Dell Latitude 7350 Ultralight
The Dell Latitude has a lot going for it. It features a premium and robust ultralight build. Decent I/O port selection (including 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports), fantastic battery life, and some neat new features like the collaboration touchpad. While the number of AI tasks is limited for now, the presence of an NPU offers some degree of futureproofing. Of course, compact laptops like this always have heating issues when under load so that’s worth keeping in mind. Additionally, we would have liked a better display. Overall, we would still say that the Dell Latitude 7350 Ultralight is a fantastic laptop for business professionals looking for an AI enabled ultralight laptop on the go.
The Dell Latitude series of business laptops is back with its 2024 iteration featuring Intel’s new Core Ultra lineup of processors. Dell launched several variants of the Dell Latitude, including detachable and 2-in-1 variants. We’re going to be taking a look at the Dell Latitude 7350 Ultralight, which is the standard 13-inch laptop model. Dell claims that the Latitude 7350 is the world’s smallest and lightest premium business laptop at just 989g! That said, is this the ultimate portable machine for professionals on the go? Read on to find out!
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 7 165U
RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5X-6400 (Can go up to 64 GB)
Storage: 512 GB NVMe M.2 SSD
Webcam: 1080p @ 30 FPS
Dimensions (Ultralight variant):
Height: 17.75mm (rear) | 16.76mm (front)
Weight: 1074g
Price: 1,78,900
Let’s start things off with the build and design of the Dell Latitude 7350 Ultralight. Like we mentioned in the intro the Latitude 7350 has 2-in-1 and detachable variants as well. The standard Ultralight model features a clamshell design which can open all the way to 180 degrees. To keep the weight low, the Ultralight variant features lightweight magnesium alloy for its build. The overall feel and aesthetics of the laptop is very premium; very sleek and professional. It also feels very sturdy and robust. The laptop barely bends or flexes, and even the keyboard sees very little flex. The laptop lid can be opened up to 90 degrees with one hand, but you’ll need both hands to open it up all the way to 180 degrees. The hinge also feels very sturdy, and we would say we’re very impressed with the build of the Latitude 7350 overall.
The keyboard on the Latitude 7350 has decent spacing, and the keys themselves have a good feel. The travel and feedback is also quite nice. The typing experience is good overall. Coming to the touchpad, you get a nice spacious touchpad which feels incredibly smooth; our fingers were gliding effortlessly over the touchpad.
Speaking of the touchpad, one of the cool new features on the Latitude 7350 series is the presence of the Collaboration touchpad. Whenever you’re on a video conference call on Zoom or Teams, icons show up on the touchpad. These icons allow you to quickly and conveniently access actions that you might need during a con call. Simply double tap to mute your mic, show or hide chat, share your screen or turn your webcam on or off. Definitely a great new touch to the touchpad. Pun intended. Keep in mind however that the Collaboration Touchpad only works with work or education enabled Teams accounts, and both paid and free versions of Zoom.
Dell has also claimed that this is the smallest and lightest premium business laptop in the world. The claim is 989g, however we measured 1074g, which is a difference of under 100g. It’s not a huge difference, and the laptop is still incredibly lightweight and compact regardless.
Coming to the performance, the Dell Latitude 7350 features Intel’s new Ultra Core lineup of processors. The variant we’re testing features the Intel Core Ultra 7 165U with 12 cores and 16 threads. Of course, the key factor here is the NPU on-board to help with AI related tasks. There are plenty of AI assisted tasks where the NPU takes over for the CPU. These include things like Background blurring during video calls, generating automatic captions, and audio separation among other things. The list of things AI can do is slowly growing by the day. While all of these tasks can be handled by the CPU, an NPU can handle these tasks quicker and with more efficiency.
We ran our usual slew of productivity and processor benchmarks on the Dell Latitude 7350. We used PCMark 10 to measure productivity and Geekbench 6 and Cinebench R23 to measure single core and multicore performance.
We also ran 3DMark to test the internal GPU which as you’ll see from the numbers is a sizable step up from the previous generation.
Both the RAM and SSD on the Latitude are also fairly speedy. You should be blazing through your tasks with ease.
The Display on the Latitude 7350 is decent. It could have been better in our opinion, especially for the premium that you’re paying for the laptop. We measured a peak average brightness of 375 nits, which is good. We tested 94.9 percent sRGB and 71.9 percent DCI-P3 colour gamut coverage, which in our opinion could have been better.
The Latitude 7350 features excellent battery life. At 100 percent brightness, the laptop lasted 14 hours and 29 minutes during the PCMark battery test, and close to 3 hours in the PCMark 10 gaming battery test. You will have absolutely no trouble getting through an entire day without needing to charge this laptop making it fantastic for working professionals on the go who don’t have access to charging 24×7.
Coming to thermals. Peak surface temperatures at 100 percent CPU load hit around the 43-44 degrees Celsius mark, especially around the WASD cluster and the top centre of the keyboard. The highest CPU core temp we saw was 100 degrees Celsius, while the average was around 77 degrees celsius. That said, there aren’t many occasions where you will actually hit 100 percent load, but the laptop can get toasty enough to not want to keep it on your lap.
The accompanying software, Dell Optimizer, allows you to tweak the way your machine works. It allows for several degrees of customisation. One of the more interesting features you can access through Dell Optimizer is Presence Detection, which can detect onlookers and hide your display. It can also detect your presence, unlock when you approach and lock the laptop when you leave.
The Dell Latitude has a lot going for it. It features a premium and robust ultralight build. Decent I/O port selection (including 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports), fantastic battery life, and some neat new features like the collaboration touchpad. While the number of AI tasks is limited for now, the presence of an NPU offers some degree of futureproofing. Of course, compact laptops like this always have heating issues when under load so that’s worth keeping in mind. Additionally, we would have liked a better display. Overall, we would still say that the Dell Latitude 7350 Ultralight is a fantastic laptop for business professionals looking for an AI enabled ultralight laptop on the go.
