
There is some bloatware, including the ever-present Candy Crush Soda Saga, CyberLink Media Suite Essentials, Flipboard and Twitter. The Inspidoesn't come with a ton of preloaded software, but the third-party apps it has are a mixed bag. These are all below our comfort threshold of 95 degrees. MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Lifeĭon't worry about the Inspigetting too hot to handle - after we streamed 15 minutes of HD video from Hulu, the touchpad reached 77 degrees Fahrenheit, the middle of the keyboard hit 81 degrees and the underside was 87 degrees. The left side of the laptop features the power port, Ethernet jack, HDMI port, USB 3.0 port and an SD card reader, while the right side is home to the headphone and mic combination jack, two USB 2.0 ports, a DVD drive and a Kensington lock slot. The wide variety of ports on the Dell Inspiprovide more than enough flexibility for everyday multimedia and productivity use. You won't be using your Inspiand its integrated Intel HD 520 graphics for any heavy gaming (think more Words With Friends and less Assassin's Creed). That result was in line with the rest of the field: the Toshiba Satellite L55-C transferred at 28.4 MBps, the Ideapad 500 notched 31.42 MBps and the Asus F555LA achieved a rate of 32.2 MBps. It took 2 minutes and 44 seconds for us to copy 4.97GB of mixed-media files to the Inspi- a rate of 31.93 MBps. While the Satellite L55-C took 5:10 and the Asus F555LA took 6:31, only the Lenovo was faster at 4:04. In terms of productivity performance, the Inspiron fared quite well, taking 4 minutes and 30 seconds to match 20,000 names and addresses in OpenOffice.

The Inspiron even beat the Lenovo Ideapad 500 and its Core i7-6500U processor (6,128), even though that system costs $150 more (as tested). The Toshiba Satellite L55-C and its Core i5-5200U processor (5,564), and the Asus F555LA's Core i3-5010 with 4GB of RAM (2,080) all notched lower scores.

The Inspiron 15 achieved a score of 6,331 on Geekbench 3, a synthetic test of overall performance.

Dell Inspi(Core i5 / 8GB / 1TB HDD): Performance Tests
