The new Dell G7 Gaming laptop review: could it be the best budget gaming laptop ?

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We finally have a white and blue gaming laptop, this is the DELL G7.

This one is kinda of a refresh or an update from inspiron 7577 from last year which is a really big seller,

This is like a version 2 of it if you want to call it that but it’s been rebranded, it’s not an inspiron product

It’s called the Dell G7.
Price Starting at $849.99

Aesthetically speaking this is obviously very different, the white and blue color scheme is fresh for this year but it also comes in a black version like a black and blue version which also looks quite nice.

The white material is actually way nicer than i thought it’d be, it’s like a flat or even like a glossy plastic, it’s a satin finish that looks kind of pearlescent almost, it’s really nice looking color and the blue on the logo is metallic and has this kind of greenish aqua reflectiveness to it so if you like bue, if you like white you’re gonna love  the aesthetics on this laptop.

Now the build quality of this device has actually improved from last year, it was well build last year but it’s even better this year. The chassis has been reinforced , not much flex when you press down on the keyboard deck which is actually nice to see on a device that’s predominantly plastic. Same thing with the hinge it was never a problematic hinge or anything despite it being closer to the center but it has actually been improved, it feels a little bit stiffer and just more robust than the previous version 7577 from last year.

Keyboard deck itself is dark navy blue and the keyboard lighting is also blue, im glad they didn’t go with

The red, because a red light on this would’ve just destroyed the aesthetics.

Other things has changed, the screen gotten thinner bezels, ever so slightly than the previous version but the panel itself is actually a much nicer panel becoming one of my favorite panels on budget gaming laptops, it’s got respectable brightness and the color gamut out of the box is pretty good but the feature that makes it special is the fact that you can overlock it, so coming out of the box it runs at 60Hertz so that means your games are gonna be capped visually at 60 Frames per second, this is a panel – and this might void your warranty – that can theoretically be overlocked to like a 100.

Like the panel, the bezels are a little bit thick and the color of the plastic that has been used is black which doesn’t ùatch that kind of metallic navy blue they have on the keyboard deck so i think there is a little bit of color mismatching  going on which is not the worst thing in the world but it would’ve been nice if this was blue as well.

The port selection is kind of standard, the one that sticks out is the Thunderbolt 3 port, this supports four lanes of PCIe .

 

 

The internals of the laptop are very eay to get into, it’s a single screw  that is mounted on a c-clip so you

Could’t even lose a scew if you tried and i just feel like more devices should be built like this, just really easy access for the end user.

Inside you have access to the two RAM slots and nvme, 2.5 inche SATA and they are using the Intel 9564 Wi-Fi which is a fantastic  card, i am actually surprised at using this instead of some cheaper one and you’ll set the battery 56 watt hours , it’s not a huge battery,  you’re gonna get around four and a half hours of battery life with the screen at 215, it’s kind of like a mediocre battery life, it would’ve been cool if they’d gone with that big battery from two years ago with the 7567 that had a 74watt hour, very big battery, this is kind of like middle-of-the-pack average kind of battery life, it’s still respectable though.

The things that haven’t changed:

Speakers are always quite good, this particular device doesn’t have a sub like some of the older Dell laptops but the sound quality is good and the speaker location up front is nice.

The keyboard feels pretty much unchanged if there were improvements, it’s very subtle, the lay it was good, ive always liked the layout on this but the keystrokes are a little bit softer and just not as responsive as some of the higher-end gaming laptops..it is a decent keyboard though especially for the money and i’d rather have a softer mechanism like this than a crappy layout from other laptops.

The touchpad is also unchanged, it’s got Windows precision drivers with a plastic surface, the tracking experience is nice, the button mechanics are also good, it’s a very clean and simple button, nothing like super complicated .

It’s crazy that a device like this at this price point has a better trackpad experience than some devices that are like double the price.

Moving to the performance, it’s great on this thing, the device has the six core 8750H it’s an awsome processor for multi-core applications, the GTX 1050 Ti also delivers really strong performance for the money and a very reasonable fan noice onload .

The webcam uptop is like your standard , nothing special but gets the job done.

Okey, now there is a few things that i don’t like about this laptop, primarily it’s the thickness, like the bezels are a little bit thick , device is thick and in 2018 a lot of companies are aiming for thinner and lighter and it looks not as elegant as some of those laptops out there but it does have it’s advantages because if any of a device it’s a little bit thicker, a little bit heavier it’s just gonna be a little more durable so if you treat your laptops more rough then maybe concider something like this because it’s just gonna last a little bit longer.

Now this is a device that i’m obviously very partial because of it’s color but despite that, even if they kept the red and black from the previous version of this , it’s an amazing laptop, it’s got great components , really good thermals and a really nice screen that you can potentially overlock, it’s got a lot of good stuff going for it especially at this price point.

Another thing i like about it, it’s a second-generation product like the 7577 from last year, i would consider the first generation, they’ve done a lot of stuff on the inside to just kind of improve the build quality and the overall product, nice to see a 2^nd gen do as well as this one has.

As usual im gonna leave you with product specification, don’t forget to share this post and i hope you got all the information you needed.

• CPU: Intel Core i7-8750H
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (4GB GDDR5)
• Display: 15.6”, Full HD (1920 x 1080), IPS
• Storage: 1000.00GB HDD
• RAM: 8GB DDR4, 2666 MHz
• Weight: 2.63 kg (5.8 lbs)