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you guys loved our review of the Dell Inspiron

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7559 from last year where I gave it a solid recommendation for its wolf and

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sheep's clothing Wicked gaming performance and its understated looks

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not to mention price now over the last year Dell has been hard at work tweaking

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that formula and they've even gone as far this time as to include gaming in

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the product name but have those tweaks

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actually added up to anything substantial let's check it

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video description the inspiring gaming has a

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red matte finish with mean looking triangles on the front and the back

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hexagons are very 2016 as I've been recently informed it mostly avoids an

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over-the-top look like some gaming laptops but it is red though if that's

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too shouty for you there's a black version available as well it's clear

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that thinness wasn't a top priority for Dell here with lesser specs than the

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latest MacBook Pro it's nearly double the thickness but assuming they used the

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extra space for cooling I can't be too critical

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especially if the intent is for users to game on it for long periods at a time

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the build quality is great for a budget segment laptop the chassis feels solid

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and the screen Flex is about what you'd expect opening the lid is easy and the

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hinge moves smoothly if you took this thing 10 years back in time and told

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someone it costs less than $1,000 they wouldn't believe you we've come a long

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way the io is more traditional than most

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laptops these days as well it's unlikely

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that you'll have to reach for a dongle

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though I will say at least having the option for a typc or Thunderbolt port on

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a premium config would have been welcome

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our model is not the cheapest but it hits a really nice sweet spot with just

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enough of pretty much everything for gaming and without spending extra money

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on an i7 for example that doesn't make

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games run faster I mean that money could go towards buying books or beer and

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gaming performance is really solid the included 60 HZ TN panel looks pretty

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good for a TN with above average viewing angles from side to side again for a TN

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and on high settings at 1080p which happens to be its native resolution this

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laptop plowed through our test lineup comfortably meaning that in between

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homework and Facebook you should be able to run modern AAA titles without issue

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thanks in no small part to the strong performance of the inspiring Gaming's

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cooling system during our ID to 64 stress test it was not only able to keep

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the CPU at a relatively comfortable 80°

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but the I5 was able to use its turbo boost the whole time too meaning

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performance won't dip after a couple of minutes of gaming it was far from silent

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but wasn't disruptive and it's much quieter than a thin and light gaming

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machine like a razor blade and if that

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sound good to you you'll be happy to know the speakers are better than you

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might expect as well the internal subwoofer doesn't add as much depth to

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the sound as the subs in their XPS laptops several years ago did but

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overall Clarity is good until some Distortion Creeps in at nearly full

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volume as long as you're right in front they're highly directional so if a

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diminished off AIS movie watching experience is a real turnoff for your

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friend you might not be doing any chilling while you

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Netflix though even if you have to be by yourself at least you'll be doing it for

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a long time battery life came in at a

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very impressive 6 hours and 48 minutes

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one of the best results we've ever seen in our PC Mark workbench Mark and more

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good news just like its predecessor it's

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easy to get inside all it takes is one

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screw okay I'll stop that now and as an

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SSD only model ours has a completely

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free hard drive bay with mounting hardware and a cable included as well as

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an empty RAM slot Dell really couldn't make this any easier moving back to the

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outside the keyboard feels very similar to previous Inspiron models but nicer

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the keystrokes are short with a pleasant click and avoid being mushy spacing is a

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strong point and there's a full numpad with appropriately laid out arrow keys

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the red back back lighting isn't bright enough to be having an inspiring

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inspired dance party with it or anything

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but it's functional and if you're actually in the dark you'll be able to

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read the keys can't complain the trackpad is also quite good the feel of

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the click isn't super consistent from the top to the bottom but it performs

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accurately at high sensitivity settings and it does a great job of figuring out

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when I have my thumb at the bottom for clicking as opposed to when I'm trying

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to use multitouch now let's talk about what you

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are not getting with a value model like this the first unfortunate compromise is

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the 1ex one Wi-Fi giving me a maximum speed of around 20 megabytes per second

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in my data transfer test so if you want fast downloads you will have to wire in

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the storage is also rather slow it is an

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m.2 drive and it is an SSD but it runs

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at SATA speeds not PCI eeds and finally

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the screen is far from the most vibrant and high contrast that I've seen now

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that IPS is the standard even a decent TN looks washed out by

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comparison so who is this laptop for then well unsurprisingly the Dell

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inspiring gaming is a great value laptop

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for people who want to game and need the portability of a laptop for 850 bucks

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you could build a better performing desktop that is more upgradable but you

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can't exactly take that to class or wherever it is that you might need it so

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if you're looking for something to buy that's inexpensive and works well before

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heading off to University or college the inspiring gaming packs everything that

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