Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series (7559)

Editor's Notes

The new Dell Inspiron 15 7559 represents a step in the new (old) direction for Dell. Dell is going back to its pre-Alienware purchase days when it was producing its own line of gaming notebooks. Only this time it's not an XPS laptop but rather a new member of the Inspiron 15 7000 series. While 'true' gamers might scuff looking at Inspiron 15 7559 it does represent a good budget gaming laptop for gamers that don't require a notebook that can run games at 4K resolution. For those Dell will still rely on its Alienware offerings.

While previous Inspiron 15 7000 series notebook - the Dell Inspiron 15 7548 was a mid-tier entertainment laptop the Inspiron 15 7559 is an entry-level gaming laptop. This makes sense to me as it makes Dell's Inspiron 15 line more clear. 3000 series = budget, 5000 series = entertainment and 7000 series = gaming. There is no more overlap between 5000 and 7000 series. Let's hope Dell will do the same with the 13 and 17 inch Inspiron models.

Looking at the Inspiron 15 7559 range of models, the base model starts at £749 a 6th Generation (Skylake) quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 15.6 inch anti-glare full HD (1920x1080 px) display, 8GB RAM, 1TB hard drive and nVidia GeForce GTX 960M graphics. One model up the range retails at £849 which adds an Ultra HD touch screen. The top of the range model costs £949 and brings the same UHD touch screen while increasing the RAM to 16GB and adding a 128GB SSD as well as 1TB hard drive.

Looking at the entire range I would suggest to but the base model. There is little point in paying extra for an UHD screen if the graphics card isn't powerful enough to run games at 4K resolutions. Additionally, the full HD 1080p screen is anti-glare and thanks to lower resolution it will also last longer when running on battery power. Thanks to an attractive price and design, anti-glare screen, backlit keyboard and a quad core processor it's for me to hand out an Editor's Choice Award to the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 for a budget gaming notebook.