Dell 15 Laptop DC15250 15.6″ FHD (1920 x 1080) 120Hz, Intel Core i7-1355U Processor, Intel UHD Graphics, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home – Carbon Black

Very good laptop
Bought on sale during prime day for £299 with this laptop (normally retailing at around £399 at the time of this review), a very good laptop for what I paid for it. The aesthetics of the laptop are nice and comes with plenty of connectivity with two usb A ports, a usb C port, a HDMI output port and lastly a SD Card slot. The screen is very good with good brightness even on 50% brightness and good colours for the display.The specification is very good, with this being my first AMD laptop since 2015, with the AMD Rayzen 5, 4 core processor delivering plenty of power and it provides good graphics. It runs Civilization 6 on the lowest settings and games like Age of Empires and Kerbal Space program on medium settings. The Laptop runs fast, completing many tasks very quickly, so no problems there and when running the laptop is very quiet and the fan isn’t noticeble unless you are running intensive tasks.The RAM provided is more than adequate coming in at 8GB (LPDDR5 RAM) and the SSD hard drive memory is excellent.The keyboard is well built and when pressing the keys you get a decent amounty of resistance so it doesn’t feel spongy. The trackpad is also good and tracks movement well.The most important part of any laptop is of course the battery life, the laptop spec shows it has a 3-cell, 41 Wh battery. The battery life for this dell laptop is decent for the price I paid at £299. Setting the screen to 50% brightness and switching off bluetooth I can get anywhere between 4-6 hours of battery life depending on what I am doing from full charge of 100% to 0%. Gaming significantly drains the battery with intensive games reducing the battery life to about 2 hours, although older games may not be so demanding. The battery is decent, although those paying more than what I paid may want to look at other Laptops within that price area and compare the specs and battery life.The only negative is that greasy finger marks show up on the black plastic quite easily, aside from that, there is nothing else negative about the laptop.Overall I am pleased with my purchase, a good bargin at the price I paid.

Cheap plastic base feel and a little flimsy.
Nice laptop but the plastic on the base feels cheap, if you pick the laptop up at the wrong angle the plastic bends! I’m worried it will crack or snap over time!

Computer blissful
Great buy easy to set up and use Has everything you need in a computer for work and searching the web.

Fan Issues
15.6″/i7/16GB/512GB:Pros: Quick delivery. Good screen viewing angles. Good performance with general work. Photos loaded quickly. Didn’t do any video work.Cons: Black plastic showed finger prints. Screen colours a bit muted.Problems: The fan ran 95% of the time even with <5% CPU/0%GPU usage. Fan noise OK, but worrying that on all time. If I lifted laptop off desk fans stopped. Put back on desk and fans started again. [Quiet mode selected to try to address issue, so don't know what it would have been like on performance or balanced mode].Contacted Dell and they took remote control of laptop, changed things and said sorted. Didn't cure fan issue, but introduced an additional issue where for short spells the fans clicked on and off every few seconds, so clicking noise was annoying.Got back in touch with Dell and they said they would get back to me. Heard nothing for >24 hours so decided to return for refund.The usual hassle free return/refund with Amazon.