Dell just launched one of the best laptop deals I've seen for students, road warriors, or pretty much anyone who's looking for a mobile workhorse. As part of the Dell Back to School Sale, the new-for-2025 Dell Plus 16 laptop is on sale for $999.99 after a $450 instant discount. Free shipping is included. This laptop is chock full of high-end upgrades you wouldn't expect to find in a laptop at this price point, including mostly metal construction, a gorgeous display, the newest Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, and a generous amount of memory and high-speed storage.
Save $450 Off the Dell 16 Plus Laptop, Now Just $999.99
The Dell Plus laptop is a nice upgrade from last year's Inspiron model, the biggest difference being the build quality. Whereas the Inspiron had a mostly plastic construction, the Dell Plus boasts an aluminum top lid and bottom chassis. Only the display bezel and palm rest are made of plastic. It weighs in at 4.1 pounds, which is very reasonable for a 16" laptop.
The 2.5K touchscreen Mini-LED display is one of Dell's best laptop screens
This particular model boasts a 16" display with a 2560x1600 resolution, touchscreen interface, and Mini-LED panel. LED-backlit panels, like its name suggests, consists of an array of LEDs that can independently turn on and off, thus improving black levels and contrast ratio. In a Mini-LED panel, the LEDs are smaller and more numerous. You also don't suffer from burn-in issues that can plague OLED monitors, and Mini-LED screens are usually much brighter.
The new Intel Core Ultra 7 200V CPU offers great energy-efficient performance
Intel's Lunar Lake processors have received great reviews in general for their combination of power efficiency and performance. The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V has single-core performance similar to the Core Ultra 7 155H while consuming significantly less power (17W base/ 27W turbo vs 28W base/115W turbo). It does only have 8 cores compared to the 16 cores on the 155H, but most people in the market for this kind of laptop won't benefit from anything more than 8 cores. The advantages of a more power efficient chip, however, are more tangible: less noise, less heat, and longer battery life.
Includes more memory and storage than most other $1,000 laptops
Most laptops at this price are equipped with 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD. This configuration, however, beats the competition in both areas with 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The memory is one of those components you want configured right off the bat because it's soldered into the mainboard and not user-replaceable. 32GB of RAM is more than enough memory than most of you will need for quite a while. The 1TB SSD is a nice upgrade as well. If you need more, the Dell 16 Plus includes plenty of connectivity options: one USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 port with DisplayPort 1.4 and Power Delivery, and one Thunderbolt 4 port with DisplayPort 2.1 and Power Delivery.
This deal is part of the Dell Back to School Sale
If you're heading back to school soon, you might want to think about upgrading your laptop for the new year. Fortunately there are plenty of good deals to be found during the Dell Back to School Sale . It kicks off now and runs through the first half of August. If you're a student, you can get an extra 10% off and 2X back in rewards. All you need to do is sign up for a Dell account with a valid student email address. The student discount is valid for 3 products per transaction up to 5 transactions per year. Some configurations are excluded.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
