Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop

Why Choose this ?   

I ordered mine Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK  from dell, at the time it was cheaper than am azon, and dell had them in stock. Modern laptops are becoming more powerful all the time. If you just need a laptop that does a good job at surfing the Internet, checking email, watching Youtube videos and making simple edits to photos, a good budget model should serve you quite well.

Review: Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop

The Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK is a 15.6 inch laptop that will do everything mentioned above, and more. While it won’t be setting any speed records, it’s plenty fast enough and powerful enough to do what the average Internet user needs for a budget laptop to do.

Features and Specifications

• Intel Celeron N2830 Processor
• 4 GB DDR3
• 500 GB Hard Drive
• 15.6-Inch Screen, Intel HD Graphics
• Windows 8.1

Even $250 is a good price. Additionally, you CANNOT install any Windows programs (such as, MS Office, etc), so while Chromebooks have their proper place, for those who need basic laptop for general use, this laptop might be a better fit in this price range.

Reviews/Advantages/Disadvantages

People keep complaining about Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK  not having a optical drive and thought it came with it, if they weren't idiots and didn't research the product it is their stupidity and lack if schooling, great laptop though, not really ment for gaming so dont think it'll work for it, standard intel graphic cards can't handle todays games, ment to be a cheap good use laptop affordable to anyone, it has a lot for the price , note it does not have Bluetooth, its a typo.

For example, there is no optical drive for installing software from disc, watching DVDs or listening to CDs. But few people do those things with laptops anymore anyway, and if you need to you can always plug in an inexpensive external USB optical drive.

Upgrade possibilities: If you know what you are doing upgrading the hard drive to an SSD will help it feel more useable. It only has one slot for ram so you will have to remove the stock 4gb and replace it with an 8GB. The laptop comes with 1333mhz ram, but I think 1600mhz will work and run faster.

Here are the pros as I see them:

• The price, the price, the price
• Battery lasts 5-7.5 hours depending on use, many Windows laptops in this price range only last 3 hours so this is a huge advantage.
• The battery is user replaceable, which you can't take for granted anymore in a laptop. Press two buttons and it pops right out!
• This laptop has an access panel on the bottom to access the RAM and HD which is great!
• CHIP: Intel Celeron (dual core). This is a latest Celeron chip (N2830, Bay Trail - M) you will have. Being a dual core can handle most of the demands easily.
• It runs so cool it doesn't even have a fan at all!
• Keyboard has a number pad, many don't in this price range.
• Keyboard feels nice and doesn't feel too cheap, we will see with time though how it holds up.
• Nice to have a Windows laptop for this price, I like chromebooks but I can't connect to my at home Samba server from a chromebook so I gravitate to Windows.

Cons:

• Not blazing fast but you can't expect that from any pc in this price range.
• Case feels cheap, it creaks and groans when I pick it up by a corner.
• The quality of the video is pretty low, but once again it is usable for watching youtube, netflix videos, etc. Just is less sharp than my high end laptop and can be a tad laggy occasionally.

Conclusion

Would I recommend this?? Depends on your needs. If you are on a tight budget and are a light PC user who wants to use it just for basic web surfing, Word Processing, and light youtube/netflix watching this will work fine for most people

If you are a high end, heavy user, I'd only use this as a backup laptop. If you are a gamer, you of course know enough to not even look at this laptop as an option. Click here to read more about the Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop.