Dell Precision 3470 review

Real receipts on a one-and-a-half-kilo workstation

The Precision 3470 is a 2022 mobile workstation: a Core i5-1250P with an NVIDIA T550 Mobile card carrying 4GB, and 64GB of memory, asking $901. Its measured strengths are mobility at 68 — eighty-nine percent above the workstation-class median of 36, top quartile — and a weight of 1.49kg, twenty-four percent below the class norm. Peer comparison finds no measured weak axis, and the flag sheet backs the chassis with receipts: Grand Theft Auto V clears recommended with a measured 140 frames per second, Far Cry 5 clears recommended at 41, and Photoshop and VS Code hold their minimums.

What the receipts mean at this weight

Recommended-setting greens on two demanding open-world titles, from a machine that masses less than one and a half kilograms, is an unusual combination on this shelf — most workstations that carry those flags carry three kilograms too. The T550 is an entry professional card, and the placings say so; the flags say the entry tier is enough for the titles measured. For a developer or light-content professional who travels, the composition is close to ideal: ISV-badged graphics, hybrid-core silicon, 64GB, and a carry weight that disappears into a backpack.

The honest framing

A no-weakness verdict is about peers, not perfection: the card's throughput tier is modest, the ticket trades well above the class median, and no launch anchor is recorded for a depreciation line. None of those are defects — they are the standing costs of the compact-workstation category, and this machine pays them without adding any of its own. The absolute levels add one footnote: value measures in the low band (33) — the honest price of current-generation engineering in a compact frame.

Price trajectory

No depreciation anchor is recorded for this configuration. As a 2022 platform it is past its steepest early losses but still on a normal decay slope; buyers should form resale expectations from platform age rather than a measured line.

Against the alternatives

The analog block is empty — no measured shelf-mates share this ticket's corner of compact-workstation price and format. HP's ZBook Power G10 at $826 is the nearest documented neighbour by price, offering more chassis for less mobility; the 3470's argument is the weight-to-receipts ratio.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class: rec-bar gaming receipts, professional badge, 64GB and top-quartile mobility in 1.49 kilograms. For the traveling professional whose workload fits an entry-tier card, this is one of the better-balanced seats the aisle offers.