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Dell Inspiron 15 5000 (5570) review

Dell Inspiron 15 5000 (5570)

CHOICE Expert Rating

67%
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Good points

Good Points

  • Matte screen means reflections are kept to a minimum
  • Full-sized HDMI port
  • Full-sized SD card slot
  • Includes Intel Optane technology, which can boost system boot-up performance and make application load quicker when enabled
  • Very good keyboard
  • Excellent touchpad
Bad points

Bad Points

  • No USB-C ports
  • Keyboard not backlit
  • Screen has narrow viewing angles
  • Ethernet port's design makes it awkward to use
  • Ethernet port is not Gigabit
  • Relatively slow storage performance for reading and writing data in our tests
  • Intel Optane technology was not enabled by default
  • Relatively short battery life in our tests

Type

Ultraportable
Ultrabook
Tablet mode
Operating system
Windows 10 Home

Recommended products

Recommended
Not recommended
Recommended for tablet use

Test results

CHOICE Expert Rating
67%
Performance score
55%
Tablet use score
N/A
Ease of use score
81%
Battery life score
56%
Display score
72%
Audio score
45%
Wi-Fi score
68%
Storage write-speed (MBps)
70
Storage read-speed (MBps)
92
Wi-Fi speed (MBps)
29
Average battery life – heavy usage (hours)
3:41
Charging time to 80% full (h:min)
1:33
Expert tester comments
Dell's Inspiron 5000 (5570) has a basic configuration that includes a hard drive rather than a solid state drive, but it does have a trick up its sleeve for the system to overcome the sluggishness that can be caused by hard drives: Intel Optane technology. Optane is a 16GB solid state drive that is installed for the sole purpose of automatically caching the most used data, making the system respond quicker when booting and launching programs. However, Optane was not enabled by default in our laptop, without instructions given to do so. We had to search the web for instructions to enable it, thus our performance testing was done without Optane enabled. Note: This laptop's performance is not directly comparable to current products due to it being tested with an older version of our benchmark.

Sustainability

Shop Ethical rating
C
Warranty (years)
1
Replaceable battery
Not collected
Replace/upgrade RAM
Not collected
Slots for additional RAM
Not collected
Replace/upgrade storage
Not collected
Slot for additional storage
Not collected
Replace/upgrade Wi-Fi
Not collected
Country of origin
Not collected

Related products

Availability
Discontinued model

Cost

Price
$849.00

Specifications

Screen size (inches)
15.6
Native screen resolution (pixels)
1920 x 1080
Processor (CPU) type
Intel Core i5-8250U
CPU frequency (GHz)
1.6
RAM (GB)
4
Video graphics type
Intel UHD Graphics 620
Storage capacity (GB)
1000
Available user space (GB)
887
Storage type
HD + SSD (Optane)
Wi-Fi version
5
Weight of laptop (kg)
2.1
Weight of power supply (kg)
0.3
Size (mm, H x D x W)
19 x 258 x 380

Features

Screen finish
Matte
Touchscreen
USB-C
USB 2.0 ports
1
USB 3.0 ports
2
USB 4 as USB-C port
0
USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen 1 or 2, not Thunderbolt 3 or 4) ports
0
Thunderbolt 3 or 4 (as USB-C) ports
0
SD card slot (full-size)
SD card slot (micro)
HDMI port
Gigabit ethernet port
Rear camera
Backlit keyboard levels of brightness
0

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