In this guide I will disassemble a Dell Latitude 7480, I will remove the bottom cover to upgrade the SSD and RAM.
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Dell 7480 Drivers
Dell Latitude 7480 is a Windows 10 laptop with a 14.00-inch display that has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. It is powered by a Core i5 processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM. The Dell Latitude. Dell Latitude 7480 14' Business Notebook, Full-HD Display, Intel Core i5-6300U 2.4GHz Dual-Core, 8GB DDR4, 512GB Solid State Drive, 802.11ac, Bluetooth, Win10Pro (Renewed) 3.9 out of 5.
Here’re my new RAM and SSD.
Two Crucial 8GB DDR4-2400 RAM, one Intel 512GB 600P SSD.
Remove all screws from the bottom cover.
Pry up and remove the bottom cover.
With the bottom cover removed, you will be able to get access to the battery, RAM, SSD, CMOS battery, wireless card, speaker module, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
It comes with a 7.6V, 60Wh Li-ion battery, Dell P/N: F3YGT.
SK Hynix 128GB M.2 SSD
LTE WWAN M.2 slot
Heat sink and cooling fan assembly, the cooling fan you can find here.
The new SSD and memory are already installed.
Source:chiphell.com
Storage specifications
This laptop supports M.2 SATA SSD and M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs.
The options are:
• M.2 SATA SSD
– 128 GB
– 256 GB
– 512 GB
– 1 TB
• M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
– 128 GB
– 256 GB
– 512 GB
– 1 TB
Dell Latitude 7480 is a 14' business Ultrabook released in first quarter of 2017.
Installation
Before installing, disable secure boot in UEFI settings.Installing linux on this laptop is quite straight forward. Follow any up to date installation guide, e.g. this one: Installation guide
Hardware Overview
Test configuration: Core i5-7300u, 1080p display without an IR cameraOutput of lspci -nn is as below
The output of lsusb
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Another test configuration: Core i7-7600u, 1080p display with an IR camera and fingerprint readerOutput of lspci -nn is as below
The output of lsusb
What works
Almost all the hardware works after configuring drivers, including
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- Touchpad
- Webcam
What does not work
The fingerprint reader (0a5c:5834) is not supported because no linux driver exists so far (Sep 2017).
The IR camera can be used to take a picture but not for log in at the moment.