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i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a look at the dell inspiron 14z this is a new version of the inspiron 14z part of a redesigned inspiron lineup and if you're looking at it you might go this doesn't really look like a dell inspiron i remember those as being sort of the low-budget the very mainstream line from dale kind of big bulky plasticky laptops this new series of Inspiron so I actually think they're very nicely designed it look pretty good actually look more expensive than they are case in point this is an 8 99 14-inch it's technically an ultrabook even though it's a little bit bigger than most ultrabooks it's got an optical drive in it's got a discrete graphics card in it all these things that don't really say ultrabook but technically they sneak in under the line there you know it's part metal it's part plastic when you pick it up it feels a little more plastic than it looks it definitely looks a little more expensive than it is when you touch it you can kind of say okay this is inspiron not like the more expensive XPS line for example that dell has it's got a nice big touch panel ever even though it's got the separate left and right mouse buttons a lot of laptops now moving to that singular click pad and the keyboard it sort of Dell's variation on that island style they always have keys that are just a little bit more rounded I found the keyboard to be a little classy a little a little mushy at times the keys at a little bit of wiggle on two fingers but nothing that's that's too too terrible one thing I was pleasantly surprised by was the fact that little ports on the side of the laptop are covered up by flap so you don't see him it actually looks kind of nice and you get to USB threes you got HDMI I got an Ethernet jack not even the 2200 dollar 15-inch retina MacBook Pro as an Ethernet jack although it does have DisplayPort / Thunderbolt ports that this guy lacks but when you think about that right combination of price performance end design I think you do well to at least take a test drive in this guy right here that is the dell inspiron 14z