The E5470 comes with Dell's standard Limited Hardware Warranty, which has one year of mail-in services that require after remote diagnosis.

According to our light meter, the E5470's display emits up to 278 nits of brightness, which outshines the ThinkPad (236 nits), Tecra (265 nits) and average thin-and-light notebook (243 nits). The EliteBook (317 nits) manages to get even brighter. The E5470 also benefits from wide viewing angles. When I moved 75 degrees to the left or right, the display maintained quality color and crisp details. We start with the maximum runtime at minimum brightness and simulate the reading of a text document. The review unit will last 21:44 hours and therefore clearly beats the Latitude E5450(13:14 hours) and the Lenovo ThinkPad T460s(14 hours). The E5470 may disappoint road warriors, as it offers shorter endurance than other business laptops. The system lasted 7 hours and 16 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test (Web surfing with 100 nits of brightness). While that runtime beats the EliteBook (5:54), it's shorter than the ThinkPad (7:31, 15:26 with extended battery), Tecra (8:23) and the average thin-and-light notebook (8:14). Despite having a mostly plastic body, the Latitude E5470 is built like a small, plastic tank. The body doesn’t flex, or give in any troubling way, and it would absolutely survive several years of being hauled in and out of a messenger bag, facing the rigors of daily use.The E5470 also performed well in the Delta-E test for color accuracy (where best scores are closer to 0), with a mark of 1.07. The Tecra (0.9) was slightly better in this test, but the Latitude's colors are more precise than those of the EliteBook, ThinkPad and average ultraportable notebook.

The Latitude E5470 isn’t going to win any industrial design awards, but it has a certain quiet elegance.

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Our test unit of the E5470 has a four-cell, 62-watt-hour battery, which means you'll get even less battery life from the notebook's default three-cell, 47-Wh battery. Moving on to display gamut, the Latitude can reproduce 73 percent of the demanding AdobeRGB spectrum, while the Thinkpad only manages 53 percent. That’s a big difference, and it shows in everyday use. The XPS pulls ahead of both the Latitude and Thinkpad, however, with a display capable of reproducing 76 percent of the AdobeRGB spectrum. With a small, sleek form-factor and modest battery life, the Latitude is a very portable machine for business travelers or anyone who needs to spend most of their workday without being tethered to a desk. Slim and light Even though our E5470 came with a discrete AMD Radeon R7 GPU, it was unable to run Rainbow Six or Metro: Last Light at acceptable speeds. It didn't fare well in the 3DMark Fire Storm benchmark, either, recording a score of 1,064, which is worse than the average for thin-and-light notebooks (1,483). The Radeon R7-powered EliteBook (1,064) earned the same benchmark score, while the ThinkPad (738) and Tecra (645) fared even worse. In this case, we don't see the AMD graphics adding any value.