Pros: Great laptop and great for gaming on-the-go. I love the design, matte black with red highlights. Feels like a solid build. The screen is very nice, looks best when the brightness is turned all the way up. Windows 10 makes some of the text look fuzzy but after spending time in it, I realized, it was Windows 10. The core i7 is snappy, everything on the OS is very fast including boot-up. I love the 4GB GTX 960M. It's not a super powerhouse but it gets the job done and can play all my AAA titles at full resolution. Having 4GB of VRAM is important to get hi-res textures loaded and have lots of them on the screen at once. Having a 960 rather than something higher keeps the temperatures down which is what I prefer. Battery will last longer too. In fact, even with the power level set to performance, the laptop had a 9+ hour battery life during regular use (not gaming). This blew me away. I suspect it has to do with the 6700 gen Core i7. Only a few things need to be tweaked in games such as turning down Anti-Aliasing. But with a 15" screen at 1920x1080, anti-aliasing is really not needed. This Inspiron i7559 is a great gaming laptop, especially for someone who just wants to catch up on gaming while away from home. At least that is what I use it for. Combine it with a gaming mouse or an XBOX controller and you've got console level gaming on-the-go.

Cons: I have had no hardware or software issues which seems to be where most of the negative reviews come from. The hard drive is hybrid, which is not very clear on the specs. Performance does not seem to be affected. In all, I have no issues with the laptop and everything is up-to-date, hardware drivers, the NVidia driver and software. It runs great.

Other Thoughts: I recently purchased this laptop through Dell using a promotional code. It was a deal that could not be passed up. I had been interested in getting a laptop so I can game away from home and wanted something with at least 4GB video RAM plus nothing less than a GTX 960M. Turns out that its a pretty incredible mid-level gaming laptop. I play all the AAA titles and so far it can run all of them at full resolution. The graphic settings on each game need to be tweaked a little. As mentioned in the pros, turning down AA to the lowest setting really helps performance on the games. Yet the graphics still look great since its on a small-ish 15" screen. Anyway, so far I have been really impressed and I am very excited to be able to game when I travel away from home. I've had no issues hardware or software with the laptop. Windows 10 and the drivers are up-to-date. This Inspiron i7559 is a smooth machine. Everyone who gave it a bad review seems to have been unlucky with hardware issues. Fortunately I have had none. But if I do run into one, I will be patient and take advantage of the warranty. If you are on the fence, but, for example, looking into getting a good gaming laptop to maybe catch up on some games while away, this is an excellent buy. Get a gaming mouse and XBOX controller to go with it.

Pros: Alienware specs without the price. Fast efficient machine w/o breaking the bank.

Cons: So far so good. No bugs to report. Machine runs perfectly.

Other Thoughts: I definitely recommend this machine. Worth every cent!

Pros: - The GTX 960M is a pretty outstanding little mobile GPU. I got 25-30FPS with pretty much all high settings on Witcher 3 which is one of the most intensive games out there with all high settings and even some ultra settings, except for a couple like render distance and background NPCs turned way down. This GPU is good enough to make all the textures and sparkly stuff look great if you know how to tweak your settings like I mentioned above to Witcher. I also just finished building a desktop, has a Skylake i5-6500, R9 380 4GB, 16GB DDR4 memory and that is stuff that's just one blow the highest out there, yet going from gaming on it to here on the laptop I don't feel like I'm stepping back int he stone age or anything which is what always used to happen to me with other laptops.

I got mine even cheaper at Christmas (same everything, although I got 8GB of memory and no SSD) for only 750 which was insane value. This is still great value for a gamer. If you aren't, you can definetly find stuff cheaper that will suit your needs just as well. But for gamers, you are going to have to spend at least 450 more to jump up to a new level.

Has a really nice Dell Power Plan app that basically you set your work/school/playtime in each day and it keep syour battery at a lower charge when it's your downtime, and then charges it up to full to be ready for when you say your uptime begins. Helps long term battery health a lot. You can also change these settings in the BIOS, and it works even when the computer is off, screen down but plugged in.

Has a real quality look and feel to it. From the texture where you wrists are at to the screen to they keys themselves will are as good as it'll get in a laptop

Speaking of the keyboard, it's full size actually! Perfect for a gamer.

It doesn't come iwth a lot of bloatware which is awesome...

It's whisper quiet when not gaming, you can't even hear it even if there's no other noise unless you get your ear close to the fan outlets.

Doesn't get too hot on the lap

Has two nice plastic lips on the bottom that allow airflow, keep it from sliding around keep it from getting scratched.

Cons: The plug comes out kind of easy

As someone else said, the touch pad placement can be annoying but once you get used to it you don't activate it at all. If you need to turn it on and of a lot I suggest going to the control panel>mouse/keyboard options, then pinning that to the start bar so it's only two clicks away

Other Thoughts: I reccomend people edit their high performance, plugged in plan, so that's it's 100% all the time for everything basically. Doesn't come standard like that. When it's plugged in I want all that performance always there.

Pros: Fast enough to do what i want with it. I personally love the feel of the keyboard

Cons: The mouse pad is to be desired but who wants to use a pad anyways

Other Thoughts: I have recommend this to my friends.

Pros: -- fast
-- really good specs

Cons: - product did not come with the ssd drive that it was suppose to have which is a disappointment because its not like its a high end ssd i mean it 8 GB but it is a convenient storage

Pros: Worth every single penny. Best choice I ever made. It performs real well above it's price range, definitely a must-buy.

-No problems/Smooth Gaming on high graphics for intensive games like GTA V. (I run mine with High and Very High settings automatically configured)

-No problems out of the box, don't know what the others are talking about but it's all personal preference and maybe a little luck involved.

-Amazing body design and color accent. Fell in love with it the moment I opened it. Definitely looks better than the pictures.

- Enormous 4GB dedicated GRam is definitely one of its best features

-Great feel on the keyboard

-Light and easy to carry around for its size

-Sufficient USB Ports, USB 3.0 ports are not a sham, grrat transfer speed.

-Comes with surprising little bloatware for a manufacturer's laptop.

-8GB Ram is surprisingly enough even for DDR3

Cons: I don't really like the screen display. On some details it looks blurry and unclear then on other things it looks really clear. Probably common with the IPS matte.

-Touchpad position is awkward. As a casual FPS gamer the touchpad is definitely a nuisance as your wrist might touch it once a while. There's a setting that disables it when you plug in a mouse.

-Numlock seems to not stick. (Have to manually trigger num lock everytime after shutdown and boot)

-8GB Hybrid SSHD makes not much difference honestly. Definitely need a standalone SSD. I plan to get the Samsung 850 Evo for mine. If you don't plan to remove the current HDD and just add a new SSD, the form factor of choice seems to be the M.2 2280. Else you can just get 2.5'.

-Fans get kinda noisy when you start any graphics intensive software. (Games, Photoshop, etc) Still, probably not really noticeable and quiet compared to other gaming laptops.

Other Thoughts: Overall I would rate this laptop 8/10. There are still rooms to improve but what do you expect ? It's a budget gaming laptop ! For $894 it's definitely a score considering its specs and Dell definitely did a good job with this series. Great buy for peopld looking for laptops under $1000. The extra budget space allows for SSD or Ram upgrades (Open slot for an M.2 SSD and a stick of RAM) or maybe even peripherals. I got myself a Razer Mamba TE and a Corsair mousepad for all under $1000 !

Pros: Graphic Card is great, Screen is pretty good, keyboard is ok. Boots quite quick (roughly 1 min). Laptop speakers are nothing special, just your average ones. CPU is quite powerful for laptop.

Cons: Dell does not have an easy way to turn off touchpad, such as button on keyboard or icon in system tray. Have to go to mouse options in control panel.

Other Thoughts: Great for the value.

Updated info:

I have had the laptop since Late november, no issues whatsoever with how it is running. Everything works as it did at purchase.

I purchased this for 799 during black friday.

I am frustrated with the touchpad, its not as responsive as my last laptop. Sometimes it takes almost a second to respond to my touch, and the way it was designed (left click right click on the touchpad itself) is frustrating and I need a mouse more often then my previous laptop. I will take off an egg because of the touchpad.

Still find it hard to complain about the performance though, cpu and gpu.

Pros: Nice Design.
Great Cooling
For the price great specs

Cons: Bios looks like it's from 2002, very simple menu... You will not be able to clean install, when you load from the USB automatically blue screen will occur.

Windows was not activated when it came out the box, Dell was trying to charge me $130 to get it fixed which I disagreed to.

Also when you close the laptop there is gap on the left side where there is a lip and does not fully shut where as the right side is fully shut.

Other Thoughts: From my personal experience I wouldn't recommend this... returning it for the Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Black Edition VN7-592G-71ZL.

Pros: See below.

Cons: In a nutshell: This product is a textbook example of the following equation:

top-tier hardware + catastrophic software tuning = good looking spec sheet + eye catching price tag + worthless junk in real world use.

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I spend a day with this pc, here's a list of what I encountered.

Mouse freezer Level 1: bluetooth connected microsoft designer mouse freezes every one and a while, and it fixes itself after about half a minute. During that half minute you can only use the track pad.

Mouse freezer Level 2: the bluetooth mouse loses connections out of no reason, and would not re-pair up unless I restart the system.

Mouse freezer Level 3: no pointing device would move the mouse around, not even the track pad. all you can do is continue sliding your fingers hoping it would come back at some point.

System crusher Level 1: when 3D is being rendered, the system goes through a short freeze, and the speaker would repeat a short slice of sound that the system was playing prior to the freeze.

System crusher Level 2: when GPU is on heavy load, the screen freezes for a while and goes black. it will usually repair it self and prompt me saying that the intel graphics driver has just crushed but has successfully returned to working.

System crusher Level 3: when restoring windows 10 as a measure of solving the aforementioned problems, the system freezes at 99%. I when to the gym and back and it's still at 99%. I cooked a beef pot and come back seeing it at 99%. I finished eating and cleaning and it's at 99%. Back from Wamlart and it's still 99%. Finally I had to force shut down and restart, and it went normal.

Bluetooth strike Level 1: the bluetooth panel wouldn't find my bluetooth mouse while a room of my other devices are ready to pair with it. Restarting BOTH the PC AND the mouse CAN solve the problem. Sometimes.

Bluetooth strike Level 2: the bluetooth panel finds my bluetooth mouse and says "connected", while the LED indicator on my mouse is showing that it was looking for device to pair up.

3D blackout Level 1: a game in my collection that i used for testing would render as a black screen. some objects at the foreground is rendered correctly but the critical parts are blacked out.

I wanted to love its form factor and its value, but I could not give these serious problems. I will exchange it in hope that I got a defect unit and was in an extreme situation. But I won't keep it if I receive another piece of junk like this one.

Pros: 1- Fast laptop with O/S reboot within seconds
2- Graphics on all games are smooth - I played Runescape, CS GO, Heartstone and Left 4 dead 2 - they played on the highest settings with no lag. And I also streamed these games on twitch with youtube music - it was streaming smoothly. I was so surprised that with this laptop, it could function well as compared to high end PCs.
3- The packaging is very simple - comes with laptop and a charger, and it's suitable for people who just want to plug in the laptop from the box and play !
4- I ran CS GO on highest setting for 2 hours straight and it didnt even get over heated. While it made some noise on the laptop from time to time (couldnt hear it as I had microphone over my ears), it was almost unnoticeable.
5- The laptop cools down really fast and stays really quiet when doing light tasks (browsing internet, watching youtube)
6- It plays 4k quality videos on youtube !

Cons: 1- I wouldve preferred Windows 7. Some older games do not play with the Windows 10 that comes with the laptop. This is more of O/S problem than the laptop itself - having the option to choose o/s would've been nice
2- The touchpad is awkardly too big and interfares with your hands while typing. This can be mitigated if youre going to use your keyboard.
3- The laptop keyboard and touchpad will get smudges easily.
4- The laptop is soo heavy ! this is one of the best laptop ive ever used in my life. But wow I definitely wont be carrying this laptop around.

Other Thoughts: - This is probably one of the best laptop you will find for your buck. If you're a semi hardcore game player - this laptop is suitable for you.