[PF] T.J. bought one already

This post has been edited by aristotletan: May 10 2013, 03:59 PM

go convience [PF] T.J. , you go search viper88 recent transaction he really bought one.

I know there's no external review here cause seems like only country like China, HK, Taiwan, and SEA got..
Therefore, I give you some review... Hope it helps.
Dell Vostro 5460 - Official Review

ZOL Expert Review

ZOL Customer Review

Sry, all written in chinese. If you cannot read chinese use google translate.
Overall is good laptop, but some customer not so good.

I donno why you all ignoring me..

i5 M processor version





Ultrabook version


The link below got 40 images more... Hope you satisfied
http://detail.zol.com.cn/pro/eva_345556_10702809.html

If still not enough can tell me...

This post has been edited by aristotletan: May 10 2013, 07:23 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-6qdwohBbo



This post has been edited by aristotletan: May 10 2013, 11:07 PM

According to some verified buyer, they said sound quality is just average, nothing very special.
But I cannot confirm though.. This is what I read from Dell China website.

But didn't save much money by finding viper88, right?
I find a dell agent but save Rm60

What is your Vostro model? i3, i5M or i5U? If i5M please run a battery test. Put about 50% brightness with wifi on let's see how long it can sustain. Thanks.

Just go for i5M. If you concern about battery life you should get Inspiron 14 cause it got 6 cell with ULV processor but cheaper price...
According to review which I saw, i5 ULV for vostro maximum can only 4~5 hours, while i5 M around 3~3.5 hours. Not difference much seriously.
Of course 1899 version is best deal, cause you can buy better quality of SSD like Plextor which have better speed if you set it as boot.
But overall depends on how you use. Why need 8GB RAM? 4GB not sufficient?

ya but what I trying to tell him that is if battery is the MAIN concern shouldn't go for this.

This post has been edited by aristotletan: May 22 2013, 08:00 PM

SATA3.0, but backward compatible with SATA2.0
PLEXTOR SSD M5M or Crucial M4
Wanna install OS better get freeDOS version, if you haven't buy it.

EDIT: Sry if made you confused. Both SATA and mSATA version is 3.0, so no worries.

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 2 2013, 11:54 PM

Yes. He is right, and I was wrong.
According to what Dell Specialist in Chia said, he said that half-sized SSD will work, something like picture below:


But then someone asking to him that "Is there any solution to install SSD without taking HDD?"
He replied, "The only solution is since there is no ODD, so can try to use empty ODD space to put a SSD, but maybe problem like cannot detect or not compatible might occur."

Source (in Chinese)

Normal size SSD sure can, as long as is 7mm type. mSATA not sure. You can't see my picture above?
So take out HDD put SSD, then HDD as ext HDD

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 4 2013, 05:05 PM

Dear Vostro 5460 user:

DON't BUY half-sized mSATA SSD. This is because its BIOS itself doesn't support using MSATA SSD as boot-up, only can be used as cache. If you really want a cache mSATA, u should buy ultrabook version.

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 8 2013, 02:47 AM

Here you go > http://nbbbs.zol.com.cn/41/21_405232.html , posts #2
All words written in chinese, if you are Malay you can use google translate.
FYI, that guy is Dell Expert in China, so I don't think he will made mistake here.

But then the statement below is quite confusing:

Translated: If you want to use mechanical drive (HDD) with SSD hybrid, you may disassemble optical drive??
But there's no ODD present in Vostro 5460, maybe use the ODD slot? Seriously I'm not sure.

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 8 2013, 09:30 PM

If you don't want bloatware and able to install windows 8 by yourself, just take Linux..
Those blotware including dell backup, dell digital delivery, dell support center, Dell Video and many more... Beside drivers, all of them are use useless for me, beside Dell Quickset, which is very important.

Top up RM300 for a genuine licence and wireless mouse are quite expensive. Look at Inspiron 14 model. Pricing between ubuntu and Windows 8 version only RM100.

Even though if you buy genuine OS, the 1 year warranty is limited for hardware only, not software. So I think is not worth. But if genuine OS is a must, why don't you buy a OEM licence separately for Rm279 or less?

Generally, boot time is faster than expected. Well, I don't have Vostro 5460. But I help my friend to do formatting using Inspiron 14 i5-ULV model, it was fast! But it takes time to be fast. For the first few time was slower due to windows update etc.

EDIT: For my case, Touchpad for Inspiron 14 isn't good either. So I removed the synaptics driver and error is reduced. But if without driver, multitouch cannot be used and Fn keys won't work.

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jun 13 2013, 03:04 PM

Cause you use your mSATA as cache. but your bios don't have option to switch it. It compiles a list of commonly accessed files and moves them to the cache SSD, so that over time the most commonly used apps / files are accessed very quickly.

Cache drive is not available in my computer and device manager. Even it doesn't appeared there doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you don't believe can take out your casing and see by yourself.

Ooh is it? Sry for the mistake. cause I only understand the mechanism but never tried it. Thanks.

Samsung build quality better than Dell Vostro. Not only that, touchpad is better, 1 additional RAM slot, and better speaker.
But both laptop consider different "class" already. You already know vostro is standard processor with a low-mid range of Nvidia card, while samsung don't have dedicated graphic card, so depends on you need that kind of "performance" or not. Anyway can consider Samsung Series 5 NP530U4E at RM2.3k

This is the recommended system requirements for CIV


So I think Vostro 5460 meets the requirements of CIV beside processor maybe.
GT630M > Desktop 9800GT

This post has been edited by aristotletan: Jul 18 2013, 08:26 AM