Let me start off by saying I did tons of research on this laptop before buying and was so scared I was going to get one with a myriad of issues. But I took my chances and I think I got really lucky because mine has almost no issues, no battery problems or no wobbly trackpad. The screen is absolutely gorgeous with the slim bezels and the keyboard is wonderful to type on. It's got a soft premium feel to it. I did uninstall a bunch of bloatware and toyed around with the settings to get it to my personal liking and to optimize performance. Definitely get rid of McAfee, you don't need it. I deleted Dell PremierColor because it forced adaptive brightness (which is annoying af), made videos look really weird with color banding issues, and didn't affect the color vividness otherwise anyway.
I suggest to update the Dell drivers, delete bloatware, and play around with the settings.
I've had the laptop for about 2 months now and haven't had any problems yet. My performance is limited to basic computer usage, though, so I can't say how well it performs under video and photo editing, gaming, and other very heavy loads. I use it for browsing, watching videos, listening to music, Microsoft Office, and the other usual stuff. It lets me do a bunch of things at once without heating up too much (it'll get warm but that's not a complaint for me). It works great for my needs. Battery life varies greatly depending on the brightness levels and what I'm doing. Sometimes I could go all day without charging and sometimes I'll need to charge it after 4-5 hours. It just varies a lot. The only thing I think that is subpar is the camera quality, which is pretty abysmal. It's the 2020s, it shouldn't be that hard to provide a decent high quality camera. Still, most laptops don't have great cameras so it's not a deal breaker or anything and it lets you do Zoom, etc. fine; it's just disappointing.
Overall, a beautiful laptop that performs well. I came from an old 2012 Dell laptop so this one is just miles better in every way.
| Standing screen display size | 15 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2400 Pixels |
| Processor | 5 GHz apple_ci7 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2400 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 512 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | NVIDIA GTX 1650Ti |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4 GB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ax |
| National Stock Number | 884116363002 |
