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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is the 2017 Inspiron 7,000 so the model last year the seven five five nine was a huge hit 800 or gaming laptop that kind of hit most of the points pretty well it was just a really good budget gaming laptop this model the seven five six seven it's been redesigned the exteriors a little bit different the interior is revamped new hardware new cable a chips new GTX 10 50 cards but the price has stayed the same let's take a look so it's red and black again or kind of like dark grey but I actually like this design it's got the sleek minimal look going on and the red accents aren't in your face they're angled away or hidden behind grills but if you still want to go super red they have that option as well so last year's model was already a very solid feeling device the new one is equal if not better in build quality everything feels sturdy there's very little flex on the screen and chassis the one weakness I would say would be this hinge it's built well I'm not seeing any play here but the hinges are positioned closer to the center like this so there's more opportunity for it to twist every time you open it up there's soft touch plastic again I was worried about this last year because when you scratch it it leaves a mark but it seems to hold up nicely if you're careful it does show fingerprints pretty easily though it has a standard port selection for the price point there's three USB three HDMI audio Ethernet and an SD card slot there's no USB C port so there's no Sun durable three it's super easy to get inside single screw and you get two RAM slots it's now running ddr4 memory so speeds are a little bit faster and you can go up to 32 gigs because of this the two and half inch SATA drive is here and there's an empty slot for a second drive both of these drives are replaceable and or upgradable the battery is pretty big is 74 watt hours and I'll get you on six hours of battery life of normal use if you're playing games it's closer to an hour and a half this uses a tiny PTN panel it's the same panel is a 2014 lenovo y50 and it's not very good doesn't get very bright and the color accuracy out of the box is weak calibration makes it better but the viewing angles are poor there's a very noticeable color and contrast shift when you tilt the screen both up and down and left and right now keep in mind that this is an $800 laptop with a GTX 10/15 it they got to make some compromises to sell it at that price and in this particular case is the screen it's not that the screen is like Superbad or anything I've definitely seen worse but because of how good the rest of the hardware is this sticks out as being the weakest link so if you really need a good screen you got to upgrade this thing to the 4k panel it's obviously more expensive but you got to do that if you can't stand a mediocre screen the webcam up top is 720p looks ok the keyboard feels really similar to last year's model there's nothing I really dislike about it the layout is good backlighting is red key feel pretty comfortable a little stiff on the response you have to tap harder than normal but it's a very good keyboard overall there's one issue that's not really related to the keyboard itself it's this bottom left corner so it's pretty pointy my natural resting position doesn't hit it but if you have big forearms or if you have like a wide resting position for your left arm this might bug you the trackpad is good it uses Windows precision drivers I like seeing that but it's a plastic surface again not gloss the tracking is decent it performs fine too just doesn't feel premium but the thing that makes this trackpad good is to click mechanism it has good pressure activation and it's a very snappy click it's satisfying to use when I'm playing games my palms sometimes make contact with the trackpad but the palm rejection software works well okay so for $800 you're getting a KB Lake i-5 and a GTX 1050 and if you want to bump that up to the 1050 Ti it's next for 100 bucks and then if you want the i7 like the quad core i7 it's 50 bucks on top of that now it doesn't matter all of these are kind of like decent purchases but I would highly recommend trying to get the 1050 Ti because that's just a good value for what you're getting in terms of gaming performance so compared to the 960 m from last year the 1050 is about 25% better and then the 1050 Ti is another 25% on top of that so playing on that chip at 1080p lighter games like overwatch will comfortably float over 100 frames per second on high graphics bumping it up to ultra will still get you over 60 frames per second titanfall 2 also runs near 60 frames per sec on high graphics on the 1050 Ti but basically most modern titles allowance or optimized can hit 60 frames per second with very nice-looking image quality at 1080p if you want to know more about these video cards be subscribed and watch my next video there's also something pretty special there the thermal management is fine there's no real CPU throttling during games idle fan noise is pretty quiet and isn't too bad even unload but there's no option to manually control it it's done automatically surface temperature is also comfortable there's no nasty hot spots that I could see speakers are not bad there's a pair up at the front behind the red grill with a sub on the bottom they're pretty loud and the lower frequencies from the sub are present like it's not super powerful bass or anything but you can tell that it's there all right what's the inspiron seven five six seven from Dell we're looking at a budget gaming laptop it uses a lot of plastic but has surprisingly good build quality the 1080p screen is a TN panel that looks decent head on but has poor viewing angles and doesn't get very bright the backlit keyboard is a little stiff but it has a good layout the trackpad is solid inside the KB egg CPU options and the gtx 1050 or 1050 TI deliver very good gaming performance for the money and are well cooled the ram and the to drive slots are incredibly easy to access for upgrades after purchasing and the 74 watt hour battery gives you around 6 hours of battery life so here's the deal for $800 you're getting a device that can play most games at 1080p at 60 frames per second or higher with really good image quality and if you want to you can pay that extra 100 bucks so that's what 10 12 percent more money for 25% more performance with the TI so if you want to do that I mean I would kind of steer most people towards getting a 10 50 P eye but if you can't the baseball is still really good overall great device great components aside from the display great build quality good performance good value I think they did a really good job on this one hope you guys enjoyed this video a thumbs if you did something beloved it see you guys next time