As far as gaming laptops go, they all end up being pretty much on par with others in their price range. However, there are always those that sort of stand out. For the Dell G7 15, that’s not an easy task. The laptop truly offers impressive specs, and a design that personally, I appreciate. But at Rs. 2,07,990, this machine is definitely not in the price range where compromises are going to be okay. So, if you’re thinking of getting yourself the new Dell G7 15 7500, read on.

  • Specifications
  • Design
  • Display
  • Performance
  • Keyboard and Trackpad
  • Speakers
  • Connectivity
  • Battery
  • Pros and Cons

Specifications

Like I said, the G7 offers specs that impress on paper. You get a high-end processor and RTX-enabled GPUs, although no 30-series yet. Plus you get other impressive things. Take a look.

Design

When closed, the Dell G7 doesn’t make it look like there are any design flairs to it at all. Don’t get me wrong, it looks really good in its all black chassis, with a simple Dell logo on the lid, a couple of airflow vents on the sides, and two on the back with a really pleasing design. The chassis is a fingerprint magnet though, as you can see in the image below.

Whether it does that, I can’t be sure, but it definitely doesn’t hurt. The screen is surrounded by thin bezels on all sides, except for the chin; which is pretty much standard on laptops now.

Apart from all this, there’s the usual stuff here. You get some ports spread out around the sides of the laptop, a couple of vents for airflow, and that’s pretty much everything.

The Dell G7 7500 comes with a 15.6-inch Full HD display. As far as laptops with Full HD screens go, this one is a really good one. The matte finish means you can use it without glare issues, and the panel just looks really impressive over all. It gets considerably bright when you want it to, and really really dark when you need it to, all without breaking a sweat.

Performance

Under the hood, the G7 brings power-packed hardware for your gaming needs. You get a 10th-gen Core i9-10885H processor. This is paired with 16GB DDR4 RAM, a 1TB PCIe M.2 SSD, and an RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card. What that means on paper, is this laptop will handle anything you throw at it, and do it really well.

In Far Cry 5 as well, the G7 easily handles playing at the highest graphics settings. As you can see from the in-game benchmarks here, the laptop gets an average frame rate of 91fps in Ultra on Far Cry 5. Drop that down if you want higher frame rates, or a lower chance of frame drops.

As for everyday tasks including browsing, writing, and more, there was never any doubt about this laptop being able to handle any of that.

I mentioned in the design segment that I appreciate this keyboard for the inverted-T arrow keys. However, there’s more to it. This is actually a very comfortable keyboard to use and type on. The keys are spaced apart well enough to prevent accidental presses across keys, and the response is really great when you’re actually typing on this keyboard. All good things.

As is the case with most gaming laptops, the Dell G7 15 7500 also comes with bottom firing speakers. For gamers, that’s not a problem because you’ll likely be using your own set up of speakers, or using headphones anyway.

Of course, I would prefer if the speakers were up top and front firing. That would have made them sound even louder, which is what I’m looking for in a laptop speaker. But still, the speaker placement is not something I’m concerned with much because at the end of the day, they get the job done.

The Dell G7 7500 comes with quite a lot of ports, and some nice connectivity options for wireless connections. You get USB Type-A ports, obviously, and you also get a single USB Type-C port which means you can plug in your USB C accessories easily.

For wireless connectivity, you get WiFi 6, and Bluetooth 5.1. I don’t have much to say about either one of those things, but it’s nice to have them for future-proofing.

Coming to the battery — usually the weakest part in gaming laptops because users are likely to have their power bricks connected all the time anyway. However, the Dell G7 15’s battery offers a pretty fair battery life. In my usage, which was mostly mixed on this laptop, I was getting around 5 to 6 hours of battery life. A lot of that will depend on what you’re actually doing, so this number can obviously vary, but that’s still a pretty nice number, especially for battery life on a gaming laptop.

Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of the Dell G7 15

Cons:

  • Bottom firing speakers

Dell G7 15 7500 Review: Should You Buy It?

The Dell G7 15 7500 is a pretty solid gaming laptop. The company has redesigned its G-series gaming laptop into a better looking chassis, with improved hardware, and overall just really great performance. At its price, there aren’t a lot of options that offer similar things, and while I wish the G7 brought along a 30-series RTX GPU, it’s still offering pretty much everything I would want.