PC World - USA (2019-08)

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86 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

REVIEWS DELL LATITUDE 7400 2-IN-1


smartcard contact reader
within the chassis.
Instead, the webcam
doubles as a Windows
Hello biometric login,
and includes infrared
sensing. There’s no
privacy shutter, however,
though many competing
notebooks now include
this feature.
If you buy the Latitude
7400 2-in-1, consider
investing in a dedicated
webcam for your monitor.
Images taken with the
webcam (0.9MP still
images, 720p video)
were fuzzy, and areas of
the image were
overexposed, even with
HDR capabilities turned
on. I’d like to see a bit
more attention paid to
the webcam inside a
notebook designed for business users.

CONSUMER-QUALITY
SPEAKERS
Though Dell designed the Latitude 7400
2-in-1 for business users, its audio is
comparable to, or better than, what you may
find on a consumer laptop. That’s thanks to
the MaxxAudioPro by Waves enhancement

technology, which serves as both a graphic
equalizer and a positional sound feature.
Turning on the MaxxAudioPro equalizer,
along with its MaxBass technology, boosts
the low-end audio to a pleasing level that
evens out the listening experience from lows
to highs. Additional features like Width
widen the stereo experience using just the
laptop’s speakers. Though PCWorld hasn’t

Along the right side of the chassis is a headphone jack, USB Type-A, an SD
card slot, (optional) WWAN SIM holder, and a lock port.

Another USB Type A slot appears on the left side of the Dell Latitude 7400
2-in-1, plus a pair of Thunderbolt ports and a dedicated HDMI port.
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