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Dell Unveils ‘World’s Thinnest Fully Featured Laptop’

By TechTaffy Desk

Dell  unveiled its XPS 14z laptop, or the world’s thinnest fully featured laptop, as the company likes to call it.

The XPS 14z is available with second-generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors, an HD WLED display, a slot-load optical drive and NVIDIA graphics option. The XPS 14z is the latest member of Dell’s portfolio of ‘thin-and-powerful’ solutions, and the second such solution in the XPS family, joining Dell’s XPS 15z laptop.

The XPS 14z is available in the United States and Canada starting Nov. 1 and worldwide on Nov. 15. More detailed tech specs can be found here.

 

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