On top of that, the touchpad doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Multi-touch gestures, like using two fingers to scroll up or down or two fingers to right-click, often need to be repeated more than once in order to be detected. The touchpad feels unresponsive compared to the previous Inspiron 15 model. It’s a bit less pronounced, since you won’t be resting your fingers on it as long as you would a typical keyboard, but it has its own share of issues. That uncomfortable key texture is the same texture you’ll find on the touchpad. The keyboard here feels like it was another corner cut to keep costs down. The XPS lineup feels crisp and clean, and the keycaps are slick and comfortable under your fingertips. The travel is nice and deep, but the key caps have a slightly gritty texture that never goes away.Ĭompared to typing on a laptop like the Dell XPS 13 or Dell XPS 15, there’s a marked difference.
The keys themselves feel like a bit of a step backward, though. The Inspiron’s keyboard features a red backlight like the previous model, along with the black-on-red keycaps. There’s enough real estate here that you never feel cramped, and everything is right where it should be. The Inspiron 15 features the standard array of ports - three USB-A ports, one USB-C port, an HDMI port, a headphone jack, an SD card slot, an Ethernet jack, and of course a Kensington lock you’ll probably never use. In a lot of ways, the design of the new InspiGaming feels like a step backward rather than a step forward. In fact, just two models back, the late 2016 version was slimmer, lighter, and had a smaller overall footprint. Laptops typically get smaller, slimmer over time, each iteration getting a bit more svelte than the last. Naturally, we wouldn’t expect the same level of engineering from a budget laptop that we see in something like the Razer Blade, but it’s good example of how small a gaming laptop with a GTX 1060 inside can be.
Compared to the Acer Predator Helios 300, which has a similar overall footprint, the Inspiron 15 feels bigger than it needs to be. Dell stuck with the sharp, angled edges that gives the Inspiron its characteristic look and feel.Īll that extra plastic makes the Inspiron 15 feel bloated, hollow, and over-sized.
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