If you’re upgrading your work laptop or PC fleet, there’s a good chance it will be used to operate AI. But is your hardware up to the task? With AI becoming a standard business tool and revolutionizing businesses everywhere, we look at what AI PCs can do for your organization.
TL;DR
- If there’s one thing to think about when upgrading your laptop or PC fleet, it’s AI. Now an essential consideration, AI can drastically minimize admin tasks, help you summarize, ideate, act as your personal assistant, and let you put your best foot forward in business.
- With the Dell Pro laptop series packing powerful NPUs that can help with battery endurance, creativity, and collaboration, this is a range that delivers results.
- Two new PCs, the Dell Pro 3 and Dell Pro 5, use a host of AI enhancements, like neural processing, battery optimization, and smart assistants, to let you do even more than before.
Whether you’re a freelancer, an entrepreneur looking to scale quickly, or a small business, an AI PC is the tool you need to supercharge your productivity and workflows.
With that in mind, let’s explore how AI PCs will be the next big thing for 2027, with the Dell Pro 3 and Dell Pro 5 as examples.
AI can accelerate virtually any workflow
Not only do the Dell Pro 3 and Dell Pro 5 complement the latest Intel and AMD processors with high-speed memory, making them superb for multitasking complex projects, they can also be configured to feature onboard neural processing units (NPUs).
This hardware is designed to handle AI tasks, keeping your CPU free to run applications while ensuring your OS is stable. Importantly, NPUs can accelerate compatible applications that provide automation for routine tasks like summarizing emails, drafting follow-up responses, reformatting data, and creating meeting transcripts. And if you need raw AI power to tackle complex datasets, the Dell Pro 5 features 3.3x faster AI processing compared to the previous generation.*
AI can also spot patterns in data, helping make sense of consumer behavior and trends. It can also help with forecasting, ensuring you don’t run out of inventory during key sales periods. Finally, AI can generate intelligent, real-time takeaways for your business, so you have a robust plan whether you want to scale up, automate processes, or franchise your brand.
The Dell Pro 5’s new design in numbers**:
- Up to 11% thinner chassis
- Up to 78% better airflow
- Higher-density battery compared to the previous generation
AI will revolutionize how we communicate
Hardware that can translate speech in real time may once have seemed like the preserve of Star Trek shows, but with AI, they’re a reality today. If you have international clients or overseas suppliers, they can save money and time by avoiding the use of conventional translation services or potential red faces over misunderstandings. Instead, translation tools embedded within Microsoft Copilot and Copilot+ work in real time, using the Dell Pro’s NPU to convert speech to text or even synthesized voice audio.
Plus, the onboard AI helps reduce background noise while seamlessly applying professional enhancements like filters, transcribing and summarizing conversations, and delivering action items and summaries, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
AI can drastically improve laptop battery life
When you’re able to work anywhere with a laptop, business can move just that little bit faster—until you’re in need of a power outlet. But thanks to the Dell Pro’s AI-powered battery optimization (and efficient hardware design), you can go that much further.
Dell Optimizer, an AI-based optimization software, uses adaptive power management to examine your usage patterns, automatically adjusting settings to maximize battery life. Plus, with smart hardware offloading, specific AI processing tasks like image generation and live translation are shifted to the NPU rather than the main CPU, maintaining stability and performance while handling high workloads with ease, saving you precious battery life.
The Dell Pro 5 offers up to 22.8 hours of battery life***, empowering you and your workforce to be productive in a cafe, plane, or airport lounge, even with no power outlet in sight.
Smoother graphical experience and potent imaging tools
Intel® Arc graphics make the Dell Pro 5 a powerhouse for demanding tasks, from rendering graphics to running intensive applications. And by splitting specific tasks better geared towards the CPU, NPU, or GPU, your laptop runs faster and more efficiently. That’s great for tasks like image editing and creation using generative tools, rendering visual workflows, and applying background blur and filters during video calls.
AI can beef up security and privacy
Onboard NPUs make Copilot+ smoother to use. By using on-device AI to handle and process large reams of private or sensitive data, less data is sent online to cloud-based or remote servers, making local AI PCs better for privacy and data security.
The Dell Pro 3 and Dell Pro 5 compared
| Row 0 - Cell 0 | In a nutshell |
Great for |
Dell Pro 3 |
Delivers reliable, cost-effective performance |
Light multitasking, such as emails, web browsing, report writing, and video calls. |
Dell Pro 5 |
The sweet spot for business productivity |
Working with complex programs, cloud apps, and dense spreadsheets. |
If you think a Dell Pro laptop is right for you, find out more on the Dell website: US readers click here.
* Based on internal testing using Procyon AI Computer Vision (OpenVINO NPU Integer) benchmark comparing Dell Pro 5 16 and Dell Pro 16 Plus, April 2026. Dell Pro 5 16 was tested with Intel 368H vPro CPU, UMA graphics, and 64GB LPCAMM2 memory. Dell Pro 16 Plus was tested with Intel 265 vPro CPU, UMA graphics, and 64GB DDR5 memory.
** Based on internal analysis, February 2026. Data is based on comparison with Dell Pro Plus launched in CY25
*** Based on testing using the Mobile Mark 30 battery life benchmark comparing Dell Pro 5 14 and Dell Pro 14 Plus, April 2026. Dell Pro 5 14 was tested with Intel® 336H vPro® CPU, UMA graphics, 32GB LPCAMM2 memory, WUXGA Non-Touch OLED display (dark mode) and 70 Whr battery. Dell Pro 14 Plus was tested with Intel® U5 236V vPro® CPU, UMA graphics, 16GB LPDDR5x memory, WUXGA Non-touch Super Low Power display, and 55Whr battery. For more information about this benchmark test, visit www.bapco.com. Actual battery life may be significantly less than the test results and varies depending on product configuration and use, software, usage, operating conditions, power management settings and other factors. Maximum battery life will decrease with time. The stated Watt-hour (Whr) is not an indication of battery life.
