First impressions of Dell Inspiron 5559 – well balanced mainstream business machine

LaptopMedia.com Highlights First impressions of Dell Inspiron 5559 - well balanced mainstream business machine

From: Simeon Nikolov 07 February 2016 / 15:26 | 1

It’s not very easy to define what the audience is of of the new Dell Inspiron 5559 – it provides the expected reliability (36 months of international warranty, but be sure to check for your country), good processor (up to Core i7), dedicated graphics card and all that at a relatively affordable price. Although the latter also depends on your country, in USA the Core i5 configurations start at $549.

We now have the Dell Inspiron 5559 in our office and our first impressions confirm our expectations.

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Design

You won’t fall in love with Inspiron 5559 at first sight, but it has a practical and sufficiently sturdy construction, without any attention-grabbing elements. The lid looks and feels nice, plus it doesn’t collect fingerprints despite our hard efforts. The interior is made of the same plastic material and has the same rugged texture. The keyboard is Island Style and we there is a NumPad module with slightly smaller keys. We don’t have any complaints about the trackpad which has sufficiently large area for comfortable work with gestures.

The chassis is relatively thin and weighs about 2.4kg, which is definitely not a record but won’t make your business trips uncomfortable.

Performance

Intel_Core_i7_logo1 Our configuration has a Core i7-6500U Skylake processor, part of the ULV series by Intel. In other words, it isn’t intended for hard work with CAD software or 3D design, but for more simple tasks such as working with spreadsheets or business applications.

As we already said, Inspiron 5559 is also equipped with a dedicated graphics card, AMD Radeon R5 M335 (4GB DDR3) in our case, but you shouldn’t expect gaming capabilities from it. Yes, at its native resolution of 1366 x 768 it will run most of the latest games at decent framerates, but you won’t be able to set the graphics settings to anything except Low.

Check out our Top Laptop CPU Ranking and Top Laptop Graphics Ranking lists.

Upgrade options

We’ve already showed you what upgrade options Inspiron 5559 provides – not much. You can easily access the 2.5” HDD, the two ram slots and the Wi-Fi card, but there’s no M.2 slot.

Check out our Inside article for more information and upgrade guides:
http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/inside-dell-inspiron-5559-disassembly-upgrade-guide-and-internal-photos/

Specs sheet

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CPU	Intel Core i7-6500U (2-core, 2.50 – 3.10 GHz, 4MB cache)
RAM	8GB (2x 4096MB) – DDR3L, 1600MHz
GPU	AMD Radeon R5 M335 (4GB DDR3)
HDD/SSD	1TB HDD (5400 rpm)
Display	15.6-inch (39.62 cm.) – 1366 x 768, glossy
Optical drive	DVD burner
Connectivity	LAN 10/100 Mpbs, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0
Features	1x USB 3.0 2x USB 2.0 built-in HD Web camera built-in microphone combo audio jack (headphone/microphone) keyboard LED backlight HDMI memory card reader (SD, SDHC, SDXC) RJ-45 Kensington lock slot
Battery	4-cell, 40 WHr or 47 WHr
Weight	2.4 kg