Hi guys, I just placed on order for a Dell Inspiron 15R. The one with ATI HD5650.

I think I've made the right choice. For that price, you get a good processor, 4GB 1333Mhz, 500GB 7200RPM and more importantly, HD5650.



Anyone that owns this laptop? Please share some tips on how to make it more awesome.

Oh btw, my laptop sits on my desk 99% of the time. Only bringing it out when I go travelling which is once a year. I don't think I need to worry too much about warranty, right? It's not like things will start to fail within a year or 2.

Oh, mine's with 2 years limited hardware warranty.
I can't tell you anything yet, haven't even received it lol. Just placed my order yesterday. Hopefully getting it within less than a week.

Still, any tips/problems with yours?

Oh, so you cannot access MS Office 2010? Dell didn't help you solve the problem meh?
Nice to hear it's running well, anyway, it's 40 ~ 50+ for idle, right? What about gaming? How hot will it get?

Playing Assassin's Creed with maximum graphic settings, 88'C in a room with temperature of 26'C. Idle at 50.
That's just the 5650, though.

The i5 processors are always at low temperatures. Never exceeded 70'C. Idle at about 30 ~ 35.

I have the same issue, lol.
Q drive appears after opening Office but cannot be accessed. I don't think it's a big problem, though.
What I hate about Office Starter is that it doesn't come with Powerpoint

If got Word+PPT+Excel then it would be enough for my Uni work. Now idk whether I should keep it and use Openoffice for PPT or uninstall 2010 and install 2007 because I have the genuine Office 2007.

74's pretty good. Mine goes up to 85.
Max settings on Assassin's Creed.