Intel or NV?
*NEW* 2015 Dell Inspiron 15 - 7559, i7 6700HQ/GTX960M owners thread
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Intel or NV?
Even the worst BOA screen I going to be a million miles better than the usual TN panel in most mid range laptops!
Yea but that £40 extra is putting it a bit close toward other alternative gaming laptops that are also with 960M, but with 128GB SSD and 16GB ram etc...
Go directly to Dell and find the page for the machine (£749), start a chat with CS and tell them you think the laptop is £50 too expensive...
Dunno, mine's been in and out of my rucksack every day this month and is still looking mint. I notice after the girlfriend has used it there is usually lots of finger/hand prints on it, thankfully narrowed that down to Nivia hand cream and not her being a dirty skank 
Quick wipe with a soft cloth and it's fine.
It's a "budget" mid/high end laptop, there are better machines at this spec, but you pay for that. Also, some of those Asus/MSI laptops with the 960M are fairly well fugly... IMO
Quick wipe with a soft cloth and it's fine.It's a "budget" mid/high end laptop, there are better machines at this spec, but you pay for that. Also, some of those Asus/MSI laptops with the 960M are fairly well fugly... IMO
Never cared much for Asus laptops, but then I've only ever handled the lower end ones
Left it as storage with the Windows 10 install in place in case it needs to go back. Using a Samsung Evo 850 240GB in the m2 slot. OcUK have them but the price is naff imo. 120GB just isn't enough for my needs but the lower capacity version of that drive is pretty solid.
To be honest the machine is great at stock. 8GB is fine for most people and the HDD has 8GB of SSD cache
To be honest the machine is great at stock. 8GB is fine for most people and the HDD has 8GB of SSD cache
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I've always thought of Killer networking products as snake oil... Is it better than any other branded AC adapter? Mine came with an Intel AC 3165 wifi card, no complaints after updating to the latest driver from Intel, won't be swapping it out personally
My LG screen sears my eyes at 50% in the dark lol
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The wifi on mine was flaky out of the box. Latest driver from Intel and it's been rock solid, even in the bedroom where my tablet/phone really struggle. Wouldn't put anyone down for buying a replacement adaptor but can't see why you'd need to
I know this model, you will be blown away by the performance of the Dell, even more so with an SSD should you install one
Plowing through Tomb Raider (2013) in preparation for RotTE being £10 somewhere or other, handles it superbly, more than I expected from the 960m
There would be literally no way to know it had been opened unless you strip the one and only screw lol
IDK, the trackpad has either broken in or I've got used to it. Even two finder scrolling works like a charm now
Very decent, run mine for ~6 hours browsing and minor productivity (Word/Excel/Outlook), screen brightness ~25%.
Anything 3D or video will drain the battery far faster though. Could probably scrape a bit more time using low power mode, I just leave it on default
Anything 3D or video will drain the battery far faster though. Could probably scrape a bit more time using low power mode, I just leave it on default
My mate got the 4k touch version (against my advice). It's a bit comical how bad support is for high resolutions in Windows. The laptop is heavier with the additional touch panel I guess and the resolution is next to useless in many common programs. Stick with 1080 for now guys!
Zero bleed on mine, LG screen. I'd be sending that back
In my experience, Dell give less resistance to returns than 3rd parties. You're well within your rights as that's not how other peoples 7559 looks!
Can imagine Diablo and WoW would pose a problem.
Rust running on the same GPU (or rather the "lesser" 2GB Version and a lower spec i5 laptop)
Rust running on the same GPU (or rather the "lesser" 2GB Version and a lower spec i5 laptop)
Thanks for that!
And did you mean 'can't imagine' by any chance or do you think it would struggle with Diablo 3 and WoW?
Didn't think to search for the graphics card only for gameplay footage so i'll give that a go
Diablo 3 is fairly easy to run on modest hardware and WoW is more or less CPU bound, right? The 6700HQ is an awesome mobile CPU
In a previous life I used to buy a lot of laptop parts from "notebookspares" (Rolta IT) on eBay. They are based out West London and usually can get what you as for, but this was a few years ago.
Those that think the screen is a tad dim, have you tried notching the brightness up in the Intel driver control panel? Obviously not going to help those with light bleed
Those that think the screen is a tad dim, have you tried notching the brightness up in the Intel driver control panel? Obviously not going to help those with light bleed
Nice work Liam. It's fair to say that if you came from a "normal" low end TN laptop screen (especially the craptacular 1366x769 15.6" variety), you'll be impressed with even a decent BOE screen. Light bleed, however, is not on IMO