Dell Inspiron 15 5000 5577 Gaming Laptop - (15.6" Full HD (1920x1080), Intel Quad-Core i5-7300HQ Processor, 1TB HDD, 8GB DDR4 DRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 4GB VRAM, Windows 10

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Where can I start, this has been my best laptop, the first days were a struggle, deleting the bloatware, updating drivers, downloading programs, passing files from my old laptop, the laptop was laggy sometimes, the laptop took a lot of time turning off and starting and I started to complain about my purchase, I had problems updating the Video Card drivers, I didnt have administrator permissions, but those were little issues that I solved, then, updating all the stuff, drivers, setting the system for the best performance and following the instructions from others users, my laptop turned into a monster. It runs all the games that I want (Rainbow Six with things in very high and ultra, GTA V in very high, PUBG in ultra settings, etc) with 60+ fps and its amazing. It doesnt overheat and now it starts really fast and it works great. I bought it for school, but I wanted something that could run some "heavy" games and this was more than I was expecting. This is my first "gaming" laptop and Im really happy with my purchase. Now Ill get a SSD and more RAM and it will be the perfect laptop for this price. [TIP] If your graphic card appears as Intel HD Graphics use this this tip to change it to GTXs card. (Thanks to -BigDaddy- for the help) 1. Right Click on your desktop. 2. Click NVIDIA Control Panel. 3. Click Manage 3D Settings on the left menu. 4. Click on the Preferred graphics processor drop down menu under the Global Settings tab. 5. Select High-performance NVIDIA processor from the list. [EDIT] 8 months later and it works like it used to work in the first weeks, all still really nice, I found more ways to make this laptop faster and Im in love. It worked nice in school and it worked nice playing (8 hours or more playing) and it didnt overheat, sooo I can say that it was a nice purchase. [TIP] Look for videos to improve the performance of the graphic card, I just found out and it works a lot faster in games :D

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So, first thing is first: I am not a heavy PC gamer. I play mostly consoles when I do game. But I needed a new laptop for school and music production and its rare to find a laptop with an actual graphics card higher than a 960M for this price. A few points: This DID come with 8GB DDR4 RAM, a 4GB GTX 1050 (not the Ti edition), and a 1TB hard drive. It does support up to 32GB RAM using 2 16GB sticks, and is upgradeable through a door on the bottom. Pros: -This laptop feels sturdy and solid. I love the red accents and the solid black main body color. -The graphics card has handled the light gaming Ive done with it with flying colors. So far, Ive tested Portal 2 at maxed out settings and its done roughly 180-200fps. LA Noire at all maxed settings keeps a steady 30fps (its frame locked), Metro 2033 at maxed settings runs at roughly 45fps. -The Intel i5 has been a solid CPU for it as well. -The wifi uses ac and b/g/n so it makes full usage of the 5ghz channel for wireless. The speed difference is night and day. I get almost triple the download speed using ac over b/g/n. -Battery life unplugged and surfing the internet is really good. 7-8 hours. Cons: -Ok, so this is my major issue and the only reason its not getting 5 stars. The speakers are...not great. They advertise a subwoofer, but Im not sure what the deal with that is since the bass on this is average at best. The speakers do tend to crackle and distort at higher volumes to the point where a musician like myself gets very annoyed. Im actually debating on buying a bluetooth speaker to use instead. Overall, if youre looking for a solid gaming laptop, this is probably the best one Ive found, but be aware that the speakers are not great and I almost feel like they dropped sound quality to increase graphics quality. Its a weird trade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EDIT: Almost a year in now. Laptop has been awesome. Hinge is still nice and tight, speakers are still crackling at high volumes, the 4GB 1050 has worked great. I run Overwatch on Ultra graphics at 55-60fps even in hectic moments. I stuck a 256GB Samsung M.2 SSD in it and migrated my OS over to it and it boots up and is usable within 30 seconds. Its usable the second I log in, much sooner than the HDD that was in it. No issues with overheating. Overall, so far, Im happy with my purchase. Ill be sticking another 8GB of RAM in it soon, but DDR4 is still expensive.

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I recommend doing a full reset using the "Fresh Start" option on Windows 10 after you get the laptop, which is not simply a reset, but puts Windows 10 to its default mode without everything Dell put on the laptop. The laptop is great, but when you first get it, it might run pretty trashy due to bloatware. After my reset, the thing has been running great for the last few months, but before the reset (the first week of owning the laptop), it ran slow, had low performance on games, and was simply not working great. That was my experience.

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I bought this laptop (1TB,8 RAM,I5 ) a few weeks ago,shipped really fast!,when I got this laptop I encountered a problem on the disk hard drive, it was always about 100%, I spoke with Dells customer service and their employee gave an excellent attitude and fixed the problem in a few seconds, the next problem I encountered was limitation of the fps when the computer is unplugged from power source, to solve this problem you need to download the Nvidia GeForce Experience and change the battrey boost to 60 fps,great laptop so far,can handle most of the games on ultra,also look cool and comfortable to use,I keep updating if anything new come out.

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Have had mine for almost a month now and heres my thoughts. The keys have a nice matted texture that I enjoy. The backlight is very nice and even. Only complaint with it is its defult is to fade after less than a minute but thats a setting issue only. Its light weight but feels very sturdy. The whole finish is matted, which Im a fan of. Plenty of ports. Looks great. (Just like photos) The Screen. I read alot of reviews where this was the most disappointing part of the laptop due to quality issues. I find (switch to it from a high quality touch screen) that yes it is lacking a bit however as for as display quality I believe the issue lies more in the defult contrast and color settings. After looking up where to find the calibration setting I went through the steps and lowered contrast and brightness, then color sturation. After this the screen looked so much better. Complete game changer. I dont even think about it anymore. If you do alot of Photoshop for photo editing you may not want this laptop but I think thoes are the only people who need to worry about the screen. Of course if you can afford a higher price point and your worried about mind blowing display then go for another laptop. But for people wanting a laptop with a good processor AND graphics card for games and Adobe style products in this price range this is going to work great for you. Think its more of a 4.5 because to get it to 5 you need to mess with the settings a bit. Have played games like league or ledgends, wow, and other online games (Been told it would run ARC as well) Use it for my graphic design classes and projects as well.

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Out of the box this is a very clean looking computer. It took a couple days to get all the updates done but that is to be expected. Once that was out of the way though and I did a disk clean up this thing runs like a champ. There was not a lot of bloat ware to get off of it either. My step son is very happy for this runs World of Warcraft at max settings and Battlefield 1 at near max settings (and yes it will run Crysis - hahaha) Can get a lil warm but that is nothing that a decent cooling plate cant fix. The screen is nice and bright, very fast refresh, keyboard is decent. Speakers are loud - not the best quality but it is a lap top / if you want louder just plug in your creative labs 7.1 surround sound into it. Over all this is a monster machine - especially for the price. Also, you could not build a desk top for this price with the same specs - I tried 120 board 200 chip 185 video 90 ram 50 hard drive 50 power supply 50 case 90 monitor 30 keyboard 25 speakers/headphones = 890

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I like this laptop. upgraded from a dell i3531 which is a $250 laptop so its a huge step up for me though It still a plastic laptop so you probably should expect small cracks on the side of the laptop that doesnt effect the usability and isnt noticeable. to help avoid this recommend getting a poly carbonate shell to give you laptop more protection. I like that the laptop has a full HD panel but the TN display make colors look much worse when compared to IPS but its overall is fine if you never used an IPS screen (the difference is considerable). Sound is good and the underside sub woofer makes listening to music a lot more immersive. 3 USB 3.0 ports isnt enough for me i need at least 4 since one port is always occupied with a wireless mouse receiver i also need a port to charge my mouse and a port for a external HDD which means i always need to unplug one of these things if want to use another USB. The HDD version i have is way too slow for 2018 standards and i think SSDs are close to becoming the standard for laptops. Keyboard and track pad are good so no worries unless your not used having a NumPad to the right of the keyboard which requires you to slightly disposition your hands from the center of the laptop to the left which is slightly uncomfortable if you want to type papers. I usually keep my laptop on my desk since Ive seen pictures of the 7559 (which has the same body as this laptop) being completely destroyed because of the hinge defect on these laptops. At first i was worried that this might happen to me but its been over 2 months since i bought this so my fears have settled but you should still be careful to not drop this laptop cause it will probably break unless you get the poly carbonate shell which will make this laptop stronger. the gaming side of this laptop is fine and the fans do get noisy when your gaming but its drowned out by the games so i really notice most of the time. As of right now dell released the new G series gaming laptops which start at $750 which is 100 dollars more but the quality is bound to be improved and it has HDMI 2.0 for 4K at 60HZ and a M.2 SSD NVME drive for crazy fast memory speed even faster then M.2 SSD(which is the best you can get for this laptop). For example SSD M.2 is 5 times faster then HDD and NVME SSD M.2 is 5 times faster then a M.2 SSD.. though NVME M.2 SSDs are much more expensive but will get cheaper in the future so you can always buy one separately and add it in yourself since dell gaming laptops are easy to upgrade.the upgraded hardware on the G3 means your more future proof with G3 series laptops then with this 5577 but that is not to say you wont be fine with this laptop since you still able to do work on this laptop and game. Overall i gave this laptop 4 stars since its decent and i got it for $636.50 ($676.28 with tax) so i recommend getting this if you dont intend to run a 4k at 60HZ monitor or require NVME and dont care about color accuracy on the display. P.S you can run 4K at 30HZ which is enough for movies. also the polycarbonate shell I am referring to is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDBVZW6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Very good budget gaming laptop. Took out the 1TB HDD it came with, and threw in a 128GB SSD (which I just prefer speed over storage) and had an extra 8GB of DDR4 Laptop RAM so mine is a slight upgrade from normal, but that being said for the money its a great portable gaming machine, obviously not as good as a desktop for around the same price, but pretty damn close. I get like 80s in PUBG, 150 in CSGO, and I didnt really bench more than that because I have my main gaming desktop for that, this is just for on the go. Overall its good, monitor sucks, but thats what you have an HDMI port for, keyboard sucks, but most laptops have an awful keyboard in my opinion, and touchpad sucks, but nobody is going to use the touchpad for gaming. All in all I love it.

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I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 brand new as gift to my sister and i sent it to her out of the US and the laptop was without a windows key , and when i called the Dell support number they didnt do anything to me.

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Was looking for a low end gaming laptop that could run games like GW2 without issue. This laptop seems to fit the bill just fine. Aside from installing a M.2 SATA no issues so far. As the version I got came with the 1 TB HD. I quickly moved to add a M.2 drive and move the OS to it. This proved to be a very frustrating experience. The system can use a M.2 SATA drive. I bought the Crucial MX500 SATA M.2 2280 SS. Out of the box I could not get the (very limited) BIOS on this laptop to recognize the drive. Couldnt find it is disk manager. Decided it must be DOA, until I invested in a QNINE USB to SATA M.2 adapter. Slapped it on that, plugged it in, and it came right up in disk manager. I mounted it, used Macrium Reflect to clone C to the M.2. Removed from the adapter, reinstalled and booted up. It booted off the HD, but disk manager at least showed the M.2. As the BIOS is absolute garbage, had to remove the HD, then it booted off the M.2. Added the HD back, it continued to boot off M.2. Blew away the HD partitions, and add it back as the D drive. So my experience is you need to clone the M.2 SATA before you can get the BIOS to acknowledge it.

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