Dell Pro 5 14 (Intel) Laptop Power Supply
While we are looking over the Dell Pro 5 14, here is a quick look at Dell’s included power supply for the laptop.
Dell offers several power supply options for this laptop, and our review sample came with the 65 Watt unit. This is a pretty typical 65W adapter, with a maximum output voltage of 20V. It is worth noting, however, that while 65W is more than enough to charge the laptop, when paired with the 70Wh battery, it is not high enough to support Dell’s fast-charging Express Charge feature. That requires a 100W power adapter, which is an upgrade with this laptop.
Aside from inputs, the bulk of this laptop’s power consumption comes from the Intel SoC. With the panel only drawing a few watts even at max brightness (which is what helps this laptop reach 20+ hour battery runtime ratings), the Intel Core Ultra X7 368H is no slouch. The chip is rated to draw up to 80W at its highest turbo state. Even with the benefits of Intel’s 18A process node, 16 CPU cores and another 12 GPU cores can draw quite a bit of power when everything is running at full tilt.
Final Words
While Intel remains the top player in the x86 SoC space for laptops, the last couple of years have certainly made the company’s partners sweat a little bit. Besides competition from fellow x86 vendor AMD, there is always the threat from Arm-based rivals, be it Qualcomm on Windows or Apple’s entire ecosystem. So, after a stressful past couple of years, Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) has been a welcome development across the industry, as it has put Intel’s mobile efforts firmly back on track – and demonstrated why it has been the top laptop chip vendor for so long.
For Dell, then, the success of Panther Lake means they are starting from a very solid foundation for their latest generation of Intel-based laptops. Dell has been making business laptops for years, and while the company is not above putting out a bad design now and then, so long as it has a solid base to start with, it is very rare for it to miss.
In that regard, the Dell Pro 5 14 Intel is a very typical, very tried-and-true Dell corporate laptop design. Which, far from damning the company with faint praise, underscores how it has reduced business laptop development to a science. The Dell Pro 5 14 Intel is the quintessential mainstream business laptop. There is little here that would qualify as flashy, but it delivers plenty of performance, ample internal modularity and upgradability (especially with its LPCAMM2 memory modules), and even solid support coverage with a base 3-year warranty. It is a laptop that does everything it needs to, just as a business laptop should.
Where To Buy
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