Six Five Connected | How Dell Is Rebuilding the Enterprise PC for AI

AI is no longer confined to the datacenter. It is reshaping how work gets done across every device in the enterprise.

From Dell’s Client Solutions Interactive Lab in Austin, Six Five Connected host Diana Blass brings together leaders across Dell’s Commercial Client Solutions Group to explore how enterprise PCs and workstations are evolving for the AI era.

Hear from, Jeff Clarke, COO and Vice Chairman of Dell Technologies, Rob Bruckner, President of Dell’s Commercial Client Solutions Group, Zach Noskey, Commercial Notebooks and Education Lead, Charlie Walker, Commercial Workstations and Rugged Lead, and Paul Doczy, Director of Industrial Design Engineering at Dell Technologies.

As workloads become more complex and distributed, devices are shifting from endpoints to active participants in the AI stack. Dell outlines a broader strategy built around portfolio clarity, engineering execution, and workload-driven design, where commercial PCs and workstations are aligned to how work actually happens.

Workstations, in particular, are taking on a larger role in AI development, simulation, and advanced creation workflows, acting as a bridge between local experimentation and datacenter-scale compute.

The result is a more connected vision for enterprise computing, one where devices, workflows, and infrastructure operate together as a unified, AI-ready ecosystem.

Key Takeaways Include:
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🔹 Why enterprise devices are becoming a more important layer in the AI stack
🔹 How Dell is redesigning its commercial PC and workstation portfolio for modern workloads
🔹 Where workstations fit between local experimentation and datacenter-scale compute
🔹 How engineering, thermals, modularity, and mobility are shaping next-generation systems
🔹 Why organizations need more flexible, workload-aligned infrastructure to support AI adoption
🔹 How Dell is connecting endpoint strategy to a broader enterprise AI vision

Explore Dell’s Pro and Pro Precision portfolio for the AI era.

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Issac Piñon:
We have rebuilt our entire commercial portfolio from the ground up.
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Diana Blass:
And this is what that looks like. Thinner and lighter laptops that don't compromise on performance.
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Zach Noskey:
Dell Pro 5, I like to refer to it as the workhorse, but it doesn't look like a workhorse anymore.
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Diana Blass:
Mobile workstations powerful enough for inference on the go.
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Charlie Walker:
If you look at something like our Dell Pro Max Plus with the AI100 card, now you've brought high accuracy, high speed inferencing to a mobile device.
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Diana Blass:
Plus, towers and systems that Dell says bring the AI lab to your desktop.
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Rob Bruckner:
It's a whole ‘nother leap of workstation capability.
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Diana Blass:
They're all part of the new Dell Pro lineup, PCs built for the modern workplace, where AI is no longer tied to the cloud.
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Jeff Clarke:
We're about to enter or open the door, if you will, of seeing AI really excel out on the edge.
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Diana Blass:
What if more of that work could move off the data center and onto a device like this? That's the future Dell says it's building towards with its new Dell Pro lineup. We headed inside Dell's Client Solutions Interactive Lab in Texas to learn more. Inside the lab, Dell's strategy is clear, match the machine to the job. It starts with the Dell Pro, the mainstream business laptop. This year, Dell is bringing more of its premium design and features.
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Zach Noskey:
This is fully enterprise grade. It's sleeker than ever. You're looking for that minimum spec of features and functionality in an enterprise environment. This does a really great job of delivering that.
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Diana Blass:
From there, the lineup moves up to the Dell Pro 5, said to be the most scalable part of the portfolio.
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Zach Noskey:
A lot of CPU options, memory, mobile broadband if you want it.

Diana Blass:
To the Dell Pro 7.
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Zach Noskey:
This is our thinnest Dell Pro device ever. And what we're really focused on here is mobility. So great battery life.
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Diana Blass:
And finally, the Dell Pro Premium for the road warrior class of users.

Zach Noskey:
They really care about runtime. They care about weight of the device in their bag. So this is the lightest Dell Pro product in the portfolio.
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Diana Blass:
Now let's turn to the workstations. The Dell Pro Precision is built for creators, designers, engineers, and increasingly AI developers.
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Charlie Walker:
So if you think about our entry mobile workstations, it's a really great inferencing platform, especially as you think about 12XE coming into the portfolio, where now you have integrated memory. Again, the challenge with AI is really memory capacity, because that's what defines the size of the model you can go load.
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Diana Blass:This is a look at the new set of mobile workstations within that category.
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Charlie Walker:
So this is the 5S. This is one we talked about of really being able to take advantage of that integrated graphics. You can start to see the form factor. And so you can see how much thinner the device is. This is where you're going to find the discrete graphic options. So in the 14 inch, you can get up to a 500 clasp blackwell. In the 16 inch, you can get up to a 2000 clasp blackwell. So once you get into the 7 Series, again, we talked about scalability. And so as you go up in numbers, you're getting performance and scalability. So the 5S, for example, will top out at 39 watts. It's really the amount of power that you're providing to the CPU and the GPU. This one on the 16-inch goes to 100 watts.
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Diana Blass:
Next up, Dell's new Pro Precision Towers, a lineup built for users who need serious desk-side performance. This year, Dell is adding a lower-cost option to the lineup and more flexibility into the stack.
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Charlie Walker:
What we've done is intentionally pull cost out of that platform where customers don't see the value or don't need the value. So a great example of that is vast majority of customers that are buying a Xeon class processor have less than one terabyte of memory. And so what we've done is rather than forcing that system to have the additional motherboard layers, the additional complexity to support up to the two terabytes, we've cut it back.

Diana Blass:
But the most interesting part of this story may be what comes next. For developers working on the latest models, testing agents, or fine-tuning AI locally, Dell is now pushing systems like the Dell Pro Max with GB10 and GB300.
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Charlie Walker:
You have eight data scientists in your organization that are working on the next model. New models are coming out monthly. Now you can offload that work from the data center, and now you can allow those data scientists to iterate constantly and go find the next best thing. And then you go push it out to the data center when it's ready.

Diana Blass:
Now that may be the bigger takeaway. AI is quickly becoming part of every workflow, but not every workflow looks the same. For some users, it's built into the everyday PC. For others, it means local inference, simulation, or model development at the desk. And that's what Dell's new Pro lineup is really built around. A range of devices designed for how enterprises, developers and creators will actually use AI. Because as AI becomes more common, the real challenge is not just putting it everywhere, it's matching the machine to the job. Now you're connected. I'm Diana Blass.