Dell G5 Gaming Laptop 15.6" Full HD, Intel Core i7-8750H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, 1TB HDD + 128GB SSD Storage, 8GB RAM, Windows 10 - Licorice Black - G5587-7139BLK-PUS Gaming Bundle included Walmart Protection Plans [sold separately] for laptops covers accidental damage like cracked screens and liquid damage, as well as battery, mechanical and electrical failure from normal use.
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Brand | Dell |
Item model number | G5587-7139BLK-PUS |
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Product Id | 1104761 |
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User Reviews and Ratings | 3 (1 ratings) 3 out of 5 stars |
UPC | 884116294139 |
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Dell G5 Gaming Laptop 15.6" Full HD, Intel Core i7-8750H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, 1TB HDD + 128GB SSD Storage, 8GB RAM, G5587-7139BLK-PUS
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This laptop is extremely quick. It produces amazing graphics with out lagging. When it is plugged in, the fans run slightly loud, but by the time I get into the game, I don't even notice them. When the laptop is not plugged in, I've noticed that the fans run fairly quiet to conserve battery. I've also had a game running, had vitural reality goggles running, Microsoft Word, and watching youtube videos all at once and the laptop had no problem keeping up. I love the black with red keys. It's very easy on the eyes at night. The only con that people might say is that the screen quality could be slightly better for that the reds are true to color unless you mess with some settings. Something that can be upgraded, though. For the price, I highly recommend this laptop. Especially because it has a thunderbolt usb-c and can purchase an eGPU for upgraded graphics.
I had two 5 year old laptops in use, one for astronomy and one for general use. Both needed more memory and processing power although they had 1TB hard drives. I wanted to replace these with one machine with an SSD drive for programs but couldn't find a laptop with a big enough drive. The G5 with it's 512Gb SSD plus 1TB hard drive suited my purposes, also with good graphics for photo processing, a good processor and a reasonable amount of RAM (16GB). I haven't regretted the purchase and all is working well. I had a few issues with the 4K screen and a couple of programs. Usually going into Properties, Compatibility and Change high DPI settings fixed things - except for Photoshop, for which I have to change the resolution to 1600x900!! There is an intermittent buzzing noise which seems well documented online, if this gets worse I'll need to contact support.
You're getting great performance out of the laptop. You're able to play nearly any kind of today's games. Hardware updates can be done very easy, but removing the back panel proved to be a challenge. Only one screw to remove and panel is hold into plastic pins which are fragile. When I've upgraded my HDD two pins broke and now the bottom panel is a bit loose. I think the way Dell engineers designed the bottom case wasn't a good road to go for. Because of this little things, customer will complain (especially the ones that are looking to upgrade their hardware). I'll be back with an updated review once I properly use my laptop running AutoCAD, Inventor and other design softwares.
The Dell G5 5587 is a fantastic device all around. I expect that it should last me the next couple of years and function perfect. Here are a few things that kind of annoy me. Air intake is limited when on a flat surface, so I will have to elevate the rear of the computer when doing resource-intensive tasks, like gaming. The keyboard and trackpad is shifted to the left and can be obnoxious. The bezels are also quite large, meaning that finding an appropriate backpack or case for this thing may be a challenge. Other than that, this a fantastic gizmo that most anyone would enjoy.
I'm not an avid gamer and the laptop I have been using for the last several years has been sufficient, until my grandson came over on thanksgiving and wanted to play Roblox. My old integrated graphics controller had a hard time keeping up with the blocky game and made the game unplayable. I decided it was time to upgrade. The G5 was inexpensive. Windows made it easy to transfer all my data over to the new G5. The hybrid hard drive with cache makes it simple and I don't need to decide if I want a file or program on the HDD or on an SSD. I was surprised to learn that the G5 also uses integrated graphics controller for almost everything except when it needs to use the GEFORCE GTX and it automatically switches and handles it seamlessly. I'm very happy with its speed. My grandson can now play all the games he likes to when he comes over. Things I don't like about it... I assumed the large grill on the front was an air intake, it is not. The air intake is on the bottom of the laptop and is completely blocked unless your computer is on a hard flat surface which mine almost never is. I'm also having a hard time adjusting to how I have to place my hands on the G5. I use the trackpad with both hands but primarily with my left hand and the position I've become accustomed to with previous laptops puts the sharp front corner of the laptop right into my lower palm, a little painful after a while. I think eventually I'll get used to different hand placement. Overall, I'm happy with it so far and would recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to spend an arm and a leg to play a few games every now and then.
I am highly satisfied with the laptop with only one complaint: the fans tend be loud and the computer heats up excessively when playing games like Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Fallout 4 or Dishonored 2. I have used the Nvidia GeForce Experience app to optimise these games for Whisper Mode and it reduced some of the heat issues, however it still concerns me. I would appreciate any recommendations to mitigate the heating problem. Otherwise, I enjoy the power of the machine and how it is able to seamlessly run complex programmes. The display is a joy to look at and the keyboard is comfortable to type with. The backlighting of the keyboard is great, although I wish the settings for it were more accessible and not in the BIOS. Overall, I really enjoy the laptop and it has been a dream to work with so far.
I bought the laptop to do computer programming, using Oracle VM Virtual Box and a couple of IDEs that were notoriously slow on my old machine that has nearly identical specs, only with 7th gen core i7 and no SSD drive. This laptop surprisingly is not much faster compared to it. Worse, on my very first time launching a video from the web browser (Chrome), this laptop froze about half an hour in and I had to manually rebooted it. Right after rebooting, Windows rebooted itself for some reasons (presumably for a Windows update, but I didn't see any confirmation afterward). Since then I have experienced glitches here and there, sometimes the keyboard suddenly beeped when typing for no good reason, only requiring me to do a hard reboot. Sometimes while launching many applications at once the mouse movement and keyboard commands appeared to be laggy. As for the unboxing itself, I was a little surprise to see the laptop did not appear to be fresh and untouched out of the factory. The cables came in bags although were sealed but appeared to be old. The laptop didn't have finger prints on them but did not come wrapped in any special packaging, unlike when you open an iPad box or a Samsung phone box. Granted this laptop was "built" (manually, I think) so it appeared to have been "used". I just hope that I didn't get a refurbished one, or one that was hastily put together.
The laptop worked fine except for the Intel AC wireless card. It quickly became unresponsive after using the PC. Disabling and re-enabling worked for a bit, until it threw an error 10. Then after some research, I found that resetting the BIOS to the factory settings would allow the wireless card to work again.
G5 5587 have serious color accuracy issues, since I bought I matched colors with several laptops and devices, also adjusted, but still colors are not real. Rest everything is perfect, but I bought this laptop to work on Adobe Creative Suit, so for me its useless.
I could not be more disappointed in Dell right now. Just crashed a drone because a Dell commercial came up through the operating system and locked everything up. Had to deal with the Dell Commercial before anything else on LapTop could be accessed. Great Job Dell...bringing systems to their knees across the world for a flipping advertisement.