so the other day I'm watching a video for the audio rs6 Avant and thinking
that's a really nice car that I'm never
going to buy because it's literally what like five times more expensive than a
Golf GTI and you get what it's definitely faster it's better but like
realistically day-to-day how different is it going to be which brings us to the
Inspiron 15 7000 you know it's
definitely no rs6 Avant but at the same
time it probably does everything that you need a laptop to do so uh let's get
into it and see if you know it actually lives up to that looking in here we've
got um well not a whole lot we've got
some basic just cardboard that looks like it was recycled and I think the
power bricks over here that's 130 watts
so powerful but not SuperDuper powerful
so uh here it is the Inspiron 15 7000
this one right here has I'd say respectable ports but nothing amazing so
we have an SD card reader I'll turn that around so you guys can see it so we have
an SD card reader USB type a combo
headphone microphone port around the other side we have full size HDMI two
USB Taipei's and Oh a Thunderbolt port
you normally don't expect to see that on something that's at this price this is
just over a thousand dollars so you know
have that context when we go into this like does it feel like an XPS 15 of
course it doesn't this thing is not made out of carbon fiber but at the same time
it feels pretty damn good like I'm I'm
giving it a lot of flexing twisting right now and it's really not giving up
like the actual screen isn't the
stiffest it seemed I'm pretty sure that's all it's moved yeah the screen isn't super duper stiff but also who is
doing this all day long I'm not no I
don't believe it's touched yeah it's not touch screen so you don't really have to
worry about that too too much kind of so it looks like that
there's a very small amount of the thing
that a lot of laptops do these days where it lifts up the base as you open
the screen although it kind of looks like it's more so just a thing that
happens as opposed to a feature like there's rubber right here but it has
such a small amount of lift that I can't really imagine that it's doing anything
for like the thermals or the keyboard position or anything so we're looking at
a core i7 9750 H which is a six core processor and
pretty damn fast I would have to say it's not gonna you know it's not an
eight core processor it's not a ninety nine eighty HK or whatever but I imagine
for the vast majority of people if you want to like well surfing the web
obviously it's going to be good enough but probably oh you say mark this is
probably good for like like video editing actually kind of intense video
editing really what would not be fine is that it only has eight gigabytes of RAM
and we can fix that later we'll get there
so disk we get a 512 Gigabyte NVMe SSD
which is actually fairly nice to have at this price point you'd normally expect
to see like 256 and maybe a hard drive something like that we've got Intel
Wireless which probably means it's pretty good I believe it's 2x2 I don't
think we get Wi-Fi 6 but it's probably
more than fast enough for basically everyone and finally the most
disappointing part of the whole thing the NVIDIA GeForce gtx 1050 it's it's a
1050 come on guys it's I would have been way happier if they had have included a
1650 I think the 1650 is what like 4050
percent faster than a 1050 that's to come that's the kind of performance that
can actually deliver a good gaming experience whereas for this right here
you're going to be like well I don't know I have a star to valley background
on here so you're gonna be playing stardew valley or like I don't know DotA csgo something like that and not
SuperDuper well 10:50 yeah it's just kind of
disappointing but at the same time this isn't a gaming laptop you're not going
to be using it to game all day every day oh there's a calculator button we're
here anytime that you need to calculate something just Boop this is my new
favorite feature just oh yeah clear get
right back in plus - oh that's nice thing I'm glad they thought of that and
I'm also really glad it has a number pad I feel like that way too many laptops
these days just completely give up on it even though they might have the space I
personally use it all the time I don't
know my background is like in engineering so I think of like using
Excel and MATLAB all day as kind of like the main use case other people might not
be doing that but even so I just really like even just the Enter key here I
really like hitting it with my thumb I'd say everything that I felt so far just
kind of works like this trackpad is it's
not glass soft and the click doesn't feel great but at the same time it's
pretty large given and I really can't
complain about how it feels like it's it's just a trackpad as for the keyboard
notepad just kind of feeling the keys it
feel like the stability is pretty good if you like really press down there is
definite movement although when I'm actually typing I would say it is
totally acceptable let's get back to the whole problem that I was talking about
before where this thing only has 8 gigabytes of RAM room so hopefully these
are all the same type of screw AHA there we go so yeah definitely guitar pick
required to get this one apart so close
things a jerk oh don't turn on this is
really not a good time to turn on why do you keep on turning on all right let's
get you turned off this is absolutely
not the time for this Dell shut down and stay shut down holy crap so I guess now
that we are in here it's a 56 watt era battery is pretty good in this price range well
actually that's exactly what you get in this price range basically alright so we
have 8 gigs of 2066 memory in here right
here I've got 16 gigs of DDR4 20 66
memory from a time Tec they're just cheap RAM that you can get on Amazon
basically that's kind of the whole selling point one of these guys right
here is 31 dollars so the whole kit was 62 hopefully we can just toss one of
them in and it'll be happy we might need
to put in the whole kit because RAM just
doesn't always play nice with other RAM and then we also have there's another m2
slot here so you could actually like have a lot of storage in this thing
quite easily between like a hard drive to Emma to maybe put them in raid zero
I'm actually pretty happy with this as far as you know like a budget very
upgradable little laptop I'm gonna put this back on although I just want to
take your day with this SSD is hilarious just look at that 512 gigabytes in this
thing if you show me that a couple years ago I'm like no way how do they even do
it is it DRAM list that's a great question actually it's probably the
exact same one that was in the Dell system that we got from Best Buy and it
probably is DRAM 'less but uses the
memory on the computer like it talks to
it could you yes you can definitely upgrade this to full size like if you
look here you can just move the little mounting bracket back here and the
heatsink goes like it travels the whole length so you won't have any issues if
you want to put in a full sized and got to drive in here yep there we go didn't
touch the power button but it's already turning on this thing just absolutely
loves that warning Oh warning the amount of system memory
has changed it most certainly has that's a good warning right there so let's just
hit enter so it looks like that we're gonna get away with just putting in only
one of these sticks of RAM which means that really you know six cores a 10 fit
well at the ten fifty but like you know six cores you
be able to do quite a bit with this thing once you have enough RAM in there so for the same price you can get a
gaming laptop that's more powerful if that's what you're going for
this is probably powerful enough for almost everyone unless all that you plan
on doing is gaming I say that the main advantage of going with the Inspiron
over say like a g5 or something like that is that it just doesn't look stupid
like you can take this thing right here into like office hours with your prof
and they're going to be like oh this person probably wants help instead of oh
this person is probably struggling because they've been playing League of
Legends all day it's not the best machine ever like it's you know it's not
made of a freaking carbon fiber but at the same time it's gonna do basically
everything that you need as long as you don't need the most powerful gaming
laptop around 4000 bucks I'd say it's pretty solid well I guess that about
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