G5 5587 is the quietest model on the market in real operation in the profile of maximum performance. With a certain tuning. And the largest in size and weight. You can't deceive physics - all the other laptops didn't even lie next to each other in terms of the level of silence.

But it has the most disgusting, tactile keyboard, an extremely poor quality battery (even at low load it can accidentally turn off the laptop when charging at 75-80%, after turning it on it will show 0-1% charge) and coolers (they tend to crack).

Great review! Very in-depth and fair. You picked out the only big flax I found which was the dim screen that came as stock. I've had this laptop for a number of years now and have really enjoyed it. It's been the best laptop I've owned, whilst not perfect it has served me reliably and ran all the games I've wanted it to (albeit sometimes with graphics on medium for newer titles). I've ran games like Red dead 2, the witcher, star wars battlefront 2 and fortnite smoothly with the upgrades listed below.

During the past 4 years I have added a stick of ram so it is now running with 16gb DDR4, added a 1TB SSD and replaced the screen with a bright TN panel (this final customisation was tricky but the screen quality is FAR brighter which I prefer).

It does get hot, fans can be a little noisy and the battery life only lasts around 1 hour 30mins for video playback, but again this is 4+ years on.

I love the keyboard, touchpad and overall aesthetic as it's not too 'gamer'. The build quality for a budget laptop is fantastic with it having metal on the lid and around the keyboard, it feels quite premium.

I'm currently looking to upgrade in about a year or so as I want to upgrade my GTX 1060 Max-Q to an RTX 3060 or above but worried I won't like the next model as much!

I have owned this laptop since 2018, it's by far one of the most poorly balanced machines i've ever used. Since buying i've upgraded both the ram and the SSD. The battery life has always been abysmal, lasting an hour at best. Forget about using the computer during that hour as it throttles the performance so badly that you can't even stream 1080p video without it freezing. It's performance is OKAY when it is actually plugged it, as you'd expect from the hardware. But calling it a laptop isn't very accurate.

So i have the newest version of this laptop for about a year ,the Same i5, 1060 ,16 gb ram 256 ssd 1tb HDD..so From my experience it was quite a bad choice and I wouldn't buy this laptop again..microphone and camera are terrible, the screen bazzels are pretty gross , battery lasts me max 3 and half hours which blows ...In games it's okay if you enjoy every 1-2 minutes FPS drops cause GPU overheats like hell and I could do nothing about ..a cooling pad helps but very very little ..sometimes problems with wi fi ..don't buy this sh*t

//Thunderbolt 3 must be placed on the left/rear side or better back of the device.
Omen 15 2018 (with 1060). But bad cooling, noise in idle and light load (surfing)...

Omen good only with 4-zones RGB keyboard and 144Hz fhd IPS. No cheaper version for this options with 8300h+1050 (ideal case for business and multimedia, if R&D had made a normal quiet cooling system under load up to 30-35% for all cores with 10-15% load of discrete graphics).

Omen 15 2018 with 4-zones keyboard + 4k IPS + 8750h + 1050 (2-4Gb) - ideal business notebook. Ideal ports places.
There is only an output spdif for the galvanic isolation with the electric circuits of the laptop and a quiet CO. And I would immediately buy 2 pieces with that ideal configs for work and multimedia functions.

Why on earth is the only USB 3 Thunderbolt port on the right aide where it will interfere with your mouse/hand?

Thunderbolt 3 must be placed on the left/rear side or better back of the device.

Poor layouts are dealbreakers.

Never trust the reviews, always check everything with your eyes, ears, etc.

I see that the photos shown in review are from previous years' laptops and not G5 of 2018. Because with G3/G5/G7, Dell has put the model name onto the laptop chassis. Both front side and back side. Those model names on chassis are absent on the photos shown here. And from what I recall, fingerprint is present in previous year's models, not on G5 2018. Please confirm it.

My question is, is this real G5 review or did you do it on previous year's model? And is this site trustworthy for the photos attached? Because it shows laptops with white keyboards, but the inscribed laptop model for G5 is missing in all of them.

I was informed by dell support that  "Dell G5 15 5587 offers a TPM"  is not true and in fact none of the series has TPM. Can you confirm ?

And again bad IPS! Dull and less 60% sRGB!. No photos, no films with this IPS...

It's SHAME for Dell! Again HDMI 2.0, not 2.0b! No 4к HDR output!!!

Pretty nice review! Thank you so much!  ;)

Just a simple question:

Does the serigraphy of the keys in the keyboard come in white instead of red in the retail European models (i.e., Spain, I see yours is German one)?
And the same for the keyboard backlight: White instead of red?

Hello
Greetings from Estonia.
I am planning to buy a new gaming laptop. It would be a pleasure if you could help me choose between two laptops if it isn't to much trouble. The main specs seem to be the same and a little price difference
I hope it is okay that i use estonian sites.
First one Acer Nitro AN515-52:
manguarvutid.ee/e-pood/manguri-sulearvutid/1870030505840000/
Second oneDell Inspiron G5 5587:
manguarvutid.ee/e-pood/manguri-sulearvutid/d-n-5587-n2-712r/
I saw that you guys have made thorough tests with laptops. I hope you can give a little advice.

Thank you in advance
Andres

Quote from: Bert U on June 28, 2018, 18:07:14
Probably because it is a very similar CPU. The i5-8300H is also a quad core with hyperthreading and has a 'turbo boost' matching the that of the i7-7700HQ.

Exactly. 8300H superior in every aspect.
Dell really failed hard so cpu with +500Hz all core turbo boost, more cache (which affects multicore performance) and more advanced architecture overall performed worse.

Quote from: Lukas S on June 28, 2018, 23:14:33
If I'm up to gaming & multimedia & ms office use only, is it worthy to buy G5 (i5, 1060) over Inspiron 7577 (i5, 1060)? Comparing reviews of both, Inspiron seems to be quieter and much cooler under stress, and at the same time G5 does not generate much more framerate and is more expensive?
Advise please.
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If only for gaming and ms office then you should be fine with the Inspiron.

Mind you the inspiron one has the older i5 without hyperthreading, so it might be the reason it's cooler. The hyperthreading on the newer i5-8300H on this G5 brings it slightly on par to the older i7-7700HQ. The extra power is useful if you gonna use it on things that needs a more powerful processing power (such as creative or engineering render). Most games will only get a slight benefit of this because most of them are GPU dependant. It explains why the FPS gain is somewhat minimal. There might be a bigger difference in  CPU dependant game like GTA V.

The G5 is a slightly futureproof, but so far the difference is minimal. Considering you won't use it for anything beside gaming and ms office, Inspiron should do good (and better value too since it's cheaper).