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this is the Dell Inspiron 15 75 59 a value gaming laptop excuse me linus adele gaming laptop where's the Alienware at son while it's true that even a base-model 15 in jail Ian where would perform better than its inspiring cousin here it would also cost twelve hundred US dollars compared to only eight hundred for this one so let's find out how much portable gaming machine you can get for eight hundred bucks the mastercase 5 from Coolermaster gives you the freedom to make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more so let me preface the video with this the last inspiring laptop that I ever used extensively was a mobile Pentium 3 based machine I mean we're talking pre widescreen days here and this is what I imagined the look on my face would be like if I was going to call someone up and tell them about how exciting it was to use so to say that I was impressed as I went through my physical tour routine would definitely be an understatement our 75 59 is the blackened red accent model so it should come as no surprise then that the top lid is black with a red Dell logo moving on the screen hinge is a definite gold star for the Inspiron it opens smoothly with one finger and suffers from zero discernable wobble while typing screenflex is what I would describe as average not impressive considering its thickness but nothing that affects usability the screen itself is a matte finish 1080p affair that didn't dazzle me with its brightness or anything but thanks to the use of an IPS panel it delivers very solid color and viewing angle performance then above that is a surprisingly decent 720p 30fps webcam with a dual micro ray I mean between that in the screen I'm actually kind of amazed at how much of an improvement this is over the commodity laptops of yesteryear and what a difference that those little things make to being able to recommend them but of course without solid specs a webcam is just a webcam so first is IO on the right is a Gigabit Ethernet jack and HDMI 1.4 output a super speed USB 3 five gigabit port and an SD card reader on the left is a headphone microphone combo jack 2 more USB 3 ports a red accented exhaust vent and the power input which leads us to the internal guts we've got a base model here with a core i5 6300 HQ non hyper threaded 2.3 to 3.2 gigahertz quad core 8 gigs of single-channel ram more on this later a 1 terabyte hard drive with a built in gig SSD cache a whopping 74 watt our battery rated at just under 10 hours on our config AC Wi-Fi and the thing that really made the inspire on 75 59 catch my eye because lord knows it wasn't the name i gtx 960m for gig video card now to be clear the 960m is still not a top-tier gaming GPU even for mobile I mean for context a 970 n is 60 to 70 percent faster but my satisfaction with this GPU is also not random compared to previous value gaming offerings from tier one manufacturers like Dell Acer or Lenovo that would have liked X 40 or X 50 class GPUs if you're lucky this is a huge step forward I mean in terms of performance at the 75 59 s native 1080p resolution Tomb Raider 2013 and Crysis 3 run in a manner that I would describe as playable at settings that would have been previously unthinkable and that I'd consider a reasonable experience in last gen triple-a games then I mean if you were to only play you know free-to-play games like League of Legends or even you know less graphically demanding paid games like Counter Strike global Offensive you might start to question why you would even need anything more and that's a good question that leads me pretty well into my next well negative and positive things about this machine from a bummer standpoint the GPU like the vast majority of laptops is not upgradeable in any way even from the factory so if you're a pure gamer an $800 desktop will still serve you better but the cool thing is that there are a lot of other aspects of this machine that are upgradable the eight gigs of ram is a single ddr3 low-voltage stick so moving to two 16 gig sticks in dual channel does it require you to discard any there is an m dot 2 slot for a boot SSD to go along with your tuna 1/2 inch hard drive so with a couple of inexpensive aftermarket upgrades that can be performed with a Phillips head screwdriver in about 5 minutes thanks to the thoughtful single-cell retaining screw design on the bottom plate for under $1,000 you can throw together a config that makes a lot more sense to me then the thousand dollar config on the Dell site where you're just paying a bunch extra for the core i7 but what are you giving up then I mean so far this thing sounds pretty much perfect lattice and yeah there are definitely things I mean if you've watched a few of my laptop videos you've probably realized by now that I had never mentioned the keyboard it's not great it's not terrible and there's very little flex to the wrist rest and the keyboard surface itself but the key traps wobble more than I'd like and the keystrokes are pretty mushy and the touchpad is actually much worse than the keyboard to the point where I'd call it more of a press pad very light touches can fail to register outright making fine adjustments somewhat difficult and there's more the large battery means that the 75 59 while reasonably thin is pretty heavy for its size the speakers are surprisingly loud but don't sound very good and the Intel 3160 1x1 Wi-Fi solution is literally one-quarter the speed in real-world transfer tests of other more premium solutions we have here in the office but believe it or not all of that still adds up to a recommendation here because there are more things that they got right as well under gaming load the 75 59 stays shockingly quiet and even runs passively while performing basic desktop tasks thanks to its three heat sinks and the overall fit and finish while not comparable to something like a blade 14 is damn good 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