Dell’s Latitude 7320 Detachable is priced for business budgets, but it’s an excellent tablet PC for either work or play.Dell’s Latitude 7320 Detachable rivals what some may call the definitive Windows tablet, the Microsoft Surface Pro 7+. The Latitude 7320 may be a little more expensive, but it also boasts Thunderbolt connectivity, a one-two punch of biometric security options, and a suite of genuinely useful utilities.
Unfortunately, the Latitude 7320 is not immune to the “lapability” issues we’ve experienced with other 2-in-1 detachable PCs. But that’s the only major flaw we found. Otherwise, the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable rises to the level of a premier business tablet PC, earning our Editor’s Choice award.
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Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable primary 3The Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable.
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable basic featuresDell’s Latitude 7320 Detachable is available in multiple configurations via Dell.com. We list the major specifications and option below, with our test configuration indicated by “(as tested).”
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable rearProcessor: Intel Core i3-1110G4, Core i5-1130G7, Core i5-1140G7, Intel Core i7-1180G7 (Core i7-1180G7 as tested)Display: 13.3-inch (1,920×1,280) touch; 500 nits ratedMemory: 16GB LPDDR4X-4267Storage: 256GB PCie SSD M.2Graphics: IrisPorts: 2 Thunderbolt 4 (Power Delivery, DisplayPort), Wedge lock slot, 3.5mm audio jack, optional microSIMSecurity: Windows Hello (fingerprint reader, depth camera)Camera: 1080p depth camera / 4.9MP user-facing;
1080p (video) / 6MP (image) rear-facingBattery: 39.2Wh (design); 37.2Wh (full, reported by Windows)Wireless: Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2×2 802.11ax 160MHz, Bluetooth 5.1Operating system: Windows 10 ProDimensions: 11.75 x 9.03 x 0.63 inchesWeight: 1.7 pounds (without keyboard) Color: Silver Prices: $2,189 (as tested) on Dell.com. Total price (with keyboard and pen) is $2,459.If that’s a bit too rich for your blood, Dell offers a fully configurable Dell Latitude 7320 DetachableRemove non-product link with a Core i3-1110G4, 4GB of memory, and 128GB of SSD storage for $1,559. (We’d consider those specs too skimpy for practical use.) A Core i5/8GB RAM/256GB versionRemove non-product link is $1,829, while a Core i7/16GB RAM/512GB SSD versionRemove non-product link is $2,329. A premium Core i7/16GB RAM/1TB SSD versionRemove non-product link is priced at $2,539.
The latest Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ forces you to buy the essential Signature Type Cover keyboard and Surface Pen separately. Another rival, the Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 1, charges extra for the pen. Through a miscommunication, Dell informed us that while the company provided us with a pen and a tablet for our review, the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable Travel KeyboardRemove non-product link with an included pen costs an additional $199.99. The Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable Active Pen also sells separately, for $69.99.
Latitude 7320 DesignOut of the box, one fundamental experience with the keyboard concerned me. Though I was able to attach the keyboard easily to the tablet via a magnetized connection, the secondary magnets were a lot weaker than I expected.
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable Flawed Hinge 2The Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable has a pen cubby that’s convenient, but its location impacts the strength of the secondary hinge—making the keyboard a bit less stable when connected.
Like rival tablets, Dell’s Latitude 7320 keyboard magnetically attaches itself to the tablet via a thin line of electrical contacts. Two tiny plastic pegs that additional clip the keyboard and tablet together offer stability. The keyboard also folds toward the tablet with a secondary hinge, elevating the keyboard at a slight angle. It’s this second hinge that fails to secure the keyboard. That’s fine for working on a flat surface, but on your lap, any rocking motion or sudden movement will likely plunge the tablet like a fat, flat lemming, over your knees to its doom.
Though lightweight, the Latitude 7320 feels structurally sound. Like rival tablets, it includes a small kickstand that supports the tablet at any angle from vertical to just a few degrees off horizontal.
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable right sideThe right side of the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable includes a Thunderbolt 4 port.
Our review unit offered a very bright display (500-nit maximum brightness), which can be used in the shade of a tree or in a sunny room. The matte screen neatly balanced light output without much glare.
The display is also a key differentiator between the Latitude 7320 and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+. Dell’s Latitude 7320 Detachable weights the same as the Surface Pro 7+, but it’s an inch longer on the diagonal. However, the Latitude’s 1920×1280 display is also lower-resolution than the 2736×1824 display the Surface Pro 7+ provides.The Latitude 7320 Detachable connects to printers, displays, and other peripherals via a pair of Thunderbolt 4-enabled USB-C ports, one on either side of the display. You’ll likely want to invest in either an inexpensive USB-C hub or a pricier Thunderbolt dock, however, for greatest versatility.
Because this is a tablet designed for the workplace, a number of security solutions are available. Both the Core i5-1140G7 and the Core i7-1180G7 CPU options are vPro-capable. The tablet also includes NFC capabilities and an optional SmartCard reader.
Typing and pen experienceThe Latitude 7320 is a business tablet designed for prolonged use. Its excellent keyboard offers large, spacious keys that are quite comfortable to type upon, with two levels of backlighting. The Precision touchpad is a bit on the small side, though slick and clickable all the way to the top. Aside from the weak magnetic connection, the Latitude 7320 Detachable’s keyboard is one of the best tablet keyboards I’ve used.
The Latitude 7320 Detachable’s Active Pen is also intriguing for a number of reasons. First, the pen itself appears to have just a single long button, but it doesn’t; there’s a top button and a bottom button, but they’re all a single blob of plastic that rocks back and forth. The top button serves an alternate right-click mouse option, but the bottom button is completely inoperable until the user downloads the Active Pen control panel. This also unlocks the ability of the pen to “hover ” over the screen and still interact with it, as well as a radial menu where the pen can be used to control volume settings and audio track controls. Finally, the pen uses a capacitive charging system which fully charges the pen in under 30 seconds, after which its small white LED turns off.
While there’s still a bit of ink lag, my only real complaint with the Active Pen is that it’s flattish and smooth, which meant that it slipped through my fingers more than I would like.
Sound, webcam, and appsThe Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable uses something called Intel Smart Sound Technology for MIPI SoundWire audio, rather than the more common audio-enhancement algorithms. The result, however, sounds more than presentable, with a well-mixed blend of midrange to high-end audio from the speakers mounted behind the tablet’s surface. Unsurprisingly for a tablet, the low-end bass is a half-hearted effort. The overall volume could be a touch louder, too. Really, though, the Latitude’s audio is about as good as you can expect to get from a tablet PC.
The Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable’s webcam has one big thing going for it: the user-facing webcam offers 1080p/30Hz resolution, on a par with the small number of standalone 1080p webcams that offer Windows Hello biometric login capabilities. (720p remains the most common webcam resolution.) Otherwise, the webcam doesn’t offer anything special in terms of its white balance or color accuracy. There’s no physical camera shutter, nor is there a button to disable the webcam on the keyboard. Though some persist in taking photos with Apple iPads and other tablets, the rear camera is probably best used to snap shots of documents and import them into Word or other productivity tools.
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable pcmark 10As a business notebook, the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable starts off strong, as the leader in overall application performance.
It’s a strong start for the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable. It leads the pack in PCMark 10, well ahead of the Surface Pro 7+ and all other comers.
The older PCMark 8 Creative test offers greater compatibility with older notebooks, as well as the HP Elite Folio. Here, the Latitude 7320 splits the difference, falling a little behind the Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable but remaining extremely competitive with the Surface Pro 7+.
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable pcmark 8 creative fixedIn this test, the Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable falls slightly.
We use the Cinebench R15 benchmark as a measure of general CPU performanceThe tablet is asked to render a 3D scene, which it can do under “turbo” or burst conditions. As you might expect from a high-end 11th-gen Core chip, it performs quite well, though we’d expect performance would be slightly less than a full-fledged notebook PC (see the Surface Laptop 4 way ahead of the others).
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable cinebench r15Dell’s Latitude 7320 Detachable largely keeps up with Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+ in this general CPU test.
We also compared the performance of the Dell Latitude 7320 while running the Cinebench R23 benchmark, which offers you the option to compute a score for a single benchmark run, but also generates an average score over a prolonged, looped test that lasts for ten minutes. If the two scores are comparable, then we can conclude that the tablet doesn’t thermally throttle itself over prolonged loads. That’s not the case here, unfortunately, as performance dropped by 12 percent over the prolonged test.
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