Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series Review

The Dell Inspiron 14 7000 Series is a very standard Ultrabook offering. Featuring very average specs for its price point, a generally good construction, good media offerings through its screen and speakers, but overall nothing too impressive under the hood, the Inspiron 14 is a pretty good machine. To learn more about what we liked (and what kept it from being a "great" machine), read on.

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Sounds like a complete input failure in design with shoddy KB and touchpad. Also, I can't stand silver keys because of the very low contrast making it harder to see the keys. It looks nice, but not functional. Like Toshiba, Dell has lost its mojo. HP has a few decent offerings but the spotlight remains on what Lenovo and Samsung are doing on the PC side. Dell never quite gets it right for the "whole package" There is always some major compromising design flaw.

 

Making the wireless on/off switch a keyboard button is pure laziness/cost cutting on Dell's part; that should be either a dedicated switch on the side of the notebook or a completely separate button. I wonder how many support calls that little thing triggered. Don't even get me started with how the F keys are secondary and the home/end/pg up/pg dn keys are integrated as secondary functions into the arrow keys. Clearly this notebook was not designed with productive uses in mind. Sad, really.