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- The Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Touch has a bright touch screen, a Windows Hello camera and a brushed-aluminum palm rest that are great for the price, but its poor battery.
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Middle of the Road (2. Dell's Inspiron 1. Touch is proof that you can get a decent, all- round laptop for all your Netflix and Power. Point needs for $6.
Though it's not the cheapest 1. Inspiron offers a best- in- class 1. Its unassuming looks may not turn heads at the cafe- - and you'll probably have to bring the charger with you - - but overall, the Dell Inspiron 1. Touch is worth considering.
Specs. Design. Minimalistic and understated, the Inspiron 1. Touch has smooth, rounded corners and no- nonsense lines. Its gray cover and black bezel mean the device looks professional enough to take to a client meeting, and modern enough to blend into your home decor. Despite its highly glossy cover, the coating is surprisingly fingerprint- resistant. Although it has a mostly plastic body (more on that later), this notebook felt very sturdy in my hands.
You don't see any of the flexing or creaking around the keyboard or the body that are typical of other budget laptops. I was pleasantly surprised that its palm rest and surrounding area are covered in brushed aluminum, as the silky- smooth material kept my wrists cool and made me a happy camper. The subtle use of metal in the Inspiron was an unexpected touch of luxury in an otherwise midrange device. On the left side, you'll find the power plug, Ethernet port, full- size HDMI for easy connection to your TV, two USB 3. While the right side is dominated mostly by a rewritable DVD drive, Dell still managed to squeeze in a device lock, a USB 2.
SD card slot to keep things balanced. What you won't find is a USB Type- C port. At 1. 5. 4 x 1. 0. Inspiron 1. 5 5. 00. In fact, it's nearly identical to the 1. Acer Aspire E5- 5. G- 5. 3VG (5. 2 pounds, 1.
While the Inspiron is just as thick as the 1. HP Envy x. 36. 0 m. Asus Vivo. Book E4. SA is still the smallest and lightest of the bunch (1. Display. No doubt the crown jewel of the Inspiron 1.
Touch is its beautiful 1. HD screen. Given this machine's $6. I was totally expecting a dim but respectable display with poor viewing angles, but boy was I wrong. The Inspiron's 1. I was sitting on either side of the screen for a movie night or standing up mid- movie for a stretch. When I was sitting directly in front of the Inspiron's screen, I was floored by the 3. D- like depths I could see in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
HDtrailer. Little details, like the glimmers of metal from Nebula's armor, really popped. The Inspiron's panel was also able to do justice to. La La Land's colorful dream sequence, where the hand- painted sets and rainbow- hued costumes looked as saturated as they did on the big screen. According to our colorimeter result, the Inspiron's screen can produce 7. RBG color gamut. Though the Inspiron can display more colors than both the HP Envy x.
Asus E4. 03. SA (6. Acer Aspire E5. The next best screen at displaying color accurately was the Asus E4. SA (2. 3). Given the Inspiron's wide viewing angles, I was fully expecting its screen brightness score to be high. While its 2. 13- nit panel is the brightest of its class, that number is only marginally better than the ones for the Acer Aspire E5, the HP Envy x.
Asus E4. 03. SA (which had scores ranging from 1. As much as I enjoyed the Inspiron 1. I was not too impressed with its spotty touch sensitivity. I sometimes had to poke at the screen very deliberately and multiple times to tap a button, or swipe the screen a couple of times, before the Action Center menu would open.
Considering this model commands a $1. Keyboard and Touchpad. It's easy to get used to typing on the Inspiron's island- style backlit keyboard and dedicated number pad, but I would not want to write a novel with it.
The keys themselves are well spaced and have a satisfying depth, even though the actual key travel is just 1. The Inspiron's relatively stiff keys, however,made typing on the Inspiron less than enjoyable.
The keys required a whopping 7. I had to really push down on each key for the key press to register, which is not conducive to touch typing or a long workday. The difference in my typing speed between the Inspiron and my own Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (7.
I used the Inspiron's keyboard than when I used the Microsoft Type Cover. Stiffness also seems to affect the Inspiron's 4. I really had to press down hard on the touchpad to do anything more advanced than access the right- click menu. Otherwise, the touchpad is sensitive enough for moving the cursor around and is reasonably sized for a 1. Audio. The good news is that you can easily improve the Inspiron's sound quality by plugging in a pair of quality headphones. The bad news is that the laptop's built- in speakers produce just what you'd expect from a $6. Although its dual speakers (located at the bottom of the laptop) are loud enough to fill a room, they make music sound buzzy.
When I listened to the La La Land soundtrack on CD, the iconic piano- only version of . However, when I plugged in Harman's AKG wired earbuds (the ones bundled with the Samsung Galaxy S8), I could hear crystal- clear notes, and even the tapping of piano keys, on the same track.
While the laptop can certainly play . I was simultaneously running at least 1.
You. Tube video, email, Microsoft Word and Google Drive, as well as previewing photos in Photos. The Inspiron handled the workload without any hiccups, which helped me stay productive. So how does the Inspiron's performance really stack up against its peers? In the Geekbench 3 test that measures overall performance, the Inspiron scored a respectable 6,6. Acer Aspire E5 with similar specs and the previous- gen i.
CPU (5,6. 64). Considering that the HP Envy x. U processor, it makes sense that it would outperform the Inspiron (8,0. Asus Vivo. Book with the Pentium N3.
It turns out, however, that the Inspiron was actually the fastest at duplicating 4. GB of multimedia files, completing the test in 1 minute and 1 second, for a transfer rate of 8. That score beats all of the Inspiron's closest competitors. In the Open. Office Spreadsheet Macro productivity test, which measures how long it takes each notebook to match 2.
Inspiron took 4 minutes and 3 seconds. It's worth noting that the i. Inspiron is almost within 3. HP's winning time (3 minutes and 3. CPU. The Acer with last year's i. Graphics. Because the configuration of the Inspiron 1.
Touch we tested has integrated Intel HD 6. GPU starts at $7. But the system did deliver a solid 4. Dirt 3 racing game, which at least passes our 3. On the 3. DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics test, the Inspiron earned 6. Its graphics capability is nowhere near the mainstream- laptop average (8.
The HP Envy x. 36. GPU, notched 7. 4,7. Nvidia Ge. Force GTX 9. MX- powered Acer Aspire E5 hit 7. The Asus Vivo. Book and its Intel HD Graphics managed to achieve only 2.
Battery Life. I would not leave home without the Inspiron 1. In my use, this Dell lasted only 4 hours and 3. And that was after I reduced the laptop's screen brightness to 5. My experience was corroborated by the results of our Laptop Mag Battery Test, where the Inspiron died after 4: 2. Wi- Fi. That's well below the 6: 5.
All of its competitors offer much better battery life: The Acer Aspire E5 lasted the longest (9: 4. Asus Vivo. Book (9: 0. HP Envy x. 36. 0 (6: 1. Heat. This Inspiron is one cool cat; it never made my lap or my palms feel anything but lukewarm. Even after we streamed full- screen HD video on the Inspiron for 1. Fahrenheit on the touchpad, 8. G and H keys and 9.
These numbers are significantly lower than our 9. Infrared Camera, Webcam. Dell automatically includes an infrared (IR) camera in this touch- screen configuration of the Inspiron 1. Windows Hello). The IR camera sits above the middle of the screen and next to the webcam, and turns on automatically to detect your face at boot- up.
For whatever reason, though, it took 1. Inspiron to go from recognizing my face to loading Windows desktop. If you need to get into your desktop in a hurry, you may want to just enter your password. The Inspiron's webcam is technically 7. I snapped a picture facing the camera, my face looked way too pixelated for professional You.
Tubing. The colors rendered accurately, but that's about it. Software. The Inspiron 1. Dell and its partners. There are some handy ones, like the one- year free trial for 2. GB of Dropbox, as well as the Wave Maxx.
Audio Pro audio tuner, which lets you fine- tune your audio experience and manage your audio equipment. On the third- party side is the Mc. Afee virus scanner. You may also find software such as Cyber.
Link Media Suite Essentials, Netflix, Facebook and Twitter clogging up your storage. Configuration Options. There are five different configurations of the Inspiron 1. IR cameras) and those without, those with discrete graphics and those with integrated graphics, and those powered by the 2. GHz Intel Core i. U processor and those with the Intel Core i. U CPU. Otherwise, all five laptops share mostly the same parts, right down to the same 1.
TB hard drive. Our review configuration costs $6. GHz Intel Core i. U processor; 8. GB of RAM; a 1. TB, 5,4. 00- rpm SATA hard drive; an Intel HD Graphics 6.
GPU; and a 1. 92. The $5. 50 base model includes a nontouch screen and lacks the IR camera for Windows Hello but is otherwise the same as our review unit. The top- of- the- line version starts at $9. Intel Core i. 7- 7. U CPU, a dedicated AMD Radeon R7 M4.
GPU with 4. GB of GDDR5 RAM and 1. GB of RAM, on top of its full- HD touch screen and IR camera.
Bottom Line. The $6. Dell Inspiron 1. 5 5. Touch may not be the flashiest laptop on the block, but it has several things going for it, including a colorful full- HD screen, an IR camera and a brushed- aluminum palm rest. Those are some pretty nice amenities for a $6. The machine's Core i. However, this 1. 5- inch laptop's battery life is much shorter than those of its competitors, and the speakers don't impress.
If you're looking to save a few bucks, the Acer Aspire E5 is your best bet, as it's essentially the Inspiron's better- looking twin. It boasts a much faster 2.