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. In comparison, all tested devices range from 0.1 (minimum) to 240 (maximum) ms. » 72% of all devices are better.

Enhanced design: Structure-enhanced carbon fiber reinforced polymer cover, spill-resistant keyboard and optional touch-screen display

Case

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. We can neither find maintenance hatches nor a battery at the bottom of the case. This means you will have to remove the whole bottom cover to gain access to the components.

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. 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.

Operating System

When we measured the E5470's display with our colorimeter, it reproduced 113.1 percent of the sRGB color gamut. That's well above the average thin-and-light notebook (83.2 percent), and it also beats the EliteBook, ThinkPad and Tecra. With a small, sleek form-factor and modest battery life, the Latitude is a very portable machine for business travelers or anyone who needs to spend most of their workday without being tethered to a desk. Slim and light

Multimedia, Budget Multimedia, Gaming, Budget Gaming, Lightweight Gaming, Business, Budget Office, Workstation, Subnotebooks, Ultrabooks, Chromebooks The Latitude E5470's 1920 x 1080-pixel display is more vibrant and colorful than competing business laptops. Even minor details serve a purpose. Where the display meets the body, Dell opted to fortify the Latitude’s durability by using metal to mount the hinge to the chassis. It’s an attractive design element, but it also makes sure the display remains firmly affixed to the body. There’s very minimal flex here. This is a notebook built for the rigors of everyday use. Throw away those dongles

Energy Management

According to our light meter, the E5470's display emits up to 278 nits of brightness, which outshines the ThinkPad (236 nits), Tecra (265 nits) and average thin-and-light notebook (243 nits). The EliteBook (317 nits) manages to get even brighter. The E5470 also benefits from wide viewing angles. When I moved 75 degrees to the left or right, the display maintained quality color and crisp details.

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.

At-your-desk essentials

Our version of the Dell Latitude E5470 uses a 256 GB SSD from LiteOn. This M.2 model is attached via SATA (6 GB/s). Other alternatives are a 500 GB conventional hard drive (7200 rpm) as well as smaller 128 GB SSD. Additionally, when I was multitasking with Chrome and Windows Defender, the space to the left of the keyboard spiked a temperature of 115 degrees. That unpleasant mark didn't change when we set the AMD Catalyst Control Center to "Optimize power savings" or "Force power-saving graphics." Changing the Dell Power Manager utility's Thermal Management setting from Optimized to Cool did not help, either. The flash storage in our review model performs better than the 128 GB drive of the predecessorin terms of sequential read and write operations. The 4K-64 results, however, are much lower compared to the Latitude E5450, so the overall score in the AS SSD benchmark is worse. 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. 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).