Laptop a good choice? Dell E5470

[mike8675309]

A deal walked up to me I couldn't pass up so I impulse order a referbished Dell Latitude E5470 and I'm wondering if this will be a mistake. I got it to replace an older Dell Latitude E6500. Which I used for browsing, office tools, video watching, and video editing.

Will this E5470 do a better job?
It has 8GB of memory, Intel Core 6th Generation i5-6300U Processor , 62W/hr battery, 1920 x 1080 Touch LCD and AMD Radeon R7 M360 2GB discrete graphics. Oh and a 256GB SATA Class 20 SSD.

Any known issues with the E5470? There doesn't seem to be much out on the web regarding this model, though I guess that isn't unusual for Latitude units.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't know anything specific about that model, pro or con, but the specs look pretty good.

Btw, what is a "Class 20" SSD? I've never heard the "Class" notation applied to SSDs before. Generally, that's applied to SD cards and removable flash storage (though not plain-jane USB flash drives).

If they mean that the SSD is capable of 20MB/sec, that's horribly slow for an SSD. So it can't mean the same thing as it does for flash memory cards.

 

[mike8675309]

Thanks for the input. More digging shows "class xx" is just internal dell speak. They place vendor ssd drives into buckets based on performance but there is is no cross reference available to show what those buckets are based on. My guess is it is an early generation Samsung SSD M.2 PCIe.

 

[paperwastage]

I own a e5470. You got a dual core i5; there are options for quad core i5/i7 on this (but can't combine quad core with dgpu)

With dgpu, you may not have space for wwan slot or 2.5" slot, only one single m.2/pcie 2280

Go fully read this thread too

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/new-latitude-5470.785426/

 

[mike8675309]

Thanks for that. I did receive the laptop yesterday. It wasn't reporting the AMD Radeon video card and the finger print reader was acting odd. Updating various Intel drivers using the Dell driver update tool and a reboot had the Dgpu show up in the available devices and the finger print reader acting correctly.

The SSD is a SATA unit identified as SK hynix SC308 SATA 128GB

I need to get some tools to open it up to see how things are laid out but my gut is telling me the pcie slot is being used by the discrete video card.

I don't have any pc games to try and see if they can utilize the discrete video card. I'll have to get my video editing software installed and see if it can utilize it. I did download Eve online and it didn't seem to use the discrete video card. Depending on what I find will help me decide what updates to do.