Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop (6th Gen Intel Quad-Core i5-6300HQ Processor up to 3.2GHz, 8GB DDR3, 256GB SSD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M, Windows 10)
- Intel i5-6300HQ 2.3 GHz Quad-Core (6M Cache, Turbo up to 3.2 GHz)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
- 8 GB DDR3L / 256 GB Solid-State Drive
- 15.6-Inch FHD IPS, Wide-Angle, Anti Glare Screen.
NEW Dell premium notebook with optimized performance for both productivity and gaming entertainment.
List Price: $ 779.99
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 First Impressions – Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK, By
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Just received this laptop today, 10/27/2015.
***Summary*** More details are below, wanted to keep the summary at the top for the folks who don’t care to read the whole review. ***Short review*** Boot time is rather fast. From the time I hit the power button it takes about 17 seconds until I am at my Windows 10 desktop environment. This is exactly what I was looking for. You will not achieve this in laptops without an SSD hard drive. Wireless internet signal is pretty strong. I am fully able to receive a signal in the very back room of my house (35+ feet w/ walls), on par with iPhone 6 Plus. The main storage drive is an SSD, it is a SanDisk Z400s M.2 2280 256GB. Read/Write speeds are fairly strong, I have attached a picture from a CrystalDiskMark speed test I ran. The SSD drive from Dell has (4) partitions, you are left with approximately 200GB free of 225GB available when you receive it. The Dell backup image takes up about 12GB. The fact that your operating system is installed on the M.2 drive would mean that you can add an additional HDD or SSD in the spare 2.5" SATA bay for additional storage. I am not familiar with the spare bay yet. Memory/RAM is pre-installed 8GB of DDR3, installed in 1 of 2 available slots, according to CPUZ. This leaves spare slot open for future expansion. The RAM is PC3-12800 (800mHz) (PC3 1600) Hyundai Electronics P/N – HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB, with a CAS Latency of 11, according to CPUZ. Battery life is unknown at this point, I haven’t had enough time to fully test this. While playing around with the laptop for the last 3-4 hours I still have about 87% left. Keyboard is comfortable to use, even with large hands. The 10-key pad is a little undersized, but this keeps the primary keyboard area nice and roomy. The CapsLock key does have a light on the key to indicate whether or not CapsLock is on; although, NumLock does not. The backlit keyboard features (2) brighness levels and is a nice blueish white color light output. The backlit keyboard seems to provide adequate light. Sound quality seems very good thus far. I watched a couple music videos online and the vocals were clear. The bass was lacking, but this is a laptop, this is to be expected. I really like that the charger has an indication light on the cord, on the end that plug into the laptop port, that lets you know the charger is powered. The charger also features a built in strap to keep the cord neatly stowed while not using. Not an overly amount of bloatware installed. Mainly Dell proprietary applications for updates and registration. ***For those who care…why I decided on this laptop.*** My criteria was:
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Great all round laptop and super for games, including Fallout 4, By
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Got my laptop this evening. Before I even turned it on, I added a sandisk SSD to it. Took about 3 minutes. Just 1 screw to contend with. The SSD was a tight fit and BIOS picked it up right away. When you 1st start the laptop, Windows will finish installing. If you added a 2nd SSD you need to right click THIS PC then click MANAGE then click disk management. You will see 2nd drive unformatted most likely. Click and follow prompts to do simple format (I made 1 partition of whole drive). Then you’re in business.
I loaded Diablo 3 , Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft from a thumb drive. They all played flawlessly at full resolution will high frame rates. Guild wars 2 was in mid 50s. Other 2 were even higher with Diablo 3 being maxed graphics with no problems. Didn’t even warm up playing it and WoW .Look forward to trying Fallout 4 on it in a couple of weeks. That should be a better test of the GPU and heat issues. The screen does have some light bleed in lower edge of screen , but only on startup when screen is black. That is the only time I noticed. Not sure about visual quality vs other computers, but looks better than my desktop monitor at work, and my 4 year old laptop I’m replacing. If they cut corners here, I’m not really noticing that much since I’m not doing any photoshop or pro stuff where color has to be spot on. The keyboard is responsive and similar to many other laptop keyboards. Love the full size keys. Not jammed too close together so fewer typos. Sound is decent for a laptop. The laptop is whisper quiet unless you are pushing the graphics card a bit, then the fans wind up a bit. Still not too loud. You can go to sound settings and tweak equalizer to get sound you prefer. The nice thing about this computer is you can sneak it past your wife as a business computer, but it runs like a much more expensive gaming laptop. Nice to be able to play a game while on a business trip. Will probably add 8Gb of compatible ram a little later so it will run dual channel. Highly recommend 2nd SSD in this unit. Runs games so well, you will want to install a ton on here. Can get another 256gb for any day of the week with 512gb running around 0-160 for name brand. Update: After a weekend of gaming and surfing the web, I’ve found that you really need to download the latest drivers for the Intel HD video card, and the Wireless driver as well. Fixes many little irritating freezes and glitches. Just go to device manager and update from there. I also updated the Nvidia 960M driver though I never had a moments problem with it. Still loving this laptop! 2nd Update: Got Fallout 4 last week and have played more hours of it than I care to admit. The laptop has handled it perfectly with very little heat buildup. No glitches, crashes and lag whatsoever. I play it on Medium settings and get 40-50 FPS . The game works on high but FPS dips into the low 20s at times which will ruin your aim a bit. Only use VATS for bosses. Gonna try Witcher 3 next which I hear is even more of a graphics challenge.
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 Good gaming performance for the price, up-gradable, warranty service could be better, By
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The Dell 15" 7559 is a surprisingly good Windows 10 gaming laptop. This is considered a "budget gaming laptop" because its price is so low (0-0). I’ve seen 2 main configurations. The first is a Core i5 with a 256gb SSD. The second is a Core i7 with a 1TB Hybrid HDD, which is what this review is about. Both these configurations come with 8gb RAM, and a 1080p display. What caught my eye is the 4gb version of the Geforce 960M graphics card that this laptop comes with. Typically, most "budget gaming laptops" below 00 only offer the 2gb version. Gaming Performance Set up Build Quality, Keyboard, Trackpad Screen Audio Battery Heat -… |
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First Impressions – Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK,
***Summary***
Overall, I am very pleased with this laptop. I think it’s a fantastic value for the parts you are getting. The overall look and feel of the laptop is great, the red trim is not overbearing. Using the laptop feels fast and snappy. Boots Windows 10 in less than 20 seconds! The weight and size keeps it portable, but it’s no Ultrabook. The laptop doesn’t have a touchscreen, if that’s a deal-breaker for you.
More details are below, wanted to keep the summary at the top for the folks who don’t care to read the whole review.
***Short review***
Build quality seems good to me. The unit is all plastic on the outside; however, I am okay with this. It is a very soft plastic that is nice to the touch. The unit does not feel flimsy and seems fairly durable. It also appears (at first glance) that access to the HDD and RAM won’t be terrible, as opposed to some other new laptops on the market, there seems to be a removable plate/panel on the bottom of the laptop to access the bottom of the mainboard, picture attached.
Boot time is rather fast. From the time I hit the power button it takes about 17 seconds until I am at my Windows 10 desktop environment. This is exactly what I was looking for. You will not achieve this in laptops without an SSD hard drive.
Wireless internet signal is pretty strong. I am fully able to receive a signal in the very back room of my house (35+ feet w/ walls), on par with iPhone 6 Plus.
The main storage drive is an SSD, it is a SanDisk Z400s M.2 2280 256GB. Read/Write speeds are fairly strong, I have attached a picture from a CrystalDiskMark speed test I ran. The SSD drive from Dell has (4) partitions, you are left with approximately 200GB free of 225GB available when you receive it. The Dell backup image takes up about 12GB. The fact that your operating system is installed on the M.2 drive would mean that you can add an additional HDD or SSD in the spare 2.5″ SATA bay for additional storage. I am not familiar with the spare bay yet.
Memory/RAM is pre-installed 8GB of DDR3, installed in 1 of 2 available slots, according to CPUZ. This leaves spare slot open for future expansion. The RAM is PC3-12800 (800mHz) (PC3 1600) Hyundai Electronics P/N – HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB, with a CAS Latency of 11, according to CPUZ.
Battery life is unknown at this point, I haven’t had enough time to fully test this. While playing around with the laptop for the last 3-4 hours I still have about 87% left.
Keyboard is comfortable to use, even with large hands. The 10-key pad is a little undersized, but this keeps the primary keyboard area nice and roomy. The CapsLock key does have a light on the key to indicate whether or not CapsLock is on; although, NumLock does not. The backlit keyboard features (2) brighness levels and is a nice blueish white color light output. The backlit keyboard seems to provide adequate light.
Sound quality seems very good thus far. I watched a couple music videos online and the vocals were clear. The bass was lacking, but this is a laptop, this is to be expected.
I really like that the charger has an indication light on the cord, on the end that plug into the laptop port, that lets you know the charger is powered. The charger also features a built in strap to keep the cord neatly stowed while not using.
Not an overly amount of bloatware installed. Mainly Dell proprietary applications for updates and registration.
***For those who care…why I decided on this laptop.***
I had been shopping for a laptop for everyday use that could also handle heavier tasks such as multi-tasking with multiple browser windows open, music playing, light duty photo editing etc.. I did want a laptop that was portable, but I was not willing to trade off the “more affordable” power you get by not shopping for an Ultrabook. I was also not as concerned with a touchscreen (don’t care for a smudgy screen).
My criteria was:
Sub $1000
256GB or greater SSD, I wanted something that would boot Windows fast!
8GB Ram Minimum
15″ Screen Minimum
1920×1080 Resolution Minimum
Decent dedicated GPU.
Windows 10
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|Great all round laptop and super for games, including Fallout 4,
I loaded Diablo 3 , Guild Wars 2, and World of Warcraft from a thumb drive. They all played flawlessly at full resolution will high frame rates. Guild wars 2 was in mid 50s. Other 2 were even higher with Diablo 3 being maxed graphics with no problems. Didn’t even warm up playing it and WoW .Look forward to trying Fallout 4 on it in a couple of weeks. That should be a better test of the GPU and heat issues.
The screen does have some light bleed in lower edge of screen , but only on startup when screen is black. That is the only time I noticed. Not sure about visual quality vs other computers, but looks better than my desktop monitor at work, and my 4 year old laptop I’m replacing. If they cut corners here, I’m not really noticing that much since I’m not doing any photoshop or pro stuff where color has to be spot on.
The keyboard is responsive and similar to many other laptop keyboards. Love the full size keys. Not jammed too close together so fewer typos. Sound is decent for a laptop. The laptop is whisper quiet unless you are pushing the graphics card a bit, then the fans wind up a bit. Still not too loud. You can go to sound settings and tweak equalizer to get sound you prefer.
The nice thing about this computer is you can sneak it past your wife as a business computer, but it runs like a much more expensive gaming laptop. Nice to be able to play a game while on a business trip. Will probably add 8Gb of compatible ram a little later so it will run dual channel. Highly recommend 2nd SSD in this unit. Runs games so well, you will want to install a ton on here. Can get another 256gb for $89 any day of the week with 512gb running around $150-160 for name brand.
All in all, very pleased with my purchase.
Update: After a weekend of gaming and surfing the web, I’ve found that you really need to download the latest drivers for the Intel HD video card, and the Wireless driver as well. Fixes many little irritating freezes and glitches. Just go to device manager and update from there. I also updated the Nvidia 960M driver though I never had a moments problem with it. Still loving this laptop!
2nd Update: Got Fallout 4 last week and have played more hours of it than I care to admit. The laptop has handled it perfectly with very little heat buildup. No glitches, crashes and lag whatsoever. I play it on Medium settings and get 40-50 FPS . The game works on high but FPS dips into the low 20s at times which will ruin your aim a bit. Only use VATS for bosses. Gonna try Witcher 3 next which I hear is even more of a graphics challenge.
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|Good gaming performance for the price, up-gradable, warranty service could be better,
The Dell 15″ 7559 is a surprisingly good Windows 10 gaming laptop. This is considered a “budget gaming laptop” because its price is so low ($800-$860). I’ve seen 2 main configurations. The first is a Core i5 with a 256gb SSD. The second is a Core i7 with a 1TB Hybrid HDD, which is what this review is about. Both these configurations come with 8gb RAM, and a 1080p display. What caught my eye is the 4gb version of the Geforce 960M graphics card that this laptop comes with. Typically, most “budget gaming laptops” below $1000 only offer the 2gb version.
Gaming Performance
Once the laptop is set up, playing games on this laptop is fun, and they all look quite good. As mentioned before, the 7559 has the 4gb version of the 960M – which is considered a budget-friendly graphics card. Counter-Strike GO, Dota 2, Starcraft 2, Just Cause 3, Half-Life 2, and Fallout 4 run flawlessly. – and at high settings. The most demanding game that I’ve played on it so far is Dark Souls 3. I average around 40-45 fps in that game with settings set on high. I can manage 50+ fps when I turn things down to medium or below. By gaming standards this is somewhat mediocre to be honest, but it’s still perfectly playable. By contrast, a 970M would definitely be a huge step up, but most laptops with that graphics card are considerably more expensive. This laptop uses a hybrid-HDD as its main storage (8gb are on an included SSD that works in conjunction with the HDD). This means its a bit faster than most standard HDDs, but nowhere near as fast a pure SSD. Still, the loading isn’t bad at all, and I barely notice it most of the time.
Set up
The Set up took about 2 hours for me. That’s because I had problems after installing the latest Nvidia drivers, and their Geforce Experience software. I had some graphic glitches that started to occur (I got error messages from windows, and a few games that I installed kept crashing.) To resolve this problem, I did a system restore which brought the laptop back to its original state. Then, I updated drivers and the BIOS using Dell’s own update software – “Dell Update.” Once this was done, I attempted again to install the latest display drivers from Nvidia, and the Geforce Experience software. This time, after trying out a few games I had no problems. Suffice to say, before installing anything I suggest running Dell Update first.
Build Quality, Keyboard, Trackpad
Overall, the outside of the laptop feels good with soft-touch plastics on key areas. The laptop opens and closes nicely, though there is some noticeable flexing in the housing of the screen. However, the keyboard of this laptop does not feel very good at all. The keystroke is very shallow – so you don’t get that tactile feel. And because of that, I’ve mistyped more often on this keyboard than any of my other laptops. (To be fair though, most other laptops in this price range have similar keyboards that aren’t very tactile.) The trackpad works well enough for websurfing, but the tap features often caused me to click on things I didn’t want to. (You can turn off the tap function, and rely only on the standard firm-click instead.) Suffice to say, I would suggest getting a separate keyboard and mouse whenever using the 7559.
Screen
The IPS display that comes with the 7559 is good enough for gaming, but not for graphics-related work. The colors seem a bit off, even after adjusting them. Also, compared to a professional workstation monitor, the sharpness is not quite the same. For gaming though, it works well, and there is no ghosting, or weird artifacts. Thankfully, Dell includes an HDMI out so that you can output the video to a separate monitor. (You can of course get a much higher resolution monitor for the 7559, but only on Dell’s own website – and only if you customize it yourself.)
Audio
The speakers on the 7559 are fairly cheap sounding. I would say they are on par with small PC speakers that sell for about $10-$15. And although it does have a subwoofer, I would say that the bass response is lackluster. You’re better off using your own headphones – which is what I do. I personally have it paired with my V-moda Crossfade Wireless bluetooth headphones – and the audio sounds great. (The 7559 does have the standard audio jack for a physical connection of course.)
Battery
In my experience, the 7559’s battery does not last very long. When gaming, I can get around 2 hours out of a full charge. When watching streaming video, the 7559 lasts around 4 hours. Surfing the internet and working on text documents lasts a little longer – at about 4.5 hours in my experience. I’ve taken it on short trips playing about an hour or so of gaming, and internet surfing afterwards – this usually gets me around 3 hours of use. But if I were to take it on a long trip, I would definitely have a 2nd fully-charged battery ready-to-go.
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