

That's faster than the 256GB SSD drives on the EliteBook, ThinkPad and the average thin-and-light notebook (118.58 MBps). The E5470's 256GB SSD drive copied 4.97GB of multimedia files in a speedy 34 seconds - a rate of 150.79 MBps.

That mark handily beats the results earned by the AMD A12-powered EliteBook 745 G3 (5,494), Core i5-5300U-powered ThinkPad T450s (5,993), Core i7-5600U-powered Tecra Z40t-B (6,427) and the average thin-and-light notebook (6,229). The Latitude E5470 scored a solid 9,760 on Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall performance. I didn't experience a hint of lag, even after I opened two-dozen Chrome tabs - including one that played a 1080p YouTube video - all while Windows Defender ran a full system file scan in the background.

Packed with a 2.3-GHz Intel Core i5-6440HQ Processor, discrete AMD Radeon R7 graphics, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, our configuration of the Latitude E5470 provided more than enough oomph to handle serious multitasking and productivity work. The red Purch Media wall was rendered accurately, but the photo was so noisy that it lost a lot of detail. The E5470's 0.9-megapixel webcam shot bright photos of me in our well-lit New York office. The high notes in Beyoncé's vocals in "Love on Top" sounded powerful and sweet, the thumping bass of Jamie xx's "I Know There's Gonna Be" landed strong, and the guitar strings and piano keys of Radiohead's "Karma Police" were crisp. When I moved 75 degrees to the left or right, the display maintained quality color and crisp details.įor a business notebook, the Latitude E5470 sure knows how to kick out the jams, with enough volume to fill a large conference room. The E5470 also benefits from wide viewing angles. The EliteBook (317 nits) manages to get even brighter. MORE: The Best Laptops for Business and ProductivityĪccording to our light meter, the E5470's display emits up to 278 nits of brightness, which outshines the ThinkPad (236 nits), Tecra (265 nits) and average thin-and-light notebook (243 nits). The Tecra (0.9) was slightly better in this test, but the Latitude's colors are more precise than those of the EliteBook, ThinkPad and average ultraportable notebook. The E5470 also performed well in the Delta-E test for color accuracy (where best scores are closer to 0), with a mark of 1.07. That's well above the average thin-and-light notebook (83.2 percent), and it also beats the EliteBook, ThinkPad and Tecra. When we measured the E5470's display with our colorimeter, it reproduced 113.1 percent of the sRGB color gamut.
