Mini-LED on a 16-inch convertible: Dell Inspiron 16 7640 2-in-1 review

[Redaktion]

Previously available only on higher-end gaming laptops, mini-LED panels are starting to trickle down to more mainstream multimedia options including the Dell Inspiron series. This particular model is intriguing as it is one of the first 16-inch convertibles to offer a 2.5K mini-LED touchscreen.

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[NikoB]

A shameful slow card reader, a shameful slow wi-fi (where is the cheap BE200?) and this despite the fact that there is no rj45 in the "business" laptop! The shameful HDMI 1.4b is more than 10 years old, despite the fact that Meteor Lake natively supports 2.1. Have you gone completely crazy over there at Dell?

The depressing picture is completed by a glossy screen (why the hell is there a 16" touchscreen, Dell? - who wants to smudge the screen and then constantly scrub it?) and a completely idiotic 100% non-business keyboard from the 14" model.

At the same time, the coolers howl and don't even allow you to surf in peace.

And to apparently hammer in the last nail - there is no second M.2 slot and, even worse, the shameful 16GB (in 2024!) of an extremely poorly configured and therefore slow lddr5 6400!

The question is - who is the target audience for this $1000 crap? I'm at a loss...

Apparently this kind of garbage is bought by purchasing managers in large companies for kickbacks. I doubt that a sane retail buyer would even look at this for the specified amount of money...

[usacomputer]

A shameful slow card reader, a shameful slow wi-fi (where is the cheap BE200?) and this despite the fact that there is no rj45 in the "business" laptop! The shameful HDMI 1.4b is more than 10 years old, despite the fact that Meteor Lake natively supports 2.1. Have you gone completely crazy over there at Dell?

The depressing picture is completed by a glossy screen (why the hell is there a 16" touchscreen, Dell? - who wants to smudge the screen and then constantly scrub it?) and a completely idiotic 100% non-business keyboard from the 14" model.

At the same time, the coolers howl and don't even allow you to surf in peace.

And to apparently hammer in the last nail - there is no second M.2 slot and, even worse, the shameful 16GB (in 2024!) of an extremely poorly configured and therefore slow lddr5 6400!

The question is - who is the target audience for this $1000 crap? I'm at a loss...

Apparently this kind of garbage is bought by purchasing managers in large companies for kickbacks. I doubt that a sane retail buyer would even look at this for the specified amount of money...

+1 You are simply absolutely right, this laptop is born dead, no one will buy it and even more so when the AMD Zen 5 versions come out in July 2024 and the new Intel ones in December 2024.

[LL]

Buy an Android tablet, You will get a better screen with double the brightness to use outside, you can watch 4K  and work silently. Your battery last 2 days or more.

[Ednumero]

I don't mind the touchscreen functionality, but I would prefer it to be a matte on-cell touch panel underneath a serviceable bezel, rather than a custom glossy laminated panel.