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日本Dell Latitude 14 9430 – Top 5 Pros and Cons
Prepare your wallets, because the Dell Latitude 14 9430 is coming for your cash. Its premium looks alone can tempt you to buy it, but there’s much more to this high-end business machine. Today we’re here to highlight some of its best features, as well as spot what few negatives might be hidden inside and if they are enough to turn you away from the laptop. From the looks of it, the laptop doesn’t have many, unless you consider the hefty price tag of one of them, which really comes with the territory of high-end business computing.
Today we’re presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Dell Latitude 14 9430.
Dell Latitude 14 9430: Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Dell Latitude 14 9430
1. Design and build quality
Starting off, the Latitude 14 is as premium as it gets, with a fully aluminum lid and chassis. It’s incredibly thin, with a profile between 8.46 mm and 13.94 mm, while weighing 1.29 kg. It’s not the lightest, but having some heft actually helps the laptop have a feel of better quality. On the front, the laptop does show some weakness and bends slightly, but this is unavoidable, due to the sub 9 mm profile.
The lid opens with one hand up to 90° after which you have to support the base with the other hand. Speaking of the base, everything is laid out pretty concisely. The keyboard is flanked by stereo speakers. Typing on it is great, as Dell has made every millimeter count, providing long key travel and clicky feedback. The touchpad is great as well, being protected by glass and having unmatched accuracy and responsiveness.
2. Display quality
The laptop is available with two display options, with both FHD+ and a QHD+ IPS panels. We tested the FHD unit, which is honestly a damn good panel. It’s sharp enough at 14 inches, providing punchy images. The display has a high max brightness, peaking at 533 nits and having a contrast ratio of 1690:1. The two paired together makes for deep and dark blacks, as well as vivid colors. For the designer among you, you’d be glad to see that it also covers 96% of the sRGB color gamut, which is enough for web design and other digital content.
Our Design and Gaming profile also manages to calibrate the panel to a dE value of 1.1, so colors are accurate and you’re able to use the device in a professional setting, where these things matter a lot. Here are the results of our test with the stock settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Office Work
Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.
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3. Battery life
Powered by an efficient Alder Lake U-series CPU, the laptop certainly goes easy on its 59.6Wh battery. It lasts for 15 hours and 29 minutes of Web browsing, or 12 hours and 34 minutes of video playback. Now, we conduct the battery tests with the 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.
4. Security
Security is very important for a business machine, so to see that Dell takes it as seriously as they do is assuring. Firstly, there’s a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button. Then you have a FHD webcam with an IR sensor, which allows for facial recognition. Around the bezels of the laptop there are proximity sensors as well, which can detect your body and automatically lock the laptop and shut the display, so no one sees or touches what you’re working on.
1 reason NOT to buy the Dell Latitude 14 9430
1. Upgradeability
Lastly, all small laptops suffer from poor upgradeability, which just comes with the territory. The Latitude 14 9430 has soldered LPDDR5 memory, while the storage is accessible through one 30 mm M.2 slot for Gen 4 SSDs.
Here is our teardown video, which shows how to upgrade the Latitude 14 9430.
