Design and Features
The Inspiron 15 doesn't look like a sub-$300 laptop. Measuring only 1-inch in height it is thinner than both the HP 2000-2b19wm$322. 25 at Amazon (1. 4 inches) and the Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5104$379. 99 at Amazon (1. 3 inches), and at 5. 1 pounds it's also a tad lighter than the Toshiba C855D-S5104. The lid is done up in a stylish textured black finish and sports a shiny Dell logo in the center.
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The keyboard deck uses the same textured finish as the lid. The Inspiron 15's matte finish is susceptible to faint fingerprint smudging, though nearly as bad as a high-gloss finish. The full size chiclet-style keyboard is firm, and the black keys travel well, but don't look for backlighting at this price. A numeric keypad sits off to the right, and there's a slightly recessed multi-gesture touchpad with two good-sized buttons at the bottom. The pad has a smooth surface and had no trouble responding to swipe, pinch, and zoom gestures.
The 15. 6-inch TruLife display has a resolution of 1, 366-by-768 which, means can display 720p HD videos, but it can't display HD content at 1080p. This Inspiron 15 doesn't support touch technology, but again, you'd be hard pressed to find a notebook in this price range that offers either one of these features, let alone both. The display is reasonably bright and offers good color quality, although viewing angles are a tad narrow.
Despite its budget-class status the Inspiron 15 offers a decent feature set, including two USB 3. 0 ports and two USB 2 . 0 ports. As with the Dell Inspiron 17-3721, the speedier USB 3. 0 ports are black rather than blue, making it legendary|succeeding in the|letting it|making it possible for|allowing it|this|enabling|allowing|making it very|allowing for} difficult to differentiate between the slower USB 2 . 0 ports. Other ports include an HDMI video output, a LAN port, and a headphone jack. There's an 8-in-1 card reader on the front edge of the chassis and a 1-Megapixel webcam embedded in the display's upper bezel. Wireless networking components include Wi-Fi (802. 11b/g/n) and Bluetooth 4. 0 radios.
The Inspiron 15 has 500GB of storage in a 5, 400-rpm hard drive and comes with Windows 8 preloaded. It also comes with the obligatory bloatware programs like eBay and Kindle and trial versions of McAfee Security Advisor and Microsoft Office. Dell covers the Inspiron 15 with a standard one-year limited warranty.
Performance
Dell Inspiron 15 (I15RV-6190 BLK) The Inspiron 15 uses last year's Intel Ivy Bridge technology. It is equipped with a 1. 8GHz Intel Pentium 2117u processor, Intel's HD Graphics GPU, and 4GB of system memory. It performed pretty much as expected, trailing the faster 1 . 9GHz Intel Core i3-equipped Dell 17-3721 and 2 . 4GHz Intel Core i3-3110M-equipped Toshiba Satellite C875-S7340. It blew away the Toshiba C855D-S5104 and HP 2000-2b19wm systems, both of which use a slower, less powerful 1 . 3GHz AMD E-300 processor.
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