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  • Dell Inspiron 7460 Review-Pros and Cons

    Dell Inspiron 7460 is a premium laptop for those who are looking for a compact and lightweight laptop with good performance and less expensive than ultrabook. It is available in two color variants namely cool elegant silver and warm rich gold. Before we start our Dell Inspiron 7460 review, here is the configuration of our review unit.

    Dell Inspiron 7460 Review

    Specification of Dell Inspiron 7460

    • 7th Generation Intel Core i5-7200U Processor (3MB Cache, up to 3.1 GHz).
    • 8GB DDR4 RAM with 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive.
    • 14.0-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Truelife LED-Backlit Display.
    • NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2GB GDDR5 graphics memory.
    • Windows 10 Home Single Language 64bit English.
    • Dimensions: Height: 18.95mm (0.75) x Width: 323.3mm (12.73) x Depth: 227.1mm (8.94) and weighs 1.65Kg.
    • Backlit Keyboard and available ports-1 HDMI, 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 3.0 with PowerShare, 1 USB 2.0, 1 Noble lock slot, Media Card Reader.

    Dell Inspiron 7460 Review-Pros and Cons

    This Dell Inspiron 7460 Review is summarised through pros and cons of this notebook.

    Dell Inspiron 7460 Pros

    • Premium and compact design: Inspiron 7460 sports good design and build quality. Brushed aluminum reinforced with a magnesium alloy top inner frame in addition to diamond-cut edges, give premium feel to this notebook. The ultra thin bezel of display helps to make the notebook compact even though it has 14 inch display screen.
    • Full HD display screen: Dell Inspiron 7460 comes with 14 inch full HD IPS display screen. The screen is vibrant and decently sharp. Viewing angles and color accuracy are satisfactory.
    • Connectivity ports:  While there is a increase in trend of dropping of ports to make the notebook slimmer, Inspiron 7460 sports almost all essential ports such as USB 3.0, Media Card Reader, HDMI, USB 3.0 with power share.
    • Good performance:  As it has 7th Generation Intel Core i5 with NVIDIA GeForce 940MX graphics and 8GB of RAM, this compact notebook provides good day to day performance. The video editing performance was also decent.
    • Keyboard: Inspiron 7460 comes with backlit keyboard. The keys have decent travel. Overall it feels good to type on this keyboard.

    Dell Inspiron 7460 Cons

    Here are the few things which we didn’t like on this Dell Notebook.

    • Glossy Display screen: This notebook has glossy screen. As a result of it,  it is difficult to use in outdoor. Even in indoors where light source is behind, it is little difficult to read on this screen.
    • No optical drive.
    • Low Sound output: Sound via speakers are decent. But if you are looking for good audio experience, it is better to use external speakers.

  • Dell Inspiron 3542 Review- Pros and Cons

    Dell Inspiron 3542 is the budget laptop for the home users. This laptop is designed for the people who spend time on browsing, watching movies and basic day to day activities. I have been using this laptop from past 7 months. Here is my long term review on Dell Inspiron 3542.

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    My review unit of Dell Inspiron 3542 is powered by 4th gen Intel Core i3-4500U processor clocked at 1.7GHz. It has 4GB of DDR 3L RAM and 500GB of hard disc. Out of the box, it came with Windows 8.1 Home edition. However, It already recieved the Windows 10 update. Coming the performance, it is below average. The software, hardware integration is pathetic. The OS crashes often. Some times, it even refuses to turn on from the standby mode. The only way to deal with this to force restart. At times even a basic browsing feels frustrating. However, adding the 8GB RAM, helps a bit on performance improvement.

    Dell Inspiron 3542 sports 15.6 inch True life LED-Backlite Display with screen resolution of 1366×768 pixels. In this laptop, Dell has used low quality display panel. The viewing angles are below average. It has poor brightness. The contrast and colours reproduction are also not satisfactory. Overall, the display quality nowhere feels like it is a 30k laptop.

    Coming to connectivity options it does provide USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, HDMI port, Ethernet port and headphone/mic combi jack.  Dell has equipped this laptop with one of the poor quality speakers. Hence audio quality from the speakers are not good. Audio via headphone jack is slightly better than the built in speakers. It has got decent keyboard but this cannot be said for the track pad. Once again, Dell failed to provide good quality trackpad.

    Here is the summary of Dell Inspiron 3542 Review based on pros and cons.

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Dell Inspiron 3542

    Pros of Inspiron 3542

    • Very good service support.
    • Decent battery backup.
    • Decent connectivity option.
    • Easy to add additional RAM.

    Cons of Inspiron 3542

    • Low quality display screen.
    • Poor performance.
    • Poor trackpad.
    • Below average audio output.

    Verdict: At a price of around 30k, Dell Inspiron 3542 fails to inspire. Its cheap quality plastic build coupled with poor performance and low quality display screen makes this laptop unattractive to buy. Except world class post sales support, nothing exceptional on this device. For the price, there are many other option which provides better performance and build quality.  The budget Asus Eeebook 205 has better build and performs way better than this laptop.