Dell Inspiron 11 3000 Review: The Too Pricey, Too Compromised 2-in-1

Windows 10 device makers must think there is market gold in taking underpowered Windows 10 laptops, adding a touchscreen along with a tablet mode, and pushing them as 2-in-1s. They’re all doing it, including HP, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Dell.

And that’s where we turn for the latest iteration of the trend, to Dell and its Inspiron 11 3000, an Intel-powered 2-in-1 featuring a 360-degree display hinge and 64-bit Windows 10 Home edition.

Dell sells at least four different configurations of the Inspiron 11 3000, with one of three Intel Celeron or Pentium processors, 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and various storage capacities. For the sake of this review, we tested the more powerful of the two middle machines, and it has an Intel Pentium 3540, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive.

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You can (well you could at one time, not certain now) get a crap-ware free version of this machine as a "signature" edition from MS stores.
I spent some time auditioning one, nearly a year ago, and largely agree with this review - this machine is well specified, but something of an over-priced, flawed and thus wasted opportunity. On paper, it has almost the perfect specification for me but the the screen is the most reflective I have ever experienced. It's AWFUL! It is so bad that it's a deal breaker on its own and, at those prices, it's a damned disgrace.

Any suggestions for a superior alternative at a sensible price would be incredibly welcome!

 

Not only is the screen very reflective, but I feel the NBR review understands just how terrible the keyboard is on this machine. It's not just the Home Row keys that have a lot of flex and bounce (but they are the worst; almost trampoline-like!), but the whole keyboard is just one big sponge. It also doesn't seem to be well-built even for a consumer-class laptop either, since mine came with most of the number keys DOA (though that might have just been a lemon).

Needless to say, after a few days I returned my Insprion 11 and got my money back from Dell.

 

The HP Pavilion x360 11 is an alternative. I have one for review now and it should be posted within a week or so. I haven't used the Inspiron 11 3000's keyboard, but the one on the Pavilion is most definitely not bad at all.

Charles