Dell Latitude 5320 Business Laptop Review

Dell has a wide range of laptops for consumers and professionals. Recently they announced a business machine to their Latitude series. The laptop is built on the Intel vPro platform powered by 11th Gen Intel CPU to deliver business-class performance without any glitch.

The latest laptop has a smaller footprint with a 13-inch screen with up to 4K displays resolution. The business machine is available with ComfortView Plus, low blue light solution. Let's explore more about this laptop –

Built and Design

The business machine has a solid body but is light in weight and compact in size. The lid is a little hard, it doesn't open single-handedly, which is a bit unfortunate. The display is awesome with very thin bezels on the sides, on top, it holds the HD (or optionally FHD) camera with a privacy shutter. By the way, the laptop also offers an optional IR face recognition sensor.

The keyboard has decent key travel and clicky feedback, making your typing experience great. The review unit, I received, comes with a power button that also works as a fingerprint reader.

The touchpad is decent in size with good touch response but doesn’t have dedicated buttons. The surface feels quite smooth to work on and the tracking experience is good as well. The bottom panel holds the speaker and the ventilation grill, with the hot air escaping the chassis from some vents on the back.

Dell Latitude 5320 Business laptop: First Look

Connectivity

The laptop comes with numerous connectivity ports, on the left side you can see two Thunderbolt 4 connectors, either of which can be used for charging; along with one USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port and a MicroSD card reader. On the right, Dell added a security lock, an HDMI 2.0 connector, a USB Type-A 3.2 (Gen. 1) port, an audio jack, and a SIM card tray. It has the latest Intel Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 for wireless connectivity.

Performance

Packed with the 11th Gen Intel vPro platform, the laptop is equipped with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor with 2.6 GHz clock speed along with 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. The power-packed machine let me work on various apps simultaneously. Working on daily productivity apps like Ms-Office, Adobe Photoshop, Chrome, etc. it handled them quite efficiently. As most of the meetings are online nowadays, I used this for internal and external video meetings using apps like Zoom and Google Meet, etc. the laptop handled them breezily.

While browsing the internet and working on daily productivity apps, I didn’t notice any performance lag. It was super smooth to switch between the apps and work on the PC even for longer hours while using the PC for more than a month.

It can even deal with heavy applications such as Adobe Suite. We used Adobe Premiere to edit videos and it was snappy in handling the editing tasks and rendering the video. To test its capability, we opened two chrome browsers with 10 tabs in each with applications like MS Word, Excel and Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. While operating the machine with all these applications running in the background, we didn’t notice any performance lag. We were able to switch between applications.

The speakers were loud and clear. Mic did a fabulous job and the webcam on the incredibly slim top bezel was good enough for everyday calls.

Battery life

Dell Latitude 5320 comes with a giant 4-Cell Battery, 63Wh battery that gives you juice to run for more than 8 hours with daily productivity. With some heavy usage, you can get over 5 hours of battery life. when you do multitask and run various heavy graphics-intensive apps, then it can last for around 3+ hours.