Killer $800 Gaming Laptop from... DELL??? Inspiron 7559 

Finally, a DELL Gaming Laptop that doesnt look like it came straight out of star wars.

I'm still using this in 2019. I have the i7 model and upgraded to 16gb of RAM and bought an SSD to use as my boot drive and it's still going strong! Great laptop for the price!

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This laptop is $800USD SOMEHOW, they decided to make it £800GBP as well? Does someone need to tell Dell how to convert currency or...?

I LITERALLY bought this 2 weeks ago and couldn't find many reviews... great timing haha. Typing on it right now, can confirm it's great for 800 bucks

I'm still a user of the Dell Inspiron 15 7559, who's still using it?😋

In my experience, the hinge gets very loose after a year or two. I love the trackpad, it's super precise and feels good to run my finger across it. The speakers are also super nice. The underside subwoofer and loud sound bar is way better than most laptops I've used.

4 years later, still going strong!!

"Value gaming laptop" - Linus It's $800 dollars, $800 dollars for a laptop! This is not 'value' in any way...

This laptop costs over TWO THOUSAND New Zealand dollars if you buy from the NZ specific Dell store. What an absolute joke. The exchange rate atm means US$800 = around NZ$1250. Linus you should do a video about why things are so outrageously expensive in different countries for people like us way the fuck down here. It's honestly shocking.

800$ oh my god. My dream

I am watching this video on the same laptop :))

I really should head off to bed...but oh well. LinusTechTips is worth it

It's six in the morning, didn't sleep, don't care, I'm watchin this

This is a great laptop, but If you do get it the first ting you need to do is manually update every single driver, because out of the box this thing is bug city. After you complete that though it is an awesome device. There is even a driver to fix the touch pad.

You really helped me figure out this god damn puzzle of what I need/want, earned a sub!

This cost 59,000 pesos (1252 USD) in Philippines in Dell Store itself. Too overpriced.

Wait gaming from A Dell? Hello?

2023 and still holding up! I've only had to change the wifi card, and I'm probably due for some thermal paste. I have a 4k touchscreen, and mine doesn't have the red logo or touchpad accent, so it is really elegant IMO

the keyboard is exactly the same with my g750jz , I think they had to sell their stock of keyboards somehow.Nice video as always ,keep up the good work and have a nice day.

I have this laptop. Thanks to the great battery life I use it for college, it fits in my backpack so why not. I really like the keyboard for typing. When someone else used the keyboard the first comment was "wow this types great". The wifi does suck, I replaced mine with a killer wireless ac-1535 card. The touchpad is ok in my opinion. I guess it depends on what you're used to, but it works fine for me. A great laptop for the price.

You know what's cool about this one: It costs 800 POUNDS in the UK LOL

Looking forward to buy this

Love your vids linus, keep up the good work!

I think you missed a big point for a laptop in this review: temps. I have what could be considered a "budget gaming laptop" with an i7 3630QM and a GTX650 and EVERY time I play anything starts getting to 80°-90° on both CPU and GPU. What about this one?

Some thoughts after using this as my daily driver for uni work and gaming since August 2016: At 1:24 - The hinge is smooth when new, but the screws securing it on the top left side tend to snap off the plastic shell, leaving only the bottom screw holding it and requiring tightening every month. The display, whilst IPS, doesn't offer the best colour gamut and crushes blacks badly - typical of cheaper IPS displays. Worse, the hue is slightly off, leading to content I create on here looking different than intended on any other display. The keyboard I agree is one of the worst parts - little travel can make it difficult to get used to (though much better than the Butterfly keyboards on Macs in that regard!). I disagree with the touchpad though, it is very responsive - just wish it had dedicated left / right mouse buttons to help with gaming. As for cooling, it keeps fairly cool when gaming. However, for CPU-focused loads like video rendering, the unit gets very loud and gives high CPU temperatures of around 85 degrees. GPU temps are much more reasonable though. I have the i7 version, so this may change things in this regard. Also, there's a reason why you were so impressed by the 960M: it is essentialy a GTX 750ti in a laptop, with slightly higher core and lower memory clocks.

I love the ending music!

I bought this laptop 7 years ago because of this video. While I've upgraded to an m1 macbook air since then I still love using this at home because the ssd has really given this laptop longevity and it has a nice big screen. The ips display still looks good to this day and it still runs great. I never really gamed much on this though.

I bought this laptop (4k model) and been using since 5 months. Its a beast for a budget laptop. I play some graphics hungry games like GTA V, Witcher 3, Far cry 4, Battelfield 3,.. at 2048X1152 medium settings and runs smoothly. This is a beast.

And until a week ago, this was my primary computer. I did everything-including gaming-on it for nearly five years. Replaced a keyboard that lost a key, added some memory, opened the bottom to clean out cat hair from the vents. That's it. And it still runs like the day I bought it. Now, I've got a gaming desktop, but the Inspiron's still good enough to run Discord while I'm in games

Got an I7 version today and so far it is fairly quick. Going to use it for Photoshop etc. and the 4 gig of vram will surely come in handy for those types of tasks. I personally find the black and red aesthetic very appealing. Thanks for the recommendation Linus.

Just got this for my birthday... pretty awesome

So here I am 4 gaming years later with my 7559. Just about to add a 500GB SSD and another 8GB of RAM to keep it sweet. Nice machine for the price.

The last AAA game I bought was Bioshock Infinite. I think this'll do quite nicely

I've been running this beast for 5 years and it has had no problems! I love it

Bought one of these in 2015 and it ended up lasting me til late 2020. Hands down my best laptop purchase ever.

55 FPS playable? before this laptop i used to think that 19 FPS was decent.

A few years later I still use my 7959 as my daily and game with it

Just bought the 4k upgrade a few days ago as an early birthday present. This gaming laptop is truly impressive. It's currently on NewEgg for $1050 tax included and one day shipping (WITH the 4k upgrade). Thanks for your review Linus :D

I have one and I would definitely recommend it to anybody looking for a laptop. I had to use it for a while as my desktop and it worked just fine, it ran games in 4k decently and I didn't have any problems with it at all. ( I do have the highest spec version though).

Watching this in 2020 with a Dell Inspiron 7559

I remember drooling over this laptop when I was younger 5 years ago. I wanted to start PC gaming for so long and felt like it was never gonna happen. Going from a cheap $200 laptop to now an rtx 2070 super and R5 3600 I can't believe I've come so far! Good memories :)

I have this almost one year later and I love it

the new one was just announced and it's so good!!

my laptop said hello to me..... maybe it's "a dell" XD no pun intended

same model Australia $1,698.99 ._.

I always loved Dell's neat design, i am still using my Dell Studio 1558 as a working machine and it is still working good for an 5 year old laptop :)

Mine arrives in 8 days... cant wait...

IM STILL USING IT ITS GREAT

I purchased minutes ago this laptop with full hd display and i7. I hope I gonna enjoy it

just bought it, should come in around christmas, hopefully it's good

bought this... really great so far. mine must be an updated version or something, I couldn't flex the keyboard or wrist rest to that degree shown in the video. Only major gripes so far is the dac of the laptop while miles louder than my phone and pc, Has a quirky difference of sound from my other devices

linus can you review the new one

5 years later of owning this laptop and the hinge is absolute garbage, the chassis of the laptop slowly detach from the hinge and destroys the body of the laptop after opening the lid on a daily basis. The rest is decent tho. I recommend getting an SSD if it yours didn't already come with it.

I am watching this video on the Inspiron 7559 (I have the second model from the left on the Dell website screenshot in the video--1080p non-touch with an i7). I bought this for college back when it was a relevant machine in mid-2016 because I was (and am still not) comfortable taking my rig in a three and a half hour car ride to school with all of my other stuff, and also because I desperately needed an upgrade from my early 2011 MacBook Pro (the novelty was fun while it lasted and it's still useful in some aspects even to this day because I'm an iPhone user, but I grew up with PCs and I still think nothing can beat Windows). I would say that this video is a very fair review of this computer. Day-to-day tasks are no problem, Chrome runs fine with several tabs open although it does eat up about 50% or more of the stock 8GB of RAM, so it is not a multitasking system to my disappointment, but that could easily be fixed if I decided to go for another RAM module. Most games that I play run great with absolutely no issues. The most taxing game I've tried to play on here is Rise of the Tomb Raider, and with DX12 turned on and the resolution turned down several notches, I can actually pull near 60 FPS with mid-high graphics settings. I'm not a build quality freak, but Linus is right about the trackpad and keyboard. I do not like using this trackpad, and I very quickly got an entry-level Logitech wireless mouse that performs ten times better. About the keyboard, I find that sometimes I will press a key in some kind of way it doesn't like to be pressed (particularly when a word has same letter twice in a row, like "pressed" or "letter") and it will add an extra keystroke. Annoying, but not the biggest problem in the world, though. The bigger problems I've had with this laptop are actually related to blue screening and complete freezing. Yeah, I know, you probably just said "yikes" in your head, but thankfully I've been mostly lucky. Sometimes when I would plug in the AC adapter, I would get a weird error message and eventually blue screen. I looked up the error message and it had something to do with Adobe something or other. Considering at the point this started happening I had recently... um... very legally downloaded Photoshop, I decided to get rid of all the Adobe stuff on my computer and start again with Acrobat Reader and the like. I stopped getting blue screens, but still, once or twice it would freeze; holding the power button would bring up a blank black screen (still lit by the display), and it would not turn off. I had to wait for the battery to die and just hope that nothing bad would happen the next time. I was not doing anything incredibly taxing so I don't think it's related to internal temperature, but maybe Windows putting too much demand on the slow mechanical hard drive had something to do with it considering even Windows background processes will shoot the disk usage up to 100% in the time right after startup. Who can know for sure, though. Like I said, I've actually happened to be very lucky as I've had nothing catastrophic happen in the past several months. I've since updated my BIOS, my chipset drivers, finally downloaded GeForce Experience for updated graphics drivers, and everything has been pretty fine so far. Unfortunately, it is a 15" laptop and it is too heavy and sweat-inducing for me to take around on my back at my large university campus in Florida, so I've had to go back to my Mac and cry about its almost-dead-thanks-to-old-Flash-RU-vid battery. I'm now stuck because I don't know whether to upgrade my seven year old Mac so it stops sucking, or increase the performance of this computer, but that's something I need to figure out on my own. Overall, I've enjoyed using this computer, just like every other I've gotten from Dell. I was looking for a budget gaming laptop, and that is definitely what this is. I so wish this had a 1050 Ti in it like the current model does, but considering when it was made and how much good it's done me, I really can't complain much.

Amazing laptop... I have it since February and it's amazing how good the performance is. I mainly play league and overwatch without any issue, ow runs in high at almost 70fps.. Definitly a thumbs up

This will be 2000$ in my country...

Just a quick update. This laptop now costs 650usd at Amazon.

Definitely getting this. I've been looking for a cheap gaming laptop for a while. The one thing that bugs me is the combined audio jack. Luckily I've got an audio splitter because of my xbox, but it seems a bit of a hassle. But I suppose I cant complain for the price.

I just got an i7 version of this laptop and it looks like DELL may have done some improving. The keyboard seems to have been shored up a bit. I see almost no give when I press hard. It's very similar to the keyboard on my Inspiron n5110. The screen also doesn't seem to flex as much as in the review. Or I'm afraid to apply that much force, at least. So you may want to check it out again.

got it for 300 on black Friday. awesome laptop

I can always count on Linus to keep me up for another 8 minutes before going to bed XD

I am still using this laptop and surprisingly it still works pretty decent even with current modern games under low-medium settings, 900p.

Pretty happy with this computer, have had for more than a year. There are new models now that are much faster so I look forward to next laptop purchase in hopefully a few years (hoping this will not fall apart in the next year as it is kind of fragile)

The way he says Inspiron makes my chest contract in pain

Yeah, yeah, yeah... We all get it, Linus... But, will it blend??

I am still rocking this laptop today, its still very good for everything i do - light gaming (Dota 2, older games), basic office work, some photoshop, inkscape ... cant say it didnt pay for itself already. Only thing i did was upgrade to M.2 257 Gb SSD.

Just picked one up new for £569.99 quite excited to recieve it

I should have gotten this instead of xps 13

just bought this for $595 on ebay

Exact same as my Lenovo that I got for $575. The m.2 is real nice, and the single screw on the back is an absolute dream. So I'd pay a tad more for that. Pretty cool.

this is amazing I own it and it plays absolutely everything I LOVE it. perfect for me sinceim always on the road

A good gaming laptop? FROM DELL? WUT

how long till it's left outside?

Thank you, Linus!

I have an dell Inspiron n5010 that ive had for almost 7 years and it wont die. 2 new batteries, 2 new hhd's and now onto an ssd and it is still my everyday laptop. badass beast of a machine.

So i have the new one with gtx 1050ti, i7, 128gb ssd + 1TB hdd. Its on the way. If i wanted to could i pull the hdd and replace it with another 500gb ssd?

It's such a headache trying to buy a gaming laptop.. The second you think that it's the laptop you really want you watch, read the reviews and the bubble of the excitement is gone.. There isn't a single model I haven't considered.. Asus rog, hp omen, msi, dell.. Can anyone help me out? I need something that can run overwatch at at least heigh settings with stable fps and be able to play some triple AAA games with at least medium-high settings.

Bought mine brand new, has become my daily driver since pandemic started. Still going strong!

Getting this for xmas

Whats the ram and cpu for this laptop? Very interested in getting it for making youtube videos. Please let me know if you guys think I should get it or if there's a better one for youtube videos. Thanks for the help!!

ayyyy linusao

yesteryear one new word learned today thanks Linus

Good job,Linus

I am actually looking forward on getting the amazon version of this laptop (256 gb ssd), is it worth it?

Starting at $1,099.99 in Canada WTF!

Great laptop for the price, and its upgradability has kept it going strong for my brother, whose has it as his daily driver!

i've got an alienware with a 3gb 770m. Roughly the same performance as the 960m. (which i've bought used, refurbished, 2 years ago, for $1400 AUD. while they were going for $2799) Still holds up very nicely even today. Gotta play around with lowering settings that are a bottleneck on performance with minimal visual losses, and you can make some games run beautifully while only looking slightly worse.

Are there any Windows laptops with good trackpads? You've gotta owe it to Apple, the trackpad on the Macs is pretty damn good. For Windows laptops, even if your trackpad is okay, it will be useless if you're stuck with Elantech drivers and not Synaptics.

And......1200USD in India..

I watched this video with my Dell Inspiron 7559. I love it and nobody else has to.

Don't know why this video popped up on my newsfeed but funnily enough I bought this laptop back in 2016 thanks to the huge amount of RU-vid praise on the 7559.

I bought the highest end model of this laptop for $375

Wait wait, a quad core i5 on laptops? When did this happen?

Watching this on my maxed out Inspiron 7559, probably won't upgrade for the next 3 years. Still a great laptop. Seriously.

Got the 4K touchscreen microsoft edition, still going strong.

Wonder when this will get 1060?

Can this laptop out perform ps4/xbone?

Awesome!!

I have the 7559 with the 4k screen, and i7 chip. This thing is a beast I have yet to find a game it would not play.