Dell has just announced the Inspiron 14 7000 Series, which is a new high performance 14″ laptop that was specially designed and developed for youths. Youths might not have that much disposable income, but their parents who care for them might have more than enough money to send in their direction.
this laptop comes with the processor Intel Core i7-4710HQ, graphics of Nvidia Geforce GTX 850M and 8GB of RAM. It also has the display screen size 14-inch Full-HD IPS on Windows 8.1 operating system genuine.

I've been received this laptop and used it almost 2 weeks until now. So, I would share my review about what I've found on this laptop.

But first, forgive me if there's anything lack of information in my review...this is my first time writing a review about laptop..



Appearance
for me, the design looks simple but still good and attractive.. although it's more bulky than the previous Inspiron 14 7437.
It's weight is 2.23 kg as stated on Dell's website.

As from side view, there's media card reader and power-status light (front), two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0, HDMI port, headset port, Optical drive,
network port and security-cable port.




for surface and keyboard panel, it uses plastic material and also something feels like soft-rubber material (i guess it is fingerprint magnet?).
oil smudge and fingerprint could stick on it. somehow, you can just clean it with any glass cleaning cloth with applied of isopropyl alcohol.




the colour display was good. screen brightness also good, quite bright for me..





This post has been edited by kreyl: Oct 10 2014, 09:48 PM

-sound produce seems good and loud too, since it has MaxxAudio® Pro built-in. design of speakers also not bad, with red dot design.
but it seems quite easy to trap dust on it. need to use brush to remove the dust anyway..




-it has backlit keyboard. the keyboard is seems just okay to type. somehow, someone with hardcore-harsh typer must be careful to use it.
you must not harshly-typed on it.




-This is how the backside looks like. unfortunately, this laptop does NOT have either m.2 sata slot or mSATA slot for SSD though..




Battery
-for normal usage (browsing, play music and video, ms office), it can stands around 4hr 30 min to 5 hr

-the battery is actually removable..somehow, specs on Dell website says the battery is integrated..
i don't know why, but whatever. it's better to be removable anyway..


Performance



This post has been edited by kreyl: Oct 10 2014, 09:46 PM

- this laptop also has 1TB 5400rpm hard disk with 8Gb sshd cache.For me, speed still like a normal HDD.
boot time sometimes quick, sometimes not so quick




Graphics benchmark: 3DMark (Fire Strike, Cloud Gate, Ice Storm)




Maxon Cinebench R15



-sadly, the graphic is not GDDR5, but GDDR3 instead..and yes, there's only small difference in performance between GDDR3 vs GDDR5, but still, GDDR5 runs better than GDDR3 though..most of latest laptop/graphic uses GDDR5, so there's a little downside of this laptop..

Temperature
-when stressed with Furmark, both chips produce for 67-68'C for GPU and 78'C for CPU.
-when idle, CPU core are around 50'C and GPU around 40'C (tested in my room temperature, around 27-29'C)




-This is the highest temperature recorded when I play Crysis 3



This post has been edited by kreyl: Oct 10 2014, 09:44 PM

Game Test: Crysis 3
[1366x768] setting


for 1920x1080 (1080p) setting, you can see my post below
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry70808406


Conclusion:

The downsides of this laptop that I found is:
-keyboard not suitable for hardcore/harsh typer
-no mSATA/m.2 sata slot for SSD
-HDD 5400rpm quite slow for me
-Graphic chips only GDDR3, not GDDR5
-Laptop gets maximum 78'C, which is quite hot


for overall, I really satisfied with this laptop..one of the good laptop price with one of best CPU, paired with good graphics.
of course, there's always a better laptop to choose for your needs and your budget..my opinion could be different from yours..

Thanks for the views...any comments are welcome

This post has been edited by kreyl: Oct 10 2014, 09:52 PM

wow, so fast..I'm still editing this page
btw, retail price is RM 3199

Crysis 3 1080p settings

Yup..it comes with black and red colour

Acer V15 Nitro VN7-591G-73A2k and Asus ROG G551JM...
both retail price at RM3399
seems a good deal too!

This post has been edited by kreyl: Oct 11 2014, 12:42 PM

well, not sure about that...didn't test to weight this laptop yet..
but this laptop's weight with battery is 2.23kg as stated on Dell's website..
without battery, should be less than that..

EDIT: I found on Dell's reference guide, show that battery's max weight is 0.38 kg..
so, this laptop's weight should be ~1.85kg without battery..

This post has been edited by kreyl: Nov 3 2014, 10:41 PM

yes, around 4.30 to 5 hours with continuous surfing..
for heavy usage (games or software editing like AutoCAD ), didn't try it yet cause I always use power adapter instead..
I'm not kind of using battery too much..that's why removable battery option is best for me..

it should be upgradable..this laptop has max support up to 16Gb..
so, adding 4Gb more should be no problem..

but, you should check either your laptop have 2x2Gb ram or 1x4Gb ram slotted inside..
you can check using this software..HWiNFO
look at "memory modules" section..

Hi. sorry for late reply..
1) for IPS screen, to me it looks great..colour display was good and it's quite bright too..
right now I can't take any picture as my phone got problem...

2) So far no big problem for wifi..been using with my home streamyx and mobile hotspot..
the only thing is wifi suddenly disconnected..but it's RARELY happen..so far, wifi works well for me..

This laptop can support 9.5mm caddy case...one of the forumer here already tried it and it fits well..

I think it should do well with medium settings...FIFA don't need very high requirement for it to play..GTX 850M should be enough..

Agree with that...and, I'm not kind of using battery too much..more on power adapter..
I really glad that this laptop's battery is removable..

I'd choose 2 years warranty only..If you have enough extra money, recommended to get 3 or 4 years..

could be your backlight not functioning...You can call Dell technical support regarding this issue
sorry to hear that..

you don't really need it cause SSD alone is good enough..somehow, doing it might make your system more quicker..
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/arc...%28intel+rst%29

Mine so far has been played Crysis 3 for hours (2-3 hours straight) and my keyboard didn't encounter that problem yet..

This post has been edited by kreyl: Dec 28 2014, 12:50 AM

Didn't face that problem so far...better to call Dell technical support for this issue..sorry to hear that..

mine, wifi works well without any problem so far..