myway1985
Excuse me but you seems an expert around here, do you have any advice for this particular laptop?
I'll be using this for web browsing, very light gaming & running virtual machines.

Any cons about the processor? The screen is fine, I have an external display ready. Also it's on sale for 1.8k, good enough?

This post has been edited by nymerine: Nov 29 2014, 03:08 PM

Yeap, already reserved it just confirming whether I'm making a good choice or not.

Ah okay, just confirming. I'm really clueless about laptops. I hope that 2Core 4Threads can do my jobs with ease.

Mainly for developing stuff & running virtual machines(VT-x). Play HD movies once in awhile maybe. Multitasking mainly.

My budget is under 2k. What kind of basic job? As long can run a VM is fine for me.

My Inspiron 14R 5447 just came in today, looks very sleek & simple, loving the design of it.
So far I've only tried playing h264 720 & 1080p + flac, hi10p 720p & 1080p + flac videos, they all have butter smooth playback on VLC.
Will try to play BDISO on it when I have time, and run some games if I can.

Finally got myself some free times to do real usage review. But I'm not really a fan of benchmarking programs so I'll just test whatever I'm doing/using.
I couldn't really bench programs but based on my usage, this notebook totally can handle multitasking pretty well. It will be on production soon enough to see whether it really can handle it or not.

So far, the only cons that pretty severe to me is built-in battery, thus non really long lifespan of batteries since I'll have to keep it plugged in whole time. Less severe probably the optical drive & 5400RPM HDD, but who needs optical drive nowadays , and for the power saving HDD, it's not a big deal I think, slower boot time but whatever .
No problem with videos playback, able to play anything from 720p to 1080p smoothly.

Design wise, it looks pretty cool in Red colour, mix between black & red really brings it out.The air intake are at the bottom of the laptop, out takes is in weird place.. it's placed right under the screen. Stereo speakers, placed in front under palm rest. 3x USB 3.0, 1x HDMI, Card readers, that's all for external ports.

The unboxing is really.. boring I'd say, there's just a box & laptop with charger, nothing else.
Temperature, I got it to 80C while playing Diablo 3 somewhere that have bad air flow place, but its only that one time, in my room it stays under 70c full load & 35-40c idle.

Price, for RM1700? for this kind of performance? Damn good deal I'd say.

Portability, just <2kg, everyday I'm carrying 2-3 Kgs of textbook, not a big deal to me. I haven't try using the laptop until it ran out of battery though, might will do soon.


Room Temp : 25C (non-air-conditioned room)


Games

Guild Wars 2 1366x768

Lion's Arch	30FPS	60C	Preset : Low
Black Citadel	25 FPS	60C	Preset : Low
Divinity's Reach	30 FPS	60C	Preset : Low

Diablo 3 1366x768

Bastion's Keep Stronghold	45FPS	60C	Preset: High (AA)	no mobs
Fields of Slaughter	40FPS	65C	Preset : High (AA)	40+ Mobs
Fields of Slaughter	40FPS	65C	Preset : High (AA)	10+ Mobs & Elite

Comments : That's pretty good for light gaming considering the specifications & price. Light/medium gaming are definitely a go for this laptop.

Specifications :
DELL INSPIRON 14R(5447) LAPTOP
4th Gen Intel Core i7-4510U processor(4M Cache,up to 3.1 GHz)
Genuine Windows 8.1 Home 64bit
1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hybrid Hard Drive with 8GBCache
8GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz(4GBx2)
No Optical Drive
High Definition Audio enhanced with Waves MaxxAudio AMD Radeon HD R7 M265 2GB DDR3
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet Port 5 in 1 Card Reader(SD,SDHC,SD3.0,MS,MS Pro)
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 1x1+Bluetooth 4.0
LCD back cover for Non-Touch Screen-Red 14.0 inch LED Backlit Display with Truelife and HD resolution(1366x768) HD 720p Webcam with Array Microphones 3-cell Lithium Ion(43WHr) Battery
1 Year Warranty

This post has been edited by nymerine: Dec 13 2014, 02:59 AM