this is the Dell Inspiron 15
7559 a value gaming laptop excuse me
lonus a Dell gaming laptop where's the
alien wear at son while it's true that even a base model 15in Alienware would
perform better than its inspiring cousin here it would also cost $1,200 compared
to only $ 800 for this one so let's find
out how much portable gaming machine you can get for 800 bucks
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learn more so let me preface the video with this the last inspiring laptop that
I ever used extensively was a mobile Pentium freebased machine I mean we're
talking pre- widescreen days here and and this is what I imagine the look on
my face would be like if I was going to call someone up and tell them about how
exciting it was to use so to say that I
was impressed as I went through my physical tour routine would definitely
be an understatement R 7559 is the black
anded red accent model so it should come as no surprise then that the top lid is
black with a red Dell logo moving on the screen hinge is a definite gold star for
the Inspiron it opens smoothly with one finger and suffers from zero discernable
wobble while typing screen Flex is what I would describe as average not
impressive considering its thickness but nothing that affects usability the
screen itself is a matte finish 1080p Affair that didn't dazzle me with its
brightness or anything but thanks to the use of an IPS panel it delivers very
solid color and viewing angle performance then above that is a
surprisingly decent 720p 30fps webcam
with a dual mic array I mean between
that and the screen I'm actually kind of amazed at how much of an improvement
this is over the commodity laptops of yester year and what a difference that
those little things make to being able to recommend them but of course without
solid specs a webcam is just a webcam so
first is io on the right is a gigabit Ethernet Jack and HDMI 1.4a output a
super speed USB 3 5 GB port and an SD card reader on the left is a headphone
microphone combo Jack two more USB 3 ports a red accented exhaust vent and
the power input which leads us to the internal guts we've got a base model
here with a core i5 6300hq non-
hyperthreaded 2.3 to 3.2 GHz quad core 8
gigs of single Channel RAM more on this later a 1 TB hard drive with a built-in
8 gig SSD cache a whopping 74w hour
battery rated at just under 10 hours on our config AC Wi-Fi and the thing that
really made the Inspiron 7559 catch my
eye cuz Lord knows it wasn't the name a GTX 960m 4 gig video card now to be
clear the 960m is still not a top tier
gaming GPU even for mobile I mean for context a 970m is 60 to 70% faster but
my satisfaction with this GPU is also
not random compared to previous value
gaming offerings from tier one manufacturers like Dell Acer or Lenovo
that would have like x40 or x50 class
gpus if you're lucky this is a huge step
forward I mean in terms of performance at the 7559 native 1080p resolution Tomb
Raider 2013 and Crisis 3 run in a manner
that I would describe as playable at settings that would have been previously
Unthinkable and that I'd consider a reasonable experience in last gen AAA
games then I mean if you were to only play you know free-to-play games like uh
League of Legends or even you know less graphically demanding paid games like
Counter-Strike Global Offensive you might start to question why you would
even need anything more and that's a good question that leads me pretty well
into my next well negative and positive things about this machine from a bummer
standpoint the GPU like the vast majority of laptops is not upgradeable
in any way even from the factory so if you're a pure gamer an $800 desktop will
still serve you better but the cool thing is that there are a lot of other
aspects of this machine that are upgradable the 8 gigs of RAM is a single
DDR3 low voltage stick so moving to two
16 gig sticks in dual Channel doesn't require you to discard any there is an
m.2 slot for a boot SSD to go along with your 2 and 1/2 in hard drive so with a
couple of inexpensive aftermarket upgrades that can be performed with a
Phillips head screwdriver in about 5 minutes thanks to the thoughtful single
self- retaining screw design on the bottom plate for under $1,000 you can
throw together a config that makes a lot more sense to me than the Thousand
config on the Dell site where you're just paying a bunch extra for the corey7
but what are you giving up then I mean so far this thing sounds pretty much
perfect lonus and yeah there are definitely things I mean if you've
watched a few of my laptop videos you've probably realized by now that I had
never mentioned the keyboard it's not great it's not terrible and there's very
little Flex to the wrist rest and the keyboard surface itself but the key caps
wobble more than I'd like and the keystrokes are pretty mushy and the
touchpad is actually much worse than the
keyboard to the point where I'd call it more of a press pad very light touches
can fail to register outright making fine adjustments somewhat difficult and
there's more the large battery means that the 7559 while reasonably thin is
pretty heavy for its size the speakers are surprisingly loud but don't sound
very good and the Intel 3160 one by one Wi-Fi solution is literally one quarter
of the speed in real world transfer tests of other more premium Solutions we
have here in the office but believe it or not all of that
still adds up to a recommendation here because there are more things that they
got right as well under gaming load the
75 59 stays shockingly quiet and even
runs passively while performing basic desktop tasks thanks to its three heat
sinks and the overall fit and finish while not comparable to something like a
blade 14 is damn good considering the
price speaking of damn good considering the price you know it's a good price
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