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hey Dave can you do a review of the Dell seven five seven seven five seven seven reveal wings I'm fine now so please review it ASAP hello I hear you're looking for an Inspiron seven five seven seven video okay this is not that laptop JK it is I've had this for three weeks and I took my time on this one because this is an important device I feel like a lot of people purchase this thing or the Inspiron 7000 line and I wanted to make sure that I kind of tested it fully before I made this video okay this thing for the uninitiated is the inexpensive gaming laptop from Dell it's their Inspiron 7000 line and this is their third iteration of it when you have an inexpensive gaming laptop there's got to be something right there's you want to find that one thing that the company cut the corner on or did something weird with to provide it at that price point and these guys they nailed it this year okay first of all let's talk about the screen last year they launched with a TN panel that was unimpressive to say the least this year this launches with an IPS panel right off the bat and it's pretty good it's not amazing it's a reasonably color accurate screen with decent brightness the viewing angles aren't great especially for an IPS panel but it's way better than the old TN panel and actually slightly better than the IPS panel that they used previously there's a 4k panel option which I obviously don't have but based on last year's panel that was actually quite good so if you do need higher resolution I wouldn't be afraid to get that 4k upgrade okay another thing we've added is a Thunderbolt 3 port so they have all the regular stuff use b3 a bunch of them three of them Ethernet port SD card slot and the Thunderbolt three port is nice because this one's running four lanes of PCIe so if you're plugging up an external GPU to this thing you're getting the maximum bandwidth they've changed a few other things some for the better some for the worse it's a design refresh this one feels like it has some alien where DNA creeping in the grille is different I wouldn't say it's better or worse from last year's I personally like the design but every was gonna be a little bit different the soft touch material is gone it's not on the surface it's not on the keyboard deck and feel like that was a material that felt and looked really cool when he first got it but as you use the computer more and more and it got gunky it was just weird so I'm personally happy that they removed it um the hinge is unchanged and I didn't love the positioning of this hinge even last year it's kind of closer to the middle it makes it easier to torque like if you open this laptop from the side it that you just tend to torque the screen a little bit more and every time you do it if you do it hundreds or thousands of times with the lifespan of the laptop I don't know how will do for the longevity of that hinge but last year's hinges seem to hold up well so I feel like this one will be the same the screen in the top panel have a little bit of flex to it nothing too bad but the keyboard deck is rock-solid it does not feel like a thousand dollar gaming laptop it's metal and there's no play or soft spots on this thing the corner down here still bugs me so last year's 75-67 had the same kind of corner and depending on your wrist positioning and just how you kind of use your keyboard this can be an issue it doesn't bother me but if you have a very flat resting position for your arm you might want to watch out for that the keyboard itself is good not amazing it's an inexpensive gaming laptop so you're not gonna get the best typing experience but it's not bad the keystrokes are a little bit short and I wish I had white backlighting instead of this red stuff the trackpad is also solid it's a plastic surface but it uses Windows precision drivers and the tracking is good there's also a fingerprint sensor on the power button this was actually something I didn't expect they didn't advertise this I didn't even see this at the IFA announcement it might have been a late addition to this thing but it's awesome this thing works really quickly and accurately to get you into Windows webcam looks and sounds like this nothing amazing I feel like the image quality hasn't changed in like three years it's not terrible but it's not great getting inside the laptop is super easy it's a single screw and when you unscrew it off it actually stays on the back panel there's a c-clip that holds it in place so you can't even lose a screw if you wanted to inside we have a two and a half inch hard drive bay this slot is empty because I got an SSD with it but it comes with the cable comes with a caddy so I don't have to buy any of that stuff if you want to add a hard drive to it you have access to the SSD the one that they include is actually really fast the Wi-Fi card is good it's the Intel 86 5 and you also have access to the two RAM slots the he's down here and it's smaller than last year which was disappointing so last year it was a 74 watt our battery this year is 56 and I'm getting around four and a half hours of battery life screen at 215 it's okay I'm not sure why they did this because the bigger battery on last year's model is one of its best features it's one of its like most distinguishing features from all the other gaming laptops that were available that bigger battery was just like it was like a six hour battery so you could go through most of your day with just a single charge this now puts it into the you gotta bring a charger with you laptops and I don't know that bombs me out it is a gaming laptop so I can see why they did it but it's disappointing nonetheless another thing that's changed this year is that there's no sub so last year had a sub right in the bottom of the laptop which helped give it a little bit more bass I didn't have amazing speakers but they were pretty good this year the speakers projects at the front again but because there's no sub the bass is lacking they sound good actually sound better and just terms of audio clarity the mids and the highs are just there's just more body to that sound there's no distortion but you definitely notice the lack of bass thermal management on this laptop is good the external temperature is a good the internal temperatures are good there's no throttling even during long gaming sessions they did an excellent job with the thermal management the fan noise is also not bad at idle the fans don't run and unload it's still a quiet okay let's talk performance and this is probably the most important part of this video this laptop is running at gtx 1060 max Q and a KB Lake i7 the 7700 HQ now max q chips tend to run at lower clock speeds both the core clock and the boost clocks are slower but for whatever reason on this laptop the boost clock is actually quite high it's not as high as a regular 1060 laptop but we're hitting like 1645 megahertz which is really really close now the performance I'm getting from this thing is not as good as a regular gtx 1060 because it's not always gonna hit the maximum boost clock but everything except for the most demanding games will run really smoothly with really high graphics quality now as for the reason as to why they're able to run their GPU a little bit faster i'm not under present sure my theory is that because thermal management is as good as it is they're able to bump up that boost clock and the we'll take care of it but honestly I'm not 100% sure but whatever the reason it doesn't even matter because you're getting a really fast laptop that's gonna be faster than most gtx 1060 max-q laptops out there and consumers win okay if you're interested in this thing I give it two thumbs up it's really like there's not much a dislike about this thing maybe the battery life that's basically it okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time