• Making a Difference: fashion

Dell provides a total of four beautiful colors of models, including obsidian black, tomato red, peacock blue, pink lotus. And the review on tomato red Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 is popular, it may also be more people prefer the traditional red. However, today we bring to you this peacock blue Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 is also representative for the fashion.

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010

The girls who love to catch up the trend of fashion enchanted immediately by this Dell Inspiron N4010 eye-catching peacock blue color. Unique innovative offset lid hinge design will bring different visual experience, at the same time, Dell N4010 is equipped with Duo Core processors and high-end discrete graphics card, and in the following article we will introduce you with details.

• Metal wiredrawing processing and the offset lid hinge

Dell Inspiron N4010 cap design remains simple and elegant style, peacock blue background combined with LCVM metal wiredrawing processing highlights the dynamic aspect of fashion, the surface texture feels fine and smooth. Inspiron N4010 shell material has the advantage of fast heat, light texture, anti static electricity, and not overheated if the prolonged use.

Dell Inspiron N4010 LCVM metal wiredrawing processing

Dell Inspiron N4010 features a high-brightness 14-inch LED-backlit screen, supports a maximum resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio. The entire screen color is realistic, whether you are browsing photos、watching movies or playing 3D games, the screen can be showing a good display. Inspiron N4010 also comes with a 130 pixel webcam; you can make video calls at any time.

14-inch LED-backlit LCD screen with the best resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels.

Dell N4010 offset lid hinge

It is worth noting that Most noteworthy is the Inspiron N4010 lid hinge is offset about half an inch forward from the back of the machine, and the internal keyboard-tray surface is a nice brushed-silver tone. It improves the screen height, but the viewing area does not change, more ergonomic. In addition this design makes Dell Inspiron N4010 look more superimposed.

Dell Inspiron N4010 rear side

Machine + battery = 2.28kg

Machine +Battery + Adapter = 2.72kg

The Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 weight shown above is not light among the mainstream 14-inch laptop.

• Keyboard and Ports

Inspiron 14R N4010 utilizes a large keyboard; the keys feel moderate, due to the ultra-slim keycap design, the buttons will feel thin when typing. In addition there is no shortcut key on the keyboard except for the power switch. It is worth noting that the shortcut key adjust operation just need to press the function key directly without pressing the FN key combination any more.

Inspiron 14R N4010 keyboard Details

Dell Inspiron N4010 large touchpad

On the left of Dell Inspiron N4010, there is RJ-45, a standard-definition HDMI output port, eSATA port and multi-speed data card reader slot.

On the right side of Dell Inspiron N4010, there is DVD burner, audio jacks and a USB2.0 port.

As Dell Inspiron N4010 feature offset lid hinge design, so that make it possible to arrange ports on the rear side of Dell N4010, there is a common VGA video output, USB2.0 port and power adapter port. For a mainstream 14-inch notebook, it can meet the application of our daily needs. Dell Inspiron N4010 port and connector layout is reasonable and user-friendly.

Dell N4010 VGA on rear side,

The state indicators of the left front side

The state indicators of the left front side of Inspiron N4010 are power indicator, hard disk status indicator and battery level indicator, users can be very convenient to know the notebook status information. Below the indicators, it is built-in speaker, and certified by the SRS.

• Machine’s hardware specs

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 is equipped with Intel Core i3 370M processor, HM57 chipset, 2GB DDR3 memory and 500GB 7200RPM hard drive capacity, but also comes standard with a built-in DVD burner, high-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card, and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Basic Edition operating system.

Dell Inspiron N4010 CPUID

Inspiron N4010 CINEBENCH test results

We use CINEBENCH R10 to test Duo Core i3-370M processor performance; it gets the final result for multi-core 6199 points. The score is much higher that of Intel Core i3-330M.

Dell N4010 PCMark Vantage Test Results

Dell N4010 gets the PCMark Vantage score of 5320 points, music score is 5580 points, the game score is 4570 points, and however, the HDD score is lower than average scores. This shows that Duo Core i3-370M with the high-end discrete graphics card does enhance the system overall effect, fully meet the users daily office, audio and video entertainment applications.

• Powerful gaming performance tests

Dell Inspiron N4010 performs well in gaming too. It is equipped with high-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 graphics card, which has 400 stream processors, GDDR3 memory, 128-bit bus width, memory capacity of 1GB, and fully supports DirectX 11. We were running the 3DMark Vantage to test it with entry-level Entry mode, the GPU score is 13,239 points.

Dell N4010 3DMark Vantage: GPU score is13239

We run “Street Fighter 4″ to test Dell Inspiron N4010 whose resolution was adjusted to the highest resolution of 1366 × 768, while opening 2x anti-aliasing, turn off Display V-sync, and other details are adjusted to the default settings.

“Street Fighter IV” set shot

“Street Fighter IV”

The final average test scores: 41 frames rate

Final test gets the RANK “C”, 41.4FPS, has reached a level of smooth.

•Battery life, Cooling, and Summary

Dell N4010 keyboard surface temperature under high load conditions

Dell Inspiron N4010 bottom side temperature under high load conditions

the results shown above, The areanear the heat vents temperature is relatively high, palmrest temperature is also controlled well,  other parts of the basic control showed a blue temperature around 37 ℃.

The standard 6-cell lithium battery

Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 features standard 6-cell 48Wh lithium battery. We turn on Windows 7 energy-saving power management mode, open wireless network, adjust the screen brightness to 40%, the final battery life is about 3 hours and 22 minutes.

• Summary

When taken peacock blue Dell Inspiron 14R N4010 out of the box, we are all attracted by it, the peacock blue cover is very eye-catching, and the body utilizes “offset lid hinge” process that not only improves the user’s viewing angle but also brings a new experience. The whole Dell Inspiron N4010 layout is more reasonable, but in terms of girls, the weight more than 2kg is not easy to carry.

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