DELL Latitude 7420 (2021)

DELL Latitude 7420 (2021)

The Dell Latitude 7420 is widely regarded as one of the best office laptops for its slim, lightweight, durable design. Powered by an 11th-generation Intel® Core ™ i7-1185G7 processor and 32GB of RAM, it meets every demand of your workday. Join Hung Phat as we take a closer look at this well-rounded laptop below.

The Dell Latitude 7420 has a slim, lightweight design

The Dell 7420 makes a strong impression with a premium carbon fiber chassis that gives the laptop a solid, durable feel. The frame is finished in a bold gray. On the lid, the Dell logo is engraved right at the center, adding to the laptop's elegant look.

The Dell Latitude 7420 has a sturdy hinge that flips a full 360 degrees, and you can open the laptop easily with one hand without any trouble. The edges are also finely crafted with a slightly rounded design, which makes the laptop look even more refined.

Weighing 1.46kg and measuring 32.1cm x 20.8cm x 1.7cm, it is easy to carry to school, to work, or on business trips.

Sharp, true-to-life image quality

With a 14-inch display, Full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels), and a 16:9 aspect ratio, the Dell Latitude 7420 delivers high-quality, crisp, true-to-life images.

On display quality, the 4K version of the Latitude 7420 reproduces up to 100% of the sRGB color gamut, with a 1000:1 contrast ratio and a 35 ms response time. Brightness reaches 400 nits, close to the MacBook Pro's 429 nits. The Dell Latitude 7420 also has Comfort View Plus, which reduces blue light and gives you excellent color. In addition, this office laptop uses a bright IPS LCD panel, so the Dell 7420 lets you work in a wide range of environments, especially outdoors. The screen is also protected by a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 6, which feels safe and sturdy and makes touch input feel more natural.

Immersive sound

The Latitude 7420 features a Realtek ALC3281-CG audio chip that delivers high-quality, immersive sound for a great experience when watching movies and listening to music. It also has 2 speakers rated at 2x2.5W, which produce louder, clearer sound by making the most of the laptop's speaker power.

The Dell 7420 comes with a full set of ports

With such a compact design, leaving out a few unnecessary ports is unavoidable. Even so, the Dell Latitude 7420 still includes all the ports you need to get the most out of your work. They include: 2 USB Type-C 3.2 ports, 1 USB-A 3.2 port, 2 Thunderbolt ™ 4 ports with transfer speeds of up to 40G/second, 1 HDMI port, 1 3.5mm headphone jack, 1 SD card slot, and 1 smart card reader. All of these ports are arranged along the two sides of the laptop.

Beyond the physical ports, the Dell Latitude 7420 also offers wireless connectivity such as Wifi 6, with data transfer and internet access speeds up to 3 times faster than conventional wireless networks. It also has eSIM technology, so you can connect to many global carriers without swapping SIM cards when you travel.

Keyboard and touchpad

On the Dell Latitude 7420, the keyboard is designed much like those of earlier Dell Latitude models. The keys are fairly large, evenly and sensibly spaced, with good travel and fast response, giving you high accuracy and a comfortable typing feel.

The keyboard is also backlit, so you can use it easily even in low light. Because of its compact size, the Dell 7420 leaves out the numeric keypad, but personally I don't think it affects your work much.

The touchpad measures about 11.5 x 6.5 cm, making it easy to control the entire screen smoothly. Its surface is smooth, so moving, scrolling up, and scrolling down are effortless.

The Dell Latitude 7420 delivers powerful performance

For performance, the Dell Latitude 7420 uses an 11th-generation Intel® Core ™ i7-1185G7 processor with 4 cores, 8 threads, a 3.0GHz base clock, and a maximum turbo boost of up to 4.8GHz, so it handles all office tasks smoothly and runs many multitasking apps at the same time.

It comes with a 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD and 32GB of RAM. With this much memory and storage, you can keep plenty of important documents, photos, and videos.

One thing that makes this laptop so appealing is its graphics. The Dell Latitude 7420 is equipped with Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics. This is a fairly powerful graphics solution aimed at professional designers (Photoshop, AI, video rendering, etc.) and it handles gaming well. Popular games today run smoothly at high frame rates (fps).

Cooling is also quite good. The laptop has dual cooling fans on the back, along with vents on both sides for maximum cooling.

How is the battery life?

Another thing that surprises users about Dell is that the Dell Latitude 7420 has a 4K screen and in Full HD mode still lasts more than 9 hours on a charge. In other tests, when users browse the web continuously over Wifi at 150 nits of brightness, the results are about the same. That means you can use the laptop for work all day without needing to charge it.

Conclusion

In short, with its attractive design, powerful performance, and long-lasting battery, the Dell Latitude 7420 is considered one of the best office laptops, or business laptops, worth owning. We hope what Hung Phat has shared gives you useful information.