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日本Top 5 reasons to BUY or NOT to buy the Dell Vostro 14 3401
While not a lot of people like budget devices, they are the backbone of the industry, making the most profits due to their sheer sales numbers. The Dell Vostro 14 3401 is one such device, which is ideal for the non-demanding consumer, who just needs a laptop that works well, is affordable, and can handle daily tasks such as checking emails, doing presentations, and the usual office work.
Today we are presenting you with LaptopMedia’s top 5 picks about the Dell Vostro 14 3401.
Dell Vostro 14 3401: Full Specs / In-depth Review
4 reasons to BUY the Dell Vostro 14 3401
1. Design and build quality
The laptop is built entirely from plastic, but we were surprised by how durable it was. The lid also has a grippy texture, which makes carrying it around much easier. It is also very portable, weighing only 1.64 kg while having a profile of 19.9 mm, which is standard with many notebooks. To no surprise, the lid is unable to be opened with one hand, but once you do open it, you see averagely sized bezels with a webcam on top.
Input devices are average with the keyboard having medium-long key travel and clicky feedback. On the flip side, it does come with spill resistance, so accidental splashes won’t be as damaging. The touchpad has a rougher surface and the clicking mechanism rattles a bit.
2. I/O
The I/O coverage is very impressive. You get a total of three USB Type-A ports, with one 2.0 port and two 3.2 (Gen. 1) ports, a single USB Type-C 3.2 (Gen. 1), an HDMI 1.4 connector, a MicroSD card reader, an Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack.
3. Battery life
The battery life is decent with the small 42Wh unit lasting for a bit over 7 hours of Web browsing, 8 hours, and 20 minutes of video playback, and when it comes to games, the result is 1 hour and 7 minutes. 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.
4. Upgradeability
In terms of upgradeability, the laptop packs everything that you could ask for, including two SODIMM RAM slots, one M.2 PCIe x4 slot, and a SATA drive bay for “regular” drives.
Here is our detailed teardown video, which
1 reason NOT to buy the Dell Vostro 14 3401
1. Display quality
The laptop comes with two display options, both with a 14-inch diagonal. The base model has a TN panel with a resolution of 1366 x 768p. The laptop that we had was equipped with a Full HD IPS panel, which we would recommend, had it not used PWM across the entire frequency range. However, our Health-Guard profile fixed that issue completely. Otherwise, the panel has pretty good qualities, including comfortable viewing angles, a max brightness of 239 nits in the middle of the screen, and 226 nits average across the surface with a maximum deviation of 8%.
The panel covers 52% of the sRGB gamut.
In terms of color accuracy, the panel didn’t improve much once we applied our Design and Gaming profile. Here are the results with the stock settings (left) and with our profile applied (right).
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Since our profiles are tailored for each display model, this article and its respective profile package are meant for Dell Vostro 14 3401 configurations with 14.0″ BOE V4PNY-NV14N4H (BOE097C) (FHD, 1920 × 1080) IPS panel.
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Praca biurowa
Office Work powinien być używany głównie przez użytkowników, którzy spędzają większość czasu patrząc na fragmenty tekstu, tabele lub po prostu surfując. Profil ten ma na celu zapewnienie lepszej wyrazistości i jasności poprzez utrzymanie płaskiej krzywej gamma (2.20), natywnej temperatury barwowej i percepcyjnie wiernych kolorów.
Projektowanie i gry
Profil ten skierowany jest do projektantów, którzy zawodowo zajmują się kolorystyką, a także do gier i filmów. Design and Gaming wykorzystuje panele wyświetlaczy do granic ich możliwości, czyniąc je tak dokładnymi, jak to tylko możliwe w standardzie sRGB IEC61966-2-1 dla stron internetowych i HDTV, przy punkcie bieli D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminuje szkodliwą modulację szerokości impulsu (PWM) i redukuje negatywne niebieskie światło, które wpływa na nasze oczy i ciało. Ponieważ jest on dostosowany do każdego panelu, udaje mu się zachować percepcyjnie dokładne kolory. Health-Guard symuluje papier, dzięki czemu nacisk na oczy jest znacznie zredukowany.
