93 Linux on the Dell Latitute 5420

Linux on the Dell Latitude 5420

Laptop received as an office hand-me-down ordered May xxx, 2022. Fairly loaded (64GB mem; 1TB SSD). USB-C power. Battery was only at 80%. Later in August, got an updated battery, the old one was ony 41 Wh, but had 30 Wh left. The new one is 61 Wh. $107 (excl. tax) , for the record.

Here are the specs:

  to-be-updated from its cousin xps13

  11th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 Processor (8MB Cache, up to ?4.5 GHz)
  64GB ?4267MHz ?LPDDR4x Memory 
  ?4-Cell, 41/61 WHr, Integrated battery
  65W USB-C AC Adapter Black
  Intel(R) Iris Xe Graphics
  1 TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
  ? 13.4inch FHD+ (1920 x 1200) InfinityEdge Non-Touch Anti-Glare 500-Nit Display

Good, Bad and Ugly impressions:

+: Ubuntu 20/22.04 LTS.
+:
-: two USB-C ports, but only on left side OK, there is a micro-SD slot on the left, and a 3.5mm audio jack on the right.
-: compared to my normal Lenovo, the Fn-Ctrl is now Ctrl-Fn on the lower left of keyboard. It could be remapped?
+: the screen now folds flat. The xps was not great.
-: no buttons by the touch pad,
-: sometime in 2023/24 the laptop sometimes goes into a mode running at 200MHz (!!!). It seems this happens after a suspend, but the other way around also worked. When it was at 200MHz, suspending it and waking up, it went back to normal max speed.

This page was last modified on 31-Oct-2024 by teuben@astro.umd.edu.