Cool computer. I may have just broke one of these at work the other day. I was installing an SSD and when I went to put the back cover back on the side opposite the docking port under the palm rest never clicked back down properly. No battery swell or anything it just never wanted to click back down.
That's one thing I miss about America. Being able to find good shit in the trash. I like that Dell will still allow you to use the computer, even at full speed without having a battery installed. I had both the E7440 and E7450. I love the form factor, but sadly, these things has some downsides that it swayed away from owning another E7XXX series. For starters, these things can get toasty AF. Mine reached 100C at one point. Even if you don't push it all that much, it's still too warm for my liking. Also, they seemed to drop the ball on the build quality starting with the E7450. The E7440 had a metal lid, and frame. The E7450 are all plastic. The plastic itself on the E7440's palm rest is black. Even if you sand it down, it's still black. Whereas with the E7450. Just scratch it with a coin, the coating starts to shed, and you'd be left with a see-through plastic. How did I know this? My dog accidentally scratched it when I left them unattended (on separate occasion).
I remember that! The thermals seem pretty typical for a laptop of this thinness. It's kinda just the way it is; you can have a thin laptop or a cool running laptop, not both at the same time. That said, repasting this thing dropped idle temps considerably. I'll probably never push it hard enough to see 100C lol. I think the build quality is fine, not amazing but fine. For $200 I certainly can't complain.
@@accordinglyryan I'd rather have a thick but cool running laptop. If I want a thin laptop. I'd either go for a Chromebook or an M1 Macbook. For that price, it's definitely a steal over an average consumer laptop for similar price. I'm pretty sure the processor on that thing would blow them out of the water.
Picked up a HP Probook 450 G3 at the Goodwill for $70. Maxed out spec version with a shitty AMD DGPU. Shot battery, replaced for $20. All and all, $90 for a 1080P Skylake system is not bad at all.
@@accordinglyryan true, I've gotta say that those newer latitudes are still one of my favorite kind of laptops, although the newer inspirons leave alot to be desired nowadays sadly.
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Man, I remember watching your E6400 video way back in the day. This video’s a bit nostalgic to me for some reason
Time flies man lol. I can't believe I've been doing this RUclips thing for over 12 years now
@@accordinglyryan Good work all these years, mate.
Cool computer. I may have just broke one of these at work the other day. I was installing an SSD and when I went to put the back cover back on the side opposite the docking port under the palm rest never clicked back down properly. No battery swell or anything it just never wanted to click back down.
That's one thing I miss about America. Being able to find good shit in the trash. I like that Dell will still allow you to use the computer, even at full speed without having a battery installed.
I had both the E7440 and E7450. I love the form factor, but sadly, these things has some downsides that it swayed away from owning another E7XXX series. For starters, these things can get toasty AF. Mine reached 100C at one point. Even if you don't push it all that much, it's still too warm for my liking.
Also, they seemed to drop the ball on the build quality starting with the E7450. The E7440 had a metal lid, and frame. The E7450 are all plastic. The plastic itself on the E7440's palm rest is black. Even if you sand it down, it's still black. Whereas with the E7450. Just scratch it with a coin, the coating starts to shed, and you'd be left with a see-through plastic. How did I know this? My dog accidentally scratched it when I left them unattended (on separate occasion).
I remember that! The thermals seem pretty typical for a laptop of this thinness. It's kinda just the way it is; you can have a thin laptop or a cool running laptop, not both at the same time. That said, repasting this thing dropped idle temps considerably. I'll probably never push it hard enough to see 100C lol.
I think the build quality is fine, not amazing but fine. For $200 I certainly can't complain.
@@accordinglyryan I'd rather have a thick but cool running laptop. If I want a thin laptop. I'd either go for a Chromebook or an M1 Macbook.
For that price, it's definitely a steal over an average consumer laptop for similar price. I'm pretty sure the processor on that thing would blow them out of the water.
@@ManleyEvangelista Yeah it's not worth messing with low end junk when you can buy one of these instead
I wish I could've gone someplace like where you guys got the the devices from
I bought my mom two of these (one went to another family member). She loves it.
They certainly ain't bad
Dell's aren't as bad as people portray them as...far better than the usual Acer...
@@Transit_Studios I'm biased but Dell is and pretty much always has been my first choice for Windows PCs.
"Fairly usable"! What can't it do besides high-end gaming? The E7470 is still awesome for most purposes, even in 2023.
Not enough for video editing and other more intense tasks. It's fine for anything less than that tho
I bought a really nice Onkyo TX-NR626 but the audio out was dead was so lucky the man gave me my money back.
Hey are there 2 slots of SSD.
I m on budget should I add a hdd external or internal.
Picked up a HP Probook 450 G3 at the Goodwill for $70. Maxed out spec version with a shitty AMD DGPU. Shot battery, replaced for $20. All and all, $90 for a 1080P Skylake system is not bad at all.
how much would it have been back int he day
Dell0304 is my favorite
What else did you get in the E-waste hunt?
You'll find out in the next few weeks!
Question: How did you get Windows 11 up and running on an unsupported processor?
You can do that pretty easily by swapping windows 11s .wim install file into windows 10s ISO.
About 5 minutes in regedit lol
This is good for programming , coding and designing ?
As long as you're not doing anything too complicated I don't see why not
Dang it's surprising what people toss out now.(edit, wait nevermind, it'd still a good deal though)
Nah it's still surprising lol. One man's junk is another man's treasure
@@accordinglyryan true, I've gotta say that those newer latitudes are still one of my favorite kind of laptops, although the newer inspirons leave alot to be desired nowadays sadly.
@@awesomecomputers7076 Agreed. Consumer grade is junk, business class is where it's at
Gaming??
First
I got this in 2022 for 319$.
Not horrible, I spent about $250 on this thing all said and done
@@accordinglyryan is that 256gb SSD variant
@@erudite2932 I bought it with no SSD or RAM and put them in myself
@@accordinglyryan can I add hdd 1tb in it, or it supports only external HDD