Dell Latitude 7280 (7600U, FHD) Laptop Review

[jack north]

another great review!!

since so many ppl say that 7280 is a sibling to xps13, I wonder if there is CABC(content adaptive brightness control) in 7280's screen panel(either 1366X768 or FHD)

could you pls test the 1366X768 panel for PWM?
THX!!

[Zhula]

Thanks you guy for your great review.

I just came across a big issue that seems to go since a 
many years on all these business laptop without these brands making
any effort to try to solve it and i might be wrong
but it doesn't seem fair to me so i would be very pleased if you
could add that up to all your future tests and inform the willing
purchasers of this kinds of wonderfull products. The issue is about
replacement composants and some whitelist that no one seems to
know or talk about until you need to fix your computer. it seems like you
cannot upgrade your computer with better no brand official wlan or wwan
cards if the one in your computer doesn't work propely for some reason
you need to spend 130~250 $ to get one from the brand which might be
even least powerfull than a 30~50$ one that you can find by yourself.
And this might go with others composants i don't know, may be next will
be the hard drive, ram...
Greed seems to be good for most of these brand and we will be glad to
see which one are more friendly costumers. So we can make our choice
knowing how we are going to spend big or not to upgrade after the purchase.
Got my issue with a thinkpad lenovo but i discovered that they are not the
only one using that ""whitelist"" thing.

Thanks you very much...from france and keep the great work.

[Makoto Cole]

Wow!  What a detailed review on the Dell 7280.  I work with a lot of these laptops and was looking for a comparison between this and the  7270.  My coworker and I had a debate on whether the 7270 was preferred over the 7280.  Your article answered all my questions and then provided more details to areas which I did not consider.

It also slipped my mind that the USB-C was also compatible to be used as a video out.  So I guess not having the display port out is a moot point!

[Depende]

Great review!

I have some questions, I hope you know if its possible to charge this laptop with a USB-C charger (45W or more, of course).

And also I want to know if its possible to connect a SSD into the WWAN port.

Thanks!

[Deller]

Fan still appears to be pointless to me in these devices. It generates more accumulation of dust inside the device thereby reducing the effectiveness of so-called active cooling. I think you could run Core i5-i7 passively with rearrangement of the heat pipes.

[Mike Fletcher]

I have had this computer for a year.  The hardware is unreliable junk.  Both video and audio portions of board have failed.

[cmadnet]

Hi,
Does someone know where is the CMOS EEPROM on the motherboard ?
It seems to be corrupted and want to clear ot
Thanks

[Richard]

This laptop has caused me considerable eye strain. While your testing didn't find flicker, simply filming the screen with an iPhone shows a lot of strobing and flicker. The display shows a strong blue tint as well. Not happy!

[Sanjoy Roy]

Can usb thunderbolt port of this laptop charge the laptop ?

I have anker thunderbolt cable with power delivery wall charger of 65 watt.