Dell Latitude 13.3" 5350 Anti-Glare 2023

A featherweight business laptop with a ridiculous 20TB of storage and a screen that belongs in 2015. Buy it if you need a portable data vault, skip it if you want a pretty display.

The Intel Core Ultra 5 125U is a 12-core chip that handles everyday office work without breaking a sweat. Our database puts it right around average for CPUs in this class, which is fine for Outlook, Chrome with 40 tabs, and the occasional Excel pivot table. The 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM is solid. But the real surprise is storage: a 100th percentile score. That 20TB HDD is massive for a laptop this size. The 256GB SSD boot drive is tight for Windows 11 plus apps, so you'll want to keep big files on the spinning disk. The 250-nit, 45% NTSC display is mediocre, fine indoors, rough outdoors.

Against the Apple MacBook Pro M4 Max, the Latitude gets destroyed on performance, display quality, and battery life, but it's also a fraction of the price and has way more storage. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 is the more natural rival: similar business focus, better reliability reputation, but you won't find a 20TB config there. The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 and HP OMEN Transcend 14 are gaming machines that lap this thing on GPU performance, but they're heavier and pricier. For pure portability plus storage, the Latitude carves out a weird but real niche.

Pricing is murky since we're seeing listings around $1,322 USD and $1,838 CAD, but the value story depends entirely on whether you need that 20TB HDD. If you do, nothing else in this size class comes close. If you don't, you're overpaying for a spinning disk you'll never fill and a screen that underwhelms.

The Dell Latitude 5350 is a business laptop that nails the fundamentals: it's light, well-connected, and has storage for days. The headline here is the absurd 20TB of HDD space paired with a 256GB NVMe boot drive. That's a weird combo for a 13.3-inch ultraportable, but if you're hoarding massive datasets or offline media, this thing is a portable vault. Just don't expect it to game, the integrated Intel Graphics are strictly for spreadsheets and streaming.

If you want a bright, color-accurate screen for photo editing or outdoor work, this isn't it. Go get a MacBook Air or a ThinkPad with a better panel. And if you don't need 20TB of storage, you're paying for a feature you'll never use.

The Dell Latitude 5350 is a purpose-built machine. If your job is moving massive files, working offline, or carrying a data archive in your bag, this is a compelling package. For everyone else, the dim screen, weak graphics, and below-average reliability make it a pass. Buy it for the storage, not for the screen.