The Dell Latitude 13 7390 2-in-1 Review
by Brett Howse on April 12, 2018 8:00 AM ESTGPU Performance
As a business laptop, gaming performance isn’t going to be a priority, and with the Intel UHD Graphics 620, that’s a good thing. The GPU does what it needs to for office scenarios though, with great media playback capabilities, low power usage, and support for three monitors.
Since this laptop isn’t aimed at gaming at all, we’ll just look at a couple of synthetic tests.
3DMark
GFXBench
There’s not much to say about the integrated GPU that’s not already been said. Intel’s integrated GPU is fine for desktop tasks, great for media playback, and improving year-over-year, but only able to be leveraged in 3D situations in the least stressful situations.
Storage Performance
The one area where the Spectre and Meltdown patches have really impacted performance is in I/O, so storage performance is impacted heavily, especially high numbers of reads and writes. As of this writing, the Dell unit is patched for Meltdown, but not Spectre v2, but as we saw in our performance testing of the patches, the Meltdown fix has the biggest impact for I/O.
Dell also offers several choices for the SSD, with a 128 and 256 GB SATA option, or 256 / 512 / 1024 GB NVMe. This model has the 512 GB NVMe, which is the PC401 SK Hynix in this particular unit.
Performance is still quite strong, with read speeds that can reach up to over 2600 MB/s, but write speeds are well behind the fastest NVMe drives on the market.
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coolhardware - Sunday, April 22, 2018 - link
I still use and love the Lenovo TrackPoint (or "nub" as you refer to it). It is not trendy, but it is still very good IMHO.hybrid2d4x4 - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
Not trying to be facetious here: what is the use case for having a microSD reader? Many laptops are migrating to offering this where they used to offer regular SD readers, and I'm curious if this is user-driven or OEMs trying to axe a larger component?Personally, I mostly use a laptop while traveling and I use a DSLR, so I find a regular size SD reader useful. But the only device I own that uses microSD is my phone and it's more of a hassle to remove the card and use a reader than just connect the phone via USB. I wouldn't be surprised if something like GoPros used uSD, but is that demographic that large? What else is uSD broadly used for?
PeachNCream - Thursday, April 12, 2018 - link
In my own day-to-day computing, I haven't used a standard sized SD card in quite a while because the only thing I own that can accept standard sized SD cards is my laptop. It's actually a little bit annoying to go dig an adapter out of a desk drawer so I'd rather see laptops fall in line with the other consumer electronics that already have made the transition to microSD. At this point, standard SD seems a bit outdated to me.piroroadkill - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
This is a redundant comment, because a lot of microSD cards come with a microSD to full size SD adapter. You can just leave the adapter in the slot if it bothers you that much. Other people might actually want the full size slot for their camera SD card.PeachNCream - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
"...if it bothers you that much."It doesn't bother me that much. That's why I said it was "a little bit annoying" rather than "it bothers me a lot" or "very annoying." It just ends up seeming like you're inflating my concern in order to invalidate my comment about my own usage (which I clearly defined right away as applying to no one else but me) in order to support an opposed viewpoint.
It's fine if you want a full size SD slot. Then again, what's stopping someone from arguing that you can leave the adapter in a camera instead of a laptop? MicroSD write speed is pretty high and competitive with standard sized cards. I used an adapter in the last camera I owned a few years ago because microSD was cheaper for the same capacity and speed when I was buying storage for it.
BurntMyBacon - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
In my day to day use, I've only really seen heavy use of microSD in phones/tablets. I have to echo the earlier sentiment that it is usually easier to just connect the phone/tablet than to remove the microSD card. A great many cameras, however, use SD. I'm sure there are plenty of devices that make use of microSD, but outside of phones/tablets, I just don't run across them. Also, it is very easy to adapt microSD to SD, but not the other way around. Furthermore, as piroroadkill pointed out, it wouldn't be at all problematic to leave the microSD to SD card adapter in the SD slot if you wanted a more permanent microSD solution.sofie123 - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link
As i have seen the features and the specification of the Dell Latitude 7392 it is quite a great gadget to be owned. The Dell Alienware is also great gadget if you are a game freak.https://www.uaetechnician.com/alienware-support-se...
RErro - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
Finally, a review on a business laptop.