New Inspiron 7537/7737 Touch, Haswell and GT750m

Hey i think you are right !

im just coming from the dell website and its says at the bottom of the 15" 7000 series page

 

You guys actually like the numpad? I wish it wasn't there. For the few times I actually use it, it's more a hindrance than anything else.
I guess it's not a deal breaker though. 1080p on 15" is my sweet spot. 5.7lbs seems heavy for a thin laptop like that though. What gives?

 

I too wish the numpad wasn't on the 15 inch...the 14 inch solves that issue but, again, no dedicated graphics. We've confirmed that the 14 inch has soldered memory, how about the 15?

I agree completely. This is the first laptop in a while that checks all my boxes in terms of price vs style vs features.

 

Both the 15" & 17" models have two DIMM slots. Easily accessible.

 

According the manual for the 15 inch model, you should be able to replace the memory dimms

 

Damn Now that the new XPS is out I have see it too. The place I work for has a special deal with dell and I can buy top XPS 15 models for like 1000 pounds !!!!! but I am afraid that theya re still plagued with the WiFi problems so ....

No reviews yet out for the inspiron? Couldn't they have just sent a few trial models already?

 

Thanks
Yes I looked it up too .

 

Wow I'm so glad the memory modules are replaceable, when I read that they weren't in the 14 and thought it was the same in the larger models I was a little disappointed. I was already a little disappointed that the 14 cant be configured with a dedicated graphics since I think I would prefer the size and weight of the 14 inch. Even if they'd gone with one of the new iris pro 5200 iGPU from intel I would have scooped it up on launch day.

Does anyone have one yet or know where there are any reviews? As much as I liked this laptop on paper I would love to see a full review before I buy one. Especially the battery life numbers and a few benchmarks to check for throttling or serious heat/fan issues.

 

I'm keenly interested in learning about the cooling system and possible throttling with these systems. I don't understand why there are no reviews. Seems like a pretty significant release from one of the top 3 PC manufacturers.

 

Yup, if the 14 had iris pro I'd be content. I too want to see reviews, particularly from notebookcheck and NBR.

Either the systems are seen as meh, the press are still embargoed (doubt it) or people are in the process of reviewing them.

I really hope this is the latter.

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Is there a hope of seeing Inspiron 7000 series 15 inch models with Quad core, Core i7 processors?

 

The new XPS 15 is very similar except I think it has a quadcore i7, if you want the quad core I think you'll need to move up to the XPS

 

No, unless Intel comes out with a quad-core ULV processor that fits a FCBGA1168 socket.

 

I like the design of this inspiron over xps. It's a true clone of MBP

 

in about 4 weeks brand new XPS models coming up with Haswell and GTX GPU.........(i was super close to buy new Alienware 17 (because of the awesome design and GTX780M).......BUT i can live with GTX765M, because i love XPS design overall)


i hope DELL put in the new GTX775M (i doubt it, but it would be super nice)
it has a Pixel rate as: 20.1 GPixel/s..........and a Texture rate at: 80.5 GTexel/s........which make it ~3 time faster then new 750M which sits in new Inspiron


ps...one huge surprise with this new inspiron laptops is that (here in Scandinavia) ALL screens has True life.... (costs otherwise $200-250 extra to get that).....this new touch panels are very bright and have good blackness....perfect for outdoor activity

i hope new XPS comes i both non-touch and touch.

 

Hi guys, need some help here. I'm currently getting the inspiron 15 7000 for a good deal (about $1300 or 82000 indian rupees) with core i7, fhd touch, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd and gt750m 2gb gddr5(!).
Link:-
New Inspiron 15 7000 Series Optional Touch Laptop Details | Dell India

What I wanted to ask is if the ulv cpu(core i7 4500u dual core) will be sufficient for my needs or not. I'll be mostly using it for coding(in eclipse or android studio) and gaming(not exactly a hardcore gamer but like to play some fps games and fifa). I am not clear if this machine is powerful enough for my needs or not. I would be grateful if someone would clarify where exactly would ulv processors choke in performance compared to say a regular full voltage cpu. Thanks!

 

The dual core processor should be enough for most application for a casual user. The real difference in i7 quad cores can be really seen only in video editing or hardcore gaming with a lot of physics. It should be able to handle what you will throw to it decently at least on paper.

The problem with so thin laptops is that the CPU and GPU usually share the same heat sink and you might get throttling issues due to overheat. This is why most people wait for reviews from notebookcheck etc.

Characteristics on paper might be good but other technical limitation play important role in laptops especially.

Also don't forget if you are going to use that in India overheating might be more of a problem due to the increased environmental temperature. Even those sites usually try the laptops at 20-25 degrees

 

hhhmmm.......the new i7 4500U (ultra low voltage) CPU is good, but far away from very powerful.......

its twice as slow against older 3610Q or 3630Q who sits in Inspiron 17R SE.........

(actually i dont understand why DELL took 4500U as their highest configuration CPU in 7000 series....(yeh i know it should keep up with the new 4-cell battery (((4-CELL !!!!)

.....they could at least chosen the higher 4558U.
ps....DELL, please, roll back to 6 or 8 cell batterys and real Quad core CPUs.

 

Yeah, stuff like this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/what-notebook-should-i-buy/733830-dell-inspiron-7000-a-new-post.html

Is why Dell should have at least had the high resolution display available as a BTO during the launch period. I can only imagine how many either got turned away by others or were turned off by the lack of options on this initial run of systems.

 

What I don't understand is why they went with the combination of a powerful gpu with an underpowered ulv cpu. Feels kinda strange. Hope their xps 15 offers gt 750m at $1500 price point. ATM I'll just wait for notebookcheck's review on inspiron's performance.

 

I can understand the inclusion of a ULV processor based on the size they are aiming for. The screen selections are what really bother me.

 

Yeah guys stop asking for everything. You want for 800 pounds ( I don't know the price in dollars) FHD screen, new generation top quad core processor, 6 cell or larger battery, a very good GPU, good design with aluminum.

I understand that most people here want a multimedia laptop that can do pretty much everything. Apart from the usual office work you would like it to be able to play a few games, not necessarily at top quality, maybe do some editing and being nice, light and thin.

Well I think ( it remains to be proved ) that the combination of this processor with that GPU should be able pretty much every game currently on the market with medium or low settings. If you want something better you are looking at the wrong place you should go for an alienware, but they are expensive and bulky etc which I do not like.

It is probably hard to get quad core CPU and good GPU at such a thin laptop without throttling issues. We all know what happened to XPS 15


Plus by giving at such a low price such a combination they would be burying their premium products like XPS. Plus I am not sure that the pricing of intel really helps putting a quad core CPU to a laptop for such low price. I think there is a sudden huge price leap when you go from i7 dual core to quad core ( for haswell) which is not logical but justified just by the fact that they are the top CPUs available on the market.

I just want to wait for reviews before judging so hard

 

Anyone here place a order for one yet? Hopefully, if so, people will share thoughts and pics. :thumbup:

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I ordered the 14 inch i7 model with the 1080p screen. With .edu discount and $50 coupon making it $909.xx + tax

It is supposed to be delivered on the 17th of October so we will see then

 

My 7537 with 1080p screen was delivered yesterday in the UK. I'm not back home until Sunday night/Monday morning, so will try to put up some pics and a brief review on Monday night.

Chris

 

Hey chris. I've been thinking about getting the same laptop here in NZ. My only experience with Dell so far has been not so great though with my laptop constantly having overheating issues as well as a very poor battery life (despite it being 9 cells) ever since my purchase from their website 2 years ago.
I'd appreciate it if you can tell us about what the battery life is like when you get the chance. Cheers!

 

Hew around here - but wanted to offer answers to any questions there might be about this new series of laptops.

Got my 7537 (i5-4200U, 6 GB Ram, 500 GB HDD and GT 750M) on Friday last week, and have been playing around with it for a bit now. So if there are any questions, I'd be happy to try and answer them.

Have one question though - coming from many years as a dektop user, I am stilling looking for how to access the innards of the machine - as I really really need to get an SSD in there, the 5400 rpm drive is killing me

 

What is your overall impression of the laptop so far then? I'm new here too! Specifically is the 5400rpm that bad? And have you experienced any wifi issues or throttling? And is battery life nearer the 7 1/2 hours that is advertised?

 

I have written quite a lot in here: Any questions? New Inspiron 15 7000 owner - What Do I Buy Forum - What Do I Buy - Dell Community

As for you question - I came from a desktop and SSD, so the 5400 is really slow. I know that is not fair towards the specs of this laptop, but I have experienced a good few hangups, where the HDD is struggling to keep up. I was looking into how easy it should be to switch to a SSD, but I'll hang on to that till I find a guide telling me how to go about it, without breaking anything

The battery - wrote a little in the above forum - but this is more or less my experience: "I tried this "real world scenario": Connected via Ethernet, One chrome browser tab opened with Google Music streaming constantly (music playing through external monitors - not USB powered), external monitor connected through HDMI, another chrome browser open in which I am working on HTML/CSS for a website (so a lot of saving and browser refreshing). I am 2 hours and 53 minutes in, and the battery states 2 h 14 min (43%) remaining. I'd expected you can add an hour if I wasn't listening to music..."

That said - I still hang on to my statement - for the price, I find this to be an excellent laptop so far

 

We need to start an owners thread. This is more of an announcement/pre-release discussion thread.

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Akvavit, replacing the hard drive is pretty simple (assuming you know how to install Windows or clone your 5400 first). The process is covered in the user manual....
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-prod...top/inspiron-15-7537_Owner's Manual_en-us.pdf

If you don't have a USB DVD drive, you should probably clone your 5400 drive first. I suppose you could also install Windows from a USB drive as well.

I've used EaseUS Todo Backup to clone "live" hard drives to a SSD and it worked great. It's also free for personal use.

 

Good point trueg - I've tried my luck, and made one: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...ad-dell-inspiron-7000-series.html#post9402079

Good find there mate as for the manual, never crossed my mind. Looks like I was on the right path, it just felt like the backcover was too firmly attached - so I did not continue down that path

Thanks for the migration/clone tools - will give them a look!

 

DELL is going to get reprimands of their choice to having a 4500u as their top CPU choice

ive seen benchmark with that cpu and its not VERY great.

screen options it doesnt matter one bit (True life all way...only thing is you cant choose between non-tocuh or touch)

 

useless touch screen and ULV CPU ? in my engineering school no one is buying dell anymore since they took out the normal CPU's and decent graphics options for their laptops..
We are not gonna pay 2 times the price the latitude/precision without GPU in order to get a decent cpu !!

 

I think that you forget that even if a CPU is theoretically faster than the ULV counterpart in so thin laptops where it is not easy to dispence heat effectively the ULV might actually be faster because it will be able to maintain a steady higher speed than a faster CPU.

It might even be able to use turbo boost effectively while the other CPU might throttle itself or even the GPU to compensate. This is what happened in previous models like XPS.

 

Can you PLEASE point me to those 400$ Dell Latitude/Precision you're talking about? Thanks!

 

Hmm, right now on Dell Canada I can get the maxed out 17 7000 for $1150 after coupon codes (down from $1450).

Not bad I guess. I have a high suspicion that the GT750m is going to throttle or never have a chance to Turbo. The GT650M in the 17R SE I had back in May would constantly throttle although it had a single heat-pipe, while the 7737 has two. So maybe it won't. Where the heck are the reviews?


TrueG

 

Here is a review of acer that has specs similar to the 15 7000 (i7 4500u, gt 750m, 15inch fhd touch display and <1" thick chassis)
Review Acer Aspire V7-582PG-74508G52tkk Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews

I guess the inspiron should have similar gaming performance if not slightly better due to the gddr5 ram compared to acer's ddr3. Also, with 51w battery backup the runtime seems to be 5hours so even that should be similar to dell's 58w.

 

Yikes, those are some pretty high temperatures and the Acer has two fans.


TrueG

 

And the Acer has DDR3 graphics memory on the 750M

 

No reviews yet? What the hell

 

Here you go....
Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Reviewed | Windows Laptop Reviews

 

Hungarian reviews avaliable.

 

Thanks for sharing, the tests on the Hungarian site seem promising, especially gaming at 1080p. Hopefully the i7 version copes a bit better in regards to bottlenecking.

I will share these links here too.

 

The Laptopmag review is mostly useless, unless you intended to get the bottom end version with a crappy low res screen and no discrete graphics.

I was fairly impressed with the TECH kalauz review. It's interesting to see which games are GPU limited and which are CPU limited, at least with the i5 and max graphics settings. It will be very interesting to see how the i7 does with the same tests.

TrueG

 

I'm also interested on the tests for i7...i was thinking to buy the inspiron 17" 7737 but i couldn't find any reviews about cooling system,had a problem before with overheating with an hp pav dv7 and i don't want it anymore!if someone has some info about the 17" 7737 please share it with us,i really need a laptop ASAP but i don't want to make the bad decision!
thanks

 

i7 test coming in november

 

ULV CPU and touch screen ? Dell didnt got it at all it seems..

 

You are like somebody payed you and then you will say this sh*t about Dell .... OK you said that Dell did it wrong but we don't need this again and again .... :-( ... It's everybody's choice to choose right pc/laptop ... I would like to see also 4 cores choice but we have only U processors ... it's not disaster ... Let's face it ... look at yours pc(ok I know it's older) ... it has same power like this ULV processors ... but with half power consuption .. if you will be smart .. biggist pain in the a*s is the HDD(and you have one) ... In my country .. Dell has option to buy model with 256 GB SSD (nice).. but I would like to buy cheaper model with 1 TB HDD and than build in SSD .. it's cheaper and you will have 1 TB of external storage ... and you can do it without void the warranty ... I like Dell because better build quality and service ... For me it's not only about best processor on the market ... But I will still wait on the better review

... or do you have some better choice ?? ... I would like to have 15" with full HD good build quality(aluminium,...) SSD or really easy replace it(without void the warranty) ... dedicated graphics welcome .... Haswell cpu ... quite slim

thanks ... and don't take this wrong ;-)

 

I haven't seen any reviews online for this laptop yet so i figure i can help you guys out a little. I got mine in the mail on monday and i'm definitely happy with my purchase. I got the high end 17" version (the cd tray, high def screen, ram and graphics card justified the extra money). Thing is gorgeous. No structural flaws when i got it. Screen is clear, bright and the colors are gorgeous. Touched screen works amazingly well. Almost impossible to click the wrong thing unless you are really trying.

Sound wise this thing is very quite. I pushed it pretty hard (running the cpu at around 80%) for an hour or so and could barely hear the fans. Laptop didnt heat up to anything unbearable; was a little warm underneath, but nothing unusual. Wifi works great all throughout my house. I do not lose a single bar even when i'm two walls away from the router. The speakers also kick pretty damn hard for a laptop. Probably the best laptop speakers ive seen on mine or any of my friends all through college/post college.

Performance wise this thing is a lot faster than you may be led to believe by the 1.8ghz U series cpu. I was running a HD netflix movie, apache open office and 6 Google chrome tabs and the laptop wasn't stuttering one bit. On high performance mode its hitting about 2.8ghz consistently and is blazing fast. Turbo boost is actually pretty damn nifty.

Hopefully this helps you guys out a little bit in any decision to pick this one up. If you have any specific questions i'd be happy to try and answer. I'm no pro, but i have a decent handle on these sort of things.