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Just received today and installed Wwindows10. Working fine till now. Cannot adjust brightness that seems to be an issue with the OS. Not at all cheap plastic. Webcam and Speakers are good. Its good it has a VGA port. Only isue seems to be with the touchpad. No touch buttons tere and the ensistyvity is also not upto the mark. Will install windowss 7 and the appropriate drivers then check and update this review.
There is only a "single" memory slot ! you need to buy a single 8GB DDR3L in order to upgrade. note: the cover underneath is held by a single screw. you need to push and slide out the flimsy plastic cover which flexes a bit. the page Up and page Down keys are too small, while the keyboard is well laid out from a developer point of view. The Enter key is just the right size. i just bought this laptop, installed Gentoo Linux and started off with Docker builds and Go lang compiles. The AMD APU A8 is pretty decent processor as i witnessed while compiling of various packages like Go, Erlang OTP, Redis, PostgreSQL. Useful for dev guys who care about code, vt100 terminal, clang/gcc and a decent processor. don't intend to configure multimedia, wifi or graphics display hence i cant comment on what experience the GUI seeking folks can expect.
The specs are among the best in this price range and the laptop has excellent build quality, similar to a Dell laptop priced upwards of Rs 40k. Ubuntu OS is quite fast. With its 14" screen, and light-weight. it is quite handy to carry around. P.S.: Updating the Ubuntu version caused graphic driver problems on my laptop.
The product quality is satisfactory for the amount you are going to pay. No heating problem nor any other issues that gonna make you feel you are in loss. The major concern for me was the Flipkart team's response for the warranty claim. They kept me hanging for 16 days without giving proper solution for my warranty claim from Dell for 1 Year.That made me feel really bad. Dell Vostro 3445 - 5 star Flipkart team - 2 star
The Dell Vostro 3445 was a urgent buy for me, combined by the facts that I needed an development environment ready in one week, my old laptop (Acer 5740G, god bless its soul) was missing a few keyboard keys, HDD had a bad sector and it was heating up like hell while running Win7. Thinkpad was my initial target, but saw that they were way beyond my budget. Decided on this as I am from AMD camp, and prefer Linux better than Windows. This Dell 14" range is densely populated, with Win8/Ubuntu, Intel/AMD, Dedicated/Chipset graphics options. So my choice was based on preference (AMD chip), processing power (Quadcore A8), ample memory (4GB DDR3L), and cost (Ubuntu). Flipkart delivery and packaging was top-notch as usual. Need not say more than that. Unwrapped, set the free backpack (Targus) aside, flipped the lid open, turned the thing on, and soon I was welcomed by the Unity screen of Ubuntu. The initial setup was 10 minutes tops, and I was staring at my ready-to-go desktop, with WiFi tethered. However, disaster struck soon. Ubuntu prompted me a new LTS is available (system had 12.04, new LTS was 14.04), and if I wanted to upgrade. I accepted, and the system went on upgrading for about 1 hour over WiFi. Was prompted to restart, did so, and the graphics driver failed on reboot. Was presented with CLI, tried to start xorg/xvesa from there to no avail. Had an old 12.10 Ubuntu DVD lying around, so popped that in DVD drive, and restarted. Once again a 1 hour install, and I was back in Ubuntu desktop, however, with no WiFi. modprobe showed there was no wl device. lscpi -nn showed the device was there (a broadcom chip), but 'unclaimed', i.e. no drivers were present. Then went two days of feverishly trying one command after another to install generic drivers, checking if service was blacklisted, and probling the hardware every 30 minutes to see nothing works. As a last-ditch attempt, burned a 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) on a DVD, and gave it a go. Wiped all partitions, recreated them from scratch. Surprise, surprise, the WiFi device was detected! Thereafter installed VirtualBox, installed Win7 in there to work with Win applications in seamless mode, set up VPN for office, and was good to go. The system runs noiselessly, heats up evenly and not very noticably, and carries out regular tasks with aplomb. Keyboard is a little spaced out, but quite good. Three USB ports (1 USB 3.0). WOuld have preferred to have one more. The SD card slot does not take the card in completely. The card sticks out by about half an inch. Would have preferred a flush fit, to set up a virtual swap space (RAM) of about 4GB and leave it there. This choice is because of the single RAM slot, so if you decide to upgrade to 8GB RAM, you current RAM lies unused. Has VGA port, would have preferred HDMI. There is no physical touchpad off button (I prefer to use an wireless mouse), and the touchpad quality is nothing special, though not a deal breaker. Screen is good for coding and surfing, but the matte finish might have a negative impact on viewing. Though I prefer matte finish as I can work in well-lit environments better. The speakers are quite good, not loud, but clean and crisp-sounding till their upper sound limit. The build is not Thinkpad-grade, but is utilitarian and solid. All matte finish here too. Overall, I am very happy with the purchase.
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