One of the best laptops of the year is now selling for its lowest price ever ahead of Black Friday

I loved the Dell 14 Premium when I reviewed it earlier this year, and right now it’s on sale at Dell.com for just $999.99, a $550 savings of its current list price.

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We’re a little more than a week away from Thanksgiving, but Black Friday deals are already going live at major retailers and manufacturer websites and, so far, the Dell 14 Premium’s starting configuration is only on sale directly from Dell. It’s slightly less powerful than the model I reviewed, but for the price, it’s an unbeatable value.

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While many of Dell’s 14 Premium configurations are on sale right now, the entry-level configuration with the Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor, 16GB LPDDR5x RAM, 512GB SSD, and 14.5-inch 1600p display with 120Hz refresh rate is one of the best Black Friday laptop deals going right now.

The Dell Premium line, which is a rebranding of Dell’s wildly popular Dell XPS series of years past, is a very strong MacBook Pro competitor for those who prefer the Windows 11 ecosystem over macOS. And, if you opt to configure the 14 Premium with an Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU (which was part of the 14 Premium I reviewed), you end up with a rather portable powerhouse creative workstation that can often outperform a similarly priced MacBook Pro 14-inch.

The integrated Intel Arc graphics model, meanwhile, will underperform the M5 MacBook Pro 14-inch somewhat in graphics-related, non-gaming tasks like video editing, but not by so much that it is really a deciding factor here. If you’re not explicitly tied to the Apple Mac ecosystem, the Dell 14 Premium is as good a MacBook Pro alternative as you’ll find anywhere.

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