{"id":105448,"date":"2026-01-05T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=7cee574b27dfb6559333924be6274658"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:35:24","slug":"dell-is-eating-humble-pie-and-bringing-back-the-xps-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105448","title":{"rendered":"Dell is eating humble pie and bringing back the XPS brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/851047\/dell-xps-14-16-13-laptops-brand-return-ces-2026\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: That went about as poorly as everyone expected.<\/div><figure>\n\n<img alt=\"Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops on a white tabletop.\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/258180_Dell_XPS_14_16_laptops_CES_2026_ADiBenedetto_0024.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t<figcaption>\n\tForget Premium, Pro, and Pro Max &mdash; Dell backtracked so hard its new laptops don&rsquo;t even say Dell on top.\t<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Nearly one year ago to the day, Dell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/6\/24325799\/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">killed off its long-standing XPS brand name<\/a> in favor of milquetoast Premium, Plus, Pro, and Pro Max monikers - but it's back for CES 2026. The new XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops look to win back fans of the \"Extreme Performance System\" with Dell's thinnest designs to date, a row of proper function keys, improved battery life, and Intel's new Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Dell even went as far as putting the XPS brand name on the lid, and finally marking the edges of its seamless haptic trackpad with subtle glass etching lines. <\/p>\n<p>The XPS 14 and 16 are launching in select configurations on January &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/851047\/dell-xps-14-16-13-laptops-brand-return-ces-2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Premium, Pro, and Pro Max \u2014 Dell backtracked so hard its new lapto&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}