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in cart, apply coupon code YEAREND7400 for an extra 50% off. Prices start from $169.50 + free s/h and will depend on config and specs.
2017 was 7 years ago, not 8
Intel was introducing new 8th gen CPUs as late as Q3 2019
Scratches will be minor in B grade laptops, and close to nonexistent in A grade
Battery will be replaced if it's under 80% capacity
A used latitude in good shape will likely outlast a new Inspiron, and $399 is more than double the price of this deal.
You can return these on Dell Refurbished's dime if there is anything wrong (such as loose hinges).
I bought one of these in Sept 2023; at this price I enjoy replacing them every 2-3 years. I think this is my third or fourth used Latitude laptop. They're still useful to those I give them away to.
It's on my desk now, driving two 32" 4K monitors from the HDMI sand USB-C ports, plus the 14" screen, running 50 edge tabs, notes, outlook, chrome, and teams. I'm managing Azure & M365 resources, coding in PS via the portal. it's durable, well-supported, easy to buy parts for (I put in a 2TB drive for my photography, for which I run PS and LR Classic).
In short, a perfectly fine laptop for those who don't game.
These are great for some special use cases where you wouldn't want to spend big $$ on new hardware with the latest and most powerful processors. Case in point - I bought one of the 7400s a few weeks ago for $190 during their last sale. I got it specifically to use with the Forscan ODB II software for reading codes and tweaking options on my Ford truck. Add a $40 ODB II USB interface and I have a great fully-functional bi-directional scan tool for use with my vehicles for under $250.
A semi-pro purpose-built scan tool with same same capabilities would have run me at least $500 or more (and they typically are custom android tablets). As a bonus, this is a Windows 11 laptop that can serve other purposes.
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These come bloated down with fluff and best to fresh install Windows 11 on vs. in-line upgrade?
If you're handy with the computer and have installed an OS before it's usually a good idea to do a fresh reinstall of whatever the OS is you want to use. That could be the OCD talkin' But I always install fresh (even on a new machine) and I even go so far as to do a more thorough wipe of the disk (DoD wipe, etc.) - Ok, I see it now - definitely the OCD.
Great post I'll be picking one for sure. At my work they just refreshed everyone with hp z books $3500 a pop fully loaded and absolutely everyone just hooks up to the dock and leaves them closed. Hoping to get my hands on one or two with the next refresh.
If you're handy with the computer and have installed an OS before it's usually a good idea to do a fresh reinstall of whatever the OS is you want to use. That could be the OCD talkin' But I always install fresh (even on a new machine) and I even go so far as to do a more thorough wipe of the disk (DoD wipe, etc.) - Ok, I see it now - definitely the OCD.
100% concur, always do a fresh install. Wiping a NVME drive is instant though you can do it from the BIOS in a few seconds. No need to waste write cycles hammering it.
I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at <200 bucks. They still have hundreds in use at my work as the refresh cycle is pretty long here.
A year or more ago I previously bought a 7390 from here and it was in pristine/like new condition and has worked perfectly. Then, within the last month I bought 2 of the 7400 touch 16gb and one 7400 2 in 1 in grade A condition. All three were in like new condition and worked perfectly. One of the 7400 touch had a battery that tested at less than 80% using cmd line powercfg/batteryreport. I emailed dellrefurbished about it and they promptly sent a brand new battery (no proof required). Also, I was going to upgrade the memory on one of the 7400 touch, to 32 gb . It has 2 SO-DIMM slots and there was a 16gb ram in one slot and the other was empty, which was a pleasant surprise. I expected to see 2 8gb ram. Also, the laptops were REMARKABLY free of any extraneous software. Nothing from Dell or any other crapware. It was so unusual in a new computer that I noticed. It looks to be a clean install of windows 10. They seem very well made/durable. Overall they have exceeded my expectations in every way at this price point.
I picked up one of the Latitude 7400 touch screen and I also updated the memory. Here are my thoughts:
-- The machine is a good machine. The case I received was metal and is heavy compared to my other machines.
-- The overall build quality is good.
-- For general office use it is perfect.
-- It is upgradable to Windows 11.
-- The machine was wiped and I did not see too much bloatware on it.
Issues that I had:
-- The keyboard did not work out of the box. I contacted Dell and they could not send me a new keyboard but provided a credit of $30 so I could pick up a new one from the "Bay" company. Replacement keyboards were not in over abundance.
-- Essentially I had to rebuild the machine, so I also replaced the thermal paste at the same time.
-- I did run the battery test and it was borderline for replacement, so I also had that with the keyboard. I was sent a replacement battery.
-- It seems to be a known issue that the rubber strip that is a "foot" for the case does peal off and the replacement is expensive. I have tried the glues that some recommenced, but they do not work. I had to use two sided sticky tape.
-- The screen is not as bright as an older Dell Ultra machine I have or a older MacBook Air
100% concur, always do a fresh install. Wiping a NVME drive is instant though you can do it from the BIOS in a few seconds. No need to waste write cycles hammering it.
I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at <200 bucks. They still have hundreds in use at my work as the refresh cycle is pretty long here.
The last "new" full laptop I bought was a 1st-gen Core i5 in 2011.
Since then, I've never spent over $430 for a replacement and some of those were new.
Rocking a $300 Asus Core i5-8250 with 8GB of RAM bought used in 2018. The keyboard has a few keys that stopped working. I have that issue with all laptops, except Dell, so to me, the slight premium to get a Dell Laptop with 6500 passmarks and 8GB of RAM is fine.
Always check the passmarks for any CPU to avoid being screwed. Some core i3 are faster than Core i7 from just a few years ago and cost much less.
Typing up documents, doing regular-sized spreadsheets and PPTs just don't need that much RAM or power.
When I need to get real work done, I don't use a laptop. To me, laptops are remote access and portable entertainment devices, nothing more. If one gets stolen in an airport, I don't care (that much). On the way to a job, I'd stop by the local big-box store and buy a replacement. Coming home, I have time and don't need to be rushed. I've waited over 6 months between a dead laptop and replacement.
I have yet to find a laptop that can connect to 40TB of infiniband storage.
These days, I've been using an Android tablet for travel and haven't taken a laptop for a few years. Clients don't want a foreign computer on their networks anyway. I borrow one of theirs and boot my OS off flash media.
"Business" laptops are about replacement parts. When you have a business with 120K employees, you want laptop parts to be interchangeable and to have just a few standard models in the "approved" list. "Business line" laptops from all vendors mean that the vendor has an agreement with their suppliers to provide identical parts for at least 3 yrs from the release date.
With consumer laptops, we get whatever parts are available that month. The supplier may be at the end of the run, so finding that exact laptop with those exact parts in 3 months, new, may be impossible. This is why business line laptops are more expensive and consumer line laptops are cheaper.
Anyway, I need to see if there's a reasonable model for my needs.
Looks like mostly CoreM CPUs. I've found those to be terribly slow. They are more about optimizing power use. Be careful.
100% concur, always do a fresh install. Wiping a NVME drive is instant though you can do it from the BIOS in a few seconds. No need to waste write cycles hammering it.
I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at
No need for that anymore. Windows 10 has a setting called "reset this PC" that does a full wipe
Review comments from actual owners for the Dell 7400 that launched in 2019. Due to the many issues reported (cooling, etc.), they quickly redesigned the product and put out the 7410 in much less than one year.
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Within our comparison field, the display of the 7400 is one of the models with the lowest brightness.
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I'm very disappointed in this laptop. It makes a LOT of noise when using a bit of cpu power. It does not run well with linux at all. It shows weird issues when using a Dell docking station, it has no ethernet port, it gets really hot after a short while & the fan makes a high pitching noise which is really annoying. I thought it was an upgrade from the 7490 version but this feels like a serious downgrade.
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Dell redesigned the 7400 less than one year later when it brought out the 7410 to resolve those and other issues.
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I guess the point that 7390 & 7400 have a manufacturing flaw which has been finally rectified in 7410 is missed out.
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I'm quite dissatisfied with the Dell 7400, and this review. You are easily skipping over the part where the processor throttles down speed ridiculously because it reaches 100 degrees Celcius - even on battery power.
There's also an earlier post review...
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-- The keyboard did not work out of the box. I contacted Dell and they could not send me a new keyboard but provided a credit of $30 so I could pick up a new one from the "Bay" company. Replacement keyboards were not in over abundance.
-- Essentially I had to rebuild the machine, so I also replaced the thermal paste at the same time.
-- I did run the battery test and it was borderline for replacement, so I also had that with the keyboard. I was sent a replacement battery.
-- It seems to be a known issue that the rubber strip that is a "foot" for the case does peal off and the replacement is expensive. I have tried the glues that some recommenced, but they do not work. I had to use two sided sticky tape.
-- The screen is not as bright as an old
Dell Refurbished (FedEx) also sells the used 7410 model. Magazine reviews are usually mostly kind because they often are given a free product to review and keep. Regarding Dell's quoted regular prices back in 2019, all "business" laptops are launched with extremely high prices because volume corporate customers will be getting their 40-50% volume discount. They're not marketed to individual consumers.
You download the ISO or media creation tool (to write to USB) to make a boot disk. You can use that to do the fresh install. The license is tied to the hardware so it'll 'remember' it even after wiping the drive.
It cost a bit more, but still a good deal. Ordered for my wife as she wanted a machine with a touch screen.
ORDER SUMMARY
Dell Latitude 7400 Touch
Product ID: dell-latitude-7400-touch-000016
Dell Latitude 7400 Notebook, 14-in FHD Touch (1920 x 1080), Webcam, 1x Intel Core i7 Quad (i7-8665U) 1.90 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, No Optical, Intel Integrated Graphics, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 Professional
Status: In Stock
In for the same... Core i7, 16GB, 512 SSD and a touch screen seems like a solid computer for a little over 200 bucks.
I've order a few of these dell refurb items before and have been very satisifed. For the kids, I got a micro form factor PC, a small form factor PC, and a laptop for my mom.
I bought a dell refurbished laptop last year around this time. It came hardware locked to an energy company out of austin. It was 100% unusable because of this. It took weeks for Dell to resolve this and I had to get the energy company involved to get them to reach out to dell. it apparently even made it to some C suite exec at Dell because it was a MAJOR security issue if I was able to connect the the city of austins energy grid somehow with it.
I don't understand. I just tried buying one of these. I entered the promo code, it accepted it, but did not take anything off the price and did not give free shipping.
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Intel was introducing new 8th gen CPUs as late as Q3 2019
Scratches will be minor in B grade laptops, and close to nonexistent in A grade
Battery will be replaced if it's under 80% capacity
A used latitude in good shape will likely outlast a new Inspiron, and $399 is more than double the price of this deal.
You can return these on Dell Refurbished's dime if there is anything wrong (such as loose hinges).
It's on my desk now, driving two 32" 4K monitors from the HDMI sand USB-C ports, plus the 14" screen, running 50 edge tabs, notes, outlook, chrome, and teams. I'm managing Azure & M365 resources, coding in PS via the portal. it's durable, well-supported, easy to buy parts for (I put in a 2TB drive for my photography, for which I run PS and LR Classic).
In short, a perfectly fine laptop for those who don't game.
A semi-pro purpose-built scan tool with same same capabilities would have run me at least $500 or more (and they typically are custom android tablets). As a bonus, this is a Windows 11 laptop that can serve other purposes.
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I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at <200 bucks. They still have hundreds in use at my work as the refresh cycle is pretty long here.
-- The machine is a good machine. The case I received was metal and is heavy compared to my other machines.
-- The overall build quality is good.
-- For general office use it is perfect.
-- It is upgradable to Windows 11.
-- The machine was wiped and I did not see too much bloatware on it.
Issues that I had:
-- The keyboard did not work out of the box. I contacted Dell and they could not send me a new keyboard but provided a credit of $30 so I could pick up a new one from the "Bay" company. Replacement keyboards were not in over abundance.
-- Essentially I had to rebuild the machine, so I also replaced the thermal paste at the same time.
-- I did run the battery test and it was borderline for replacement, so I also had that with the keyboard. I was sent a replacement battery.
-- It seems to be a known issue that the rubber strip that is a "foot" for the case does peal off and the replacement is expensive. I have tried the glues that some recommenced, but they do not work. I had to use two sided sticky tape.
-- The screen is not as bright as an older Dell Ultra machine I have or a older MacBook Air
Price paid was about the same as now.
I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at <200 bucks. They still have hundreds in use at my work as the refresh cycle is pretty long here.
Where you get OS to do fresh install?
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Since then, I've never spent over $430 for a replacement and some of those were new.
Rocking a $300 Asus Core i5-8250 with 8GB of RAM bought used in 2018. The keyboard has a few keys that stopped working. I have that issue with all laptops, except Dell, so to me, the slight premium to get a Dell Laptop with 6500 passmarks and 8GB of RAM is fine.
Always check the passmarks for any CPU to avoid being screwed. Some core i3 are faster than Core i7 from just a few years ago and cost much less.
Typing up documents, doing regular-sized spreadsheets and PPTs just don't need that much RAM or power.
When I need to get real work done, I don't use a laptop. To me, laptops are remote access and portable entertainment devices, nothing more. If one gets stolen in an airport, I don't care (that much). On the way to a job, I'd stop by the local big-box store and buy a replacement. Coming home, I have time and don't need to be rushed. I've waited over 6 months between a dead laptop and replacement.
I have yet to find a laptop that can connect to 40TB of infiniband storage.
These days, I've been using an Android tablet for travel and haven't taken a laptop for a few years. Clients don't want a foreign computer on their networks anyway. I borrow one of theirs and boot my OS off flash media.
"Business" laptops are about replacement parts. When you have a business with 120K employees, you want laptop parts to be interchangeable and to have just a few standard models in the "approved" list. "Business line" laptops from all vendors mean that the vendor has an agreement with their suppliers to provide identical parts for at least 3 yrs from the release date.
With consumer laptops, we get whatever parts are available that month. The supplier may be at the end of the run, so finding that exact laptop with those exact parts in 3 months, new, may be impossible. This is why business line laptops are more expensive and consumer line laptops are cheaper.
Anyway, I need to see if there's a reasonable model for my needs.
Looks like mostly CoreM CPUs. I've found those to be terribly slow. They are more about optimizing power use. Be careful.
I've imaged dozens of these 7400s at work the last few months and they are a bargain at
-- Essentially I had to rebuild the machine, so I also replaced the thermal paste at the same time.
-- I did run the battery test and it was borderline for replacement, so I also had that with the keyboard. I was sent a replacement battery.
-- It seems to be a known issue that the rubber strip that is a "foot" for the case does peal off and the replacement is expensive. I have tried the glues that some recommenced, but they do not work. I had to use two sided sticky tape.
-- The screen is not as bright as an old
ORDER SUMMARY
Dell Latitude 7400 Touch
Product ID: dell-latitude-7400-touch-000016
Dell Latitude 7400 Notebook, 14-in FHD Touch (1920 x 1080), Webcam, 1x Intel Core i7 Quad (i7-8665U) 1.90 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, No Optical, Intel Integrated Graphics, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 Professional
Status: In Stock
1 x $429.00
Subtotal $429.00
Shipping & Handling $14.99
Promo Codes
50% off 7400 Laptops (YEAREND7400, - $229.49)
Promo Code Discount - $214.50
Shipping Discount - $14.99
Tax $19.31
Total $233.81
In for the same... Core i7, 16GB, 512 SSD and a touch screen seems like a solid computer for a little over 200 bucks.
I've order a few of these dell refurb items before and have been very satisifed. For the kids, I got a micro form factor PC, a small form factor PC, and a laptop for my mom.
Fun stuff.
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So I did not complete the order.
I was excited to get this laptop.
Bummed out now.