Dell Inspiron 15 5577: best gaming laptop under 75K

BEST GAMING LAPTOP UNDER 75 K: THE DELL INSPIRON 15 5577

(In Depth Review)

What makes the Dell Inspiron 5577 special is it’s price. It comes under 75000 INR which is great compared to its competitors. It is the cheapest Dell laptop with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050. It’s an attractive gaming laptop with best in class overall and graphics performance. The model which I am reviewing comes with intel core i5, Without SSD. I personally using this laptop since 2 months.

Looks & Feel

Design wise it is Dell’s one of the best gaming laptop. It is made up of ABS plastic which one of the best plastics in laptop, which also helps to reduce its weight which is under 2.5 Kg

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It has that classic red and black combination. With a red backlit keyboard. The top and the palm rest area has a rubberized soft-touch finish. It’s surface is a fingerprint magnet. It has a red Dell logo, which is a cool thing.

It also comes with a bullet hole theme. Which looks awesome.

It has one of the biggest touchpad. The full-sized keyboard which is a good thing.

There are plenty of ports 3 USB 3.0 port, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet, 3.5 mm headphone jack, SD card slot, Kensington lock slot.

Display

Dell made a big compromise in this area.  It is a 15.6” 1920 x 1080 LED display with antiglare coating. But the most disappointing thing that it is not a IPS panel, It is a TN panel with a brightness of 219 nits.  It looks horrible when you look at the display from a different angle. From top it looks too much bright and bottom it is very black.

Audio

The audio is decent. The base is great thanks to the sub-woofer at bottom. And main speakers are placed above the keyboard which is a plus point. They are just loud enough to fill a room with brassy distorted audio when set at max. volume.

Keyboard and Trackpad

It comes with a full sized keyboard with a two stage red backlit. It has a spill-resistant keyboard deck. With a key travel of 1.4 mm it feels shallow, but overall typing experience is good. Touchpad is big and feels very good. The touchpad comes with windows precision drivers which is a plus point. The bottom corners of the touchpad delivered springy feedback with a gentle click.

Performance

It has best in class hardware in its price range, Equipped with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU with a 4GB of DDR5 RAM, 45 watt 7^th gen. Quad-core Intel Core i5 7300HQ processor clocked at 2.5 GHz and 8 GB RAM  It can play any game with it. AAA titles run smoothly at 1080p low settings.

Many games can run smoothly at 1080p low with 60+ FPS.

On Geekbench 4, the overall performance test notched 10391.

Thermal management is one of the best things in Dell 5577. It has two ventilation vents at back and one on the left size.

With a 1 TB HDD at 5400 rpm, the transfer speeds are slow at around 100 MBPS.

Battery Life

The best thing in this laptop because of which I also purchased it is it’s battery. It comes with a big 74 Whr 6 cell battery. Which gives me 8 to 9 hours of battery backup with mixed usage when screen set at 50% brightness. And 2.5 hours of continuous gaming. A big thumb up to Dell for putting this battery in it! It takes 2.5 hours to go from 0 to 100 thanks to its massive 130 W power brick. It has a nice cool blue ring. Which gives a nice touch.

Software

It comes preinstalled with windows 10 Home with Microsoft office 2016 home and student lifetime subscription. McAfee internet security 15 months subscription for free. Dropbox space of 20 GB for free. There’s a bunch of Dell-branded software which are quite useful.

Pros

Attractive Design, Best in class battery, good graphics, good trackpad, good thermal management.   

Cons

Poor display, does not come with USB type-C.

 My Verdict

The Dell Inspiron 15 5577 offers a solid gaming and overall performance with beast in class battery. Go for this gaming beast if that TN panel is not a deal breaker for you!