Latitude 7450 Owners' Thread

Hello,

I don't know what an 'hca socket' is, but the WWAN slot is PCIe and does not have a controller for SATA like the e7440 did. Thus you need a m.2 2242 PCIe SSD which, as far as anyone can tell, noone makes one yet for consumer use. So yes, theoretically is possible, there is just no product to do it, yet. (This is for e7450, i don't know anything about e5450) Several people have tried m.2 2242 mSATA disks but they do not work.

 

Well that's clear enough to clarify both E5450 and E7450 can have only one storage drive.

Damn you DELL.

 

I ordered one of these from the outlet and hope I got the Nvidia card (even though it wasn't listed... none actually are). i7, (4gb <--- going to upgrade), 1080p, 256 msata, pointing stick/fingerpring reader. I got what I feel was a good deal at around 635 out the door. If I end up liking it, it will stay, if not then I will end up keeping a recently acquired Y50 that was even cheaper.

Actually came in today and it does not have the 840m. The computer is pretty darn thin and light and it feels pretty great overall. I know this and the y50 are in different leagues/classes but I am still very undecided on which to keep. Any thoughts from you guys? The dell does have a 3 year warranty and the lenovo warranty expires in october (got it used).

 

Personally if I had the e7450 with 840m then it would be extremely difficult to call. I prefer business notebooks cos they have track pads. And I like to game on them too. But then it's sacrificing performance over build with performance hit. But everything else is favourable to the e7450.
I was in the same predicament. I was looking for my current laptop that come today with 960m gt but also looked at the think pad yoga 14 with 840m in. Got them both. But been looking for a e7450 or e5450 with 840m. I dunno why still as I'm now with 3 laptops.
The 840m is very good but For me I need the hoy power because 1080p gaming is prettier




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Ya, if the latitude had the 840, I could probably live with it. I had a thinkpad yoga 14 with the 840m and it was plenty strong for what I needed. As you said business notebooks are built much better than consumer grade laptops and the 3 year warranty is the best in the industry. All in all I think I am going to stick with the Y50 over the Latitude just for the quad i7 and GTX860m. Also there are a lot of people upgrading the screens on the y50 so that will happily be mod number 1, which again, would put it better off than the screen on the 7450 (The one I got is really cool and not quite as nice as other IPS screens I am accustomed to).

 

Been a couple of weeks with my E7450 and I'm pretty impressed. It is a decent upgrade from the E7440. Bigger trackpad is really nice. I was not sure how I would like the chiclet keyboard as I never seemed to like it on MacBooks....but I'm happy. The keys are solid and I think I type faster. All things considered, I am quite happy. I am getting 7-8 hours of battery life on wifi with 50% brightness and the keyboard backlit on.

 

Does the E7450 1080p model suffers from light bleeding? Can some one post a picture of the screen when it's dark? Currently I'm using a macbook retina, so I don't want to compromise to much on screen quality.

 

I have a critical issue with my E7450 discrete graphics edition: it went to sleep and ever since I am unable to wake it up.
I tried removing the battery, and the motherboard's battery, tried an external display but no success, I receive a black screen
without any post or error message. Shall I return the unit or is there any trivial solution?

The diagnostic LEDs say:
storage: blinking
Power & Wireless: solid.
According to the manual this is "A possible processor failure"...

 

Not really an E7450 thing, but there's no dedicated thread for it. The e7250 has the same m2 slot as the E7450. Really disappointing as it limits the upgrade on this thing, since I have an extra msata drive. I was under the impression that the E7250 had the same internals as the E7240, but the E7450 was much different than the E7440. I'll probably keep it because Dell gave me a replacement 7250 for my 7240. Some other complaints: no wifi //switch, no dedicated volume buttons, and less keyboard buttons (no home/end dedicated buttons). The extra battery life is great, though.

 

Hi, I have an easy question. Just ordered an E7450 with 4gb RAM. Will want to add another 4gb. Suggestions and where/what to buy? I assume it's easy to install, right?

Thanks!