Having recently reviewed the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, another Snapdragon X design, the timely appearance of the Latitude 7455 provided more insight into the practicalities of everyday office machines that don't use or processors. Installed in a classic 14-inch Dell Latitude chassis, this model boasts a better CPU than the T14s Gen 6, marginally, although the asking price is slightly more for a system with the same amount of memory and storage. This design also looks much more like a laptop of this era and less like a homage to a previous one.

Overall, the 7455's specifications are excellent, and unlike the Lenovo machine, Dell offers relatively easy storage upgrades for its machine. The only major weakness of this design is that it has relatively few ports, effectively forcing the purchase of a docking station if you want to connect to a wired LAN or external monitor. On the plus side of this equation, the 14-inch panel is high quality and better than 1080p resolution, the build quality is exceptional, and the Snapdragon X delivers incredible battery life.

While we've seen much-improved power efficiency on the new Core Ultra products from Intel, the SoC machines still hold the high ground for getting the longest operational life from relatively modest battery capabilities. As this system runs an ARM-compiled version of , a few legacy applications refuse to run, but these are small in number, thankfully. One caveat of this and other Snapdragon X systems is an ongoing spat between .