Gestures such as two-finger rotate, three-finger press and pinch-zoom were very accurate.

The 4.1 x 3.1-inch touchpad is spacious with a smooth texture and a nice clicky response. The red backlighting was bright enough to for me to type in my dimly lit bedroom. I appreciate that Dell added a Number Pad so I can map out commands for my favorite games. I managed to score 70 words per minute on the 10FastFingers Typing test, which is better than my usual 65 wpm. Measuring 2.1 millimeters (1.5mm) of key travel with 58 grams of actuation (60g is the minimum), the keys are very springy, which made for a comfortable typing experience. I'm a fan of this Inspiron's island-style keyboard. The Inspiron 15 averaged a pretty smooth 49 fps in three rounds of Tomb Raider. Although the default setting sounded great to me, you can toggle the settings in the Waves MaxxAudio Pro software for your optimal listening experiences. Whether I listened to George Michael's 'Kissing A Fool' or Chance the Rapper's 'Same Drugs,' I heard clean vocals with bright highs and rich lows. The Inspiron 15's front-firing speakers and bottom-mounted subwoofer pumps out some solid tuneage. However, both the mainstream average and Strix are brighter at 267 and 269 nits. The IPS model is much closer to the mark with 0.16 That's much better than the 2.14 category average, as well as the 1.6 and 2 obtained by the Strix and Stealth.Īveraging 253 nits, the Inspiron 15's base display isn't the brightness, but it's better than the IPS panel (232 nits) and the Stealth Pro's display (242 nits). With the base model screen, the Inspiron 15 7000's color accuracy was laughable at 12 on the Delta-E test (0 is perfect.

The IPS panel is a little worse than the base screen at 64 percent. The Stealth Pro hit 111 percent while the Strix achieved an impressive 122 percent. The Inspiron's base-model screen can only reproduce 67 percent of the sRGB gamut, which is well below the 92-percent mainstream average.

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