Dell - Inspiron 14 7000 - 14" FHD Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - 512 GB SSD - Silver

The Inspiron 7000 series is supposed to be Dell's 2nd best consumer line below the XPS. However, this doesn't fit 2nd place. The magnesium-alloy chassis was very solid and on initial use feels light and sturdy. The design is simple and beautiful too with a 65W USB-C charger included. But, the display does not stay closed when upright, it is almost 2 hours to top off the battery (because there was 10% charge left when I got it out of the box) and the white screen bezel feels a little cheap, I would have wished for gorilla glass or a black bezel. The touchpad feels like plastic junk, for this price glass is the standard. The click is not satisfying + is loud, there is too much travel in the corners, and there is wobble before actuating a click. One weird issue I found was the time out of the box was set 2 hours ahead. That's easy to fix but after resetting Windows it had the same behavior. At first, the fan would get annoyingly loud on Quiet mode and even worse on Optimized or Ultra Performance. Sometimes even during web browsing it would spurt for a couple minutes straight. After updating, Dell Update and the fingerprint sensor driver nuked themselves and after resetting Windows, Dell Update and Dell Power Manager disappeared but the fingerprint sensor worked and the fan was much more tolerable. The fan issue did occur on the latest BIOS and drivers. My unit was also manufactured in November of 2020, so these are not "early batch" issues. The keyboard was very nice but it did have a moderate gotcha. The lettering was gray on silver keys and that means in sunny rooms you cannot see the keys with or without the backlight on. The display was nice, it's around 300 nits. The gotcha here is Dell's stupid adaptive brightness issue where if you switch from a dark image to a light image the display brightness automatically changes and you cannot turn this "feature" off. Besides that, the screen felt high quality, I wish it was a matte panel though or glass topped. There was some noticeable ghosting when moving the cursor. Something that is quite annoying was the squealing or coil whine coming from the middle of the keyboard. This is where the SSD is located, luckily it's quiet enough but noticeable nevertheless. The speakers sounded alright, they're bottom firing and they didn't have much base but they got loud *enough* for YouTube and Netflix. This really does not feel like a quality product, all of these issues were found in less than 7 hours of using this product. This laptop was released a year ago, you'd think during that time Dell would have fixed the firmware issues with the fan and adaptive brightness. That is sadly not the case and I cannot recommend this to a friend.

The guys on the southside location were excellent. Customer service was great.

Purchased on a great deal just before Christmas, saving me $250 off regular price. I needed to replace my Dell 2 in 1 from 2016. I was looking for a laptop that WAS NOT a 2 in 1. The case/hinges on my old one had broken twice. This Inspiron 7000-14 has a much better case/hinge design and IS NOT a 2 in 1. The size and weight is great. With the core i7 the speed is fantastic. I really like the screen resolution. The only concern I have is the backlighted keyboard doesn't work for me. In many situations the silver keys and the backlight do not have enough differentiation. Unfortunately you cannot change the color of the backlighting, so my solution was to turn off the backlight. Set up went smoothly as did transferring my personal files. The 512GB drive will be sufficient since this is for my home use, not work.

Decent laptop. Began crashing about 30 days after purchase. Concerned about performance. It's a compact size, runs extended monitor well. But seems like the quickness might not outweigh the benefits of consistency.

This is so light! I wanted a laptop for travel, and this screen size was larger than my previous travel laptop so I was concerned it would be too bulky. I bought it from Best Buy rather than the Dell website because I could go in store and test their products (hint to Best Buy- if you go online only this is an example of a sale you would have lost). Despite the larger screen size, it is so thin and light that it is very easy to carry. The clarity of the screen is great, fires up quickly. The camera works really well, great for Zoom and Skype meetings. Love that it can sync with my iphone; text messages and phone calls can be received and answered easily through the computer. Also has fingerprint identification built in to its on switch. I thought the price (under $1000) was very reasonable for the product. Setup was straightforward.

So far so good. Fast. Only critique: when the laptop is actually on your lap, the keyboard back lights make the keys hard to see. For work, at a desk with an external keyboard, the laptop seems great so far.

The laptop is light weighted that meets my requirement. At the same time, the battery life is long lasting and it usually can last at least 7 hours. It was easily able to connect to my WIFI, TV, printer, and wireless mouse. I don't run high end games or intense programs but usually have several windows open at once (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook, Chrome et.al.) and notice no performance issues.

Everything else is good but the keys are so hard to read because of very poor back light. I have to sit close to a lamp to work on this laptop. Its such an unwanted pain.