The Dell Latitude e7350

Dell Latitude machines have never been particularly sexy or attractive, all that seems to have changed with the introduction of the e7350, a cross between a convertible, and an ultrabook, I did wonder the point of such a machine, until I actually got my hands on the thing.

What do we get for our £1000?

Well the machine runs one of the new Core M CPU’s, which certainly doesn’t set performance benchmarks on fire, a 256Gb SSD, 8Gb of RAM, but seems to be responsive in every day usage.

The machine was delivered to me with Windows 8.1 installed, which really didn’t do it justice, so the first job was to upgrade to Windows 10, the customer has a Microsoft Agreement, so Windows 10 Enterprise it was.

As ever Dell made downloading the drivers simple, of all the big PC manufacturers their support pages really are a cut above the rest.

So what does it look like?

Just like any other laptop, until you undock the screen and walk around with it. size-wise its not a lot bigger than the Retina Macbook. Like most convertibles it has a battery in the base and one in the tablet part of the machine. Unlike the new Microsoft Surface Book it doesn’t have a more powerful graphics card it switches to when the plugged into the base.

My overall view of the machine is that its a fine machine, the user we purchased it for, has doubts as to its durability, especially as its tablet / screen component. I don’t believe its a problem, and I honestly don’t know that they’ll ever find a machine they are 100% happy with.