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Dell Inspiron 11" Ultra Laptop, intel N3050 2.6GHz, Win10, Wifi A/C £159.00 @ Dell
£159Dell Deals
New Inspiron 11 3000-Series: Yes another super weedy Dell cheapo deal from Spannerzone!
Featuring less power than your 2 year old phone or 7 year old laptop:
Lethargic Intel® Celeron® Processor N3050 (2M Cache, up to 2.16 GHz),
Measley 32GB eMMC Hard Drive
Paltry 2GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz
Tiddly 11.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display
Windows 10 (which you'll hate no doubt)
Spill resistant keyboard ideal for night time solo activities
1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, 1 HDMI v1.4a
Curiously decent Wireless A/C
Webcam, Color Options: Bali Blue, Alpine White, Tango Red
Nasty McAfee® LiveSafe Consumer 12 Month Subscription (why oh why Dell?)
E-Value Code: cn31602 (paste this into Dell's search bar to find the deal)
Featuring less power than your 2 year old phone or 7 year old laptop:
Lethargic Intel® Celeron® Processor N3050 (2M Cache, up to 2.16 GHz),
Measley 32GB eMMC Hard Drive
Paltry 2GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz
Tiddly 11.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display
Windows 10 (which you'll hate no doubt)
Spill resistant keyboard ideal for night time solo activities
1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, 1 HDMI v1.4a
Curiously decent Wireless A/C
Webcam, Color Options: Bali Blue, Alpine White, Tango Red
Nasty McAfee® LiveSafe Consumer 12 Month Subscription (why oh why Dell?)
E-Value Code: cn31602 (paste this into Dell's search bar to find the deal)
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Choice of colours, up to 9 hours battery (well I guess anything is possible)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMq2IiozPYg
This video shows a regular hard drive, the item on offer has an EMMC drive so not sure if both options exist or not.... needs further investigation.
Service manual suggests the same as the video
topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf…pdf
So many laptops from all the vendors still ship these damned lower res screens, even on mid range laptops.... somewhere in China a factory is churning out billions of the things I reckon!
Agreed, these low res screen is OK for email and general internet but not for serious worker or HD video though...
Sort of ok, but these low resolutions are the main reason that reading on laptop is so much more painful than on a tablet. 1080p or 1200p are a lot nicer, as long as you can get Windows to scale properly (which depends a bit on the programs, too).
https://youtu.be/lxmxSHalJMY
https://youtu.be/LRGrcfbwFBw
Struggling to link the dell but this is the E-Value Code: CN55204 if you go on deals of the day it's the second laptop down.
Positive review example
Bought this for my daughter for school. Can't beat the value or the quality. Perfect size and light weight. Keyboard and Touchpad are responsive. Start up is fast. Great sound. Good picture.
Negative review example
Just what the title says. This computer is so slow it's almost unusable. I wasn't expecting much for the price but this thing is awful. I wanted a small laptop for travel and as an backup if I had issues with my main computer but this was a waste of money. Don't buy.
1366 x 768 at 11 inches is around the same pixel density as 1080p at 15 inches.
But I guess shouting low resolutions without being informed is cool now.
Thanks for finding those, looks like there are different versions of the 3000 series and even Dell is linking the wrong service manual to this model. Shame it's so locked down and non upgradeable.....I know manufacturers are going super cheap but a PC with such low ram and little spare HD space is going to struggle and annoy uninformed buyers, They really need to bump up the storage to eMMC 64GB and 4G ram and it would make a big difference.
Surfs the net with either edge or firefox quickly and easily.
Plays up to 720p youtube videos without stutter.
I can play older games, even 3d ones.
Editing docments with libreoffice is fast and responsive.
It plays Football Manager 2015 without issue.
This machine may not be 'fast' or have a 'golden **** master 3d card' but who cares. I'll get the job done for what almost everyone uses a computer for.
I'm a huge fan of laptops this size, much better than the old netbooks that were too small. Hide your taskbar and it is the perfect size for a web browser. It's much more manageable than a 15" and is particularly good for lazy mornings in bed.
Not a chance I or anyone with a brain would buy it with only 15.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) Truelife LED-Backlit Display.
cant understand why Dell would do this on a 15inch display unless its just to hit a lower price point. -stuupid.
I've got a 1080P screened tablet/ultrabook around this screen size, and to be frank it's a pain in the backside, windows just doesn't scale well, so yes text is crisper, but unreadable at native resolution, and as soon as you scale, it's no better than my old 1366x768 laptop with similar screen size. I needed the resolution for a particular application, but mostly it's just a pain.
As for watching movies, if the movie is good enough, you're not going to notice the resolution isn't full HD, and at least if you re-encode for the resolution, you'll get more on your memory chip.
mike
I'd rather hope people with brains would buy a laptop based on their requirement rather than a willy waving exercise over resolutions. I know plenty of people who prefer that resolution on a 15" screen, personally I would want higher, but that's because I use software that needs the higher resolution, but for say my Dad, he definitely would be wasting his money on higher resolutions, since he'd need windows set to maximum scaling to read the screen.
I bet you this is the most popular screen resolution and screen size across all manufacturers, despite it not appealing to everyone.
I wonder how we coped in the old days with 640x480 screens, and that was when you had a posh computer, lol.
mike
seems the same/better for less.
thats a 14 inch but 11 inch stream is the same
This deal is for an 11" laptop
Its not just about pixel density its about how much will fit on the screen when using any app other than games or video where its arguably less important
I'd argue at this screen size, it's the size of text that's more important than how much you can fit on the screen, a full hd screen run without scaling is no fun at this screen size, unless you want to visit an optician, although maybe with only a slight scaling factor, you'd still get more on a full hd screen, than 1366x768, but I'm not sure it's much and probably debatable economic sense.
The beauty is, with this being a popular size and resolution, you can easily pop down to your nearest computer shop or John Lewis and try one with similar screen specs and see how you'd get on, before buying - that's what I did with my Dad before picking a 1368x768 screen as the most sensible for him.
mike
Find the same sort if resolution to screen size works well in Windows to for general office work / web browsing.
I tend to hold a tablet closer to my face, hence a higher res is OK in that scenario (particularly with Android).
Thanks. The stream does look pretty similar to this for 10 quid less.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-stream-11-r050sa-11-6-laptop-blue-10137770-pdt.html
Anyone have any reason why I should go for the Dell over the HP?
There's a Lenovo for 149.99 as well.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-100s-11-6-laptop-red-10139239-pdt.html
Is the Celeron N3050 better than the Atom Z3735F? I am so out of touch.
Wouldn't touch this at all given you're stuck with this spec. Spend a bit more on laptop from Dell Outlet is the better way.
I'm not sure you know how display scaling works. 1080p without display scaling on a 11 inch display would be impossible to read.
the specs are pretty much the same, although i think the stream is limited to 802.11N wifi whereas the Dell has AC. unless you see the need for AC wifi (crowded frequencies, many clients etc) then N should be plenty fast. the CPU probably wouldnt exploit the theoretically faster transfer speeds properly anyway.
the HP stream gets between 8-9 hours of battery life so fairly comparable.
the splash resistant keyboard may also be beneficial dependent on how likely you are to spill drinks on it.
just a heads up, the N3050 CPU performs about the same as a Z3735 quad core so is fine for very basic things, id stick with the edge browser on low powered hardware as it seems fairly good at using minimal resources when compared to chrome, IE etc