Dell Latitude 9420 Review - Part 1

This is part one of my review, this review will only cover the first looks of the system. In about a month or two, I will post the second look of the system when I have used it for school use.

Here is a link to what I exactly bought.
Amazon.com: Dell Latitude 9420 Laptop | 14" 1920x1200 FHD+ | Core i7-1185G7-512GB SSD Hard Drive - 16GB RAM | 4 cores @ 4.4 GHz Win 11 Pro Black (Renewed) : Electronics
I have the 512GB storage with 16gb of RAM.

What's in the box!

• In the box it comes with a 65-watt USB type C charger, the system only powers with type C, no barrel plugs with this laptop.
  
  
  
  
  
• An inspection sheet which is very nice to have.
  
  
  
  
  
• And of course, the laptop itself.
  
  For a renewed product, its very nice looking, I see no awful wear or tear other than an odd sticker residue on the screen.
  
  
  
  
  
  Right off the bat, for the average student, this laptop is amazing. Great battery life and performance mixture, while still having an amazing metal build quality.
  
  For the average IT professionals though, this will be okay. No RJ45 Ethernet port, but a simple dongle could fix that. Only 4 core (8 Threads) so virtual machines will be limited. But for starters, like me, this laptop will do fine.
  
  As I said in the beginning, this is only part one of the review. Part two will come in 1-2 months after I have actually used it for an honest review. 

Home Lab Update - May 26th

 Home Lab Update

May 26th, 2025.

    Today is the first day of the Home Lab Update. Almost every time I make a change to my home lab, I want to post it here. I may not be able to write all this out every time, but for major changes to the infrastructure, I hope too.

Here the current infrastructure so far as of today, and what it handles.

• Raspberry PI 5, 8GB RAM, around 60GB of storage. This machine is used for webhosting with Apache. I may add a task to this machine since it is efficient, and only uses less than 10% of CPU usage, and 5% of RAM usage. Storage will be a limiter here though.
  
  
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, 1 GB RAM. This machine hosts my screenshot server, tycrek/yaass: A new, modern ShareX server, and routes all proxied traffic to all nodes using Cloudflare Zero Trust.
  
  
• I have 3 Dell nodes, one Dell mini-station, and two Precision Towers with quad-core Xeons. I have no use for them at the time, as I need a way to get around my ISP based CGNAT. After finding a way around that, I can use them for game servers, or really anything I want, but for now I am limited by my ISP.
  
  I have 3 unused Raspberry Pi's. 2 Pi 4's, and 1 Pi 3 Model B. I have no use for them now, but occasionally I use them to display art on a protector or just test with Linux arm CPUs.  
  
  My Netgear M4100-24G-POE switch works amazing for all of my server rack needs, but I have no way to access it console. All logins I have tried do not work. Even using the reset pin-size button.
  
  
  This concludes the update. Next, I hope to have a workaround for my CGNAT, and a use for my Dell workstations. Stay tuned!

 Tristin's Scribbles

Tristin (Dragon) Korbel's Blog for all things, tech, cooking, or just things I want to share.

    This blog is where at least 2 times a month, I will be posting about things I think all people should know in the tech world, maybe a good cooking recipe I ended up burning, or just me going Mach 10 on a sailing boat with classmates.

    Who are you?

    I am Tristin Korbel, known as Dragon, DragonsRule10 or DragonDevs online. I've been in the tech world since 2019, when my dad brought home a Raspberry PI 3, of which I still have to this day. Since receiving that PI 3, I've expanded my knowledge, taking almost every local opportunity that I can. I have basic knowledge of Linux, Windows, computer components, Network engineering, and can read most code and make sense of it.

    As the world moves, we get a new technology advancement every minute. Anything about technology here will have the tech tag. This includes my homelab setup, as well as other stuff I do with technology in or out of my house. Tech tip tag will be stuff I think is essential to understand your own tech, like your phone, gaming console, or gaming PC setup. 

    I have my own homelab which changes so frequently. Look for post with the homelab update tag to see the latest news. I am forever grateful to everyone, my parents, businesses, and FB Marketplace sellers who have let me have or buy hardware from them. With out these people I would of never gained the smarts I have to kick start my IT career. 

    I like to do some basic cooking and baking, especially deserts. I will be publishing recipes I follow, or ones I have added on to here with the cooking tag.

    Stuff I talk about that has no specific category will have the ETC tag.

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