I was about to complain that a 16" laptop should have room for two SSD slots but then I thought I should be grateful both memory and SSD are at least expandable, considering the sad state of affairs these days.
My wife has just bought this laptop with the 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM - in the few hours shes had it, it seems like an okay laptop. A comparable HP laptop in Currys, admittedly with a touch screen display was £649, compared tot he £549 she paid for hers. The only bugbear I can see is the size of the OS drive - its too small and to get the same laptop with the larger 1TB drive meant having to upgreade the CPU/APU and the price (£699). So, its down to me to replace the drive in a few months time and then make the small drive into a small portable drive for moving documents about.
Only thing that irks me is Dell's unusual decision to go for HDMI 1.4 like it's 2012 for even their midrange laptops. So you're able to add faster and upgradable DDR5, an 8 Core 16 Thread Ryzen and a 16:10 Screen with a fingerprint reader but even HDMI 2.0 (better to have 2.1) is too much to add? Yes I understand that the USB C is still there for conversion and DisplayPort 1.4 with is enough for everything but it's seems so cost cutting considering every other company doesn't skimp out on this.
@@Bryce-H- The 8840U is efficient and quite sufficient, I think that for this price it is very profitable. The integrated graphics chip is really enough to play even more demanding games. The case and keyboard give the impression of being solid. The screen could be brighter, but it doesn't bother too much The only thing is loud cooling. if you are gaming and the fan turns on to maximum speed You can really hear it normal CPU temperature is 50C CPU and GPU loaded 88-93C battery lasts 5h of movies Summarizing. except for loud cooling in games. You won't buy anything better and more universal for this money.
I was about to complain that a 16" laptop should have room for two SSD slots but then I thought I should be grateful both memory and SSD are at least expandable, considering the sad state of affairs these days.
this still has good sales bc all of that, upgradable ram and ssd, many lenovo laptop and asus all soldered ram
My wife has just bought this laptop with the 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM - in the few hours shes had it, it seems like an okay laptop. A comparable HP laptop in Currys, admittedly with a touch screen display was £649, compared tot he £549 she paid for hers. The only bugbear I can see is the size of the OS drive - its too small and to get the same laptop with the larger 1TB drive meant having to upgreade the CPU/APU and the price (£699). So, its down to me to replace the drive in a few months time and then make the small drive into a small portable drive for moving documents about.
Only thing that irks me is Dell's unusual decision to go for HDMI 1.4 like it's 2012 for even their midrange laptops. So you're able to add faster and upgradable DDR5, an 8 Core 16 Thread Ryzen and a 16:10 Screen with a fingerprint reader but even HDMI 2.0 (better to have 2.1) is too much to add? Yes I understand that the USB C is still there for conversion and DisplayPort 1.4 with is enough for everything but it's seems so cost cutting considering every other company doesn't skimp out on this.
Great review, thanks ! 🙂
The real star of this review is the Blackberry Bold 9900
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Post a link with something close to that price, thanks
Great review thanks a lot 🥳🙏🏻
Are the keys loud, do they feel like plastic?
Yes they do make a noise when you are typing and they feel plasticky.
Thanks for video I just purchase 8840u version
Do you like it? Seems solid for the price.
@@Bryce-H- The 8840U is efficient and quite sufficient, I think that for this price it is very profitable.
The integrated graphics chip is really enough to play even more demanding games.
The case and keyboard give the impression of being solid. The screen could be brighter, but it doesn't bother too much
The only thing is loud cooling. if you are gaming and the fan turns on to maximum speed
You can really hear it
normal CPU temperature is 50C
CPU and GPU loaded 88-93C
battery lasts 5h of movies
Summarizing.
except for loud cooling in games.
You won't buy anything better and more universal for this money.
Is the keyboard back-lit?
Yes
I'd be very grateful if someone could let me know whether it'll be possible to upgrade this to a 32gb ram. Thanks so much
Yes you can.
@Dovecomputers thank you so much 😀