Dell - Inspiron 11.6" Laptop - Intel Celeron - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC Flash Memory - Bali blue

I own a computer repair shop and my perspective is that of a computer expert. Some items in here may not make sense for normal users, so keep that in mind. I bought this laptop as a companion for my photo/video production backpack in which I carry several cameras. I wanted a way to review the footage on location. In that regard, note that the card slot is a MicroSD slot and you'll need a USB SD card reader to read normal cards. The available ports are acceptable for this price point. The Celeron processor's acceleration features and 4K external display support were important to me; having Intel Quick Sync means I can play 4K content even though the CPU can't handle it otherwise and OBS Studio can even handle capturing video of the screen! Being able to record tutorial video content is very nice; I was not expecting it to be able to handle screen capture effectively. One big issue which is common to 32GB eMMC SSD laptops is that the available storage space out of the box is pretty poor. Part of this is the big recovery partition you can't delete and may never use and part of it is the pre-installed software you don't need. If you are somewhat tech-savvy, I highly recommend using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to make a bootable USB installer for the latest version of Windows 10 and completely wiping out the eMMC SSD with a clean install. Between losing the factory recovery partition and the extra unnecessary software, you'll end up with roughly 13GB free of the total 29.7GB capacity (out of the box it's more like 7GB.) I find that this computer is fairly rugged for a small cheap laptop. It sits in a padded laptop compartment on my backpack but the pack is routinely laid down on top of that compartment. It holds up fairly well against the pressure of being transported. It is quite light. The battery life is GREAT when compared to my gaming laptop and most full-size brand new laptops I've seen. Battery time goes down significantly with the screen brightness turned up, so keep that in mind. Of course, the screen is quite good and is a matte LCD rather than glossy, a big plus since these laptops are likely to be used in environments where glare is a big issue. One crucial factor in purchasing this computer over other options was that it comes with 4GB of RAM. In my opinion, there is no reason to buy similar cheap 11-inch laptops with 2GB of RAM since it cannot be upgraded and 2GB is truly a bare minimum that is only really enough to run a modern web browser. With the extra memory I can have image editing software, a browser, a word processor, a mail client, and a chat client open all at once and not worry about wearing out the SSD due running out of RAM and falling into excessive memory paging. I did have an issue when I first bought the machine where it would not power on. It turns out that holding the power button for 10 seconds will do a hardware reset (clearing the glitch) and the computer should turn on properly. It can take several seconds for the screen to light up and DELL to appear after holding down the power button, so be patient! There's no power light and no hard drive clatter sound so you have no way of knowing it's powered on other than the screen. They could have at least put in a power light somewhere, but I guess you get what you pay for. One big thing I see in negative reviews for dirt cheap computers like this is ridiculous expectations, so you need to understand what this can and cannot handle BEFORE you buy it. It can handle web browsing, office suites, some image editing, audio editing, and even some light gaming, although none of it will happen super fast. It won't handle video editing, bigger video games, and it has limited capacity which means it can't hold 10,000 DSLR photos or high-quality music files. If you need more than about 7GB of storage...expect to add a MicroSDXC card, flash drive, or external hard drive, all of which will reduce battery life. The storage, CPU, and RAM **ARE NOT UPGRADABLE** so don't buy this expecting to be able to improve the specs later if needed; you'll have to replace the whole computer to "upgrade." I also tried to boot Windows 7 and 8 on this computer but neither of them worked, so be aware that you will be stuck on Windows 10. It will run Linux just fine and the hardware should all be supported by recent distributions. If you have realistic expectations, you'll be very happy with this computer and I recommend it highly.

I needed an inexpensive, lightweight, and small laptop to carry with me for basic web browsing and connecting remotely to work and this laptop has been perfect for that. One thing I liked most about this laptop is the fact is has 4GB of memory. Most laptops in the same price range as this Dell Inspiron only have 2GB of memory. Believe me, you do NOT want to buy any Windows 10 computer with only 2GB of memory. Period! You will thank me later. Some reviews talk about the laptop being slow and not having enough disk space. That's expected! It's not meant to be fast or have enough disk space to store very many programs. I actually think the weaker specs are a benefit of this laptop. The fact it has a low-end Celeron CPU and uses eMMC flash memory instead of a larger HDD (hard drive) results is much less power usage and thefore this laptop has VERY long battery life. To compensate for the lack of disk space, you can always buy a MicroSD card and Windows can be configured to use the SD card to store all your Windows 10 apps and other documents. If you have a large program that can only be installed on the C drive (many Win32 legacy apps have to be) then you may run into disk space issues but this is a limitation of almost any computer in this price range. To help save disk space, I decided to not use 3rd party anti-virus software and uninstalled McAfee which freed up some disk space. Windows 10's built-in anti-virus (Defender) is now a viable option to use instead of installing a 3rd party anti-virus program. If you feel the laptop is very slow, remember that when you first boot up the laptop it will be installing lots and lots of updates the first day or two you have your computer. That will make it feel slower than usual for a while. Overall this laptop does everything you can expect for a laptop to do in this price range. Highly recommended!

The market seems to be flooded with these 11.6" laptops of failed design. The failed design will show it's ugly face when the user attempts to update Windows 10. The (now well known) issue with these laptops and all other similar laptops that are being sold with a 32GB eMMC internal (non-upgradable) drive is that when they are sold with Windows 10, the operating system takes up most of the space on the drive. Right out of the box (brand new), mine failed to perform a major Windows 10 update/upgrade due to the fact that it required 8GB of free space, and the brand new laptop only had 5GB available. I installed a 32GB SD card, then learned that Windows absolutely will not install any updates or upgrades to the SD card, only to the internal 32GB eMMC drive. After confirming this with Microsoft, I ended up having to install a third-party app that basically turns off Windows updates since Windows 10 does not allow turning updates off like past Windows versions did. There is no option to turn off Windows 10 updates. Microsoft blamed the laptop's designers for selling a laptop with Windows 10 installed with only a 32GB eMMC drive when it should have been designed with a 64GB eMMC drive. I have seen these 11'6" laptops being sold with the Chrome OS (based on Linux) and users do not mention the same issue, however, I would never recommend this laptop to anyone with Windows 10 installed. I learned the hard way. Buyer beware!

I bought this netbook because of its small size and light weight. I use it on my lap to do email, web surf, and watch TV and Netflix. It does all of those things well. I am replacing a same size Acer Aspire which worked well for 6 years, but just did not have enough processor speed to handle Windows 10 without some compromises. This little Dell does the job just fine. Out of the box it needed about 12 hours to do all of the Windows updates. And you will need a usb thumb drive with at least 10 GB of free space to install the latest Win10 major update. There is only about 5 GB of free space on the internal solid state hard drive as delivered. That is why the thumb drive is needed. After all the updates were completed I removed all the bloatware and managed to produce almost 9 GB of free hard drive space. It displays web pages quickly and plays Netflix and TV via a Spectrum app with no hesitation, or buffering. I don't ask it to do more than 1 thing at a time.The touch pad works well, much better than the one it is replacing. The sound quality is better than the Acer and loud enough for personal viewing. I tried the Skype and the camera is adequate for face to face conversations. So far I have only installed a handful of programs...Chrome browser and C Cleaner. Overall I am quite pleased. It is definitely fast enough for my needs and a good value. I have read many reviews about how slow the machine is. I think much of that disappointment may be from not understanding that this machine cannot install updates and work at the same time. Users should learn to view the task manager and see what their machine is doing before they condemn its performance.

It's a nice little laptop that I intend to use for travel purposes only. The 32GB storage is VERY limiting. All I have on it is Windows 10, Office 2016, Adobe Reader and pdf995 and the free storage space is practically gone. Every time there is an update or I used it to access files, the available storage goes down even more. Even when I clicked the "compress files to save space" option the available storage dropped drastically. I guess that's a side effect of using solid state. I was told I can't increase the storage by replacing the drive because the solid states are basically hard-wired chips. At one point I had less than 1GB free storage. I had to literally re-install a clean, skinny version of Windows 10 just to eliminate all the Dell and bloatware possible. The price was good: open box. All said and done, my use for this is going to be a travel unit tied to OneDrive for purposes of accessing working files and projects remotely. It will do what I want, but I have to constantly be deleting old files in order to keep it useable. Right now I have about 14GB free storage but it seems to get whittled away bit by bit every time I use the unit. We'll see if I keep it long term.

Do not waste your money! I got this laptop for my niece for Christmas. She doesn't do much, mainly just surfs the web. The first time I turned it on, it would not even load. I got an error message saying something to the effect "please use Dell 45s power supply, that came with the laptop." I was using the power supply that was in my new, unopened box shipped directly from Dell. It gave me the option to load anyway. I did, thinking it would only need Windows updated or a driver updated. Wow! Was I wrong. I updated everything and was still getting the error message. It was only running on the charge the battery shipped with. The battery finally died. Unfortunately, before I could erase my data. The operating system takes up 70% of the 32GB hard drive. With 4GB of memory, it was way to slow to surf the Internet. I only paid $139 for this laptop on Black Friday. Even if it did not have the power cord issue, this laptop still would not be worth the money. Do NOT Waste Your Money!

Not a bad machine for the price, but expect this to be an 'online' only machine. The storage is only 32 GB, and most of that is used by the OS, so you have about 6 GB left. If you remove the pre-installed junk like Candy Crush Saga, and Microsoft Office trial, you can get to just over 7 GB. The problem came almost immediately when Windows 10 wanted to install updates, and needed 8 GB to do so. I called Dell, and they were completely apathetic. They said it's just for working online, to which I replied - what does that have to do with anything, and they had no answer, just silence. I was told that you cannot upgrade the storage, or update windows. I returned it and got an HP. Windows updates may fix bugs or repair security issues, I think that is important. They said it only has 32 GB, like that should have explained everything. Their comment was followed by silence. I am fairly computer savvy, and I did't know how much space Windows needed for itself, or updates. Bottom line, don't waste your money, for $60 more I got an HP with a 15.6" screen, full keyboard, Bluetooth, and a 500 GB hard-drive.

For some this might be a great purchase; for me it wasn't. I just don't like the computer that I purchased. The cursor is so sensitive that the arrow seems to hop all over the place. My daughter bought a mouse and it seems better. There are a million pop-ups and Alert messages. I feel as if I am harassed all the time that something is either no longer available. The microphone doesn't always work properly. I didn't return it because I put information on it already so I just consider this a very bad purchase. All in all I am just disappointed in purchase. I feel as if it was on Sale because it was just a "dud" model and people wanted to move them along. Don't waste your time or money...get a computer with a larger screen...mine is only about 11 inches and it seems to zoom in and out without me making that decision.....just an awful decision to purchase this....soooo disappointed.