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amazon Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series reviews
Advantage:
+ Design sharp, solid, lightweight and comfortable.
+ Multi-touch screen, LED TrueLife
+ Performance fairly.
+ Large Touchpad
+ Good speaker quality and loud volume.
+ Good battery life
Disadvantages:
– The system is not well designed heat sink, heat in the keyboard ..
– Glare-prone screen mirrors, opening angle of 135 degrees only
– HDD storage drives, do not use SSD
– Only use the integrated graphics chip of intell, not high performance.
– The battery is not removable.
Design
Is considered to be a shortened version of the Inspiron 14 2 seniors Inspiron 7000 Series and 7000 Series 15, Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series (exactly Inspiron 3137), apart from being cut configuration, the size, it is equipped with fake plastic shell silver metal to reduce cost and weight, the paint is slightly rough alchemist slightly against fingerprints, are Dell coated with a thin rubber so young when holding quite pleasant. Dell logo in the center of the metal.
Not because of the cuts in the design and configuration that it less luxurious, Inspiron 3137 overall still exudes the elegant, neat and elegant thanks not least the traditional design “sharp” of Dell, with approximately 2cm thickness.
Specifically, the bezel and the edge are quite carefully polished Dell, slot allocation between outer edges (gray) and inside the covering body (black) is very tight, almost low-key, proven Dell very focused on the details when processed.
Seen from behind, everyone thought the radiator slot at the bottom of the slot machine with a stretch band. But when you look closely and feel the heat radiating from the slot machines and you will find the heat sink is arranged discreetly located just below the hinge, the hot air is blown inside out from this machine.
And slot machines are mainly bottom for ventilation and cooling air inlet from the outside. This design is quite sophisticated, but the temperature should emit less optimal continuous operation and high frequency, the machine body in place pretty much exothermic keyboard.
The maximum opening angle of the screen only reach 135 degrees, and when you open up to the edge of the hinge 2 is closed, seen from the side form a continuous contour.
The left side power connector arrangement, 1 HDMI, 1 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0 port and headphone output / microphone.
Dell right layout 1 RJ45 jack, one USB 3.0 port and card reader slot 5 in 1.
Front nothing special except a milky LEDs to display the battery status and frequency of hard disk read.
Screen
Dell’s screen so far is still appreciated for visibility color fidelity (especially after normalization with dedicated color measurement device), and the display of the Inspiron 3137 is not an exception. HD 1336×768 pixels resolution is not too sharp, but enough to display clear and detailed, unlike the usual netbook resolution of 1024×600 pixels.
Besides, the machine has the advantage of multi-point capacitive touch (10 fingers) and color quite honestly, using TrueLife LED backlight technology to improve image visibility, viewing angle is quite good so there is no nothing to complain about the Inspiron 3137 screen in this price range.
In terms of the Dell Inspiron 11 touch-3000 Series of course you are not sensitive enough to use as a Wacom drawing tablet, but also good enough to meet the basic Windows tasks, as well as the manipulation of applications (*). However, by using a touch screen so after a period of use will be prone to fingerprints and sweat, so you need players available for cleaning tools, and wipe the screen.
Except maybe point is that it uses a mirror screen, a bit difficult to see in the environment many lights or light reflected on. The thing when I saw the actual use did not affect much.
Sound
Inspiron 3137 speaker layout in the back, in order to avoid cross-bezel you put silencers on the plane, but only account for a modest area but its sound quality can make us surprised. Perhaps this is one of the mini laptop that sounds very pretty, relatively large volume outside the sound quality is worth praise. As everyone knows, most of the mini-laptops are rarely focused on quality speakers and sound.
Specifically, the computer speakers sound quite in even when listening at high volume, make sound, bass and treble balance just right, two quite separate channel. Perhaps this is where technology strengths Waves MaxxAudio 4 gives the 3137 Inspiron laptop.
Keyboard and touchpad
Chiclet style keyboard rather carefully designed, lightweight boron key format in the corner perhaps for added softness and spacious feeling between the keys. Buoyancy slightly, just enough to use, low bounce. Despite trying, but the area should be narrowed using the keyboard on the Inspiron 3137 to take some time getting used to, infant Enter an area and difficult to identify, especially small 4 navigation keys and quite inconvenient . Even as the black keys, and no LEDs, so the small area in low light conditions (eg night) will be very difficult to locate the keys for typing, unless there is a long time to become familiar enough to form skills and habits.
Points can be seen most clearly in the design touchpad which is quite spacious area, but sometimes a little when using the “out of phase” light, by small keyboards and small screens should feel slightly larger touchpad leaves. The sensitivity of the touchpad is also fairly and supports multitouch gestures with hands so easily manipulated, but the touch screen is sometimes redundant features.
There are a few things that’s a little inconvenient horizontal swipe the touchpad sometimes misunderstood as switching window / program to work, so sometimes you swipe the touchpad to right or left, then your application window well was transferred via other applications running, whether horizontal swipe your content just to see / select normal content. This may be due to a misunderstanding of Windows, but nonetheless sometimes make us feel uncomfortable.
Function
The bundled software of Dell work silently to improve performance and optimize the machine is quite effective, but still no Vietnamese interface of the alerts / user support.
WiFi reception quality and other ports of the machine in the normal range (ie not too strong but acceptable). It is worth noting that the machine is equipped with 3 USB ports, including two USB 3.0 ports for high-speed.
The machine is equipped microphone and webcam to conduct full video call quality is nothing to the table microphone. And the machine hit a 720p webcam, according to our tests, the image quality obtained fairly in office lighting conditions (many lights reflecting).
The actual performance
Compared to the mini models other common touch, Inspiron 3137 configuration is quite good, so while using the fact I have not seen any significant difficulties. Specifically, the machine can watch HD movies comfortably, not tear shaped or shock phenomenon. Even when a test with a Blu-ray film 720, the machine still respond well, but of course the movie should focus rather do something else. Remember machine using only integrated graphics chip Intel HD Graphics, up to entertainment with video games are rare and should not.
According to my feeling, when watching HD movies online on capital Chieu.TV quite heavy, Dell mini laptop remains responsive. But pay attention, there are online playing HD movies on the browser (I use IE specific 10 by default) quite heavily, so the opening of sluggish tab, which also can be seen as limited by processor Intel Celeron 2955U of the capital is not strong on multimedia entertainment.
No surprise that the office applications such as Microsoft Office 2010, even 64-bit Photoshop CC still works well with the Inspiron 3137, with Cinebench measurements also show that, especially when compared to 11.6 inch touch laptop ASUS X202E VivoBook in the same segment. However, the screen configuration and humble like this, we just try to know and not use it to do the graphics.
Due to limited screen resolution, Intel Celeron processor 2955U and integrated Intel graphics card HD Graphics so machines can not execute all tasks when measuring graphics performance with Futuremark 3DMark 11 Professional programs and PCMark 8 Advanced, however, with 2 measurements and the corresponding original game demo available on the Dell Inspiron 3137 3DMark 11 is still pretty good considering implementing configuration, the frame is not stable but relatively high and smooth.
100% full load when GPU, GPU clock from 600MHz up to be pushed up to 1000MHz, with temperatures soaring to 68 degrees Celsius from 54 degrees Celsius, this is an acceptable level compared to the current notebook . However, to use in a cool environment, by a heat passed through the battery will reduce battery performance (battery) faster.
Get results on the first labor probably belong to Intel’s Haswell chip generation, followed by the optimization of the design of Dell’s engineers, because the touchscreen is quite energy consuming thing, so keeping a high level of performance, while ensuring a passable level of battery life like this is not easy.
Like the crust is replaced with fake metal plastic, to reduce the cost of the machine should drive only in the level of conventional HDD instead of using high-speed SSDs (but expensive), performance is nothing to be table because only inadequate. 500GB of storage levels is probably consistent with the configuration of the machine and the destination: office use and light entertainment.
where can you get a Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series online
Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series 11.6-Inch Convertible 2 in 1 Touchscreen Laptop (i3147-2500sLV) [Discontinued By Manufacturer]: Buy it now
Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series 2-in-1 11.6 Inch Laptop (Intel Pentium N3540, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, Silver) Integrated Intel HD Graphics: Buy it now
Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Series 11.6-Inch Convertible 2 in 1 Touchscreen Laptop (i3148-8840sLV): Buy it now
Processor: Intel Celeron 2955U (Haswell, 2 cores, 1.4GHz)
RAM: 4 GB DDR3 1600 GHz (Samsung)
Storage Drive: 500 GB HDD
Display Type: Induction, LED TrueLife
Graphics Card: HD Graphics intell
Sound Card: Realtek ALC283, 2 channel, Waves MaxxAudio Pro
Ports:
– 1 USB 2.0
– Two USB 3.0 ports
– 1 HDMI
– 1 Ethernet port 10/100/1000 (Gigabit)
Webcam: 720p
Battery: 50Wh, 4 cell, tied not disassemble
Dimensions: 299.9 x 201.4 x 21 mm
Weight: 1.42 kg
