HARD-WORKING COMPETITION
For our performance benchmarks, I compared the
Latitude 7400 to four premium business laptops: the
13.3-inch Latitude 7300, with the same Core i7 CPU as
its sibling, and three 14-inch models. The HP EliteBook
x360 1040 G5 and Lenovo ThinkPad T490 also have
Core i7 processors, while the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen
7 has a Core i5 chip.
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gaming. But they all perform well for their intended
tasks, with the Latitude 7400 landing at or near the top
on all but one test.
PRODUCTIVITY, STORAGE AND MEDIA TESTS
PCMark 10 and 8 are holistic performance suites
developed by the PC benchmark specialists at UL
(formerly Futuremark). The PCMark 10 test we run
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processing, spreadsheet work, web browsing, and
videoconferencing. The test generates a proprietary
numeric score; higher numbers are better.
All five
contenders
have Intel
integrated
graphics that
limit them
to office
productivity
apps.