Dell Latitude 7380 review

One point one seven kilograms: the product itself

The Latitude 7380 is a business ultrabook: a Core i5-7200U with 32GB of memory, asking $213 — twenty-eight percent below the business-class median of $297.36. The measured strength is weight: 1.17kg, twenty-seven percent below the class median and in the ultralight band. The measured weakness is the standard one for the format: integrated graphics, reading of zero, empty flag sheet. Reliability at 14 and CPU placing at 23.75 sit in the class's budget segment.

What ultralight means at this ticket

At 1.17kg this machine masses less than almost anything on the shelf, and that number — not any performance reading — is why it gets bought. The 32GB ceiling is the quiet second asset: unusual at this weight class and vintage, it keeps the aging Kaby Lake i5 comfortable through exactly the light multitasking its owner will do. The premium 7000-series chassis from this era also carried the better keyboard and build of its family, which the price floor now makes accessible.

The honest floors

Reliability at 14 is the reading that sets expectations: a service-age machine, bought after a hands-on check, treated as consumable. The CPU placing in the budget segment and the empty flag sheet draw the performance boundary at light office duty. For the buyer whose priority order is weight, then memory, then everything else, the sheet lines up correctly.

Price trajectory

From a $1,300 anchor the machine has decayed to $213 — sixteen percent retained — at 7.22% per year, projecting $184 in two years. The curve is flat; the machine is priced as a commodity and behaves like one.

Against the alternatives

Dell's Vostro 3515 at $234 and HP's ProBook 445R G6 at $224 sit above; the ProBook 645 G3 at $181 and ProBook 440 G3 at $192 below. In that bracket the 7380's differentiation is the weight reading — the rivals are heavier machines with similar compute — plus the chassis tier its family name carries.

Bottom line

Worth the asking price as a weight-first purchase: 1.17kg with a 32GB cushion at a floor-adjacent ticket. The reliability reading sets the lifespan expectation; the ultralight band is what the money actually buys.