The Dell XPS 13 is an absolute marvel of engineering.
The amount of stuff they have crammed in here into this 13-inch chassis is just incredible,
but I've always thought, what if instead of compromising it, you just made it 14 inches?
Well, that's what they've done here. This is the Dell Latitude 9440,
and I believe this has everything that's great about the XPS 13, but now it's just a tiny bit bigger.
And most importantly, it's got a headphone jack.
In here, we also have Dell slash Recycle.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, yep, plug it in, press the power button, that's how you set it up, cool.
We also have in here a USB-C to A adapter.
That does mean that you definitely do not get USB type A on this, but Dell is at least nice enough
to include the dongles that you need to get started. So you're not just like,
hmm, I can't use my mouse with my new laptop, that's cool.
In here, we also have a 65 watt charger.
You do have a couple different options if you want to charge faster, there is 100 watt available,
but I think 65 is pretty good cause it's not too large.
That said though, this is a 60 watt charger that you get with the XPS 13 plus.
This one's 65 watts, and look at the size difference.
Why would you ever want this one instead of the one that came with the XPS?
Just a first look, absolutely fantastic.
Around the side, we have got shockingly
3.5 millimeter headphone jack, Thunderbolt 4, and two more Thunderbolt 4s.
Now does this have a full 360 hinge?
Oh, it does, fantastic. And speaking of fantastic, just look at this thing.
What a fine little laptop.
On here, we have got Dell's zero lattice keyboard
that we first saw in the XPS 13 plus,
although I am going to have to take away a couple of points
with how they've integrated these speakers. Look at this, it kind of looks like
they just sort of slotted them in there. This edge is a little bit sharp.
I think you guys could have done a little bit better given how just absolutely premium the rest of this feels.
Also, we have Dell's haptic collaboration touchpad,
which apparently can do video, sharing, messages,
and your microphone. There is also a fingerprint reader on our power button.
Excellent, I believe this also has facial recognition, so getting into your laptop will be extremely simple.
The first thing I'm noticing here is that this is a very sharp device.
It looks really great when you have these super sharp C
and C milled corners, but it's not very nice to use.
I absolutely love the pillow block corners
on the HP Dragonfly. This is so frickin' nice.
Dell, please do that. I don't want to have to take the buffing wheel
to too many more of your laptops. It also is one hell of a fingerprint magnet.
Now on the XPS 13 plus, they have just this one great big piece of glass
that goes all the way across, even though the trackpad itself is not actually that big.
It goes to like, oh, I can't tell.
They're somewhere. Not that that's an issue, you get used to that pretty fast,
but on the sides here, I am just, oh, gnarly.
That's said though, let's,
oh man, this is an absolutely fantastic keyboard.
Okay, how does it compare to the XPS 13 plus?
I think that the latitude's even better than the XPS 13.
Like, by quite a bit. It took me a long time to get used to this
kind of strange keyboard that we find on the XPS 13.
So you have so little space between all of the keys
and you do get used to it. So they have a little bit of a dish
and that allows your fingers to feel where they're at
and you get used to it relatively quickly.
The one on the latitude has just a tiny bit more space
between the keys and it is so much easier
to get that muscle memory. It took me a sentence and I am typing really fast.
It takes me like an hour or two of typing on the XPS 13 plus to get used to it.
Yeah, so these keys are definitely still dished
like what they had on the XPS 13 plus
and that just tiny bit more space between each key
is making this so easy to type on. You know, honestly, I think this is an A plus keyboard.
I don't know that there is another keyboard that I would consider A plus on the market right now
besides the HP dragonfly, which is...
The one on the dragonfly I personally like more, it has a bit more click, bit more travel,
but the one on the latitude, oh man, it is so smooth.
It is so accurate and these keys feel so freaking good.
An easy way to tell if you have a good keyboard on your hands is the key stability.
So if you look here, I can press on the corner of this key
and I cannot get the key to like move around
and sort of just like squishy squash.
I can only, while pressing the corner of this,
have the entire key actuate. That is absolutely exceptional, Dell,
and I honestly think this is the best keyboard you've ever made. I absolutely love that this is a haptic touchpad
because it gives you a little bit of tuning ability.
So we are not actually clicking it. So like if you look here,
the trackpad itself is not moving. So instead, they have some little tiny motors.
These are maybe PZ electric, maybe some sort of different something.
What's happening is that it is detecting the amount of force that you're pushing on this
and then once you get over a certain threshold, it makes a little vibration.
So that gives you the feel of a click without actually clicking.
Okay, let's see how this thing weighs in. XPS 13 plus, 1.269, nice, kilograms,
or 2.8 pounds. The latitude comes in at, oh, real units, real units.
1.56 kilograms, or 3.4 pounds.
So that's actually quite a bit heavier. And we also have the Dragonfly Elite here,
which is, is that the lightest of the bunch?
No, that's a dead tie with the XPS 13 effectively.
Another thing that the latitude 9440 has
that is sorely lacking just kind of across the XPS line
is a screen resolution that makes sense. So this right here is 2560 by 1600.
So that is the 16 by 10 version of 1440p.
And it is exceptional for laptops of this size.
You're never going to be able to see the pixels on a 4K display that is 13 inches.
Whereas 1440p is nice. Like I have a 1080p display on the Dragonfly here.
It honestly isn't fantastic.
Like stuff like emails, you aren't able to fit as much as I want on the screen at a time.
Whereas this right here, you've got that bit more resolution.
You can make the text a tiny bit smaller. It still is nice and clear.
And it is just such a good choice here, Dell.
Thank you. Aside from the resolution being good, the overall just panel here is exceptional.
It's IPS, so you don't have those deep inky blacks
like you might have with OLED. But overall, it is very good.
We measured 560 nits peak brightness, which is good enough for even going outside
for the most part. It isn't matte, so you might have to contend with,
you know, the stupid lights in your office or whatever.
But overall, very, very good. It is not the most color accurate display.
So it's a tiny bit oversaturated,
which brings our average Delta E all the way up to 2.4.
Also a nice thing about the display, it's touch.
So you can, you know, do your touchscreen stuff here. You can flipper around, be like, oh, it's a tent now.
And then keep on doing that sort of stuff. Now for performance, we get an i7-1365U,
which is 10 cores, 12 threads, only two performance cores,
so it isn't as performant as you might expect from a 10 core CPU,
given that eight of those are efficiency cores. But it is still a very good processor
for something like this. Remember, we have 32 gigabytes in this one
that are running at 6,000 megatransfers per second. Wait a second.
I thought Dell said 64. Oh, this is kind of strange,
but you can only get 6,400 megatransfers per second
with 64 Gigabyte, apparently.
That's weird, but whatever. I am not about to complain about having 32 gigabytes
of 6,000 megatransfers per second memory. For the disc, we have one terabyte Samsung SSD,
Intel Wi-Fi 6E, excellent.
And of course, we do not have a dedicated GPU in here,
so you're just running the dirty old Intel Iris Xe graphics.
What do you think? Should we try and have a game?
Let's do it. While the game is launching, I just want to shout out that this supports MU-MIMO,
which allows a Wi-Fi device to simultaneously send and receive multiple data streams,
and the networking on this is just exceptional.
The Labs noted that even when compared to gaming laptops
that it was beside, this thing just absolutely ripped
through the downloads on Steam, like no other laptop has.
All right, will we hit 30 FPS and CSGO?
Oh, oh, oh, 32, 34, oh, oh, 42 there for a second.
Oh man, this is bad though.
It's saying 40 FPS, but oh, this is disgusting.
I am having regular lag spikes in the unplayable number of FPSes.
I can 100% blame this computer
for why I'm being so bad and not myself,
because holy frig, this is one of the worst gaming experiences
that I've had in a long while, and that is real.
Look at that stutter. Our Labs did a bunch of testing on some other games,
and it is very consistent in being bad.
You do not want this laptop. If you want to do gaming,
you need to get something like an XPS 15 or a real gaming laptop, which makes sense,
but that's not what this is for. What this does have though, that could be quite nice,
are good speakers. We have some up on the top here,
we have some down on the bottom rate, there and there.
All right, treble's nice and clear.
Bass is lacking, I wonder.
Oh, there we go. Okay, okay.
I moved away our desk pad, so that the down firing speakers
actually bounce off of the table, and it sounds so much better.
It's so much wider. Here we go.
Oh, it gets deeper now too.
Noted. Definitely place this on a hard surface
if you want to get the most of those speakers.
Okay, first challenger.
All right, latitude 9440.
XPS 13 plus is way worse. All right, that's what we needed here.
Now, HP Dragonfly, that's the real contender.
The real test now, latitude 9440.
HP Dragonfly Elite is filled in this as well.
The latitude 9440 is one of the best sounding laptops
I have heard in a long time. It's like MacBook level.
This thing is fricking great. Good job, Dell. This keyboard is absolutely exceptional.
Touchpad, very good. This display is one of the best that I have seen.
It isn't quite as fancy as what Dell will give you
with an OLED or Apple with their mini LED, but as far as just a down the middle display goes,
this is fricking fantastic and the resolution makes so much sense.
What's the catch then? The battery life, very sadly.
The HP Dragonfly, which has very similar performance,
even though not quite as good of a display,
will get you about 12, 13 hours of battery life. This thing right here, Labs tested it seven and a half.
That is many hours of potentially working on something
that you are losing by going with the latitude
and it is very disappointing.
One thing though that they did do to help the battery compared to something like the XPS 13 though,
apparently they have mini LEDs behind these keys,
which not only makes them look fantastic, but use less battery life.
I don't know if you guys can tell because the XPS is white,
but just the way that the light is piped around these keys
is nowhere near as good as the way that it is on the latitude.
It just looks so great, but it was not enough to compete at all
with the Dragonfly in battery life. Geez.
Now, I don't want to say that seven and a half hours of battery life is bad
because it is quite good. That gets you almost through an entire work day,
but it's gonna be at the end of the tank when you're done.
Oh, it has a good webcam though. So first of all, I spy with my little eye.
A shutter. Now in the Dell latitude, we get a full HD webcam
and it does have a physical shutter that blocks it.
Yeah, you can see it right there. There's a little tiny red thing.
There we go. Yeah, so no feet at all.
Turn it off. You see a little shutter go away and I come back
and this looks really good. This is one of the best webcams
that I've ever seen from Dell. Well, that's not saying too much,
but it's full HD. I look nice and clear and it's exposing very well for my face.
Let's do a little turnaround here. Oh, it struggled. It struggled, but it's figuring it out as it goes.
I am overall quite impressed with this
and it looks at least from this angle,
really quite natural. Like once it figures itself out,
it's exposing my face very well, plenty of detail.
And good job guys. And hopefully these two mics right here
picked up my voice nice and well too. Oh man, that's quick.
Look at that 80 megabytes per second over Wi-Fi. Hell yeah, 896.
We hit 96 megabytes per second over Wi-Fi. That's really good.
Now of course, this being a business laptop, it has a whole bunch of things
that makes it just generally safer and more reliable.
So stuff like if the BIOS has been tampered with
or just corrupts, it can fix itself and also chassis intrusion detection.
So hopefully it doesn't get too mad after this. I'm rather surprised that I just have
straight up Phillips screws on here. Come on, come on, there we go.
Very simple to get off. Oh cool, we can see where your SIM card would go
if you actually optioned it. So your 5G card would be plugging in right here,
little PCIe header. And then you can see where it shows sim tray right there.
And I'm guessing that is the pad that it would be soldered onto.
Also in here we have our 60 watt hour battery, which netted us, as we said, seven and a half hours
of battery life and two fans
and a nice little heat pipe there. Also right here we have got our SSD.
It looks like that that is the only spot that we're able to put an SSD and it is a short one.
So if you want to upgrade it, you can,
but it's going to be quite expensive because you cannot get like a proper full-size SSD.
Last thing in here are two downfiring woofers, which did an exceptional job.
And that seems to be about it. Okay, it did just turn on with the bottom off.
So I'm guessing you have to configure chassis intrusion detection, it's not just gonna do it for you.
What I wanted to show though is how the Wi-Fi antennas are run, cause it's actually quite smart.
Now, obviously your antennas cannot just go straight
through this aluminum chassis. It's not going to be great,
but we do have the glass touch pad and they run up here
and the Wi-Fi antennas are actually underneath the track pad so that you can have that nice strong Wi-Fi
that this absolutely excels at without having something
like, well, on the XPS 13, they had to have this stupid
glass touch pad chummy up here. One final thing that's fun is this bottom cover appears
to be made of magnesium, which is expensive, but this is also a very expensive device.
This thing comes in at over $3,000 as configured,
which is a lot of money even for a business laptop
like this, but that said, this thing is frickin' excellent.
Just like we have a bunch of people on a tour here, say hello to everyone, it's the outro.
Hit like, get subscribed, and just have a fantastic day.
See ya later.