Micro Center Web Store You are currently browsing the products available on our web store. If you would like to choose a store location, please do so below. Dell Inspiron 1. 5 7. Review. Introduction. So, what Dells cooked for us with the new Insiron 1. The starting price, including discounts which were there from the start is around 7. Dell. For that price the 7. I5 6. 30. 0HQ 4. C4. T, 1x. 8GB DDR3. L RAM, GTX 9. M 4. GB, 1. 08. 0p IPS non touch matte display and 1. TB SSHD or 2. 56. GB SSD. I got the SSD version simply because it was easier for me to get it. The 7. 55. 9 is an interesting proposition because for this price, the specs are at least as good as the competitors for gaming performance. Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' title='Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' />The Inspiron 1525 is a laptop designed and distributed by Dell as part of their Inspiron range. There is also an AMD variant known as the Inspiron 1526. The Skylake I5, as far as we know, is as powerful for gaming as an I7 including DX1. Ashes of Singularity but requires less power and produces less heat, so this is a good CPU and no reason to go for an I7 for gaming at this point and with such a GPU. Add to that the IPS display, GTX 9. M 4. GB, supposedly good cooling system that throws air from three sides and you got yourself a good gaming laptop, barely matched by the others. The new VN7 5. 92. G and Lenovo Y7. 00 currently go for at least 1. D00_8500.PNG' alt='Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' title='Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' />What, then, should we actually worry about Well, no USB 3. TB3 and maybe screen, keyboard and speakers quality. The 7. 55. 9 also uses a DDR3. L instead of the newer DDR4, but it probably wont have effect on gaming too much unless they are RAM bound a place a game developer shouldnt get to in the first place on a reasonable hardware, barring i. GPUs. Ofcourse, a DDR4 will be great for APU based systems in the future, but thats not our case. Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' title='Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' />Benchmarks supports the above words. Read more here and here and google it. So, the Dell Inspiron 1. Component. Description. Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' title='Dell Xps Microphone Not Working' />Model. Dell Inspiron 1. Price. As tested, 8. CPUIntel Skylake I5 6. HQ, 4. C4. T, 2. GHZ, 6. MB cache. GPUNvidia Geforce GTX 9. M 4. GB GDDR5, GM1. Maxwell I, 6. 40 shaders, core1. MHZ, GDDR51. 25. MHZ, 1. Motherboard Chipset. DELL 0. H8. 7XC Intel HM1. Skylake PCH H4x. PCI Express x. PCI Express x. 8, 1x. PCI Express x. 16. RAMHynix 1x. 8GB DDR31. MHZ HMT4. 1GS6. BFR8. A PBStorage. HDD None. SSD San. Disk Z4. M. 2 2. 28. 0 2. 56. GBM. 2 total 1x. Sata 3. LCD Panel. In review 1. IPS BOE Unknown Model BOE0. F, NV1. 5N4. 1 DELL PN YHDGTWeight Dimensions. Lbs. 3. 83 x 2. 65 x 2. Keyboard. White backlit 3 levels including offConnection Portsright side card reader, 1x. HDMI, 1x. USB 3. 0 powered, RJ 4. Lexington key. Left audio outmicrophone, 2x. USB3. 0, powerrear None. Camera. 10. 80. PWi. Fi Ethernet. Wi. Fi IntelR Dual Band Wireless AC 3. Ethernet Real. Tek Semiconductor RTL8. PCI E Gigabit Ethernet NICSpeakers Audio. Intel Skylake PCH H High Definition Audio Controller. Realtek Battery. Wh. Bios EC version test unit1. Extra featuresmore details. Build quality, Case, design and looks. The Dell 7. 55. 9 chassis is reasonably firm and at least on par with the competition. The keyboards surface wont easily yield under pressture, nor the other parts around the keyboard surface. Same goes to thr chassis bottom. The display panel outer lid and bezel are not as firm and will yield under pressure I would make sure there is some protection if I were carrying it in a beg, for example unlike my Dell Latitude E7. Hinges feel good, but I cant really know how well they are built. The chassis itself is not composed of a lot of dust inviting gaps. The touchpad surface has a very small space between it and the chassis less than many other laptops Ive used. Also, the weight is distributed well for use on the laps and the 7. Looks. The Dell Inspiron 1. Black smooth chassis with textured surface area. A bit of red for the speakers grill and ventilation holes. Smooth outer lid. The frame doesnt look too big thanks to the shape of the edges, as is common in our age. Simple and nice. I dont know what is the problem with the images and why they look so bad, but Im getting better and maybe getting a better camera. Maintenance and inner parts. Maintenance complexity is easy if you want to just to addchange RAM, M. Serial Number Phone Clean License Code. SSD. There is only one screw that prevents one from reaching the juicy inners of the 7. The Wifi card is also revealed and so are the fans, if needed to be cleaned. I didnt take too deep pictures of the inner parts nor did I disassembled the 7. Dell which is great. Lets look at the cooling system now The cooling system is composed of two fans and three ventilation holes. The GPU and CPU share three heatpipes, two of them are connected to two cooling plates and one heatpipe to the another, side plate. Cool air is sucked from below and spitted out to the rear and left your left when facing the screen, which makes for a more efficient cooling then in many other laptops for the same price. The temperatures results are in coordination with it. Connection ports selection rather basic with HDMI 1. USB 3. 0 as well as the usual stuff like RJ 4. LAN connection. So, no highlights here. No Thunderbolt 3 nor even a USB 3. Gtr2 S. Keyboard and touchpad. Games For Psp 4.01. Keyboard.  Well, the 7. Y5. 0s keyboard the keys travel depth, feedback and resistance are something around mediocre average with some variation between the keys. Dell could improve each one of these parameters to make the keyboard a lot better, but the combination of all these makes a not very good experience. The keys located more to the left were better in these aspects, however. I wonder how good is the Y7. VN7 5. 92. G keyboards. UPDATE Maybe I was too hard on the 7. I should clarify. Its not a bad keyboard, but it lacks the feeling of a high quality keyboard. The keys do have acceptable feedback, but with the low resistance, travel depth and the additional experience variation between the keys, my bottom line experience is mediocre. It might be different for others, but Im pretty sure its not a good keyboard. Keys texture is nice actually and they are well spaced. The keyboard is also backlit, which is helpful but not unique. Moreover, the keyboards surface does not yield under pressure really, which is good. A small effort and the keyboard be good Touchpad. The rather big touchpad is good with a nice texture and no yield under pressure. Sound Speakers. A little disappointment. The 2. 0 speakers sound is a little hollow andor boxy with audio all over the place. The speakers also obviously need an equalizer tuning, but it is not enough. There is some strength and richness in the mids and maybe low mids in songs like this the singers voice sounds rich to some degree, if I hear and interpret correctly. The subwoofer adds a little lows, but they are not of quality and it also scrambles the sound of the 2. I feel. I feel that the 2. When listening closer to the 2. Even though, the 2. I cant exactly put my ears on. First, when volume goes a little up, there is some unwanted extra artifact sound like the power is too much, but more than that, I really feel that the sound gets messy and sometimes all over the place I know I said it, at least in the highs and high mids and especially when the audio gets a little more powerful, and thats without all the software enhancers. Also, it sounds to me like the speakers have some problem handling a complex sound they lose their grip and destroy the sound. Anyway, the real lows are not good. Adding bass via the Equalizer or the Maxx audio software might help a bit, but barely not enough to save the situation and it always feels like its hard to keep the balance. Ive tried few equalizer presets to no avail.