Dell Inspiron 15R i15RMT-5099SLV 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop (Moon Silver)

Actual Dell Inspiron 15R i15RMT-5099SLV 15.6-Inch Touchscreen Laptop (Moon Silver) review from customer.
Good solid option. Overall a really nice productive laptop with solid components and performance. Screen is only con.


A Winner from Dell
I have a mixed relationship with Dell laptops. I have been using or helping those who are using Dell laptops since about 2004. They had a great build quality then, great service and prices. But, it seems that Dell goes up and down in quality as the years past. You never know if you're buying during a lemon year (2008) or a great year (2006). I note those years because those are specific laptops. My wife had one from late 2008 and it was constantly causing problems. Constantly crashing, restarting, freezing. It was always a bother, even with lots of attention. Finally died entirely early last year.

On the other side, I got a laptop in very early 2007. Still use it. I've replaced some parts here and there, like the touchpad and keyboard and LED screen. But, it keeps on ticking. Works great. We got a Dell Desktop in 2010 and it works great.

So I want to like Dell, but I've known others who have mixed stories like we do, and so I'm cautious.

Dell...

Good laptop, but keep your options open for an ultraportable
This is a very good laptop, and overall nice parts overweight its issues. However the price is approaching ultraportable levels, so the choice is not a clear cut one.

First the things I liked:
- The touch input actually works. The combination of the touch screen, with the trackpad makes both local movements (like scrolling), and targeted movements (like closing a window) very easy to perform. The Dell configuration application is very useful for this purpose. Yet, I should say that I could not get some of the trackpad gestures working.

- There is actually little "crapware" installed on the system. I only needed to uninstall the antivirus, and some Intel drives (you would not need RAID on a laptop). This is of course if you like the installed OS that comes with the system.

- Overall performance is very good, the boot speed is fast, and applications rarely slow down. The only thing I would recommend - after switching the antivirus program - is...

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