Dell Latitude ST review

Latitude ST: the slate-form experiment with a perfect carry score

The Latitude ST is Dell's business slate from the early tablet era — a form bet the record name itself records. Its data is the sharpest split in this batch: a perfect 100 mobility and perfect 100 portability wrapped around a performance sheet that is entirely empty. It is the purest carry-versus-compute artifact here.

Where it holds up

Mobility is the headline strength: a perfect 100 against a business-class median of 60, a 66.7 percent gap, in the top quarter of the category. Portability matches it at 100, top band. This is one of five perfect-carry records in this batch — and the only one in the Latitude line, the rest being Venue slates. The ST was Dell's answer to the question of whether business computing could shed the keyboard; the indices still rate that shedding as total success on the carry side.

As a collector's piece the perfect pair of 100s is the appeal: no other Latitude record in this batch reaches either mark.

Where it falls short

Overall performance reads zero — an empty reading rather than a measured result — and graphics reads zero too, a coverage gap rather than a measured zero. Every task axis sits on the floor constants (gaming 19, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo work 13), and the composite score of 3 against a business-class median of 49 is the data floor. The compute side of the slate experiment did not age; there is no row anywhere on this sheet above the floor except the carry pair.

Practically: this record supports no workload claim whatsoever — the machine is its form factor, nothing more.

Price and depreciation

No listing price is recorded for this configuration and no depreciation curve is modeled — there is no resale math to quote and no dollar projection to weigh.

Alternatives to consider

The Venue 10 Pro, Venue 11 Pro and Venue 8 Pro records in this batch share the same perfect 100/100 carry pair with similarly empty compute sheets — the choice among them is screen size and collection policy. The XT2, also in this batch, is the keyboard-attachable sibling of the same era at mobility 91 and portability 80, a more flexible historical buy.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class, the Latitude ST is a perfect-carry artifact: mobility 100 and portability 100 — the batch's rare double — with performance and graphics entirely unmeasured. Buy it as the form experiment it was, not as a computer.