Work in the office or on the road with this versatile Dell Inspiron laptop, which has a spacious 128GB solid-state drive and a 1TB hard drive for multimedia file storage. Equipped with 16GB of RAM, this powerful notebook runs demanding software and makes multitasking easy. Connect this Dell Inspiron laptop with a range of external devices via its HDMI and USB ports.
When I got this laptop I really didn't expect much from it. I've been a PC gamer for going on 15 years now, and I didn't really have high hopes that Dell could push out a worthwhile laptop, but I needed a decent gaming laptop because I've got a few trips planned and it sure would be nice to have as my carry around, and a backup should my desktop fail at any point. I actually kinda expected to be trading it in in a couple weeks to go with a better model MSI, something with a full fledged 1060 with 6 gigs. Well, after having it for about a week, I'm not trading it in.
It's run every game I play on it at its full 60fps at max settings. To name a few, War Thunder, World of Warships, Heroes and Generals, (I'm kind of a war game buff) EVE Online, Civ 6, are all skipping along fine at a stable 60fps for hours on end, and it's doing this at just a bit over a grande.
For basic creature comforts, the start time from hitting the power button to typing in your password comes it at a whopping 12 seconds because of the SSD, and even when you're gaming it doesn't get too warm on the lap. The hottest part of the computer, the processor, sits right in the dead center of the keyboard and not over your left knee like most computers I've seen, so even if you're pushing the graphics you don't notice the heat. The keyboard does get warm right in the middle, but it's not too hot at all. It's about the temperature of a cup of coffee that's been sitting out for 30 minutes, warm but comfortable to touch. All in all, exactly as what I'd expect from a high end processor that's flexing its muscle.
The beauty of this guy, though, is the price. There are Asus laptops going for about the same 1100 right now that don't have as good a processor, don't have as much ram, and don't have near the graphics performance of this Dell. Dell really has a home run here. As a long time PC gamer this boggles my mind to say this, but I'd buy this Dell over an Asus.