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We already mentioned that there are no maintenance hatches at the bottom, and the battery cannot easily be removed, either. The bottom cover on the other hand can be removed after you loosen eight screws, but you will have to be careful: The small plastic clips can easily break. Maintenance work should therefore be performed by experienced users. Despite having a mostly plastic body, the Latitude E5470 is built like a small, plastic tank. The body doesn’t flex, or give in any troubling way, and it would absolutely survive several years of being hauled in and out of a messenger bag, facing the rigors of daily use. You’re not going to get passable gaming performance out of the Latitude in anything but the least demanding games. We managed to run Hearthstone well enough, but there was noticeable frame-loss when big effects were triggered.
The review unit also manages almost 11 hours in our more realistic Wi-Fi test, so it should easily last even a long business day. The Dell Latitude E5450(6.5 hours), Lenovo ThinkPad T460s(5.5 hours) and HP EliteBook 840 G2(7 hours) cannot keep up with this runtime. From childhood on, the curiosity about the functioning of the latest technical achievements continued. When it comes to formal benchmarks, the battery life falls a bit short of its nearest competitors. On the Peacekeeper battery test the Latitude managed just over four and a half hours, while the Thinkpad, which features hot-swappable batteries, managed about four hours and fifty minutes, with the XPS 13 lasting about six minutes longer. The hard disk will probably have you pulling your hair out before the end of 2017. It’s just not fast enough for anything other than long-term and infrequent storage. You’re much better off investing in an SSD of half the size. The E5470 also performed well in the Delta-E test for color accuracy (where best scores are closer to 0), with a mark of 1.07. The Tecra (0.9) was slightly better in this test, but the Latitude's colors are more precise than those of the EliteBook, ThinkPad and average ultraportable notebook.The E5470 may disappoint road warriors, as it offers shorter endurance than other business laptops. The system lasted 7 hours and 16 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (Web surfing with 100 nits of brightness). While that runtime beats the EliteBook (5:54), it's shorter than the ThinkPad (7:31, 15:26 with extended battery), Tecra (8:23) and the average thin-and-light notebook (8:14).
The Latitude E5470 doesn’t need to have a great display, and it could get by with just a decent or mediocre screen. After all, it’s destined for a life of spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and the occasional in-flight movie — nothing that would require a lush and colorful screen. Note: For a more detailed description about each location, please go to the system manualsat www.dell.com/manualsThe E5470's 0.9-megapixel webcam shot bright photos of me in our well-lit New York office. The red Purch Media wall was rendered accurately, but the photo was so noisy that it lost a lot of detail. Dell ships the E5470 with its Dell Audio utility, which allows you to change equalizer settings and microphone sensitivity. We recommend turning on the Maxx Sense preset; it was already enabled on our review unit, and provides a wider and more pleasing sound than you get with the feature disabled. The E5470's 256GB SSD drive copied 4.97GB of multimedia files in a speedy 34 seconds -- a rate of 150.79 MBps. That's faster than the 256GB SSD drives on the EliteBook, ThinkPad and the average thin-and-light notebook (118.58 MBps).
The Latitude’s display is not only bright and colorful, but the colors are remarkably accurate. With an average color error of 1.69, the Latitude delivers color accuracy good enough for a bit of photo editing on-the-go, if not quite good enough to replace a dedicated, professional monitor. Lenovo's ThinkPad T450s (which is about to be replaced by the upcoming T460s) offers longer battery life, a better keyboard and a cooler-running chassis. However, if you want a lightweight, 14-inch business laptop with a colorful display and strong performance, the Dell Latitude E5470 is a very strong choice. Advanced features, like industry-leading M.2 SATA and M.2 PCIe/NVME solid state drives, provide data transfer speeds up to 4x faster over traditional hard drivers.The palmrests and touchpad are cooler than skin temperature with a maximum of 26 °C / 78.8 F and are therefore cool to the touch. During daily use, the Latitude kept up beautifully but did chug a little when launching more than one app at a time. That’s likely the result of its hard disk. Large and lumbering The maximum temperature on the upper side is 41.5 °C / 107 F, compared to the average of 34.2 °C / 94 F, ranging from 21.2 to 62.5 °C for the class Office. The average temperature for the upper side under maximal load is 31.5 °C / 89 F, compared to the average of 29.5 °C / 85 F for the devices in the class Office.
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