Dell Latitude E7440 14" LED Ultrabook - Intel Core i5 i5-4300U 1.90 GHz 4GB 500GB W7P

I have bought several of these laptops and although they are used they are in excellent condition.Recommended for purchase and very good for business and educational utility.

This ultrabook isn't compatible and doesn't work properly. I'll be working in google docs and have pandora on in the background. I'll press backspace in google docs and it skips to the next song. I couldn't use it for work as it wasn't compatible with Govdelivery. Disconnects from the internet for no apparent reason. Yes, it's sleek and light, but what's the point if it doesn't work properly? It's screaming for me to return it and I will oblige.***Update***There were a lot of bugs on the laptop, however once I d/l some programs to clean the software up it works fine. Battery life is great, sleek and light ultrabook. Nice speakers for a laptop, and decent processor.

I would steer clear of this one. I did my homework. I really did. I like the matte screen, the backlighting on the keyboard and the speedy SSD. But that is where my 'likes' end and overall, I wish I could turn back time and start over. I've had the Latitude E7440 for a little over a year and it has given me loads of grief. The keyboard and touchpad on the FIRST one were so fiddly that I finally gave up trying to update drivers, etc. and asked Dell to take it back. They did, and replaced it with another that was less fiddly (after a few driver updates). On the new one, I was able to solve the repeating keystroke issue with a couple driver updates. But the touchpad issues remain and are really unacceptable. For reasons I won't get into, I have to connect to a lan cable at work. IF I plug in the lan cable BEFORE I boot up, touchpad is consistently and aggravatingly laggy. IF I plug the cable in AFTER I boot up, touchpad is fine about 80% of the time. Craziness. If you're 100% wireless all the time, you may not hit this issue, but it is an issue for me. But hey, I've learned to live with that quirk. What I cannot live with is the utterly sub-standard build quality of the shell. Each day when I use this thing, I feel like I'm driving a 70's era Chrysler K-Car with the muffler hanging off the bottom. The battery doesn't sit firmly in its housing making the bottom of the unit feel like its about to fall out whenever I pick it up to move around. It's not going to actually fall out, but c'mon - that's just sloppy. The absolute worst, however, is the keyboard. I'll exaggerate just a bit here, but imagine if someone drew a typing keypad on a foot-long strip of tin foil, then stretched it taught and asked you to type on it. That's about what it feels like to type on this E7740. The whole keyboard flexes when you hit individual keys. Again, my illustration is an exaggeration, but hopefully gives you an idea of what I'm talking about. I consider myself a lot more patient than the average user with little quirks, but this machine has been a flop-a-palooza for me. I'll leave you with one final piece of data to consider: a photo of my wonderful keyboard. Suffice it to say that I've developed a degree of strength and precision with my right index finger that I never expected nor really wanted. I guess I have Dell's E7740 to thank for that.

I am used to using Macs, but got this machine because it docks to a shared workstation in my office and I use it for GIS occasionally. While I do love the dock station, I am not impressed with the quality or responsiveness of the hardware at all. Scrolling and zooming are choppy, with menus on websites getting stuck on the screen or apps switching on me for seemingly no reason (when mouse is nowhere near corners of screen). I thought that running Windows on a mac was frustrating because the keys needed to be remapped to use shortcuts involving the ctrl key, but in hindsight, Windows just runs better on a Mac. Macs have smooth scrolling, smooth pinch zooming, are predictable and stable in behavior, and they awaken quickly and reliably without restarting. If you're thinking that this touch screen will behave like an iPad, you'll be disappointed. It behaves like an old Windows phone that required a stylus.My biggest complaint with the E7440 is that there is no logic behind what it decides to do when put into sleep or hibernate mode, even on a full charge. I have tried every setting, but knowing what the computer will do when you close and reopen the lid is still entirely unpredictable -- which is a huge productivity killer. I have to save everything before closing the lid for fear that it will turn itself off and need a reboot. I never login with my microsoft email, but it always defaults to that login screen, so I have to go to the login options and tell it to login with my username and password.Another big turnoff for me is that there are no protective snap-on cases for this laptop. If you are using this as a truly mobile device, as I do -- working from two different offices and from a home with two kids under five, there's little you can do to protect this thing. My tot stood on the machine while closed and the screen broke ($508, not including labor). Would a case have prevented this? Maybe, maybe not... but I would like the peace of mind of knowing that there are safeguards that can be taken, aside from locking it in a vault.

Great laptop with good core features overall. Lightweight yet powerful. Quiet and doesn't overheat.I carry it around for work and at home and find it to be fairly portable and well able to take a beating. I've run it with Windows but more often than not, tend to use Debian or another Debian-based Linux distribution.Battery is fairly resilient and lasts a good amount of time between charges.The matte screen lacks contrast and clarity but can get sufficiently bright. I wish it can do better than 1366x768 resolutions though.The wireless network card on this thing is pretty much worthless all around.The camera and microphone aren't great but good enough.The speakers are good, but tend to get muffled if the laptop is on your lap and not on a desk.

I Will Now Buy Refurbished Never New Again!!

Excellent