By Kevin Lee
The introduction of Max-Q gaming laptops fulfilled the promise of uncompromised graphics performance with thin designs and quiet noise profiles, but we wouldn’t call them cheap. Thankfully, the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming laptop is shaping up to be the most affordable Max-Q machine starting at $999 (about £770, AU$1,250).
For your money, you’re getting quite a capable 15-inch gaming laptop equipped with quad-core Intel Core processors and an Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics chip. What’s more, the thinner design and new features of this affordable Max-Q design make it well worth looking at.
Design
The original Inspiron Gaming laptop had a strikingly unique design and it’s mostly carried over. This Max-Q variant still features rounded sides with slanted front and rear edges for a distinctly uniform and retro look.
What has changed is, Dell decided to swap out the soft touch coating on the laptop with a simpler plastic veneer that’s less prone to smudges from greasy fingerprints. The geometric grates on the rear of the laptop have also sadly been replaced by more traditional cooling vents, but this might have been done in service to the cooling the Nvidia GTX 1060 requires.
At 0.98-inches thick the new Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming is …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac