DELL Latitude E7450 14" HD i7-5600U 8GB 240GB SSD laptop

Compact Business Ultrabook

The Dell Latitude E7450 is a 14.0 inch HD laptop powered by an Intel Core i7-5600U dual-core processor running at 2.60 GHz with a turbo frequency of 3.20 GHz. It ships with 8GB of DDR3 memory and a new 240GB SATA SSD. Windows 10 Home 64-bit comes pre-installed. This configuration suits mobile professionals who need reliable performance for office applications, web browsing and video conferencing on a non-touch 1366 x 768 display.

Upgrade From Older Latitudes

This model replaces earlier Latitude ultrabooks that used slower dual-core chips, mechanical hard drives or less memory. The jump is worthwhile when your current system struggles with multitasking or boot times because the i7-5600U and solid-state storage deliver snappier responsiveness. Buyers who need a higher resolution panel, discrete graphics or more than 16 GB of RAM should look elsewhere since the HD screen and Intel HD Graphics 5500 are fixed and the two memory slots max out at 16 GB.

Simple SATA Swap

Installing a larger 2.5 inch SATA drive is straightforward: remove the bottom cover, disconnect the battery, swap the SSD and reassemble. The two SODIMM slots are equally accessible for memory upgrades up to the 16 GB limit. What usually goes wrong is forgetting to disable BitLocker before cloning the drive, which leaves the new SSD unreadable, or seating the memory modules incompletely so the system fails to POST.