Dell Latitude 14" 7455 Silver 2024

The Snapdragon X Elite CPU is a 99th percentile monster, making this one of the fastest thin-and-lights we've ever tracked. You get a gorgeous 14-inch QHD+ touchscreen and a claimed 22-hour battery in a 1.44kg body. Just don't buy it for gaming, the integrated GPU and 60Hz screen are serious letdowns for anything beyond casual use.

The star of the show is the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100. This 12-core chip is an absolute beast in multi-threaded workloads, putting this thin-and-light in the top 1 percent of all laptops we've tracked. In real terms, you can expect compile times, rendering, and data crunching that embarrass most bulkier machines. The 32GB of LPDDR5X is a perfect match, keeping the memory bandwidth high and ensuring you won't run out of headroom with dozens of browser tabs and multiple VMs open.

The trade-off is graphics. The integrated Adreno GPU is fine for driving the display and handling video decode, but it's not built for gaming or heavy 3D work. It lands in the bottom half of our GPU rankings, so while you can do some light photo editing, don't expect to fire up any modern titles at native resolution. The 512GB SSD is also a bit of a letdown, sitting at the 40th percentile for capacity. It's fast, but you might be leaning on external drives sooner than you'd like.

Stacked against the Apple MacBook Pro M5, the Latitude 7455 trades blows in CPU grunt but falls behind in GPU muscle and display smoothness, as the MacBook's ProMotion screen runs circles around this 60Hz panel. The HP OmniBook X Flip 14 is a more direct competitor, also rocking a Snapdragon chip, but the Dell pulls ahead with a higher-res screen and a lighter build. If you're even thinking about gaming, the ASUS ROG Flow GZ302EA or Lenovo Legion Pro 7i will leave this Dell in the dust, though they're twice the weight and have half the battery life. This Latitude is for the person who wants a Windows answer to Apple's efficiency, and it largely succeeds.

Pricing on this model is all over the map, with a wild spread from $679 to an eye-watering $381,750 across vendors. The low end is a genuine steal for this level of CPU performance and build quality, making it a killer deal if you can find it near that price. At the high end, you're looking at enterprise bulk pricing or a typo, so ignore that. For most folks, the real value hinges on how much you prize that 99th percentile CPU in a sub-$1,000 package. If you need raw ARM-based compute on the go, it's hard to beat at the lower end of that range.

The Snapdragon X Elite inside this Latitude 7455 is an absolute monster for CPU work, landing in the 99th percentile of our database. That puts it in the same conversation as the best mobile workstations out there, and with 32GB of LPDDR5X, it chews through heavy multitasking without breaking a sweat. The 14-inch QHD+ touchscreen is a standout too, hitting 400 nits and covering 100 percent of sRGB, which makes it a joy for productivity and media. Dell claims 22 hours of battery life, and while we haven't run our own test yet, that number is a huge part of the pitch here.

But this is a machine with a very specific focus, and it doesn't pretend otherwise. The integrated Adreno GPU sits in the 39th percentile, so gaming is basically a non-starter, reflected in its 18.2 out of 100 gaming score. Storage is also a bit tight at 512GB, which is just middle of the pack. You're buying this for all-day, unplugged CPU performance in a 1.44kg package, and on that front, it delivers.

Gamers and creative pros who need a dedicated GPU should look elsewhere immediately. The Adreno integrated graphics are a serious bottleneck, landing in the bottom 39th percentile, and the 60Hz display will feel choppy next to any modern gaming laptop or high-refresh ultrabook. If you need more than 512GB of local storage without carrying an external drive, the middling SSD capacity will also be a constant annoyance. This is a CPU-first machine for spreadsheet warriors and code compilers, not a jack-of-all-trades.

The Dell Latitude 7455 is a razor-focused productivity machine that absolutely nails its mission. The Snapdragon X Elite delivers top-tier CPU performance in a package you'll actually want to carry, and the 22-hour claimed battery life means you can leave the charger at home. The 60Hz screen and weak GPU are real compromises, so this isn't a machine for everyone. But if your workflow lives in Office, code compilers, and browser-based apps, and you value portability above all else, this is one of the best Windows options we've seen.