Dell Inspiron 14

Dell Inspiron 14 (7437) ($ 1,049.99 as tested) is an attractive midrange ultrabook, modern aluminum for a premium bit of bling. It also has excellent battery life and perform well in our benchmark tests. This is an attention-grabbing choice for mainstream users who want premium ultrabook appearance, but need to save a few bucks. However, some issues a bouncy screen, matte keyboard backlighting, and the price of holding the system back.

Design and Features
The Inspiron 14 (7437) is a bright, silver-colored aluminum chassis with black bezel around the touch screen. Silver key with its backlit keyboard give it an appearance of a color. The main feeling is satisfactory, but the backlit keyboard silver letters on silver wash out in a normal lit room, making it hard to see the keys. Black keys with white lettering, such as in the Acer Aspire V7-482PG-6629, our Editors Choice 'for Ultrabooks midrange, and the Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (2013), is much easier to see at a wider different lighting conditions.

The 14-inch, 10-point touch screen is bright and has a 1,920-by-1, 080 resolution, which corresponds to display the Acer V7-482PG-6629's. This is sufficient for most users, even spreadsheet ninjas and those who do light to moderate photo editing. The touch screen and touchpad are both equally responsive, giving you more options for interacting with your laptop. This is an improvement over the same pinepresyuhan laptop equipped with non-touch-screen-like Acer TravelMate TMP645-MG-9419. If there is any drawback to the screen, it will bounce it back and forth a bit when used. The touch display V70482PG-6629 is significantly more stable.

The chassis measures about 9.5 by 14.75 by 0.6 inches (HWD). Despite its slim profile, there is room for two drives anyway: a cache 32GB mSATA solid-state drive (SSD) and a 500GB, 5,400 rpm SATA hard drive for storage. SSD helps the system boot in about 10 seconds to resume from sleep faster, but overall performance in our benchmark tests still can not match that of an ultrabook using only SSD (more on that below).

At £ 4.12, it is a little heavy compared to the 3.2-pound HP Spectre 13T-3000, and the limitations of thin Dell chassis connectors can bring. There is a headset jack, an HDMI port, and an SD card reader, but only two USB 3.0 ports. You'll fill one of the two ports you need to use a USB-to-Ethernet adapter (not included). Wireless connectivity is via 802.11a/b/g/n dual band Wi-Fi with WiDi support and Bluetooth 4.0.

Dell left a lot of free space on the hard drive in the system. Sure, you'll find Amazon, Shop Dell, eBay, Kindle, McAfee LiveSafe (a 12-month subscription), Microsoft Office Trial, and Pocket Cloud on the Start screen, but that's a fairly light load for a consumer-oriented laptop. Dell ships the Inspiron 14 (7437) with a 1-year warranty and 90 days of telephone support premium.