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One gem I found when I was shopping for a laptop is the Dell Inspiron 7559 (part of their "gaming" series). I bought the most expensive $1300 version last winte
by pbohun 10y ago
One gem I found when I was shopping for a laptop is the Dell Inspiron 7559 (part of their "gaming" series). I bought the most expensive $1300 version last winter and it's been great.
- 4k touchscreen
- i7 Skylake processor w/ identical stats to that on the $2400 15" macbook pro
- 16 GB RAM
- 128 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD (I replaced the HDD with a 500 GB SSD from Amazon)
- NVIDIA GTX 960m w/ 4 GB GDDR5 RAM
It's sturdily made, I take it everywhere. The only thing I miss from my mac is the trackpad. You can't beat mac trackpads. However, the trackpad on the Inspiron is great, much better than many of the others I've tried. When you take into account it has better graphics acceleration than the $2800 macbook pro, you find that dollar for dollar, it's one of the best value laptops out there. (Seriously, compare it to even Dell's XPS 15, you'd have to pay ~$1650 for an XPS 15 to get comparable specs to the $1300 Inspiron 7559. The Inspiron even has double the graphics card RAM of the $2550 XPS 15!)
- hxegon 10y agoWow, those are great specs for 1300. what's battery life like?
- pbohun 10y agoIt's one of those "it depends" answers, but mine lasts around 4-5 hours when: - cranked the screen to 80% brightness - have two browsers open with multiple tabs (plus YouTube playing in the background) - doing development I'd say it's about average. If you play games the graphics card is going to soak up energy within a couple hours, but for heavy gameplay you'd want to plug it in anyway. I always want more battery life, but it does well enough and has such good specs otherwise that I can't complain.
- vacri 10y agoHave you done any tuning with 'powertop'? If not, that can add some non-trivial time to your battery life.