Dell Inspiron 16 Plus 7640 laptop review: Small but important changes over last year's model

[Redaktion]

It may look the same as the Inspiron 16 Plus 7630 at first glance, but the Inspiron 16 Plus 7640 brings several updates worth learning about before deciding on a purchase.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-16-Plus-7640-laptop-review-Small-but-important-changes-over-last-year-s-model.847358.0.html

[PHVM_BR]

"Testing Conditions

We set Windows to Performance mode prior to running the benchmarks below."

Changing the Windows power mode doesn't change anything at all, but Dell laptops often have performance modes that can be changed in the BIOS or MyDell.

In Ultra Performance mode, if there is one in this model, I believe that the GPU limit reaches 70W, just as the PL1 of the Ultra 7 155H must be increased in CPU-only loads to something between 50 and 55W.

[chris@amd]

This actually makes sense. somewhat slim regular/non gaming chassis, good enough display, good graphics and expandable ram in a time that even gaming laptops went for soldered ram is BIG plus. and battery life is great for discrete graphics. it needs to be a little cheaper for 4060 class device but ticks boxes on everything else.

[Abdirahman dirie]

Dell is most useless laptops, i bought dell inspiron 11 gen 11 in 950$ and i have seen that it heats too much if you open some apps and when you charging, so i stoped using when he is charging, and in one year with out using too much one day i was watching movie and out of nowhere screen started flickering so i shutdown and started again to see small horizontal lines all over screen that if you look sometime eyes starts hurting and background stops and stucks that you can't see anything else probebly, so now i don't have computer because of that too much money computer, don't buy any dell laptops that most uselles thing to buy

[Waldemar Wosiński]

HDMI 1.4 in 2024 is ... a serious drawback.

No 4K 60Hz without special USB-C cables or hubs.

[NeonBeam]

HDMI 1.4 in 2024 is ... a serious drawback.

No 4K 60Hz without special USB-C cables or hubs.

HDMI 1.4 is on the integrated GPU models. On dedicated GPU models it is HDMI 2.1 (not saying 1.4 is good in 2024)