Dell G3 15

Not a good look

LAPTOP | £779 from Dell www.snipca.com/28425 Although Dell calls it a “Thin Gaming Laptop”, this 15.6in notebook isn’t especially thin and nor does it have to be used for gaming. With Intel’s new quad-core i5-8300H processor and a 4GB GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card shoehorned into its inch-thick black plastic case, it’s what we’d call a proper old-fashioned do-it-all portable PC. At 2.53kg (three bags of flour in old money), ‘portable’ is arguably stretching a point, but you can certainly lug it around if you need to, and the battery lasted a commendably practical 7 hours 30 minutes in our video-playback test. “Easy to upgrade, great keyboard and performs well – but the screen is poor” Compared with slim aluminium unibodies, Dell’s G range has a more traditional construction that…

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