Dell XPS 15 with 12th Gen Intel i7 and RTX 3050 is $500 off in Black Friday deal

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Black Friday laptop deals are in full swing, and our favorite laptop, the Dell XPS 15 is shedding hundreds of dollars off its original price. Right now, you can get the XPS 15 for $1,399 at Dell.

To put it into perspective, the original price for the Dell XPS 15 was a pricey $1,899 (boo!). Now, you can save a sweet $500 and enjoy one of the best laptops on the market. And yes, it comes with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU as well as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU.

Don't forget to check out our Black Friday laptop deals live blog if you want to look at more options that are trickling in during this post-Thanksgiving sales bonanza.

We're big fans of Dell's XPS lineup, and the Dell XPS 15 in this deal boasts some of the best specs we've seen. In our Dell XPS 15 OLED review, we claimed it to be the ultimate 15-inch laptop equipped with a striking ultra-thin chassis with outstanding performance (but keep in mind the XPS 15 in this deal has different specs than the one we reviewed).

The Dell XPS 15 in this deal boasts a 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H CPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, 512GB of SSD storage, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU, and a gorgeous 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel touch display.

The highlight of this particular configuration is its Nvidia GeForce 30-series GPU. With this kind of graphics power, you can play casual games on the Dell XPS 15 without worrying about your favorite graphics-intensive titles crashing on you (as long as the 3050 GPU is within the realm of the game's graphics requirements. You will also have a smoother time with video editing as well as photo editing, thanks to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU.

Black Friday 2022 is officially on Nov. 25 and we're tracking early holiday discounts on laptops. For the best deals so far, browse our Black Friday laptop deals hub.

Kimberly Gedeon, holding a Master's degree in International Journalism, launched her career as a journalist for MadameNoire's business beat in 2013. She loved translating stuffy stories about the economy, personal finance and investing into digestible, easy-to-understand, entertaining stories for young women of color. During her time on the business beat, she discovered her passion for tech as she dove into articles about tech entrepreneurship, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the latest tablets. After eight years of freelancing, dabbling in a myriad of beats, she's finally found a home at Laptop Mag that accepts her as the crypto-addicted, virtual reality-loving, investing-focused, tech-fascinated nerd she is. Woot!