Edit #1: Updated for Doom 4 playtest (as promised) It actually played well! Even at 1920x1080, although it does better at 1600x900.
Edit #2: Titanfall 2 plays nicely on this device at 1920x1080 (installed on the 2nd SSD I put in) - just like with with Doom 4, I turned off Anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, occlusion, and blur, but it's really up to you - I'm sure you can still get it to run decently with some combination of these turned on.
Review: The laptop starts in a flash & works as advertised, but oh, lordy. It initially crashed often (& for some reason the Intel display drivers were initially constantly crashing & restarting - but not the OS itself, just the drivers. Windows 10 would report that the drivers had crashed, & keep going), and stuttered due to the bloatware & the default settings. If you have these issues, Update the graphics drivers, & uninstall/remove all the Dell services & products & McAffee (get BitDefender - but be careful with the BD firewall! It'll sometimes block even allowed software!). After I did that, it was stable & fast, but the default graphics processor was still set to the Intel integrated graphics rather than the nvidia processor! So you have to change the default if you plan on playing games regularly & don't want to set the processor for each game you play. Also, even after I removed the Dell software, every few weeks a random command line script whose title starts with "Dell" flashes briefly on my screen & disappears. On top of that, you will want a decent USB hub, as this thing doesn't have too many USB ports. And be sure to set your power profile to high performance if you're worried about games! And either set all your games to run as administrator by default (in the properties window), or create a gaming account with the user/administrator role-switching deactivated - that's a pain (but I keep it on, anyway). And don't forget setting up the firewall. But, after all that is said & done, it runs games very well for the price (You'll have to turn off all Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering & image processing in general for the newer games - that's where the majority of the frames per second go for modern games - this can be done globally through the nvidia configuration tool so you won't have to think about it every time) - You're definitely not going to get 1080 Doom 4 on ultra detail-(2016-11-11 UPDATE: Well, that's not entirely true - I finally installed an extra chip of 8 GB DDR3L RAM, and an extra 1 TB solid state, and installed the Doom 4 demo on it. I turned off occlusion, depth of field, motion blur, lowered the anti-aliasing and lowered the anisotropic filtering down to triliniear, and then put all the other settings on Ultra, and it's running smooth as butter. So the moral of the story is do your research! My previous beta playtest of Doom 4 apparently failed because it took up almost all my remaining hard drive space - that sucker is huge, almost 100 GB), but it can play Dark Souls 3 just fine (with the AA & AF off & no processing & with latest graphics drivers to halt the microstutter). Pretty much any of the games out right now, so long as you turn off AA & AF & occlusion. Due to the great differences in performance I noticed in playing Doom 4, I fully recommend installing another SSD in the second drive bay, especially if you play games, & I also recommend getting an external BD/DVD player. And FYI I unscrewed only ONE screw to release the panel on the back in order to install the new SSD & RAM. I was finished and loading Windows in about 5 minutes.
TL;DR - It's amazing, stable, fast, plays all of the latest games (if you get the space for it and be sure to set the default video card to nVidia) & is easy to maintain, but ONLY if you're prepared to do a lot of the initial configuration.
| Standing screen display size | 15.6 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 2.3 GHz core_i5 |
| RAM | 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM |
| Memory Speed | 1600 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 256 GB Solid State Drive |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4000 MB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ac |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 3 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 4.5 Hours |
