Latitude 7470 Owners' Thread

I just ordered an e7470. If you value easily swappable batter, go for the e7450. I got a 12,000 Power Companion to assist in more battery life

hard to say which one is better. If you dont need PCIE ssd drive speeds and DDR4 ram performance, then an e7450 will be just fine.

 

Got mine Tuesday, pretty happy with it so far.
i5-6300U, 1x8GB, 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, FHD non-touch, webcam, Intel 18260 AC+WiGig, fingerprint, backlit keyboard, 4 cell 3 year battery, ProSupport.

Got a bad keyboard out of the box. Spacebar does not work when pressing the middle....but does work on the sides. Rest of the keyboard is fine and similar to the E7450 it replaced. Apart from that it works great and is fast. Wish I could have gotten a 1TB SSD, but not available yet, and should be out soon enough. Getting 6+ hours of battery out of my normal cycle of being on wifi, Outlook, remote desktop connections, browsing.

 

Hi Mvalpreda,

a beast of a e7470. Does it weigh less than the e7450?

 

Have not weighed it yet. I will tonight when I have both with me. Nothing scientific so far, but the E7470 does feel lighter.

 

sounds good mvalpreda. its listed at 3.13 lbs with HD lcd and 3 cell battery.

With FHD lcd and 4 cell, i would guess its 3.35 lbs or so.

 

mine arrived last week


i5 6200u
intel graphics 520
m.2 250gb s300 hynix ssd
16gb ddr4
non touch panel 1600 x 900 anti glare
3cell battery

 

Hello guys,

I plan to buy a 7470 with FHD non-touch matte display. Can someone who has the laptop with this variant of display please confirm that the FHD display is an IPS one and NOT a TN one ? There is no mention about this in the specs on Dell's website.

@mvalpreda, can you please share your impressions about the display of your unit ?

Thanks.

 

The specs in the Owner's Manual show +/-80° for the touchscreen version but doesn't mention the non-touch. Most likely the non-touch panels are the same as used for the E7450 and can be either LG (which is genuine IPS technology) or AUO (probably the AHVA technology which is AUO's equivalent). The claimed 300 nit brightness for the E7470 is the same as the FHD panel on the E7450.

John

 

@John Ratsey, thanks for your quick reply. Then it seems that the FHD display it's a good choice also in terms of brightness. I haven't found any reviews of the 7470 with the matte FHD display, only for the touch variant, but I don't want a touch display. I hope also color gamut is at least decent for the non touch FHD.

One more question, do you think that the I5 6300U processor would be enough for light to medium software development tasks (mostly small Java development personal projects) or should I go for the i7-6600U variant ?

I plan to use this laptop for several years, so a little bit of extra power to make it more future proof would be nice . I've read that RAM and SSD can be easily upgraded, but not the CPU. Problem is that right now there is only the I5 CPU variant with the FHD display available on the Dell Outlet website.

 

The CPU is soldered, so the only way to upgrade is a motherboard swap. From past experience on Haswell, the processor speed difference for medium-to-large software development tasks between the i5-4300u (E7440) and the i7-4600u (X1 Carbon) was negligible, and memory made a much bigger difference. (OTOH, this is far enough back that there may be a bigger difference on the Skylake boxes... but I'm inclined to doubt it.)

I got the X1 Carbon from my prior employer. I had to return it to them (and got a hardly portable, but much more powerful W530) because it couldn't handle larger Java projects -- the processor was a bit slow, but the 8gb RAM was much what was really limiting. I've borrowed my wife's E7440 a couple of times when traveling, and despite the slower processor, once I upgraded her to 16GB it did better than the X1 ever did.

I wouldn't worry about the i5 vs. i7 difference; use the money on more RAM and/or a bigger SSD instead.

Power is mostly generational, or based on number of core; if you can put up with the slightly cheaper build quality and options, a quad-core E5470 will be a bit more future proof, but for most stuff that will likely be overkill until you get to bigger projects (Android or Grails development perhaps aside, both of which seem like pigs on slower hardware even for small projects.)