Actual Dell Inspiron Special Edition i15Rse-4267ALU 15-Inch FHD 1080p Laptop / i7-3632QM / 2GB AMD Radeon™ HD 7730M Video Card/ 8GB / 750GB / Windows 8 review from user.
High performance for affordable price
I bought this laptop from Dell and I got to say it's easily one of the best laptops I've used in my life. This laptop handles multitasking like its nothing, running several programs at once. The i7 technology allows me to run my software developing program while listening to music on youtube and chatting on facebook with no lag while switching between windows.
The 1080p display is just beautiful, I play movies and music videos from youtube and it looks amazing. The display really impressed me.
My favorite part about the laptop I would say is the video card. The AMD Radeon HD 7730M 2GB is not the best graphic card out there, but it's still a really good video card. I've ran several games like The amazing spiderman, Black Ops 2, Assassin's creed, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Darksiders, and many more, and they all run extremely smooth. Some may not run at full FPS on high settings, some do, but they all run very smooth on med settings. The screen size of the laptop...
Excellent Machine, base processor speed is 2.2GHz not 2.5GHz
This is an excellent Machine, very fast, with Turbo Booster 2.0 auto manage processor speed. I can run multiple tasks without delays excecuting them.
There is a model very similar to this one and almost 200.00 $USD ($736.00)cheaper, for less video and plastic back plate instead of aluminium, and keyboard backlit but more Hard Disk Drive, and 3 pounds less in weight which is very good if you carry your laptop with you. At first I thought I would have bought that one if was listed but now, after using this one I am very happy about this purchase.
No regret so far only:
1-This is advertised as 2.5 GHz, but base processor speed is 2.2GHz and I have seen mine at 2.9GHz with Turbo Booster Monitor.
2-Little heavy, 9 pounds (not really a problem).
3-Touch pad is very sensible but you can be solved with a mouse or some adjusting (not an issue).
4-I did not like, I saw this machine in dell.com website at a higher Price, and came here in blackfriday weekend, I...
Very expensive paperweight
Lets all be honest, the main draw of this machine is the 2gb video card. Dell has failed to update the BIOS to work correctly int he windows 8 environment and as such the video card does not get called if/when it should. You can do a few tricks to force it, but it won't work for games or for video editing.
The only fix I have found was the Catalyst control center, but even then Windows 8 will arbitrarily decide that the software doesn't need to work anymore, along with a myriad of other programs that are needed for most modern games (Steam/Origin/etc). When you can get a game to work and the video card to work too the game will run for a bit, but eventually the hammer will drop and your performance will dip or the game will crash.
If you must buy this laptop, go find a windows 7 version. Dell has no business shipping this as an end user device and microsoft has no business forcing windows 8 to be used when it just plain doesn't work.
The only fix I have found was the Catalyst control center, but even then Windows 8 will arbitrarily decide that the software doesn't need to work anymore, along with a myriad of other programs that are needed for most modern games (Steam/Origin/etc). When you can get a game to work and the video card to work too the game will run for a bit, but eventually the hammer will drop and your performance will dip or the game will crash.
If you must buy this laptop, go find a windows 7 version. Dell has no business shipping this as an end user device and microsoft has no business forcing windows 8 to be used when it just plain doesn't work.
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