Dell Latitude 5400 In-Depth Review 

Glad it was use for you @Romulo Abreu de Souza happy these videos are able to assist your decision.

Thanks supanova1976 hope it help you to decide on a laptop =).

Thanks Tech Unboxing Videos, hopefully you enjoy my style of reviews. This laptop is pretty decent, its not a fancy laptop but gets the work done for most businesses.

@@BsianTech Yes, I like your style of tech reviews. Great job!

I have this laptop. It is nice and has a nice feeling keyboard. The battery life is pretty good. The only complaint I have is that it can get pretty hot under heavier loads.

Thanks NotGettinAny, just landed safely back home yesterday. That is actually a very good idea I should turn on the phone, how silly of me! I should also add text on the laptop screen for the glare test as one of my friend's suggestion =).

There is normally a driver for the SIM Card slot for the laptop. If you go to the Dell support page and look up the Latitude 5400 and under the category "Modem/Communications" you should find something like this "Dell Wireless 5820e/Intel XMM 7360 Firmware and GNSS Driver" that is what you're after. I hope that helps simanta baishya. I don't have much experience for the SIM card slot as it is rarely used in my environment as it is expensive here in Australia and rarely used.

Your very welcome A regular everyday halfbird guy, I was annoyed watching other tech review channels on products not getting the information I was after normally so decided to want to change that. It's to help my clients on deciding which products and myself as education and thought it probably be useful to others as well on what I find out. As for the difference between 5400 and 5401 having the two share the same chassis and the main difference is the processor 5400 (8th Gen Intel) and 5401 (9th Gen Intel) comparing the i7 or i5, on paper the 5401 has more processor cores than the 5400 and the 5401 is a non-powersaving and way lower TDP but having them both side by side in person seriously didn't feel much difference to temperatures between the two I would even say the 5401 actually ran a tad cooler to touch than the 5400 which is a huge surprise. Noise wise as for the loudness it can go zero difference but the 5401 will tend to spin up it's fan more to keep the processor cool when performing medium load tasks compare to 5400. If doing low load task zero difference between the two. Processor performance wise you can check out my other review comparing the Latitude 7400 vs the 5401 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VADXFXbvYjk.html) since the Latitude 7400 houses the same processor as the 5400. To make it all easier the 5401 is better and you wonder why the 5400 exist, it is purely comes down to cost, about $300 cheaper and that's it. If you can spend the extra $300 it is a lot better performance laptop the 5401 over the 5400. Hope that helps you =).

Hey, @@BsianTech, thank you very much indeed for the exhaustive reply, I find it very valuable, and it helps a lot in deciding between the two, should I end up going down the Dell road. Performance is actually not as important to me as low noise and heat are, and the 5401 spinning up its fan more frequently for medium-load tasks is concerning me more than the difference in CPU performance, so I'm tempted to err on the side of the 5400 based on that. But I will look at more details, as well as rewatch some of your comparisons before making a decision. As for your motivation behind making these videos, you're doing a great service to people looking for this kind of information on laptops which is notoriously hard to get. So thank you once again, and definitely keep it up! 🙇‍♂️

Any conclusion? Im thinking of a used Dell Latitude 5400 as a IT service laptop.. can be found quite affordable.

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That's the right button f5, sometimes it can just be F5 only without the FN but of course you would have tried that too. Just to let you know that the latitude laptops can be option not to have the backlit keys to save money (its not really saving much IMO). Easy way to check is to do a Dell warranty check on your service tag of the laptop, once you get the results then click on "view system configuration". In the list of the items for your laptop it will hopefully list something like this "Dual Pointing US English Backl it Keyboard" then we will know its meant to have backlit keys then its a matter of calling up Dell to lodge issue with it. Hope that helps cmy dwats.

Hi Reaper Bleaper12, yes the Dell Latitude can be option without the webcam completely, its rare but yes, I don't know why it saves very little money.

BsianDad thank you It looked weird to me because I couldnt find one on the internet without the camera. The laptop It has only got two small holes and no camera at all. Thanks for confirming

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You have to check that unit you are looking to purchase, these can be configured to have keys to have backlit or without. Normal for business computers to be that configurable.

I would too as I too perfer the thermals in Latitude 5xxx over the 7xxx and also the better performance processor, only a little extra weight to carry is the drawback.

@@BsianTech that's not much weight at all...i can live with that...screen isn't that different quality wise is it ?

If you get the Latitude 5400 configured with the thunderbolt port then yes you could connect a eGPU and benefit from that.

I recently bought 5400 8gb i7 8th gen, it is amazing, battery 3 to 4 hrs easily, there is no lag at all, 14" is not an issue you get a better display experience in this, Normal Gaming is good, nice typing experience.

The difference is the processor mainly, the 5400 runs 8th Gen Intel Core (it runs a U series CPU to save power but takes a little performance hit for it) and the 5401 runs 9th Gen Intel Core (Runs a H series CPU that is more unlocked power so has higher performance). Hope that helps.

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Facebook or ecommerce such as amazon, ebay, etc

No

seriously bro?? daaam and i just bought 2. one for me and one for my daughter. i only want it for Netflix and RU-vid, she only plays Roblox nothing else. maybe some Spotify and Netflix. daam if it gets hot WTF then! thank you for the heads up amigo.

@@fernandovalenzuelamontanez8505 If you use it for just watching Netflix, RU-vid and social media on general it works perfectly. I was talking about using it for working as content creator. It gets hot when you open applications like Adobe, Telegram, and multi-tabs . Otherwise it's okay.

Hi Zahiruddin Ansari, the 5400 unit I reviewed did have the touch screen option. Dell does sell the non touch screen version as well.

I have the same doubt!

Yes, but don't expect good performance at higher settings.