How does it perform with games? I am concerned that the small form factor will limit thermals, cause overheating, and cause thermal throttling of the CPU and GPU. What has your experience been?
How much battery back will i expect with some pdfs, some ppts, 1-2 excel sheet, and chrome browser open together ? Sorry it's a very specific question. In the video you said that battery backup is 1 hour approx, is it still the case?
I ordered the 15 inch version and it'll be coming in the mail tomorrow. I've been running MacOS/Ubuntu dual boot for a few years now and the first thing I was planning on doing was Dual booting Win/Ubuntu on the Vostro. I have very little bios experience and heard there is some sort of additional security features on the Vostro so I'm a little worried about messing up my installation. I'f you've successfully managed to dual boot do you mind providing some instructions on how to do?
Hi! Thanks for reaching out, and apologies for the late reply as I am on holiday. I did everything out of order, but I believe the correct steps should be: 1. Put Windows into safe mode on next book through using msconfig 2. Turn off, switch SSD to AHCI mode 3. Restart into Windows to verify it works 4. Install Ubuntu I did mine sort of like: 1. Install Ubuntu, did not see SSDs. 2. Switch to AHCI 3. Ubuntu is installed, but Windows did not work 4. Switched back to RAID, Windows works but Ubuntu does not. 5. Tried the safe mode thing, and then finally it works. I think you should be able to cut down on the steps, but let me know if you have any trouble.
@@winstonpurnomo9932 I successfully dual booted two days ago. Here were my steps: 1) Control Panel -> Power Settings -> Turn off quick startup & turn off reboot on laptop lid opening (Causes a problem in Ubuntu) 2) Turn on safe mode, switch to AHCI, reboot and turn off safemode 3) Turn off Bitlocker 4) Shrink my C partion by ~250gb 5) Turn off secure boot (Don't think it's necessary for stock Ubuntu, but it is for other distros. 6) First I installed Pop_OS for the Nvidia driver support, I selected custom installation. so I turned the 250gb unallocated space into 3 partions, 500mb for UEFI exFAT assign as efi boot loader, Logical partition of 4gb for swap EXT4 "/swap", the remaining 245gb EXT4 assigned to "/" 7) Booted up and this was great except I remembered that I hate the Pop shop.. 8) Launched ubuntu 19.04 through a live usb and deleted all three new partitions I had made 9) Chose "Install alongside Windows 10" 10) Installed perfectly, grub screen boots up on startup and allows me to select, I can also click f12 and see the efi options for both. 11) For the 15in with Dual Graphics, Install system76 power settings (command in a tutorial on their site) reboot and you now have the graphics switching menu in your ubuntu distro I haven't had any issues yet but I'll keep you updated
@@philipdavis3446 My BitLocker is still on and has had no issues for now, and the NVIDIA Driver support was added in at a later time, but thanks for the info!
SIM slot is available on select configurations of the Inspiron model. Fingerprint is supposed to be available, but it was not an option at purchase at least for me.
Not sure about this one, but the 14 inch variant (vostro 14 5490) has 54% sRGB, so I would expect this is the same. Check laptopmedia to see if they have a review of this particular model, as they go very in-depth on the display.
I don't think you know what 'unboxing' means. I see no box bro. I came to see what kind of charger it comes with, rebooting time etc... Totally dissapointed.
How does it perform with games? I am concerned that the small form factor will limit thermals, cause overheating, and cause thermal throttling of the CPU and GPU. What has your experience been?
How much battery back will i expect with some pdfs, some ppts, 1-2 excel sheet, and chrome browser open together ? Sorry it's a very specific question.
In the video you said that battery backup is 1 hour approx, is it still the case?
You can go with vostro 5401, dell says it has 10-12hrs battery back up
Is it heating?
Apologies if I may have missed it but is there a free sodimm slot? what's the exact mx250 sku?
I ordered the 15 inch version and it'll be coming in the mail tomorrow. I've been running MacOS/Ubuntu dual boot for a few years now and the first thing I was planning on doing was Dual booting Win/Ubuntu on the Vostro. I have very little bios experience and heard there is some sort of additional security features on the Vostro so I'm a little worried about messing up my installation. I'f you've successfully managed to dual boot do you mind providing some instructions on how to do?
Hi! Thanks for reaching out, and apologies for the late reply as I am on holiday.
I did everything out of order, but I believe the correct steps should be:
1. Put Windows into safe mode on next book through using msconfig
2. Turn off, switch SSD to AHCI mode
3. Restart into Windows to verify it works
4. Install Ubuntu
I did mine sort of like:
1. Install Ubuntu, did not see SSDs.
2. Switch to AHCI
3. Ubuntu is installed, but Windows did not work
4. Switched back to RAID, Windows works but Ubuntu does not.
5. Tried the safe mode thing, and then finally it works.
I think you should be able to cut down on the steps, but let me know if you have any trouble.
@@winstonpurnomo9932 I successfully dual booted two days ago. Here were my steps: 1) Control Panel -> Power Settings -> Turn off quick startup & turn off reboot on laptop lid opening (Causes a problem in Ubuntu)
2) Turn on safe mode, switch to AHCI, reboot and turn off safemode
3) Turn off Bitlocker
4) Shrink my C partion by ~250gb
5) Turn off secure boot (Don't think it's necessary for stock Ubuntu, but it is for other distros.
6) First I installed Pop_OS for the Nvidia driver support, I selected custom installation. so I turned the 250gb unallocated space into 3 partions, 500mb for UEFI exFAT assign as efi boot loader, Logical partition of 4gb for swap EXT4 "/swap", the remaining 245gb EXT4 assigned to "/"
7) Booted up and this was great except I remembered that I hate the Pop shop..
8) Launched ubuntu 19.04 through a live usb and deleted all three new partitions I had made
9) Chose "Install alongside Windows 10"
10) Installed perfectly, grub screen boots up on startup and allows me to select, I can also click f12 and see the efi options for both.
11) For the 15in with Dual Graphics, Install system76 power settings (command in a tutorial on their site) reboot and you now have the graphics switching menu in your ubuntu distro
I haven't had any issues yet but I'll keep you updated
@@philipdavis3446 My BitLocker is still on and has had no issues for now, and the NVIDIA Driver support was added in at a later time, but thanks for the info!
Hey how is the battery life so far ?
About 6 to 7 hours browsing in Chrome. Not amazing, but not terrible either.
is there any sim card slot and finger print lock
SIM slot is available on select configurations of the Inspiron model.
Fingerprint is supposed to be available, but it was not an option at purchase at least for me.
What is the material made out of? I couldn't find out on the website.
Aluminum top deck and palm rest, plastic screen bezel and bottom case
Hey what's the color gamut of the display, can't find the info anywhere
Not sure about this one, but the 14 inch variant (vostro 14 5490) has 54% sRGB, so I would expect this is the same. Check laptopmedia to see if they have a review of this particular model, as they go very in-depth on the display.
are these released on the Philippine market already?
Not sure sorry
I don't think you know what 'unboxing' means. I see no box bro. I came to see what kind of charger it comes with, rebooting time etc... Totally dissapointed.
Does it have port to connect ethernet (LAN)
Not on the computer itself.
Mx250 gpu-z code 1d13 or 1d52 ? Check gpu-z device id
Not sure
@@winstonpurnomo9932 check please gpu-z
@@Vladimir_Rozovoy I also want to know it, have you got the info?
Can you charge the device with a portable power brick via USB C?
yes u can bro
yes bro