centric features like Look-away detect and Onlooker detection.
The Dell Latitude Chromebook 5430 completes the lineup with a cloud-native option which runs Google’s ChromeOS. It brings the whole suite of experiences that make the Latitude line up in a highly scalable package with options for every need.
Pricing & Availability
The refreshed Dell Latitude laptops will be available starting in March 2023. Details are as below:
Model
Availability
Pricing (USD$)
Pricing (MYR)*
Latitude 9440
TBA
TBA
–
Latitude 7340, 7440, 7640
Starting March 23, 2023
from USD$1,676.99
from MYR7,385.86
Latitude 5340, 5440, 5540
Starting March 23, 2023
from USD$1,620.73
from MYR7,138.08
Latitude 5430 Chromebook
Starting March 28, 2023
TBA
–
*Pricing in MYR is converted using XE.com with the rate of 1 USD = 4.40449 MYR
Dell has been pushing the bar recently with its gaming offerings and concepts. Together with the new update to Concept Nyx, the company also announced new additions to its gaming offerings in its Alienware and Dell G portfolio. While some of them come with design updates, the laptops come with the latest 13th generation Intel or AMD Ryzen Zen 4 processor and also the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX40 series Laptop GPUs or AMD’s Radeon 7000M GPUs.
Alienware m18 & m16 Supped Up and Ready To Go!
The new Alienware line up is spearheaded by a refreshed M series which comes with two new additions: the m18 and m16. Both laptops continue to stay focused on delivering the best gaming performance possible. They also come with the Legend 3.0 design language – a refinement on Legend Design which was announced a few years ago.
The biggest difference between this generation and the last generation M-series is the displays. This generation ditches the 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch displays for slightly larger 16- and 18-inch displays. These displays come with a 16:10 aspect ratio and support resolutions of up to 2560×1600 pixels (QHD+) with 240Hz refresh. If you are looking for higher refresh rates, there is an option for an FHD+ panel with a 480Hz refresh rate.
Of course, Alienware’s M-series continues to support customisation via their website and supports a myriad of options when it comes to internals with up to 64GB of dual channel DDR5 4800 MHz RAM and up to 9TB of internal storage with its Quad Storage configurations. Connectivity-wise they support Killer WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. There is even an option for Cherry MX mechanical keys for the laptops as well. AlienFX also makes a comeback with multiple zones customizable from the updated Alienware Command Center.
When it comes to processors, the M-series maxes out with a 24-core Intel Core i9-13900HX. On the graphics end of things, the NVIDIA RTX 4090 Laptop GPU with 150W TGP is top of the line offering. To support the performance that the internals bring, Dell has equipped the Alienware M series with am updated cooling system. The vapour chamber now covers the CPU and GPU increasing the thermal capacity by 35% and there are now seven heat pipes that help with heat disipation. It comes without saying that they’ve also increased the airflow with quad fans with ultrathin fan blades.
The AMD equipped Alienware M-series will make its debut later in the year.
Alienware x16 & x14 Forge the Way for Portability
The Alienware X-series is also getting a bump when it comes to performance. The X16 and X14 succeed the previous models. However, they continue to inherit the sleek aluminium build that was introduced with the X series. Similar to the M series, the X series is replacing its larger x15 and x17 with the x16 while the x14 retains its compact size.
The new Alienware x16 and x14 come with an updated 16:10 aspect ratio and sport displays with up to 2560×1600 pixel (QHD+) with 165Hz refresh rate on the x14 and 240Hz on the x15. Both boast a 3ms response time. The displays also support 100% of the DCI-P3 gamut and NVIDIA’s Advanced Optimus technology.
When it comes to storage, the X series with up to 4TB of internal storage with up to 32GB of RAM. To keep things slim and portable the internal memory modules of the X series as solderd on to the motherboard. So, you won’t be able to add more later on. That said, it also provides a boost in performance. AlienFX is also avaiable and customisable on the Alienware x14 and x16.
Performance wise, the laptops are avaialble in different configurations. The Alienware x16 caps out with Intel Core i9-13900HK while the x14 caps out with the Intel Core i5-13620H. On the graphics end of things, the x16 maxes out with the NVIDIA RTX 4090 laptop GPU with a max TGP of 175W. The x14, on the other hand, caps out with the RTX 4060 with 85W TGP. Both support charging via USB-C.
Similar to the M series, AMD versions will be announced later in the year.
Revamped Dell G15 & G16 Bring Self Expression Front and Center
The Dell gaming laptop line up is getting a major update with the new G15 & G16. Both will sport the updated design which incorporates a more industrial feel, larger air vents and customizable colourways. The latter is more prominently spotlighted in the G15 models which sport retro ’80s pop aesthetics including a funky purple and blue colourway. The Dell G15 and G16 continue to inherit most of the design queues from last years model including the placement of ports and the signature Dell Gaming hinge.
The Dell G15 and G16 will be comeing with a new cooling system. Both will sport a vapour cooling system inspired by the system we’ve seen in Alienware laptops for better cooling. The system now sports four heat pipers with improved fans with ultrathin blades and an improved heat exchange area. Some of the configurations will come with Element 31 thermal interface and vapour cooling as well. These thermal updates will support the cutting-edge performance of the processors. Both models have configurations capping out with the Intel Core i9-13900HX and support up to the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.
On the display side of things, the Dell G16 comes with options sporting up to 2560×1600 pixels in resolution (QHD+) and up to 240Hz refresh rate. The G15 on the other hand sports options for FHD displays with 1920×1080 pixels with a maximum of 165Hz refresh rate. That said, the G16 only supports a single zone customization when it comes to AlienFX while the G15 supports up to four zones. Both also support WiFi 6 connectivity.
Similar to its Alienware cousins, AMD versions of the Dell G15 and G16 will be released later this year.
Pricing & Availability
The Alienware models will be available later this winter in North America while the Dell Gaming models will be available later in spring.
Model
Pricing
Availability
Alienware m18
High-end configurations starting at USD$2,899, CAD$3,899 Entry model starting at USD$2,099/CAD$2,849
Winter 2023
Alienware m16
High-end configurations starting at USD$2,599, CAD$3,599 Entry model starting at USD$1,899/CAD$2,599
Winter 2023
Alienware x16
High-end configurations starting at USD$3,099, CAD$4,199 Entry model starting at USD$2,149/CAD$2,899
Dell took the stage last year with their eye-catching Concept Nyx. The concept device took a jab at gaming on the edge. With Concept Nyx, Dell was looking at creating a new gaming and living room experience with edge connectivity. Edge connectivity or connectivity at the edge of the network is something we’ll be hearing more and more about with 5G becoming more mainstream.
Source: Dell Technologies
With Concept Nyx, Dell Technologies is looking to enable remote gaming with WiFi and 5G connectivity. They’re looking to accomplish this with a device or box that provides remote access to gaming libraries like Steam and more. This device can be placed in spaces like the living room and can support more than one instance. So, you’ll be able to play HALO while your sister plays Valorant at the same time on the same screen. It can even support multiple instances of the same game allowing you to play together.
The One Controller To Rule Them All
This year, Dell Technologies is taking Concept Nyx a little further. They’ve introduced the Concept Nyx Game Controller – the “One Controller to Rule Them All”. So, what makes this controller so different? The first thing that sets it apart is an integrated fingerprint sensor which will allow a myriad of personalization. The integrated fingerprint sensor could unlock personal settings or launch the last game that you played with a single touch.
Source: Dell Technologies
Dell is also experimenting with haptics in the controller. The controller is looking to incorporate variable resistance into their thumb sticks. The variable resistance can be set to either player preference or adapt to game specific settings. Imagine playing God of War and feeling the tug when you pull down barriers or slam enemies into the ground. The X-triggers could also incorporate the same.
In addition, the Concept Nyx Controller comes with shift buttons for additional options on front buttons and innovative scroll wheels which could be used to quickly scroll through your game weapons. There’s also an intelligent touchpad for instant access to customisable controls. It also comes with a fully customisable intelligent on-screen controls and overlays which will make sure you don’t get them buttons mixed up.
Taking Concept Nyx to the Next Level
While the big advancement this year is the Concept Nyx Controller, Dell isn’t just pushing hardware. Devs working on Concept Nyx have expanded what was shown last year with a better, more simplified dashboard. In addition to this, Concept Nyx is also being expanded to multitask more efficiently like connecting to multiple headsets; each with a unique audio stream. This also includes better splitscreen experiences. AI is also looking to make its mark on Concept Nyx with Dell experimenting with AI for things like dynamic listening to allow players to know when they’re being called.
Source: Dell Technologies
While there’s no commercially available product just yet, Concept Nyx is quickly being moulded by gaming. That said, you may see some of Nyx’s features make its way to products in Dell’s portfolio.
Dell Technologies is updating its portfolio of storage solutions to empower businesses with better data resilience and flexibility. The newly updated solutions take the lead from businesses which have inadvertently adopted a multi-cloud approach which Dell has identified as “Multi-Cloud by Default”. These updated solutions enable businesses to seamlessly access and store data across their multiple clouds while increasing efficiency.
Source: Dell Technologies
Dell’s PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex have been updated with over 500 software advancements across the board to deliver better multi-cloud control, insights and resilience. The updates come as part of Dell’s project Alpine which looks to bring enterprise performance, protection and capacity that is offered by Dell Technologies to public clouds.
The Dell PowerStore solution is one of the fastest ramping new architecture in Dell’s history. It is capable of delivering improvements of up to 50% in mixed workloads and up to 66% greater capacity than most of the current market offerings. With the new software updates, it now supports better, more secured file workloads with file level retention, native file replication and support for third-party solutions for file monitoring and ransomware protection. Deeper VMware integrations which empower better vVols latency and performance allow businesses to run more workloads faster. In addition, it’s been imbued with added resilience with better VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVolss) replication and VM-level snapshots and fast clones.
Source: Dell Technologies
PowerMax, on the other hand, empowers mission-critical operations with data security and resilience. These include cyber vaults for traditional and mainframe deployments. It comes with added data security thanks to CouldIQ ransomware capabilities which enable early detection of ransomware attacks minimizing exposure and recovery. Dell PowerMax now offers up to 65 million secure snapshots to better data recovery and resiliency with a new 4:1 data reduction guarantee. Software updates enable automated storage operations including multi-array smart provisioning, workload optimisation, health monitoring and remediation. It will also be able to quickly move and mobilise workloads between public and private clouds with snapshot shipping and recovery. This also allows for better, higher availability to minimise downtime.
Rounding up their offerings, Dell PowerFlex is available to help consolidate traditional and modern workloads. It does this through new file services that allow for a unified platform for both block and file capabilities. PowerFlex works to simplify the complexities of a multi-cloud environment as well as DevOps with support for the broadest file and block support for all Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. New software updates also allow PowerFlex to unify compute, storage and system lifecycle management helping simplify workflow.
These innovations and cloud storage solutions from Dell Technologies is one of the first steps the company is taking to its vision of a multi-cloud by design work environment. In this new work environment, entreprises are able to work on-prem and in the cloud with the flexibility and security needed regardless of being in the public or private cloud. In fact, they will work seamlessly as data and operations stores and retrieves data from both.
The Dell PowerMax and Dell PowerStore updates and upgrades will be available globally starting in mid-July 2022 while PowerFlex will see global availability in mid-August 2022.
We are living in a do-anything-from-anywhere economy enabled by an exponentially expanding data ecosystem. It’s estimated 65% of Global GDP will be digitalnext year (2022). This influx of data presents both opportunities and challenges. After all, success in our digital present and future relies on our ability to secure and maintain increasingly complex IT systems. Here I’ll examine both near-term and long-term predictions that address the way the IT industry will deliver the platforms and capabilities to harness this data to transform our experiences at work, home and in the classroom.
What to look for in 2022:
The Edge discussion will separate into two focus areas – edge platforms that provide a stable pool of secure capacity for the diverse edge ecosystems and software defined edge workloads/software stacks that extend application and data systems into real world environments. This approach to Edge, where we separate the edge platforms from the edge workloads, is critical since, if each edge workload creates its own dedicated platform, we will have proliferation of edge infrastructure and unmanageable infrastructure sprawl.
Imagine an edge environment where you deploy an edge platform that presents compute, storage, I/O and other foundational IT capacities in a stable, secure, and operationally simple way. As you extend various public and private cloud data and applications pipelines to the edge along with local IoT and data management edges, they can be delivered as software-defined packages leveraging that common edge platform of IT capacity. This means that your edge workloads can evolve and change at software speed because the underlying platform is a common pool of stable capacity.
We are already seeing this shift today. Dell Technologies currently offers edge platforms for all the major cloud stacks, using common hardware and delivery mechanisms. As we move into 2022, we expect these platforms to become more capable and pervasive. We are already seeing most edge workloads – and even most public cloud edge architectures – shift to software-defined architectures using containerisation and assuming standard availably of capacities such as Kubernetes as the dial tone. This combination of modern edge platforms and software-defined edge systems will become the dominant way to build and deploy edge systems in the multi-cloud world.
The opening of the private mobility ecosystem will accelerate with more cloud and IT industries involved on the path to 5G. Enterprise use of 5G is still early. In fact, today 5G is not significantly different or better than WiFi in most enterprise use cases. This will change in 2022 as more modern, capable versions of 5G become available to enterprises. We will see higher performance and more scalable 5G along with new 5G features such as Ultra Reliability Low Latency Communications (UR-LLC) and Massive Machine Type Communicators (mMTC), with dialogue becoming much more dominant than traditional telecoms (think: open-source ecosystem, infrastructure companies, non-traditional telecom).
More importantly we expect the ecosystem, delivering new and more capable private mobility, will expand to include IT providers such as Dell Technologies but also public cloud providers and even new Open-Source ecosystems focused on acceleration of the Open 5G ecosystem.
Edge will become the new battleground for data management as data management becomes a new class of workload. The data management ecosystem needs an edge. The modern data management industry began its journey on public clouds processing and analysing non-real-time centralised data. As the digital transformation of the world accelerates, it has become clear that most of the data in the world will be created and acted on outside of centralised data centers. We expect that the entire data management ecosystem will become very active in developing and utilising edge IT capacity as the ingress and egress of their data pipelines but will also utilise edges to remotely process and digest data.
As the data management ecosystem extends to the edge this will dramatically increase the number of edge workloads and overall edge demand. This correlates to our first prediction on edge platforms as we expect these data management edges to be modern software-defined offerings. Data management and the edge will increasingly converge and reinforce each other. IT infrastructure companies, like Dell Technologies, have the unique opportunity to provide the orchestration layer for edge and multi-cloud by delivering an edge data management strategy.
The security industry is now moving from discussion of emerging security concerns to a bias toward action. Enterprises and governments are facing threats of greater sophistication and impact on revenue and services. At the same time, the attack surface that hackers can exploit is growing based on the accelerated trend in remote work and digital transformation. As a result, the security industry is responding with greater automation and integration. The industry is also pivoting from automated detection to prevention and response with a focus on applying AI and machine learning to speed remediation. This is evidenced by industry initiatives like SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation & Response), CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) and XDR (Extended, Detection and Response). Most importantly we are seeing new efforts such as the Open Secure Software Foundation in the Linux Foundation ramp up the coordination and active involvement of the IT, telecom and semiconductor industries.
Across all four of these areas – edge, private mobility, data management and security – there is a clear need for a broad ecosystem where both public cloud and traditional infrastructure are integrated. We are now clearly in a multi-cloud, distributed world where the big challenges can no longer be solved by a single data center, cloud, system or technology.
What to look for beyond 2022:
Quantum Computing – Hybrid quantum/classical compute will take center stage providing greater access to quantum.In 2022 we expect two major industry consensuses to emerge. First, we expect the industry will see the inevitable topology of a quantum system will be a hybrid quantum computer where the quantum hardware or quantum processing units (QPU) are specialised compute systems that look like accelerators and focus on specific quantum focused mathematics and functions. The QPUs will be surrounded by conventional compute systems to pre-process the data, run the overall process and even interpret the output of the QPUs.
Early real-world quantum systems are all following this hybrid quantum model and we see a clear path where the collaboration of classical and quantum compute is inevitable. The second major consensus is that quantum simulation using conventional computing will be the most cost effective and accessible way to get quantum systems into the hands of our universities, data science teams and researchers. In fact, Dell and IBM already announced significant work in making quantum simulation available to the world.
Automotive – The automotive ecosystem will rapidly shift focus from a mechanical ecosystem to a data and compute industry.The automotive industry is transforming at several levels. We are seeing a shift from Internal Combustion Engines to Electrified Vehicles resulting in radical simplification of the physical supply chain. We are also seeing a significant expansion of software and compute content within our automobiles via ADAS and autonomous vehicle efforts. Finally, we are seeing the automotive industry becoming data driven industries for everything from entertainment, to safety to major disruptions such as Car-as-a-Service and automated delivery.
All of this says that the automotive and transportation industries are beginning a rapid transition to be driven by software, compute and data. We have seen this in other industries such as telecom and retail and in every case the result is increased consumption of IT technology. Dell is actively engaged with most of the world’s major automotive companies in their early efforts, and we expect 2022 to continue their evolution towards digital transformation and deep interaction with IT ecosystems.
Digital Twins – Digital Twins will become easier to create and consume as the technology is more clearly defined with dedicated tools. While gaining in awareness, digital twins is still a nascent technology with few real examples in production. Over the next several years, we’ll see digital twins become easier to create and consume as we define standardised frameworks, solutions and platforms. Making digital twin ideas more accessible will enable enterprises to provide enhanced analytics and predictive models to accelerate digital transformation efforts. Digital twin adoption will become more mainstream with accelerated standardisation and availability of solutions and framework, bringing deployment and investment costs down. Digital twins will be the core driver of Digital transformation 3.0 combining measured and modeled/simulated worlds for direct business value across industry verticals.
As a technology optimist, I increasingly see a world where humans and technology work together to deliver impactful outcomes at an unprecedented speed. These near-term and long-term perspectives are based on the strides we’re making today. If we see even incremental improvement, there is enormous opportunity to positively transform the way we work, live and learn and 2022 will be another year of accelerated technology innovation and adoption.
