Dell Inspiron 15 3505 Full HD Laptop (FHD), 15.6 inch - AMD Ryzen 5 3450U, 12GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB SSD, AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, Windows Laptop (10) - Black

It's been a few months now and, having solved the Insert key issue detailed below and no further problems at all, I am increasing the stars to 5, but I still want to show the bad experience I had with so-called tech support.This has the HDMI and ethernet and USB ports I needed, which were harder to find than I expected. Also the 12GB of RAM beats most of the ones in this price range. Aside from certain keys being in less convenient positions, I have had no complaints until today when I realized the Insert key works in that it presses, but it does not toggle the insert mode. It's always in overwrite mode. This feature is probably so rarely used by most users that they thought nobody would notice. However, it would make what I'm working on much easier. I also must hold Fn key to enable home and end keys to work, which is annoying but at least they work.Calling Dell support had me in tears when "Puneet" took remote control of my computer and immediately closed the browser window, despite my shouting to not do so. I had numerous tabs open with important work, and he didn't even ask, then said he made a mistake and meant to minimize it. What an idiot. I was not using Chrome (and was panicking) so I had trouble finding the "recently closed" option, which thankfully restored my tabs but what a giant tool.Anyway his test failed, meaning the key is defective, and my only option is to mail in the only computer I have right now and be without it for 2-3 weeks. I am sure there must be an easier fix, like some setting is not set correctly, but they want their sweet warranty bucks and tried selling me the premium plan. When I had a Dell in the past, a tech guy came to my home, so it's pretty galling that I'd have to pay $119 to get a defective computer fixed or be without it for weeks. (I didn't ask but assume I'd have to pay to ship it for service, which won't be cheap either.) And $119 is for a lower 1-year warranty that won't cover physical damage; that would cost $169.BTW calling support went south from the start. A voice comes on and says there are numbers on the underside of your device, so enter it now. It gives you about 2 seconds to turn the computer over and scrutinize the label to find the number among the many others. To top it off, my label was all smudged as if it had been damaged by water but stuck on anyway. I had no idea what I was looking for and the automated voice switched me to Sales, then sales switched me to tech support, and I could have easily found this service tag number by going to the Dell support page, which automatically recognizes your device and displays it. So more unnecessary stress. No wonder Dell is struggling.Add: I learned that the Insert key is not automatically enabled by the apps I was using, which is weird, so it actually worked fine once I found the setting in the individual programs. Still, tech support stunk.Update: Still have this computer and recently upgraded to 16GB memory, which I should have done years ago. (For some reason I thought it wasn't upgradable. It is.) Getting the case back on was the only slight trouble I had. Speedwise, the difference was barely noticeable to be honest, but my freezing issues stopped. And it was cheap as heck to do.

I've been using this laptop for about a month, and I've only found 3 things that could be improved.1) the keyboard needs backlighting. I'm often working in low light situations and the lack of backlighting makes typing very difficult. I've worked around it by tilting the screen down slightly to help illuminate the keyboard. This is my biggest complaint.2) the SD card should go all the way in when inserted. Instead it only goes in about 1/2 way. This prevents you from inserting the card and leaving it there all the time.3) for some reason the F11 an F12 keys don't default to 'home' and 'end'. You have to use fcn/F11 and fcn/F12 to access those actions. This is probably a setting in configuration somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.Battery life appears to be outstanding. The unit is light and very thin.

Mainly used for "work from home" type job, which it does quite well at! External monitor can run at native resolution and works great with virtual machines / remote desktop / etc!Handles all common tasks asked of it quite well, webcam is more than enough, easy to connect to wifi and after setting up Windows (yuck), off to do tasks within minutes!I recommend getting the upgraded RAM to help out with web browsing with many tabs + multitasking!

This computer runs great. I use it for personal use and it works super. Screen is bright and it brings programs with a lot of graphics up quickly. Possibly only thing I would like is another USB port. Overall very pleased, would purchase this item again!

A fantastic general purpose laptop. Absolutely everything I needed.

Algo con lo que no estoy cien por ciento a gusto con la Computadora, es que en el teclado de símbolos, casi todos están errados en la ubicación. No se si esto es normal en todas las marcas. Por lo demás es una excelente inversión. Jamas pensé a mi edad usar una Laptop. (70)

Cant lose! the price point is excellent for a product with this much ram a big touchscreen and the processor . Use it mainly for school work but i know its capable of more than that.

This laptop has a lot going for it - fast processor, generous SSD main storage, lots of RAM memory, FHD screen. It boots up and shuts down amazingly fast. The wi-fi and keyboard are adequate. It would be a great computer, but it has a fatal flaw: the touchpad. The touchpad areas for left- and right-click are not easy to use (the sweet spots are in the extreme lower corners) and the cursor-movement portion is so sensitive that when you move it over a portion of the screen that has links, it'll open up everything it passes over. Plus when you've used it for a while and your finger dries out, the cursor becomes impossible to move at all. So if this machine had a decent touch pad, or if you can use it with a traditional mouse (which defeats the purpose of a laptop IMO), it would be a value-shopper's dream. As it stands, it's a nightmare. I sent mine back.