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Introducing the new Inspiron 14R laptop. With a 14-inch display, 2nd Gen Intel Core processors and optional switchable lid designs, you get the look you want and the performance you need

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41 of 48 persons found the following review helpful.
not bad, but not real good either
By niels
The interface selection is decent, Dell didn't cut corners here, even even though more than just 3 USB ports would be nice.

For ~$600, an i3 was ok in Summer, but with the Year drawing to it is end and Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPU's showing up in a couple of months, it would have been nice if a discounted i5 with it is HD3000 could have made it into this model.

There's no devoted GPU at all, so you're stuck with the i3's anemic integrated graphics... ewww.

As for the screen, I find the 1366x768 pixel solution poor, no matter what imagination names they give it. But Dell isn't alone with this, everything from 11" to 15" comes with this atrocious solution these days.

To me, this solution would be effective in an entry level gaming machine with a lower mid-range GPU like the HD6630M or GT540M, since those GPUs do a lot better with low resolutions.

This notebook nevertheless has no GPU, so you won't be playing any games with it - leaving it for humans who only do office work and perchance watch an occasional video. For office work, 1366x768 is exceedingly poor, in particular if you're stuck with Microsoft's latest version of Office with those huge ribbons... there is very little screen space left for Excel and Word to display what you're genuinely attempting to work on. You may forget with regards to legibly displaying a whole page of a document. In Excel, you'll be in a hell of scrolling-up-and-down-and-back-and-forth.

So, I consider this display a mismatch for the only role this laptop may fulfill. (if you want not one thing more than browse the web, you could of course buy a much lighter weight netbook, or, god forbid, a tablet)

Lastly, it is not incisively light weight for the screen size, there are 15.6" notebooks that weigh less.

You are in all probability capable to configure this model differently on Dell's website, but there may be drastic price divergences in either direction, even for a unit with identical spec, cause Dell's own cited prices never include tax, so on Dells internet site your bill jumps when you reach checkout, on Amazon it doesn't. At other times, Dell may have cut it is prices, while the sales channel is still full of product with the old price. So do yourself a favor and double check

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
nice
By Adam Short
the only complaint is that the speakers are on the bottom, and are not the best. I would commend a good set of ear/head phones

Speed, power, all great.

Battery life is special for me. I play a lot of music, so it is understandably a shorter battery life.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome laptop
By Danette
Half my life is on the computer. So I actually necessitated one that is easy to use, reliable, good quality. (This thing is solid as a rock!) I shopped and shopped for various months, looked almost at other brands, reviews, ratings, etc, and decisive this was the one for me!

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