Dell Latitude 7480 14" FHD 512GB SSD Laptop

I just got a few of these for an office I work with from the Dell outlet and I paid more than this Amazon deal of the day with what I thought was a pretty good coupon. I guess I wish I would have waited a few weeks... This is a great business class laptop. It's as thin and light as you can get while still being a very sturdy laptop. It comes with a 3 year warranty and I keep buying the Dell 7000 series because they last! It's not the cheapest, but I've paid well over a grand for these same specs new so this is a very good deal. They're sturdy. I carry a previous 7450 model and I've treated it horribly for the past few years. I've dropped it down stairs and dropped it off the roof of a car (onto asphalt!). I've tripped over the cord and pulled it off a table. My 7450 has war damage! One of the corners is bumped and I have a few scratches. It still works perfectly. There are no guarantees that it will survive drops, but I've seen this line take a beating. I had a client spill a whole glass of wine in a 7470 and that wasn't as lucky. But these really are built to last. The business class machines by Dell aren't the prettiest, but these 7000's are pretty thin and 3 pounds but still sturdy! This one comes with a m.2 SATA SSD. Both of the ones I got are HK Hynix SC311 models. It will take NVME M.2 SSD with 2 lanes, but both of the ones I got from the deal of the day come with this same SATA m.2 drive. The 7480 has a lot of good features. You get three normal USB and one USB C. The power port takes a standard Dell charger that are very common. It has a full size HDMI port, a micro SD port, a single headphone jack (sound and voice), and an ethernet port. It can come with a smart card slot but I'm not sure if that's optional. The one one this page comes with the standard Dell webcam. The webcam is pretty good for a built-in camera, and the microphone does sound good. There is an optional Windows Hello webcam with infrared, but the one on this page doesn't have it. There is a place where the sim card goes if you have the cellular modem, but these won't come with the cellular modem so you can't use the sim slot. The two I ordered from this product page have come with Intel AC wireless cards. It's just like seven or eight Phillips screws to remove the bottom cover. They have two ram slots and both I got came with two 4GB ram sticks. The battery is under the bottom cover and I'm not sure how easy it is to get a replacement. The SSD is also easy to access under the cover. You can also access the wireless card with the bottom removed. The screen is pretty good, but I have seen variations in the screen. Some are better than others, but they're all pretty good. I've not seen as much backlight bleed as I did with the 7450s. The one we're getting is a matte screen and is not touchscreen. It is full HD 1920x1080. The speakers are nice for a laptop. It has pretty good sound and it gets loud enough. I've rarely had better in a laptop, but I've had a lot worse. I don't know that it's good enough that I'd want to listen to music on it, but I'm picky about music. I've used the 7480 for netflix and been happy. The keyboard is great. It feels nice. Both of the ones I ordered from this page have backlit keyboards with the joystick nub in the middle. With the FN key, you have audio controls, screen brightness, and a few other things as secondary options of the "F" keys. The two I just got came with the 4 cell batteries. A few weeks ago I setup an office with 7480s and the same 4 cell batteries. The office I just set up with these uses them a whole work day without charging. They're not using them hard. They probably use it for 20 minutes and then are away from their desk for 20 minutes and so forth all day. We have power saving turn the screen off after 5 minutes. Because I haven't tested it straight up, I don't want to say the 4 cell battery lasts for 8 hours straight... I do know it lasts them all day and they've still got a third or quarter of the battery at the end of the day. The 3 year warranty is an on-site warranty which means Dell sends a tech to you for warranty hardware repairs. There's no way I would buy an HP refurbished with their 90 day warranties, but I buy a lot from the Dell outlet with their full warranties on refurbished products. This warranty is not an accidental damage warranty (doesn't cover drops and spills). The bad part is that it's not going to be their nicer pro support warranty where you get to talk to US support. If you order from Dell, you can upgrade the warranty but you can't upgrade the warranty to accidental damage or pro support if you buy it here on Amazon. If you need support, the phone call won't be fun, but the repair itself will be great in my experience. I actually don't have problems with the phone call, but I'm a computer tech. I hear from my clients that they hate the phone call! I love the 7480. I've used one for a few weeks full time. I've helped clients buy a lot of them and work with them weekly. I bought two here on Amazon from the product page I'm reviewing when they were deal of the day. The medical offices I work with want something light, but they also want it to last. It's not amazingly beautiful, but it's nice looking. It's modern but still sturdy. I really like this and I suggest it to clients all the time.