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So far so good, I will keep you guys posted!
Michel Herszenhaut (May 2, 2017)
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Notes (05/02/2017):- Make sure to update all drivers on Dell's website, for some reason their software do not pick up the new updates- Experienced some glitches as well as some malfunctioning with headphone jack drivers, but everything is working fine so far.- Battery life is impressive. Being doing papers and projects on Adobe Muse, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, Excel as well as browsing for at least 4-5 hours solely on battery.
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Amazon Customer (Jun 21, 2017)
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Using chrome on this computer can be lagged. Besides, there is an issue when you use external screen via HDMI cable. I reinstall windows and remove messy stuff installed in the laptop. It looks good now.
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Gar (Jun 21, 2017)
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great
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Mike + Lynn (Jun 29, 2017)
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I have only had it up for about 2 days.All went well installing and updating windows 10. My slow internet service took about 6 hours for all the updates.The only surprise was that when doe I have 165 applications running, checking it with task manager.On my old HP Pavilion dv also a quad I run 85 applications. The HP was a windows 7 conversion to windows 10.On a Lenovo also a conversion I see about 100 applications running.The Dell was not intended for gaming, but for engineering number crunching.So far it boots from password enter to screen in about 3-4 secs. The OS drive is SSD, a Toshiba.The main drive is a Western Digital 1TB HDD, 5400 RPM, not the fastest. I was empty.Later I may swap out that for a 500GB SSD.All in all I recommend this unit. It is very fast.I can't state the gaming attributes, as I am not a gamer. Look for an update if find problems.But for now I am very pleased.It will be used for heavy software compiling and running Excel macros.Update 8/4/2017All is still working very good. The laptop is very quick. I did change out drive D: a 1TB HDD to a 500GB Crucial SSD (Amazon purchase)It was not difficult. Used the Acronis True Image that came with the SSD. The Acronis software was a little confusing but worked. Suggest you watch You Tube videos showing and explaining use.The Dell recognized the cloned SSD just fine. I had to rename drive back to D:Also used Windows to relocate the Documents folder to drive D: Worked perfectly.It appears the SSD has increased battery life to 14hrs plus at idle.Very happy with this laptop used as a engineering work station.
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to solve the freezing issue, be sure to disable ...
Thomas (Jun 16, 2017)
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to solve the freezing issue, be sure to disable hardware acceleration in your browser/anywhere else it may be (could not find one in Video drivers, but disabling the one in chrome solved the freezing issue for me.
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