Dell Latitude 14 3440 Pro Reviews

Clean. Dell's office/multimedia hybrid convinced us in numerous respects throughout testing. The CPU rose to each successive task and obviously works with such energy efficiency, even under minimal load, that together with the potent battery, we could achieve the battery life of our dreams in everyday use. Good battery life makes the machine suitable for mobile use, though the 14-inch machine's heavy weight and its somewhat more generous design height count on the opposite side of the ledger. On the other hand, qualitatively, the well-constructed case is of markedly higher quality than what one usually expects from this price class. In use, the Dell Latitude 3440 goes about its work quite unobtrusively in terms of heat and noise, which rounds off the impression of a well-thought-out construction. The promised office functionality is realized above all through good input devices and the extremely important ports, but not through business-typical safety features like TPM, fingerprint readers, or standard available encryption or geolocation systems. It is always annoying, and here doubly so because of the candidates' dual functions: There is no HDMI port. The range of the awkwardly-positioned ports is restricted to only the most important ones. The chosen CPU-GPU combination presents a halfway potent gaming platform for current games at the moment - but definitely not for much longer - as long as the user is prepared to accept certain compromises in terms of graphics settings. The display does a good job for its class and has a resolution of 1,600 x 900 pixels (by our lights, ideal for a 14-inch model).

The Latitude 3440 is designed for work rather than play, and that means its talents lie in certain keys areas: the Haswell processor delivers reasonable application and games performance and excellent battery life, and the keyboard and touchpad are excellent. It’s one of the slimmest and lightest machines in this group, too, but it’s also got the best build quality. The middling screen and speakers count against the Dell, but it excels in more key areas than any other machine here – and that makes it a worthy all-round winner.