Dell Latitude 5320 13.3" 2021, Core i7-1185G7, 16GB, 512GB SSD, Titan Grey

A featherweight business laptop that's still got it where it counts. Skip it if you want to play anything more demanding than Minesweeper.

The i7-1185G7 surprised us. It's a 4-core chip from 2020, so we expected it to feel dated, but for everyday business tasks it keeps up fine. The 16GB of DDR4 is the real hero here, letting you run a dozen browser tabs, Slack, and Excel without breaking a sweat. The Iris Xe graphics are nothing special, sitting right at the 50th percentile, so don't expect to game on this thing. Our gaming score of 6.5 out of 100 tells you everything you need to know there. The 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD is snappy for boot times and app launches, though it's middle of the pack for capacity these days.

Stacked against the Apple MacBook Pro MWP72LL/A, the Latitude 5320 loses on raw power and screen quality but wins on price, assuming you're buying refurbished. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x and ASUS Zenbook UX3405CA both offer newer CPUs and better displays, but you'll pay significantly more for that privilege. The HP OmniBook X Flip and Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro are in a different league entirely, with OLED screens and newer silicon, but they're also in a different price bracket. For pure value in a compact business laptop, the Latitude 5320 holds its own.

At around $340 USD refurbished, this is a steal for what you get. You're paying budget laptop money for a machine that was built to be a premium business device. The 94th percentile compactness score means you're getting ultrabook portability without the ultrabook price tag. If you need a reliable daily driver for work or school and don't care about gaming, this is an easy yes.

The Dell Latitude 5320 is a business workhorse that's aging surprisingly well, especially at refurbished prices. You're getting an i7-1185G7, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD in a 1.31kg package that's built for spreadsheets, not spreadsheets of doom. The one thing to know? This is a compact laptop that punches way above its weight class for portability, landing in the 94th percentile for compactness in our database. It's not exciting, but it's dependable.

If you're looking for a machine that can handle creative work, gaming, or anything GPU-intensive, this isn't it. Go grab something with a dedicated GPU or at least a newer AMD chip with better integrated graphics. And if you care about screen quality, the 40th percentile display here will leave you wanting more. Look at the ASUS Zenbook or Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro instead.

Buy it if you need a portable work machine and don't want to spend a fortune. The Dell Latitude 5320 delivers solid performance, excellent portability, and a decent feature set at a refurbished price that's hard to beat. Just don't expect it to do anything beyond productivity tasks. For the money, it's one of the better compact laptop deals out there right now.