The Dell Inspiron 16 Plus is priced like a premium laptop, but built like a midrange machine. It provides solid performance, but its display leaves me wanting.
Dell Inspiron 16 Plus MSRP $1,450.00 Score Details “It does everything a laptop needs to, but Dell's Inspiron 16 Plus can't pull off the premium presentation its price demands.” Pros Cons I’ve reviewed a few 16-inch laptops lately, which should come as no surprise. With the rise of creators as an important class of laptop users, manufacturers are focusing on providing large, fast laptops that meet their photo editing and video editing needs.
Note that when you configure the Inspiron 16 Plus, your choice of GPU will affect how much RAM you can configure and how fast it is. Only the RTX 4060 can equip up to 64GB of faster DDR5 RAM . I wasn’t terribly fond of the Inspiron 16 Plus’ keyboard, which felt a bit loose to me. It has deep enough travel and plenty of key spacing, but I prefer the snappier keyboard on the HP Envy 16. Certainly, it’s quite a bit behind the best keyboards on Dell’s XPS machines and Apple’s MacBooks. The touchpad was smaller than it could have been, with plenty of available palm rest space for a larger version, but it was responsive and its buttons were precise and not too loud.
In our CPU-intensive benchmarks, the Inspiron 16 Plus performed as expected in all but the Cinebench R23 benchmark, where it fell slightly behind the Dell XPS 15 with the same chip. In the Pugetbench Premiere Pro benchmark, which runs in a live version of Adobe’s Premiere Pro and uses the GPU to speed up various processes, the Inspiron 16 Plus lagged the Dell XPS 15, but was competitive with the MSI Prestige 16 Studio.
You don’t expect great battery life from a laptop with a large, high-resolution display, a fast CPU, and a discrete GPU. There are exceptions, such as the Dell XPS 15 with its decent longevity and the Apple MacBook Pro 16 that lasts forever on a charge. But if you can make it to lunch, you’re hitting the average for this class of devices.
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