![]() ![]() On the Geekbench 4 overall performance test, the Inspiron earned a score of 11,791, beating both the Aspire (9,278, also with a Core i5-8250U) and the mainstream laptop average (8,231). I had 15 tabs open in Google Chrome (one of which was streaming a 1080p episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers) when the laptop paused and showed the loading icon before I could open more tabs. While our configuration of the Inspiron has an Intel Core i5-8250U and 8GB of RAM, which are poised for multitasking, its 1TB, 5,400-rpm HDD is slow compared to the SSDs you get in a lot of computers (you can pay extra to configure the Inspiron with an SSD). The preinstalled Waves MaxxAudio Pro has a bunch of preset equalizers and some dials to adjust the music, but I found that the default options were the best. The speakers on the Inspiron are plenty loud and easily filled up a small conference room when I listened to Charli XCX's "Boom Clap." The song's vocals and drums were clear, though an underlying bass line didn't stand out from the rest of the mix. I felt it quivering under my fingers when I was performing gestures like tapping three fingers to invoke Cortana quickly or two-finger scrolling (but the gestures, to Dell's credit, do work). The 4.1 x 3.1-inch touchpad is nice and spacious, though the plastic is a little bouncy. On the typing test, I reached 104 words per minute, which is below my usual minimum of 107 words per minute I got my usual error rate of 2 percent.
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