DELL LATITUDE 5510 i3 - 10110U 8 GB / 256 SSD / QWERTY/ ARGENT

Once again, Dell is using sustainable sources for the building materials of one of their notebooks. This particular model is a combination of aluminum, plastic, and carbon fiber, with the last including up to 18% “post-consumer recycled material”. For a 15-incher, the laptop is reasonably light at 1.82 kg, and it stands at 21mm in the front, and 22.4mm in the back. Additionally, both the chassis and the lid are pretty strong, so you should expect almost no flex from either of them.

Sadly, the lid won’t be opening with a single hand. On the other side, the camera, placed above the display, has its privacy shutter, so you can keep the government away … at least in this aspect.

In terms of color, this notebook comes with the contrasting black and grey, for the around display rim and the base. However, what is more, important is the comfortability of the input devices. Here, Dell uses marginally smaller keycaps than the average, but this results in decent spacing between the keys, while the mechanism is clicky, and the travel – long. Moreover, the unit has a full-sized NumberPad portion, which is great for accountants. Once again, however, we are a bit disappointed by the size of the Arrow keys, and the placement of the “Page Up” and “Page Down” buttons.

By the way, the Latitude 15 5510 includes a , and it has its own set of dedicated buttons above the touchpad. You know, we’ve seen it on numerous occasions, where the -related buttons are being the only mouse keys, as the other couple is basically embedded into the touchpad. Well, this is not the case here, as the touchpad is treated to its own set of tactile buttons.

Another thing we are pretty happy about is that the hot air is exhausted from the left side of the notebook, and not from in between the lid and the base. This definitely allows for more space, so the heat does not get trapped where it shouldn’t be. And on the bottom panel, you would find the intake vents, as well as the speaker cutouts.