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That large gap puts the Inspiron 13 either below or above the average ultraportable notebook (8:10), Yoga 700 (7:03), Satellite Radius 12 1080p (7:22) and Aspire R 14 (8:37). The first system lasted for only 6 hours and 55 minutes, while the second unit lasted for 8 hours and 22 minutes. We tested two review units of the Inspiron 13 7000, and they got widely different results in our Laptop Mag Battery Test (constant Web browsing at 100 nits of brightness). That's faster than the Yoga 700 and the average ultraportable notebook but slower than the Satellite Radius 12 and the same as the Aspire R 14. The Inspistill performed well in the OpenOffice Macro test, matching 20,000 names to their addresses in 4 minutes and 41 seconds. That's far worse than the 256GB SSD drives on the Aspire R 14 (164 MBps), Yoga 700 (145 MBps) and Satellite Radius 12 (203 MBps), as well as the average ultraportable notebook (162 MBps). The first unit's 128GB SSD finished in 57 seconds, a rate of 89.3 MBps, and the second model we tested was even slower (58.46 MBps). The Inspiperformed poorly on the Laptop Mag File Transfer Test (which times how long it takes to duplicate 4.97GB of mixed media).
The reason laptops with the same CPU earned better scores may be their faster hard drives. The Core i5-6200U-powered Aspire R 14 (6,266) and Yoga 700 (5,855) both earned better scores, as did the Core i7-6500U-powered Satellite Radius 12 (6,258). When we ran the GeekBench 3 benchmark test for overall performance on the Inspiron 13 7000, the hybrid earned a score of 5,775, which beats the average ultraportable notebook (4,796). MORE: Best 2-in-1s (Laptop/Tablet Hybrids) I encountered zero lag when I split my screen between a streaming 1080p video and a dozen Chrome tabs (including TweetDeck and a Google Doc) as Windows Defender ran a full-system scan in the background. Our Inspiwas armed with a 6th Generation Intel Core i5-6200U processor with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, which provided generally good performance.
When I turned off the Speaker Enhancement or changed its preset to Music or Movie, the speakers sounded fainter and further away. We suggest you keep the default preferences, which have Speaker Enhancement turned on and set to MaxxSense.
This hybrid reaps the benefits of Dell's partnership with Waves, which put its MaxxAudio tuning software in the Dell Audio control panel.