India, May 15 -- Dell's newest laptop push is aimed at two very different buyers: people who want everyday artificial intelligence on a thin work machine, and gamers who want Alienware hardware at a lower starting point. The message is simple. AI PCs are moving into mainstream laptops, while gaming laptops are getting more carefully divided by price, power, and purpose.

The Dell 14S and Dell 16S are built around Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, with options up to Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. Dell says the systems include built-in artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration with up to 50 trillion operations per second (TOPS) neural processing unit (NPU) performance. They are also Copilot+ PCs, which means some AI features can run on the de...