Dell Latitude 13 7340 Review – Great Performance, Average Display – Perfect for Work, Not Play

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

To access the internals, you have to undo 8 captive Phillips-head screws. Then, raise the bottom plate with a lever tool in the hinge zone to open a gap. After that, pry the back with a thin plastic tool and then work your way around the sides and the front.

Here’s how the bottom plate looks on the inside.

Our laptop has the optional 57Wh battery, the default model is a 38Wh variant. Before removing it, detach the connector from the motherboard. You have to pull hard the connector cap to unplug it. Apply a bit of pressure with your hand in the zone with a metal shroud to prevent the motherboard from lifting up with the connector. Then, undo the 5 Phillips-head screws that fix the battery to the base. The optional capacity is enough for 10 hours of either Web browsing or video playback.

Part of the cooling as well as the memory and the NVMe drive are covered by a metal shroud. There is a service cap on top of the SSD for easier upgrading.

Undo the single Phillips-head screw and lift the small metal plate away from the chassis. It has a thermal pad on the inside to cool down the SSD. With that out of the way, you can simply pop the big shroud with a plastic lever tool. The memory is soldered. At least you get up to 32GB of LPDDR5-4800MHz RAM that works in dual-channel mode.

In terms of storage, there is just one M.2 slot for 2230 Gen 4 SSDs. On the left of the cooling fan is placed the WWAN slot for optional 4G or 5G connectivity.

The cooling is simple but it seems enough for a laptop with integrated graphics. It has one fan, a single heat pipe, one heat sink, and a heat spreader.

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PHVM

3 months ago

You trust GPUz to inform the version of the Iris Xe (for example 80EUs or 96EUs) and this is bugged!
Since Tiger Lake the only i5 that has Iris Xe with 96EUs is the i5-11320H.
All other i5 mobiles have the 80EUs version. The graphics score in Time Spy confirms this.
I had already noticed this in other analyses…

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232127/intel-core-i51345u-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-70-ghz/specifications.html

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PHVM

3 months ago

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Correction: ALMOST all i5 mobiles from the 11th generation onwards have Iris Xe 80EUs because, for example, the i5-12450H has only 48EUs.

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