Get $750 off the Dell XPS 17 laptop this weekend

By Andrew Morrisey Published April 21, 2024

dell xps 17 — Dell

If you’ve got your eye out for a new laptop, we’d like to direct you toward Dell. At Dell you’ll find one of the best laptop deals of the weekend, and it’s even something to consider if you’re looking for one of the best gaming laptop deals. The Dell XPS 17 with some serious specs is discounted a massive $750, which brings its price down from $2,399 to $1,649. Dell is including free shipping with an order, and the XPS 17 comes with Windows 11 pre-installed at no cost.

Why you should buy the Dell XPS 17

For decades Dell has been widely regarded as one of the best laptop brands, and one of those reasons is its XPS laptop lineup. The Dell XPS 17 checks in as the largest laptop in the lineup, providing plenty of screen real estate to suit general users, gamers, and even content creators. This build sees that 17-inch display come in at Full HD resolution and 500 nits of brightness. It also has a refresh rate of 60Hz, which isn’t meant for high-end game but can get the job done if you’re looking to tackle some of the best PC games.

But if you put your laptop through its paces by way of the workday or content creation, there are even more reasons to love the XPS 17. It’s a fierce competitor of the Apple MacBook Pro, and the XPS lineup almost always places a model among the best laptops. With this build you’ll find a 14-core Intel i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. These pair with the popular NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card with 8GB of its own RAM. All of this will make a smooth, snappy experience for nearly anything you throw at the XPS 17, making it something to consider if you’ve been looking at the best MacBooks for video editing.

The Dell XPS 17 is one of the more expensive laptops in the lineup, but this weekend you can save big on an impressive build. This deal sees it discounted from its regular price of $2,399 to a sale price of $1,649. This makes for a savings of $750, and Dell is including free shipping with a purchase.

Andrew Morrisey

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Andrew has been writing professionally for more than 20 years and has been writing about tech for three of them. His focus at…

Topics

Computing

Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot Code for building apps with natural language

The workplace-focused vibe coding tool can pull context from emails, documents, meetings, and chats.

Microsoft introduced Code last month as one of the three core parts of its revamped Copilot app. The app was pitched as an easy-to-use coding agent that lets users describe what they want to build in natural language, like an app, a tracker, a dashboard, an automation, or a workflow, and Copilot would build it for them.

Essentially, it's a workplace-focused vibe-coding app that turns existing work into a functional app, and Microsoft has begun rolling it out through the Frontier program.

Computing

AI agents are acting like rogues and causing a huge headache for US banks

US banks block AI agents over fears they could make unauthorised financial moves

Banking

US banks are facing a new kind of digital headache: artificial intelligence agents attempting to access customer accounts and perform actions that may go beyond what users intended. As AI tools become more capable of navigating websites and carrying out tasks independently, financial institutions are scrambling to prevent them from crossing security boundaries.

According to a report published by Axios on October 22, major US banks have detected third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts without authorisation. Some agents reportedly appeared to attempt actions independently of user instructions. The banks involved have not publicly detailed every incident, and there is no evidence that the reported activity resulted in widespread theft of customer funds.

Computing

Canva enters the AI image generation race with Craft, and it’s thinking beyond pretty pictures

The new model plans layouts before generating images, with precise editing and support for 30 aspect ratios.

Canva Craft Featured Image

AI can generate all kinds of pretty pictures, but getting it to spell a headline correctly or keep a poster's layout intact can be another story. Canva wants to fix that with Canva Craft, its first in-house image generation model. Rather than focusing primarily on photographs, Craft is designed around the posters, presentations, social media graphics, and other visual content people actually create. The goal is simple: spend less time fixing AI's mistakes and more time making something useful.

Canva Craft plans before it generates