Dell Vostro 1. 5 3. Review. Designed for business professionals on a budget, the Dell Vostro 1.

It partially succeeds on that front, offering an excellent keyboard, a decently crisp display and enough battery life to get through the better part of a workday. However, with less- than- stellar CPU performance and a cheap- looking design, the Vostro is far from the best PC you can get in its price range. Mask Of The Ninja Full Movie Part 1.

Specs. Design. You certainly get what you pay for with the Vostro 1. The ridged plastic on the laptop's lid and deck is highly susceptible to fingerprints, and clashes awkwardly with the glossy material that makes up the notebook's edges. This isn't just a style problem - - it also creates some unpleasantly sharp corners between the edges and the deck. At 1. 4. 7. 5 x 1. Watch Cafe Society Online.

Vostro is probably best left on your desk rather than used as a travel companion. The Vostro's size is fairly standard for a 1. Asus F5. 55. LA has a lighter, 4.

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Ports and Webcam. Dell's PC comes well equipped for work, sporting two USB 2. USB 3. 0 port, an Ethernet port and a headphone/mic jack.

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There's also a DVD drive, as well as a VGA port for connecting the laptop to an external display. The Vostro's 7. 20p webcam doesn't take the mos. Still, it's clear enough to work for basic video calling. Display. The Vostro's 1. HD, but it still makes a fine showpiece for movies and videos.

The Captain America: Civil War trailer looked impressively crisp on the notebook's display, which made it easy to pick out every detail of Tony Stark's bruised, goateed face. The clip remained highly watchable at wide angles, even as I tilted the screen as far as roughly 7. However, the myriad of colorful superhero suits in the video could have looked richer, which was reflected in our lab tests. The notebook reproduced only 6. RGB color gamut, trailing the Asus F5. L (7. 0 percent) as well as Dell's Inspiron 1.

The display also wasn't the most color- accurate we've tested, with a Delta- E of 4. The Vostro was less accurate than the Inspiron 1. Asus F5. 5L (6. 3. MORE: Best Laptops Under $5. The Vostro 1. 5 3. F5. 55. L (1. 98 nits) and the Inspiron 1. Audio. The Vostro's speakers are surprisingly loud, filling our small TV testing room with the bouncy pop- rock of Fall Out Boy's "Irresistible" and the thumping hip- hop of Kendrick Lamar's "King Kunta." While vocals came through fairly clear, guitars sounded a bit muddy, and there was a general lack of bass.

Fortunately, you can beef up the Vostro's audio output via the built- in Dell Audio app, which features Maxx. Audio Pro speaker and headphone enhancement. Maxx. Audio is on by default - - my music became much softer and sounded hollow when I turned it off. The app allows you to adjust parameters such as bass, treble and dialogue, as well as dig into an equalizer for extra fine- tuning. Keyboard and Touchpad.

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The Vostro's keyboard is excellent, sporting chiclet- island keys that offer just the right mix of feedback and resistance. Despite a fairly low travel of 1. Key Hero typing test at 1. The notebook's spacious 4. More advanced gestures, such as swiping right with three fingers to change apps, also worked well. Overall Performance.

The Vostro's Intel Celeron 3. U processor and 4. GB of RAM don't exactly make it a multitasking powerhouse, but it still offers the muscle you need for light computing and web surfing. I didn't encounter any major issues while watching two Twitch streams and running a full system scan. However, switching tabs and minimizing pages took a few seconds longer than I would have liked. The notebook scored 2,9.

Geekbench 3 general performance test, lagging behind the Core i. F5. 55. LA (4,2. 20) while besting the Celeron N3. Inspiron 1. 5 (1,5. The Vostro failed to top the average mainstream notebook (7,8. Dell's PC took 8 minutes and 4 seconds to match 2. That's notably slower than the F5. LA (6: 3. 1) and our 5: 3.

Inspiron 1. 5 (1. The Vostro's 5. 00. GB, 5,4. 00- rpm hard drive copied 4. GB worth of files at 2. MB per second, which is a bit behind the F5. LA's 5. 00. GB drive (3. MBps) but faster than the Inspiron's 5.

GB drive (2. 5. 7 MBps). Graphics Performance. The Vostro is a machine designed for getting work done - - not for playing high- end PC games or rendering 3. D graphics. Still, its integrated Intel 4. HD graphics should get the job done for the mobile- grade titles on the Windows Store, such as the copy of Candy Crush Soda Saga that comes preinstalled on the system. MORE: The Best Laptops for Every Need. Dell's laptop scored 3.

DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics benchmark, losing to the Intel 5. F5. 55. LA (4. 6,2.

Intel HD- powered Inspiron 1. Battery Life and Heat.

The Vostro offers decent battery life, but you shouldn't leave the office for long without your charger handy. The notebook lasted for 5 hours and 2. Wi- Fi), just barely falling behind the Asus' 5: 4. MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life. While you're likely to keep a 1. Vostro won't burn a hole in your lap. After streaming 1.

HD video, the laptop's touchpad, keyboard and underside grew to 8. Configurations. The Vostro starts at $3. Intel Celeron 3. 21.

U processor, 4. GB of RAM, a 5. GB, 5,4. 00- rpm hard drive and integrated Intel HD 4. Stepping up to the $4.

Intel Core i. 3- 5. U CPU and Intel 5. Core i. 5- 6. 20. Intel 5. 20 graphics. Finally, the highest- end, $7. RAM to 8. GB and sports discrete AMD Radeon R5 M3. Interestingly, the starting config ships with Windows 1.

Windows 7. You can, however, choose your preferred software before you buy. Software and Warranty.

I was pleased to see how little bloatware was on the Vostro, whose only main extra is a suite of Cyber. Link media apps. There's the Power Media Player for watching movies and playing music, the Power.

Director for video editing and the Power. Go app for quickly burning CDs. The Vostro ships with a one- year hardware service warranty, which includes in- home and onsite service after a remote diagnosis. See how Dell fared in our Best and Worst Laptop Brand Report and Tech Support Showdown. Bottom Line. The best word to sum up the $3.

Dell Vostro 1. 5 3. The notebook's snappy keyboard and satisfactory battery life are suitable for basic business tasks, and its 1. While the Vostro's cheap design and relatively slow performance seem like typical trade- offs for a budget PC, some of its competitors prove you don't have to settle.

The $3. 75 Asus F5. LA offers a sharper 1. The Vostro is perfectly usable, but you can do better for the money. Pros /Impressive keyboard; Loud speakers; Decent battery life. Cons /Subpar performance; No full HD display; Cheap design.

Verdict /The Dell Vostro 1.