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I'm Dan Ackerman and I am sitting here with the dell inspiron 17 r SE now that is a mouthful but it helps you figure out which part of Dells laptop line this is first it's an Inspiron as opposed to the more high-end XPS line secondly it's an Inspiron 17 which means it's a big 17 inch desktop replacement that's not a size we really even see that often anymore then it's an Inspiron are which is just a regular old Inspiron line as opposed to the Inspiron z line which is a little bit thinner I haves the z-axis and finally is an Inspiron are se which stands for I assume special edition which means that they've actually packed some higher-end components into what is basically their more budget priced body and the first reaction I've gotten from anyone who has seen this laptop from the moment we took it out of the boxes wow that thing is big and thick and it's not even so much that this 17 inch laptop is remarkably bigger or thicker than 17 inch desktop replacements were last year the year before the year before that it's just that people's expectations and conceptions of what a laptop should be have really changed a lot thanks to ultra books and a lot of other thin laptops in fact a lot of those ultra book style laptops are getting to be bigger 15 inches 16 inches we've even seen some fairly slim under one inch 17 inch laptops this is not this is an inch and a half at the back of it making it pretty much the thickest desktop replacement we've seen in quite a while and frankly just looks like a big plastic brick now even though it's not the most attractive system under the Sun it is packed with some pretty high-end components we've got a quad core Core i7 CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce 650 M graphics card along with a one terabyte hard drive all that packed in here it's 1099 which is not the most you know budget price laptop of all time but if you think about all those high-end components that's usually a couple hundred dollars less than you'd get the same set up for from somebody else even without moving into the more rarefied air of a boutique laptop maker like Dells own Alienware brand or origin or main gear or somebody like that so what you get is a very powerful laptop and a little bit of a budget body so if you're willing to go for the components rather than look and feel there's actually a good deal and pretty good at mainstream to high-end gaming it's got a 1080p screen so it's great for HD video as well if you spend another two hundred dollars you can trade up to actually a 3d screen and you'll get a blu-ray drive along with that I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Dell Inspiron 17r sp