Amazing laptop for a more than fair price! Actually I'm a bit surprised how well this little laptop performs.
Pros:
- Very fast, faster than I thought it was going to be
- Screen is gorgeous, 1080p is the cherry on top
- For those that haven't had a 2-1 before, I find it fun and useful at times even if I don't use it too much
- Pretty heavy, I like that because it feels like it's better quality. No noticeable flex around keyboard area
- I thought "ughhh" when I first felt the trackpad but started to like it within 5 minutes
- keyboard feels nice to type on
- did I mention fast? This thing is fast
- specs on the item page are good, but you can read those yourself
- hinges are very solid, almost too solid; its a bit hard to open
- power/volume keys on side is helpful
- Very little bloatware, only had to get rid of 2 programs that weren't Dell's, Microsoft's or Intel's.
- fan inaudible when not doing anything intensive
- Doesn't get too hot, even when running 3Dmark
- speakers are on the underside but sound fine
- was out of stock when I got it, but I knew that. It shipped much faster than amazon predicted and was well packaged
Cons:
- windows 10 home, not pro, but whatev
- very slight screen bleed on the bottom of the screen, isn't noticeable when I'm not looking for it though
- when the fan kicks up it can make very light ticking sounds. I'm not worried about it.
- battery leaves a bit to be desired, batterybar predicts I should get around 4 to 4.5 hours off battery on battery saving settings.
CrystalDiskMark reported roughly 535 MB/s sequential read and 184 MB/s sequential write. Wireless speed downloading 3Dmark was the same as my gaming laptop. 3Dmark's Skydiver scored it 2,904 points in the combined test. To compare, my gaming laptop with an i7-4720hq/gtx 960m scored just over 10,000. You clearly shouldn't be getting this to play games but you can probably play moderately intensive games on low settings or more casual games on med to high. If you lower the resolution from native 1080p to 768p then you should be able to play some early 2010s era AAA games on low-med settings. Just don't have too high expectations. Everywhere else the laptop is a champ. Also, its the cheapest sub 15" i5 laptop with an SSD I could find on several sites including amazon, newegg, best buy and more.
Edit: After a couple more days with it, I felt I should update. The battery lasted about 5.5 hours from 99.0% with moderate brightness (It doesn't seem to like to charge up to 100%). The fan no longer makes any noise beyond what it should. The backlight bleed seems to have gotten slightly worse, and I'm very mildly concerned about how well the screen/digitizer is attached to the casing.
| Standing screen display size | 13.3 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 pixels |
| Processor | 2.5 GHz core_i7_6500u |
| RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| Memory Speed | 2.5 GHz |
| Hard Drive | 256 GB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Integrated Graphics |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Integrated |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ac |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
