Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works well. Haven't had any issues. Runs Minecraft and Roblox without any issues. Does what we need it to do without any issues.

Great computer could use more storage but otherwise it’s a great product

It has lived up to my expectations. Like the color and functions. Wish it had a disk drive but not a deal breaker. Key travel is on point.

I got this for my husband for school and he loves it. He cant stop talking abt it. Very durable

Bought as a gift for my sister, she loves it but has complaints about the battery life.

I purchased this for my grandson, wh wanted a portable gamming computer, he is amazed at the power of this laptop !!

I'm pretty happy with the laptop. It works very well for gaming.

Excellent PC. If what you need is just a PC for light gaming and work properly, this is the correct option

The low-to-mid tier gaming laptop market is booming right now and every vendor seems to be offering something to fit different needs. And given the current prevalence of work-from-home, the use of gaming laptops has broken into regular non-gaming use cases as we are spending more and more time in front of a screen. Dell G15 5515 “Ryzen Edition” provides a decent package in this market segment and checks a lot of the right boxes. The combination of a AMD Zen 3 hexa-core CPU, albeit the lowest spec one of the 5000-series, the 5600H, with a Geforce RTX 3050 (with 4GB dedicated graphics memory) makes up an interesting package. Both are entry-level at best, but for a large swatch of people the performance to price-point is worth looking into. Aside from that the Kingston-sourced 512 GB SSD is a decent size in terms of storage, and the performance of this drive is quite good. There is another M.2 slot available for expansion, and both the slots support M.2 2230 and 2280. For memory, there are 2x SO-DIMM slots supporting DDR4-3200 with a maximum of 16 GB per slot (i.e. 32 GB in total). The unit came with only a meager single 8 GB memory, so out of the box the dual-channel capability is unused, and in this day and age it’s annoying that Dell has decided to ship a “gaming” laptop with only 8 GB RAM. I’ll probably expand this into a 8+8 GB or even a 16+16 GB pretty soon. A Killer AX1650X supporting WiFi 6 (802.11ax) is included, and can be upgraded as well. It’s still useful to have an Ethernet port to be able to plug-in and get the best network speed possible, and I appreciate the fact that it supports the 2.5 Gbps standard. 2x 2 W bottom-firing speaker, driven by a Realtek ALC3254. The speaker's performance is mediocre at best. For meetings and music I relied on my headphones all the time. The matte 1080p 120 Hz LCD gives away the fact that this is a laptop that’s built to a price-point. Response time is not that great (35 ms according to Dell), and the color gamut is average. My daily driver is a Dell XPS 13 UHD, and that makes the difference more distinctive. There’s a 1080p 165 Hz display that supposedly has a better color profile and faster response time, and I’d definitely compare that before making a decision. Both display options have no touch functionality. The choice of ports is standard. Aside from the ethernet port, there are 3 USB Type-A of different types (2.0, 3.1 etc with one featuring PpweeShare). A USB Type-C with Display port capability is there, along with a full-size HDMI. The placement of some ports on the back is convenient for better cable management. The 160 W charger plugs via a barrel connector like similar powered laptops. The power brick is big and bulky as expected. Though the G15 takes a lot of design queues from Alienwares, but the plasticity build ensures you'd realize this is budget unit at once. However it seems the thermals are not comprised at all by the price cut. Stressing the CPU spins up the fans to quite some speed and loudness. Some aspects of it can be configured by the Alienware Command Center. However I could not find how to enable the signature G shift feature via that software, and always had to rely on the Keyboard shortcut. Also I got a lot of annoying messages that some features were missing in this laptop. Initially the software seemed buggy but that got better with subsequent updates. As usual Dell plants a bunch load of bloatwares which makes the initial impression upon setting up not the best of experience. I understand some of this software is needed to keep the laptop trouble free, but I wish I had gotten some choice during initialization. Gaming performance is average as expected. The Ampere-based RTX3050 provides entry-level ray tracing, and with just 1080p the frame rate is not bad for Control and Fortnite. I was able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator in medium settings which was a good upgrade from my previous gaming laptop sporting a GTX1650Ti. Overall I’m quite happy, given the price, for casual gaming. Another good thing is it supports Nvidia’s DLSS, which I’ve heard a lot of good things about, but unfortunately haven’t tried out in depth yet. In summary, I believe this is a good laptop for the value, and provides more horse-power than Intel-based models at the moment. Though both the Ryzen 5 5600H, and Nvidia RTX3050 are entry-level components, they provide some good horsepower for occasional gaming and better performance in day to day work-from-home related work.

We received the laptop and it was almost perfect. We were happy with the specs ànd overall condition of the laptop.

Got this for my daughter. She loves it! She will be taking this to college and loves gaming too!

nice good gaming laptop for the price, the only downside is the brightness kinda low ! but so far everything good !

This replaced my old laptop. I love Dell and am very pleased with this model. The SSD is super!

Perfect for all my gaming needs ! Only small con is Key board lights only turn red

I LOVE this new laptop especially because the keyboard is so easy to use day or night. red lighted keys are PERFECT.

Met the needs that we were looking for. Great starter for gamers.

This is the best cost effective gaming laptop you can get right now. I have no complaints.

My brother has very little complaints except it crashing sometimes.

Great laptop for business or home school, video is great.

Great laptop, worth the purchase. Battery life is good