14 DAY TRIAL // Dell won't be able to balance the notebook market by itself. After all, all the laptop makers together lack the ability to persuade prospective customers to buy new notebooks en masse. Not with tablets stealing market share.
That doesn't mean it won't do its best though. In fact, the corporation continues to be just as active as ever, even launching a new Ultrabook series.
Said new ultrabook collection is called Latitude 7000 and, for now, has only two members: the E7240 and E7440.
The E7440 is the one that fits the mold best, with a screen of 14 inches and an Intel Core i3 Haswell 4th generation Core CPU (central processing unit).
The CPU is actually a dual-core unit with a frequency of 1.7 GHz. Not exactly spectacular but, when backed by the 4 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory), it should be more than enough for everything ultrabooks are supposed to accomplish (browse the web, edit documents, play media, etc.).
Since we're on the subject of hardware, we may as well mention that storage space is provided by a normal, albeit thin and small, hard disk drive (HDD). Not an SSD or hybrid unit.
The capacity should be of 320 GB according to the company's announcement.
Then again, there is an SSD options for those that really want very fast data transfers. The SSD is of 128 GB.
Sadly, the display is an LCD (liquid crystal display) with a native resolution of only 1366 x 768 pixels. All in all, the price of $1,049 / €1,049 might be a bit much, even for a 20mm-thin system.
The other Latitude 7000 ultrabook, E7240, is odd in that it measures only 12.5 inches in diagonal, not 11.6 inches or 13.3 inches that would be more common. The rest of the hardware is the same as on the larger computer. Oddly though, the E7240 is more expensive, at $1,169 / €1,169.