Dell Vostro 15 3558 is a budget laptop for office use as this laptop comes with good battery life and decent performance. This laptop is made by keeping in mind the business or office use. This notebook comes with a 15.6 inch display, Intel Core i3 processor with Intel HD Graphics 4400 GPU.
Design
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The Chassis of this Dell Vostro 15 3558 is made of matte black plastic, which gives the indication of its low price. The design of this laptop is good and also has round edges. The base of this laptop is quite stable. The hinges here have one good job in keeping the lid and keyboard deck together. When you try to open the lid by one hand, you may a little bouncing. This Dell Vostro 15 3558 measures 15.02 x 10.53 x 1.01 inches and weighs 5.25 pounds, which is not lightest and thinnest business notebook but it is portable enough to carry it with you.
Display
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This Dell Vostro 15 3558 comes with a 1366 x 768 pixels resolution 15.6 inch display, which is good for watching or streaming HD videos, surfing the Web, working on document and other daily normal stuff. . The viewing angle of this screen is limited, meaning you cannot watch from any position.But still its good for the price and comparatively better
The Dell Vostro 15 3558 comes with a HD webcam, which is good for video chatting and conferencing like Skype and Hangouts, but will struggle if you want to click good pictures. The picture taken from this camera was bit its enough for video calling.
Keyboard and Touchpad
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This Dell Vostro 15 3558 comes with a chiclet style keyboard with short travel and good pressure point. The keyboard is non-illuminated and a bit bouncy. Keyboard is comfortable and feels good while typing. I typed with my average typing speed on this keyboard. Overall the keyboard is decent and comfortable.
This laptop comes with 4.1 x 3.14 inches touchpad, which supports multi-touch. The touchpad is spacious and responsive. You can also activate and deactivate the multi-touch features in touchpad driver. Overall the touchpad is also good and soft.
Sound Quality
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The Dell Vostro 15 3558 features stereo speakers situated at the front edge of bottom of the laptop. The speakers produce a loud and balance sound; you can listen to its speakers for long period also. The bass is decent but this is normal for this kind of laptop. The sound quality of this notebook is very good and I am actually surprised by it.
Does it Heat?
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The Dell Vostro 15 3558 did a good job in controlling its heat because the laptop remains cool. The hottest part of the laptop was bottom but it was also less than the threshold temp. The touchpad and keyboard remain cool. Even when I was using system for some hard works, the system remains cool.You probably don’t need it cooling pad.
Performance
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This Dell Vostro 15 3558 is powered by a intel core i3 1.7 GHz processorwith 4 GB of RAM and 1TB of 5400 rpm hard drive, which delivers enough powerful performance to handle your usual personal and office works like working on document, surfing the Web etc. This system runs smoothly while watching movies with multiple tabs opened in Google Chrome. On GeeKbench 3 test, which is used to measure overall performance, this Dell Vostro 15 3558 scored 4, 975 points, which is better than 3, 792 and 4, 641 points of HP 355 G2 and HP 350 G1 respectively. Overall the system performance of this laptop is pretty good.
Graphics AND Gaming
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This Dell Vostro 15 3558 laptop comes with Intel HD Graphics 4400 GPU, which is powerful enough to handle most of your games and full HD videos. officially supported games list [.]
You can play high graphic intense games like far cry 4, COD ghost and with optimized video settings.
Battery Life
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Battery life of this Dell Vostro 15 3558 is pretty good as it lasts more than 7 hours for continuous usage which isn’t seen in most of the expensive laptops . The battery life of this system is pretty good and you can use it for business and office purpose quite comfortably and also for students.
Conclusion
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The Dell Vostro 15 3558 is a good business laptop at an affordable price. This laptop is powerful enough to handle your day-to-day tasks quite comfortably. The laptop remains cool and silent for long duration of working also. The battery life is also quite long. This laptop comes with decent and comfortable keyboard.