Dell is using Computex to announce their new XPS 13 that comes at their lowest price ever of $599 USD for students and $699 for everyone else. The new Dell XPS 13 aims to compete directly with the Apple MacBook Neo while leveraging the new Intel Wildcat Lake processors as cut-down from Panther Lake.

The new Dell XPS 13 at $599~699 USD is easily their most affordable XPS 13 laptop ever. It is also their thinnest and lightest XPS laptop ever produced while featuring a touchscreen, backlight keyboard, and other typical modern laptop features. Also nice about this new XPS 13 is that the 2.5K touch display is considered standard as is quad speakers and WiFI 7 connectivity.

The new XPS 13 powered by Core Series 3 (Wildcat Lake) will be debuting "soon" at the $599 price point for students 16 years and older or $699 for the typical retail price. There will also be an XPS 13 powered by Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) later in the summer.

While shipping with Microsoft Windows, the new Dell XPS 13 should play well with Linux given Dell's past product history on Linux and the Wildcat Lake support in the upstream Linux kernel and components like Mesa appearing to be in good shape. Soon we'll be running our first Intel Wildcat Lake Linux support and performance benchmarks from the lower-cost CHUWI $449 Wildcat Lake laptop.

More details on the just-announced new Dell XPS 13 with Wildcat Lake at Dell.com.