How to optimize hybrid work productivity with Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 laptops

For many organizations and their employees, hybrid work is now a fact of life. Any business looking to equip its workforce with new laptops needs to look for devices that lean into the unique opportunities and benefits inherent to this style of work.

This is especially true given the long-term lifecycles of business devices. It’s important that leaders make the right hardware purchasing decisions now, so that their workforce can enjoy years of dependable and adaptable devices.

The Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 were designed expressly with hybrid work in mind. With new, thinner-than-ever designs and the latest hardware under the hood to ensure workers on the go don’t have to compromise on performance, these laptops are intended for the modern worker in every sense.

TL;DR

• Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 come with extended battery life, enabled by intelligent design features.
• The Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 come with sophisticated chips and hardware innovations that help users carry out demanding workloads without sacrificing performance.
• The NPU in either device processes AI workloads far more efficiently than a CPU or GPU could, with a much lower effect on battery life.
• The embedded NPU within the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 can run AI operations in the background, seamlessly enhancing the user experience and enabling advanced features.
• Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 laptops are protected against common attacks and secured with additional hardware-layer protection, to ensure work on the go is safe as well as productive.

1. Stop worrying about battery life

First and foremost, the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 laptops can slot seamlessly into a working day. Dell has equipped each with long-lasting batteries that also take up less space. This allows these devices to offer heroic battery life for the working day at the same time as being Dell’s thinnest and most portable commercial laptop ever.¹

For example, the Dell Pro 5 offers up to 22 hours of battery life² – more than enough to complete intensive enterprise tasks throughout the day, and still have battery for tasks on the commute home – while being up to 11% thinner than its predecessor.³

Beyond the battery itself, Dell has packed the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 with intelligent features that help them use as little energy as possible. This includes a mini-LED backlit keyboard option, allowing employees to work in dimly-lit environments without increasing their power consumption, as well as a variable refresh rate panel, which intelligently reduces the power draw of the display depending on the task the user is working on.

2. Embrace portable performance

It used to be the case that desktops were for compute-intensive tasks and laptops were relegated to light, browser-based work and simpler software such as word processors. Thankfully, those days are long behind us.

The Dell Pro 5 is a true enterprise workhorse and the most powerful Dell Pro laptop ever made. It’s equipped with next-gen Series 3 Intel® Core™ Ultra processors or AMD Ryzen™ AI PRO 400 series processors, as well as flagship LPCAMM2 memory expandable up to 64GB, which work in tandem to deliver enterprise-ready performance without lag.

Performance doesn’t end at raw processing power, either. The Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 can be equipped with WWAN, to connect the laptop to 5G networks. This allows it to act as a truly portable workstation for enterprise needs, whether you’re on the train or at a work site without a dedicated Wi-Fi connection.

For style, performance and portability, the remarkably thin Dell Pro 7 is a sleek powerhouse. The thinnest laptop in the Dell Pro family, it features Series 3 Intel® Core™ Ultra or AMD Ryzen™ AI Pro 400 series processors, fast LPDDR5X memory, and premium options such as up to WUXGA+ OLED displays, up to 8MP HDR+ IR cameras, and optional touchscreens for exceptional conferencing and on-the-go work experiences.

Both devices also come with neural processing units (NPUs) built in, for running on-device AI applications and accelerating machine learning tasks that the CPU and GPU would otherwise have to handle. This allows complex AI workloads to run on both devices without having a detrimental impact on battery life, and opens the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 up to the latest AI features within enterprise apps.

3. Take AI with you wherever you go

AI PCs are already becoming the norm, according to firms like Gartner. Demand for these devices, Kaiso Research and Consulting noted, is being driven by the huge enterprise demand for AI-native workloads within tools such as 3D design.

As noted above, the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 are AI-enabled devices from the moment they’re turned on. This means they can take full advantage of Microsoft Copilot+ features, such as live transcription, and they’re ready to process whatever AI workloads are added into existing enterprise software as time goes on as well.

McKinsey and Company reports 88% of businesses are now using AI in at least one business function, with 38% either scaling or having fully scaled AI across the organization. As workers become more reliant on AI tools, it’s likely that demand to integrate AI within the hybrid work experience will also rise – necessitating the use of laptops that can run AI both in the cloud and offline.

This dovetails with those businesses that are interested in deploying AI models at the edge, to provide workers with private AI functionality such as chats about company data or local text-to-speech generation.

For the best of Copilot+ embedded features that run offline, the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 will shine.

4. Travel securely

One of the greatest risks of hybrid work is the increased likelihood of exposing company data by mistake via attacks such as shoulder surfing.

Both the Dell Pro 5 and Pro 7 are configurable with privacy screens, which keep prying eyes from seeing the content on the laptop screen by default.

The Dell Pro 5 also comes with optional Dell ControlVault3+ (CV3+)⁴, a security chip within the device that keeps sensitive user data isolated from the rest of the laptop in case of a cyber attack that compromises the device.

All sensitive tasks such as biometric checks happen via the chip, ensuring that enterprise data on a Dell Pro 5 is as secure on a commute as it is on a company desk. Another benefit of CV3+ is intelligent security features such as ‘Fingerprint Self-Learning’, which gradually increases the sophistication of the user’s biometric data to become even more secure the more it’s used.

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