For great laptop deals, you can always count on Dell. All I’m going to say about this next deal is that it’s so good, I want one. Today, it has a huge $550 off the Dell XPS 14, which is a consistently popular laptop for many good reasons. That means you pay $950 instead of $1,500, which is great for what it has to offer. One of the better Dell laptop deals around, this laptop is perfect for general use and also looks super stylish while you’re working in a nearby coffee shop. If that sounds appealing to you, it should. Keep reading and you can learn all about what the Dell XPS 14 has to offer.
As our Dell XPS 14 review explains, the laptop has a momentous design along with an excellent haptic trackpad and quiet yet cool performance. While it has limited ports and it’s usually quite expensive, that’s less of an issue when there’s a $550 discount involved. This particular model has an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, 16GB of memory, and 512GB of SSD storage. Those are all the essentials you could need, although a little part of us would prefer to see 1TB at this price range.
The screen is a 14.5-inch full HD+ display with 1920 x 1200 resolution, along with 500 nits of brightness. It looks great and is an appropriate size for use on the move without being too small to see things comfortably. There’s also a backlit keyboard with a fingerprint reader, so you can enjoy superior security than just regular passwords. It’s all precisely what you would expect from one of the best laptop brands. Such is the class of the Dell XPS 14, we spent some time comparing the Dell XPS 14 and the MacBook Pro 14. The MacBook Pro still wins, but it’s a closer battle than you might expect, especially given the price differences.
If you’d like to snag a solid MacBook competitor that also belongs in a roundup of the best laptops, check out the Dell XPS 14. It usually costs $1,500, but right now you can buy it directly from Dell for $950, which is a pretty sweet deal for what’s involved. We don’t know when the deal will end, so look sooner rather than later if you want it. It’s going to be perfect for working on the move and feeling good about your choice.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?
Speech-to-text apps have flooded the App Store, making it easier than ever to type on our Macs with just our voice. I have previously covered one such app called TypeWhisper. However, there has been a dearth of good text-to-speech models, and most of the good ones are locked behind a subscription.
Ollama, an open-source app that lets you run local AI models on your computer, wants to change that. It works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and your prompts are never stored or used for training.
Did you think hitting delete on your AI chatbot conversation actually makes it disappear? Georgia Tech researchers just proved that's not entirely true. They have built a forensic tool called ORISA that can dig deleted conversations from your phone and even rebuild them into a working chatbot session you can keep talking to.
How can ORISA bring deleted AI conversations back?