Dell Latitude E7250 review

Latitude E7250: the mature ultrabook-era subnotebook with batch-topping carry

The Latitude E7250 is Dell's business subnotebook from the mature ultrabook era, and it is the strongest all-round legacy Latitude in this batch: mobility 97, top-band portability 88.3, a 16 GB pool and — rare for this tier — an office index that has climbed off the floor to 20.6. For used-market buyers it is the sensible end of the legacy pool.

Where it holds up

Mobility is the headline strength: a reading of 97 against a business-class median of 60, a 61.7 percent gap that places it in the top quarter of the category — level with the D420 at 97, the joint-best keyboard-form Latitude carry readings in this batch — only the slate-form ST's perfect 100 sits above them in the line. Portability reads 88.3, top band, the highest keyboard-form Latitude figure in this batch. The 16 GB pool doubles the E6x00 standard here, and the office index of 20.6, while still low-band, is the highest office index of any non-rugged Latitude record in this batch — proof of a machine one era closer to usable than its predecessors.

Where it falls short

Graphics is the flagged weakness at zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero. Overall performance reads 6.87 against a business-class median of 41.48, an 83.4 percent shortfall; every task axis sits on the floor constants (gaming 19, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo work 13). The composite score of 7 against a class median of 49 remains a floor verdict. The carry numbers are modern; the compute is a decade short of them.

Practically: comfortable office, mail and browser duty — and nothing that touches the GPU.

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 E6220 in this batch is the earlier rung of the same brief (mobility 93, portability 82.6, 8 GB); the E7250 strictly dominates it on data. Buyers wanting more office capability at the cost of carry should look at the Vostro 5-series records here (office 58.9, portability in the 70s); buyers wanting the absolute carry extremes can only add the tablet-form Venue records at mobility 100.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class, the Latitude E7250 is the legacy pool's rational pick: joint-top keyboard-form mobility, top-band portability, a doubled memory pool and the batch's best Latitude office reading — with graphics unmeasured and performance a decade behind the chassis.