 What Dell says about the latitude 1494 30 is that it offers a non-compromise CEO level laptop experience But you know that we're not that naive and we won't believe anything unless it's proven in our laboratory So let's go This laptop is on the top of the food chain in Dell's pyramid. So we expect no nonsense when it comes to everything on On the outside we find a sleek aluminum shell with a glossy finish on the sides and a matte finish on the lid It weighs just 1.27 kilograms and has a thickness of up to 13.91 millimeters Up top you can see the full HD webcam and the accompanying sensors which include an IR sensor and proximity sensors for quicker logins There's also an electronic privacy shutter activated with the F9 key And pressing the F9 key feels pretty good In fact the entire keyboard is a treat to type on thanks to the decent key travel and the tactile feedback It also features a backlight, but doesn't say anything about spill resistance Which is a minus when compared to Lenovo's notebooks It still sports a fingerprint reader inside the power button As for the touchpad you can't ask for more as the glass surface is super smooth while the responsiveness and accuracy are great Going to the ports most of them are on the left with an HDMI 2.0 port two Thunderbolt 4 ports a micro SD card reader and a 3.5 millimeters audio jack On the right there's a lonely USB type a 3.2 generation 1 port as well as a big vent for cooling With a premium business laptop you get some of the best available displays Here this means a 16 to 10 full HD IPS panel with excellent viewing angles and a peak brightness of 533 nits The contrast ratio is very high as well, which means deep blacks and great colors The 96 percent sRGB coverage contributes to that as well So you can certainly use the device for any type of color grading be it images or videos It's almost mandatory to get our design and gaming profile Which improves the accuracy of the color significantly from a Delta E value of 2.9 to 1.1 To put things into perspective anything below 2 is considered accurate with the human eye being unable to distinguish values below 1 We'll link our display profiles in the description below We almost forgot to mention the front firing speakers, which flanked the keyboard on the left and right They deliver pretty good audio with no significant deviations across the entire frequency range as well as a high maximum volume Which is the weakness of most laptops Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers if you decide to just start following us We'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you. You're awesome In terms of performance, you can choose between the core i5-1245U and the core i7-1265U 2 10 core chips with 12 threads and 12 megabytes of cache We tested the core i7, but all in all both chips are very similar The laptop does perform well even reaching the levels of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon G10 Which has a more powerful p-series CPU inside It's able to do this thanks to a beefy cooling setup, which has two heat pipes and one fan It might not sound like much, but it helps the core i7-1265U maintain 43 watts in the first 30 seconds of our test as well as 28 watts for more than 15 minutes Which is everything that you might want from a laptop like this one Also during the stress test the laptop didn't get uncomfortably loud or worn with a hot spot of only 38 degrees Celsius What we feel is even more important for a business machine is efficiency So you can effortlessly get through a whole day of meetings and emails The 59.6 watt hours unit inside the latitude 14 lasts for 15 hours and 29 minutes of web browsing Or 12 hours and 34 minutes of video playback Lastly, getting inside the laptop is relatively easy However, there's not much to do as the RAM is soldered with up to 32 gigabytes of LPDDR5 memory clocked at 5,200 MHz Storage-wise, there's one 30mm M.2 slot for generation for SSDs We'll have our teardown video down below, which gives you a detailed explanation of how to upgrade the laptop The Dell Latitude 149430 is a premium laptop with a premium price tag However, it does offer a lot to make it all worth it in the end The build is excellent The keyboard and display have no faults and the laptop runs cool and quiet even during the heaviest of stress tests All the while being very efficient We're probably forgetting something since the laptop has so many good qualities So why don't you swing by our website and check out the full in-death review with more benchmarks and tests? It's linked down below