Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 review – strong chassis and great display to guide you through your workday

Premium convertible laptops are always a very interesting sight. However, how often do you encounter a premium 2-in-1, that is actually meant for business? This is exactly the values that Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 is poised to represent.

Apart from the attention to detail that has gone in the building of this notebook, there are the expected security features, that pretty much every Latitude device provides. In terms of performance, you get Comet Lake-U processors, with the most powerful model being the Core i7-10810U – a processor with vPro support and a 6-core, 12-thread setup.

Additionally, you get a Full HD IPS touchscreen display – something we’re not surprised to see given the nature of the convertibles. Now, let’s waste no more time, and check how good (or bad) of a job has Dell done with this device).

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/dell-latitude-14-9410-2-in-1/

Contents


Specs Sheet

Dell Latitude 14 9410 (2-in-1) - Espec

  • Sharp LQ140M1-FDGXV (SHP14D2)
  • Precisión del color  4.0  0.8
  • HDD/SSD
  • hasta 2000GB SSD
  • Ranura M.2
  • 1x 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4  Ver foto
  • RAM
  • up to 16GB
  • OS
  • Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Home
  • Batería
  • 52Wh, 4-cell, 78Wh, 6-cell
  • Material del cuerpo
  • Aluminum
  • Dimensiones
  • 319.8 x 199.9 x 8.5 ~ 14.9 mm (12.59" x 7.87" x 0.33")
  • Peso
  • 1.36 kg (3 lbs)
  • Puertos y conectividad
  • 2x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps), Power Delivery (PD)
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Thunderbolt 3
  • 1x USB Type-C
  • 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps), Thunderbolt 3, Power Delivery (PD)
  • HDMI
  • 2.0
  • Lector de tarjetas
  • MicroSD
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ax
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.1
  • Conector de audio
  • 3.5 Combo Jack
  • Features
  • Lector de huellas dactilares
  • optional
  • Cámara web
  • HD
  • Teclado retroiluminado
  • Micrófono
  • Digital Array Microphones
  • Altavoces
  • 2x 2W, MaxxAudio Pro
  • Unidad óptica
  • Ranura de bloqueo de seguridad

Todo Dell Latitude 14 9410 (2-in-1) configuraciones

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What’s in the box?

Inside the package, you’ll find a 65W USB Type-C power brick and some paper manuals. No sign of a dedicated Pen, though.


Design and construction

According to Dell’s webpage, the Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 is built from CNC aluminum, and if we have to be honest, the structure is really solid. It weighs 1.36 kg and has a profile that goes from 8.53mm in the thinnest part, to 14.89mm in the thickest. Also, the material is a bit prone to fingerprint residue, but thankfully, the color does well to mask it off.

Interestingly, the lid opens with one hand, but up to about 80-degrees, where the hinge suddenly stiffens and lifts the base. Moreover, when you pass a certain angle, the lid lifts the bottom panel slightly, so you get better airflow. By the way, when you turn it into a tablet mode, the lid stays flat at the base, which is extremely comfortable, since there is no shake when you touch it. A thing we really like seeing here is are the thin bezels, with the top one housing an HD camera, as well as an IR face recognition system.

Next, we have the base, which has almost zero keyboard flex – as we said, the chassis is really solid. The keyboard itself is nice for typing, with its relatively long key travel and clicky feedback. It also has a backlight.

Below it, there is the glass touchpad. Naturally, the material provides an exceptional gliding experience, and the tracking is on point too. However, we feel that its size is a bit small for 2020.

And on the bottom panel, are located the speaker cutouts, and the ventilation grills, with the hot air escaping the chassis from the back.

Ports

On the left, there are two Thunderbolt 3 connectors, both of which can be used for charging. Next, there is an HDMI connector, as well as a USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port. Then, on the right, you’ll find a security wedge, another USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port, a MicroSD card reader, a SIM card slot, and an audio jack.


Disassembly, upgrade options, and maintenance

There are 10 captive Phillips-head screws that hold the bottom panel to the chassis. Undo them, and then pry the panel with a plastic tool, and you’re inside.

Preferably, the first thing you need to do, once you’re inside, is to disconnect the battery plug. By the way, this notebook comes with a 52Wh pack.

After you have removed the battery connector, you can check the single M.2 PCIe x4 drive slot. Sadly, you can only change what you have there, and not add more. Additionally, the memory is soldered to the motherboard, and it also can’t be upgraded. Here, Dell provides two options – 8GB or 16GB of LPDDR3 memory, working at merely 2133 MHz.

For cooling, Dell has opted for a rather thin heat pipe, and some metal brackets, covering the mounting mechanism, the soldered memory, and the VRMs. And to blow away the heat from the chassis, it uses a tiny fan.


Display quality

Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 has a Full HD display, model number Sharp LQ140M1-FDGXV (SHP14D2). Its diagonal is 14″ (35.56 cm), and the resolution – 1920 х 1080. Additionally, the screen ratio is 16:9, the pixel density – 157 ppi, their pitch – 0.161 x 0.161 mm. The screen can be considered Retina when viewed from at least 56 cm (from this distance, the average human eye can’t see the individual pixels).

Its viewing angles are great. We have provided images at 45 degrees to evaluate quality.

The maximum measured brightness is 320 nits (cd/m2) in the middle of the screen and 302 nits (cd/m2) average across the surface with a maximum deviation of 11%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen and at maximum brightness is 6370K (average) – slightly warmer than the 6500K optimum for sRGB.
In the illustration below you can see how the display performs from a uniformity perspective.
Values of dE2000 over 4.0 should not occur, and this parameter is one of the first you should check if you intend to use the laptop for color-sensitive work (a maximum tolerance of 2.0 ). The contrast ratio is very good – 1560:1 (1440:1 after profiling).

To make sure we are on the same page, we would like to give you a little introduction to the sRGB color gamut and the Adobe RGB. To start, there’s the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors by the human eye, giving you a better perception of the color gamut coverage and the color accuracy.

Inside the black triangle, you will see the standard color gamut (sRGB) that is being used by millions of people in HDTV and on the web. As for the Adobe RGB, this is used in professional cameras, monitors, etc for printing. Colors inside the black triangle are used by everyone and this is an essential part of the color quality and color accuracy of a mainstream notebook.

Still, we’ve included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios, as well as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it’s difficult for today’s displays to cover that well. We’ve also included the so-called Michael Pointer gamut, or Pointer’s gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day.

The yellow dotted line shows Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1’s color gamut coverage.

Its display covers 95% of the sRGB/ITU-R BT.709 (web/HDTV standard) in CIE1976.

Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode.

We tested the accuracy of the display with 24 commonly used colors like light and dark human skin, blue sky, green grass, orange, etc. You can check out the results at factory condition and also, with the “Design and Gaming” profile.

Below you can compare the scores of Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 with the default settings (left), and with the “Gaming and Web design” profile (right).

The next figure shows how well the display can reproduce dark parts of an image, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambient light.

The left side of the image represents the display with stock settings, while the right one is with the “Gaming and Web Design” profile activated. On the horizontal axis, you will find the grayscale, and on the vertical axis – the luminance of the display. On the two graphs below you can easily check for yourself how your display handles the darkest nuances but keep in mind that this also depends on the settings of your current display, the calibration, the viewing angle, and the surrounding light conditions.

Response time (Gaming capabilities)

We test the reaction time of the pixels with the usual “black-to-white” and “white-to-black” method from 10% to 90% and vice versa.

We recorded Fall Time + Rise Time = 39 ms – one of the slowest out there.


Health impact – PWM / Blue Light

PWM (Screen flickering)

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is an easy way to control monitor brightness. When you lower the brightness, the light intensity of the backlight is not lowered, but instead turned off and on by the electronics with a frequency indistinguishable to the human eye. In these light impulses, the light/no-light time ratio varies, while brightness remains unchanged, which is harmful to your eyes. You can read more about that in our dedicated article on PWM.

Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1’s display uses PWM for brightness adjustment up until 76 nits and with a relatively high frequency. This makes it comfortable for your eyes during long work periods in this aspect.

Blue light emissions

Installing our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but also reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. If you’re not familiar with the Blue light, the TL;DR version is – emissions that negatively affect your eyes, skin, and your whole body. You can find more information about that in our dedicated article on Blue Light.

Conclusions

Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1’s touchscreen IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, very good contrast ratio, and 95% of sRGB coverage. Its main disadvantage is that it has very slow pixel response times, but since gamers are not going to be interested in this machine, this won’t be an issue. However, people, who are going to look for this device will probably need high color-accuracy, which is exactly what you get, provided you get our Gaming and Web design profile.

Buy our profiles

Since our profiles are tailored for each display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 configurations with 14.0″ Sharp LQ140M1-FDGXV (SHP14D2) (FHD, 1920 × 1080) IPS panel.

*Should you have problems with downloading the purchased file, try using a different browser to open the link you’ll receive via e-mail. If the download target is a .php file instead of an archive, change the file extension to .zip or contact us at [email protected].

Read more about the profiles HERE.

Además de recibir perfiles eficientes y respetuosos con la salud, al comprar los productos de LaptopMedia también apoyas el desarrollo de nuestros laboratorios, donde probamos los dispositivos para elaborar las reseñas más objetivas posibles.

Trabajo de oficina

El perfil Trabajo de Oficina debería ser utilizado sobre todo por usuarios que pasan la mayor parte del tiempo mirando trozos de texto, tablas o simplemente navegando. Este perfil pretende ofrecer una mayor nitidez y claridad manteniendo una curva de gamma plana (2,20), una temperatura de color nativa y colores perceptualmente precisos.

Diseño y juego

Este perfil está dirigido a los diseñadores que trabajan con los colores de forma profesional, y también para juegos y películas. Design and Gaming lleva a los paneles de visualización a sus límites, haciéndolos tan precisos como sea posible en el estándar sRGB IEC61966-2-1 para Web y HDTV, en el punto blanco D65.

Salud-Guardia

Salud-Guardia elimina la perjudicial Modulación de Ancho de Pulso (PWM) y reduce la luz azul negativa que afecta a nuestros ojos y a nuestro cuerpo. Al estar adaptado a cada panel, consigue mantener los colores perceptivamente precisos. Salud-Guardia simula el papel, por lo que la presión sobre los ojos se reduce considerablemente.

Consigue los 3 perfiles con un 33% de descuento


Sound

Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1’s speakers sound good, and have some punch, although their maximum volume is not particularly high.


Drivers

All of the drivers and utilities for this notebook can be downloaded from here: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/latitude-14-9410-2-in-1-laptop/drivers

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits, and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. This notebook’s 52Wh battery lasts for 15 hours and 29 minutes of Web browsing and 13 hours and 8 minutes of video playback.


CPU options

This device comes with a choice of Comet Lake-U processors. They are the Core i5-10210U (4c/8t), Core i5-10310U (4c/8t), Core i7-10610U (4c/8t), Core i7-10810U (6c/12t).


GPU options

Since there is no dedicated GPU option, you are left with the Intel UHD Graphics, regardless of your processor choice.


Gaming tests

cs-go-benchmarks

CS:GOHD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Medium (Check settings)HD 1080p, MAX (Check settings)
Average fps41 fps27 fps– fps

DOTA 2HD 1080p, Low (Check settings)HD 1080p, Normal (Check settings)HD 1080p, High (Check settings)
Average fps66 fps32 fps– fps

Temperatures and comfort

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

Intel Core i5-10310U (15W TDP)0:02 – 0:10 sec0:15 – 0:30 sec10:00 – 15:00 min
Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-13.28 GHz (B+93%) @ 97°C2.68 GHz (B+58%) @ 98°C1.63 GHz @ 74°C
Dell Latitude 13 53103.26 GHz (B+92%) @ 85°C2.58 GHz (B+52%) @ 89°C2.27 GHz (B+34%) @ 85°C
Dell Latitude 15 55103.39 GHz (B+99%) @ 88°C2.49 GHz (B+46%) @ 79°C1.83 GHz (B+8%) @ 65°C

Even compared to the 13-inch Latitude 13 5310, today’s notebook seems to be struggling. In the first two checkpoints, we got respectably high frequencies, but the temperatures were too hot. And to manage to cool its CPU down, the Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1 actually lowers its power usage to 12W.

Comfort during full load

On the outside, the temperature was exceeding 46C, which is a bit uncomfortable. Also, the fan was quite loud, but keep in mind we are talking about extreme workload scenarios.


Verdict

In terms of build quality and premium feel, this is one of the best convertibles on the market as of yet. Its small bezels deliver great looks, while the CNC aluminum chassis has an incredible amount of resistance, from a structural point of view.

Dell Latitude 14 9410 2-in-1’s touchscreen IPS panel has a Full HD resolution, comfortable viewing angles, very good contrast ratio, and 95% of sRGB coverage. Its main disadvantage is that it has very slow pixel response times, but since gamers are not going to be interested in this machine, this won’t be an issue. However, people, who are going to look for this device will probably need high color-accuracy, which is exactly what you get, provided you get our Gaming and Web design profile.

On the downside, we got the soldered memory, as well as the lack of a dedicated Pen inside the box. This is petty since the Lenovo Yoga 9i (14) had space for its stylus inside of its chassis. Nevertheless, you can still buy it separately, but we’re getting into Apple territory, which is a bit dangerous.

Thankfully, though, you have two Thunderbolt 3 connectors at your disposal, as well as a couple of USB Type-A ports, an HDMI connector, a MicroSD card slot, and an optional SIM card tray. Plus, there is a very neat IR face recognition system for biometrics.

And while it can be configured with a 6-core 15W processor, we wouldn’t rely on it for heavy workloads, as the cooling seems to be a bit underachieving, but at least the battery life is good, as we got almost 15 hours and a half of Web browsing and about 13 hours of video playback.

Nevertheless, we would recommend this notebook for professional use, but keep in mind that only some models might come with a dedicated Pen inside the box, so make sure you contact your retailer before purchase.

Pros

  • Stylish and strong all-aluminum design and Gorilla Glass 5 screen protection
  • Covers 95% of sRGB colors (SHP14D2) and has a great color accuracy when our Gaming and Web design profile is present
  • Great battery life
  • Two Thunderbolt 3.0 ports, a MicroSD card reader, and an optional LTE card slot
  • Supports PCIe x4 M.2 SSDs
  • Doesn’t use aggressive PWM for brightness adjustment (SHP14D2)
  • IR face recognition and fingerprint reader


Cons

  • We didn’t get a stylus inside the box, despite the price suggesting so
  • Memory is soldered to the motherboard
  • Gets pretty warm under heavy load

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/dell-latitude-14-9410-2-in-1/

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