Dell Vostro 3590 review – hardware from today in a chassis from yesterday?

No matter if your business has just started, is growing, or it is an entire conglomerate of different companies, you will eventually need a laptop. Not because you can’t do everything on your phone these days, but because the laptop offers you more convenience and on top of that – more security. For the first two types we mentioned, you probably won’t be willing to spend pretty money on this, so you will need a strong, secure and affordable machine.

This is the Vostro 3590 from Dell, and it will try to convince you (and us) that it is the perfect guy for the job. Even though it is not a premium device, it has plenty in its pocket to make itself useful. For example, how many brand new MacBooks or XPSes have you seen that feature an optical drive? None. How many of them have a VGA port for connection with multimedia you find in a random meeting room? Same answer.

So let’s dig into this affordable business alternative without saving our criticism, but still bearing in mind its price tag.

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/dell-vostro-15-3590/

Contents


Specs Sheet

Dell Vostro 15 3590 - 规格

  • BOE NT15N41-M9P74 (BOE0802)
  • 颜色精度  12  3.2
  • HDD/SSD
  • 以至于 4000GB SSD + 以至于 2000GB HDD
  • 内存
  • up to 64GB
  • 操作系统
  • Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Home
  • 蓄电池
  • 42Wh, 3-cell
  • 车身材料
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate
  • 外形尺寸
  • 380 x 258 x 22.6 mm (14.96" x 10.16" x 0.89")
  • 重量
  • 2.17 kg (4.8 lbs)
  • 端口和连接性
  • 1x USB Type-A
  • 2x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • HDMI
  • 1.4b
  • 读卡器
  • SD, SDHC, SDXC
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ac
  • 音频插孔
  • 3.5 mm combo
  • 特点
  • 指纹识别器
  • optional
  • 网络摄像机
  • HD
  • 背光键盘
  • optional
  • 麦克风
  • 扬声器
  • 2x 2W
  • 光驱
  • optional
  • 安全锁槽

全部 Dell Vostro 15 3590 配置

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What’s in the box?

Inside the package, you will find the mandatory paper manuals, as well as a 45W power adapter (some options feature a beefier 65W brick).


Design and construction

By the looks of it, the Vostro 3590 is no fashion statement by any means. It is made entirely out of plastic and has that unappealing (in our view) cross-pattern finish on top (and at the base). Measurement-wise we are talking about the weight of 2.17 kg (4.78 lbs) and thickness going from 20.65mm up to 22.6mm at its thickest point.

Its lid, quite expectedly, cannot be opened with a single hand. Additionally, the lid itself is very bendy, so forget about placing anything heavier than a mobile phone on top of it. If you have a Motorola DynaTAC, please, keep it away from the laptop too. Another thing that got our attention is the huge bezel around the screen. Seriously, this makes the laptop seem more of the size of a modern 17-incher, rather than a 15.6-inch boy.

Nevertheless, let’s continue to the keyboard deck. There is some flex to it when you give it a little pressure, but it is nothing too dramatic. As of the keyboard itself, it is reasonably comfortable for typing thanks to its relatively long key travel and clicky feedback. Moreover, there is a NumberPad, which is great for a business notebook. Sadly, this unit is not equipped with a backlight, so you are going to need a degree in wizardry in order to type in the night time.

As of the touchpad – it is nothing special. The gliding is fine, but the acceleration is a bit off. Also, make sure you install the Serial I/O driver from Dell’s official website, should you have any problems early on.

On the bottom panel, you will find …plastic. Lots of it. And cut into it, there will be two speaker grills, as well as a relatively small ventilation grill. Hot air is exhausted towards the hinges cover.

Ports

The left side of the device is home to the power plug, an HDMI connector, an RJ-45 connector, two USB Type-A 3.1 (Gen. 1) ports and a headphone jack. On the right, you will find the optical drive, an archaic VGA port, a USB Type-A 2.0 port and a MicroSD card reader.


Disassembly, upgrade options and maintenance

Since the Vostro 3590 is one of the notebooks that features an optical drive, you first must remove it, before you can continue with the rest of the disassembly process. To do that, there is an adjacent screw you need to remove – you can see it in the video above. After that, there are 12 Phillips-head screws that hold the bottom panel in place. Remove them and pry the panel with a plastic tool. Then lift the plate from the right side (on the image) and slide it to the left.

Right next to the big open space left by the optical drive, you will find the cooling solution. It comprises a thick heat pipe and a relatively small fan.

Upgradability-wise, there are two RAM SODIMM slots, which support up to 16GB of DDR4 memory in total. In terms of storage, you will find a 2.5″ SATA drive bay and an M.2 slot, surrounding the battery.

Lastly, there is a 42Wh unit, powering the machine when it’s not plugged in.


Display quality

Dell Vostro 3590 has a Full HD TN panel with a model number BOE NT15N41-M9P74 (BOE0802). Its diagonal is 15.6″ (39.62 cm), and the resolution 1920 х 1080 pixels. The screen ratio is 16:9, and we are looking at a pixel density of – 142 ppi, and a pitch of 0.18 х 0.18 mm. The screen turns into Retina when viewed at distance equal to or greater than 60cm (24″) (from this distance one’s eye stops differentiating the separate pixels, and it is normal for looking at a laptop).

Expectedly, viewing angles are poor. We offer images at 45° to evaluate image quality.

We measured a maximum brightness of 238 nits in the middle of the screen and 225 nits as an average for the whole area, with a maximum deviation of 13%. The Correlated Color Temperature on a white screen is 6450K – virtually matching the sRGB standard of 6500K. However, the average temperature across the screen was 11300K (cold, bluish light – corrected by our profiles)
In the illustration below you can see how the display performs from a uniformity perspective. In other words, the leakage of light from the light source.

Values of dE2000 over 4.0 should not occur, and this parameter is one of the first you should check if you intend to use the laptop for color-sensitive work. The contrast ratio is mediocre – 290:1.

To make sure we are on the same page, we would like to give you a little introduction to the sRGB color gamut and the Adobe RGB. To start, there’s the CIE 1976 Uniform Chromaticity Diagram that represents the visible specter of colors by the human eye, giving you a better perception of the color gamut coverage and the color accuracy.

Inside the black triangle, you will see the standard color gamut (sRGB) that is being used by millions of people in HDTV and on the web. As for the Adobe RGB, this is used in professional cameras, monitors, etc for printing. Basically, colors inside the black triangle are used by everyone and this is an essential part of the color quality and color accuracy of a mainstream notebook.

Still, we’ve included other color spaces like the famous DCI-P3 standard used by movie studios, as well as the digital UHD Rec.2020 standard. Rec.2020, however, is still a thing of the future and it’s difficult for today’s displays to cover that well. We’ve also included the so-called Michael Pointer gamut, or Pointer’s gamut, which represents the colors that naturally occur around us every day.

The yellow dotted line shows Dell Vostro 3590’s color gamut coverage.

Its display covers 50% of the sRGB/ITU-R BT.709 (web/HDTV standard) in CIE1976.

Our “Design and Gaming” profile delivers optimal color temperature (6500K) at 140 cd/m2 luminance and sRGB gamma mode.

We tested the accuracy of the display with 24 commonly used colors like light and dark human skin, blue sky, green grass, orange, etc. You can check out the results at factory condition and also, with the “Design and Gaming” profile.

Below you can compare the scores of Dell Inspiron 15 3593 with the default settings (left), and with the “Gaming and Web design” profile (right).

The next figure shows how well the display is able to reproduce really dark parts of an image, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambient light.

The left side of the image represents the display with stock settings, while the right one is with the “Gaming and Web Design” profile activated. On the horizontal axis, you will find the grayscale and on the vertical axis – the luminance of the display. On the two graphs below you can easily check for yourself how your display handles the darkest nuances but keep in mind that this also depends on the settings of your current display, the calibration, the viewing angle, and the surrounding light conditions.

Response time (Gaming capabilities)

We test the reaction time of the pixels with the usual “black-to-white” and “white-to-black” method from 10% to 90% and vice versa.

We recorded Fall Time + Rise Time = 10 ms.


PWM (Screen flickering)

Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is an easy way to control monitor brightness. When you lower the brightness, the light intensity of the backlight is not lowered, but instead turned off and on by the electronics with a frequency indistinguishable to the human eye. In these light impulses, the light/no-light time ratio varies, while brightness remains unchanged, which is harmful to your eyes. You can read more about that in our dedicated article on PWM.

Dell Vostro 3590’s display uses PWM to adjust its brightness levels above 60 nits. Additionally, the pulsations have a high frequency, which makes them hardly detectable by the user and not that harmful, anyway.

Blue light emissions

Installing our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but also reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. If you’re not familiar with the Blue light, the TL;DR version is – emissions that negatively affect your eyes, skin and your whole body. You can find more information about that in our dedicated article on Blue Light.

Conclusion

Dell Vostro 3590 uses a TN Full HD panel with quick reaction time and relatively comfortable backlight in terms of PWM. However, it bears a lot of disadvantages – narrow viewing angles, poor contrast ratio, and modest color coverage.

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Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Dell Vostro 3590 configurations with 15.6″ FHD TN BOE NT15N4-M9P74 (BOE0802).

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设计与游戏

本资料针对专业处理色彩的设计师,以及游戏和电影。设计与游戏》将显示面板发挥到了极致,使其在白点D65的网页和高清电视的sRGB IEC61966-2-1标准中尽可能准确。

卫生保健

Health-Guard消除了有害的脉宽调制(PWM),并减少了影响我们的眼睛和身体的负蓝光。 由于它是针对每个面板量身定制的,因此可以保持色彩在视觉上的准确性。 Health-Guard模拟纸张,因此大大减轻了眼睛的压力。

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Sound

Dell Vostro 3590’s speakers produce a crisp, rather quiet sound with good quality. Its low, mid and high tones are clear of deviations.


Drivers

All of the drivers and utilities for this notebook can be found here: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/vostro-15-3590-laptop/drivers

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. This notebook is equipped with a 42Wh battery pack.

We were able to get around 6 hours of Web browsing and video playback.


CPU options

You can get this laptop with a lineup of Comet Lake processors. They include the Core i3-10110U, Core i5-10210U, and the Core i7-10510U.


GPU options

In addition to the integrated Intel UHD Graphics, you can opt for the AMD Radeon 610, equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 memory.


Temperatures and comfort

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average core frequency (base frequency + X); CPU temp.

Intel Core i3-10110U (15W TDP)0:02 – 0:10 sec0:15 – 0:30 sec10:00 – 15:00 min
Dell Vostro 35903.32 GHz (B+58%) @ 95°C3.27 GHz (B+56%) @ 97°C2.73 GHz (B+24%) @ 84°C

So, if you were thinking that this laptop is going to easily cool down a dual-core processor, you were wrong. The temperatures we saw were excessively high, and despite the high frequency, we think that it should have been a lot cooler.

Comfort during full load

Again, the outer temperature was a little too warm for the hardware, although nearly 39C is nothing too hot on your fingertips.


Verdict

So, in order to get everything you need for your business purposes, the laptop should cover some standards. No, it doesn’t need to be a power horse, but it also can’t be sluggish. Also, you need battery life – lots of it. Sadly, this is one of the things that the Vostro 3590 just cannot offer you. As a matter of fact, we had the bigger battery, but still, we barely managed to reach 6 hours of Web browsing and video playback.

On the other hand, the laptop has a great I/O (apart of the obvious lack of a USB Type-C port). Not only there is a VGA port for connection with older multimedia devices, but you also have an optical drive reader, should you need to look through archives or other stuff.

The same can be said about the upgradability this thing offers. While many 2020 notebooks have its memory soldered, the Vostro 3590 gives you two RAM SODIMM slots that support up to 16GB of DDR4 memory in total. Add to that a 2.5″ SATA bay and an M.2 slot and you get a future proof device.

Sadly, though, the futureproof laptop looks like it comes from the past. Its big bezels and clunky chassis, just ask you to stay away from it.

Dell Vostro 3590 uses a TN Full HD panel with quick reaction time and relatively comfortable backlight in terms of PWM. However, it bears a lot of disadvantages – narrow viewing angles, poor contrast ratio, and modest color coverage.

After all, for a little more green papers, you can buy the HP ProBook 450 G6, which would give you an IPS display, similar performance (for the money) and a lot more appealing and rigid chassis than this one.

Pros

  • Comfortable keyboard
  • Decent I/O
  • Adequate pricing
  • Doesn’t use aggressive PWM
  • It is equipped with an SD card reader and an optical drive


Cons

  • Not the best build quality (uses only plastic)
  • TN panel with poor viewing angles, low maximum brightness and mediocre contrast ratio
  • Covers only 50% of sRGB
  • Dated design

You can check the prices and configurations in our Specs System: https://laptopmedia.com/series/dell-vostro-15-3590/

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