This design choice has clearly been made to afford the internal fan more space to reduce the risk of overheating.

This isn’t a major issue, as you’ll most often have the device plugged in for the best gaming performance. The matte IPS display in the G5 only scores points with its good contrast and stable viewing angles.Watts, the device not only clearly undercuts all its rivals but also the majority of gaming laptops that we've reviewed so far. The Legion Y545’s 128GB SSD hit a slow 189 MBps, whereas the 512GB SSD in the Omen 15 and the 1TB SSD in Zephyrus G14 nailed 728 MBps and 1,131 MBps, respectively. The hexa-core processor provides more than enough performance, even for tasks beyond gaming - and it should be sufficient for the years to come. The Dell G5 15 SE’s side-firing speakers aren’t very loud and don’t have a lot of bass backing them.

This puts it in the ballpark of the Gigabyte Aorus 5, though the Aorus still outperforms in two of our three 3DMark tests - and by quite a bit, too - and the best the G5 could do on Time Spy is fight the Aorus to a draw.It's important to make sure that the same display model ( manufacturer + model number)as in our review device is built in. It just barely beat the 300 nits from the Legion Y545, but wasn’t bright enough to match the Zephyrus G14 and the Omen 15, which hit 323 nits and 320 nits, respectively.

According to our colorimeter, the Dell G5 15 SE’s display nailed 108% of the sRGB color gamut, sliding past the 106% mainstream gaming laptop average.If issue is covered by Limited Hardware Warranty and not resolved remotely, technician and/or part will be dispatched usually within 1 or 2 business days following completion of remote diagnosis. The highlight is the Thunderbolt 3 port, which enables the connection of an external GPU or a docking station, for example, and it can provide an additional video output as well (DisplayPort via USB-C; a separate adapter would be required for this). Unless you cancel, you will be charged the then current regular membership rate when the promotional period ends. Results are based on interviews with 18 IT practitioners and decision makers at midsize and large enterprises and a web survey of 707 IT practitioners and decision makers at midsize and larger enterprises using Dell Technologies server solutions across 7 industries.