I enjoyed the sharp pop of critical Dreg kills in Destiny 2, while a critter-zapping Conduit Shrine run in Diablo 3 triggered a satisfyingly crackling roar. Music sounded relatively crisp and detailed, with even a tiny bit of bass. The Dell G3 15’s top-firing speakers aren’t too bad as far as laptop speakers go. Dell sent us a replacement unit with a pristine trackpad, and assured us that the defective trackpad on the first test unit was “not normal.” ) (Note: The trackpad on our original Dell G3 15 review unit was seated a few millimeters off-center, so it tended to stick if you clicked it near the bottom-right edge. Of course, it’s safe to assume gamers will spend far more time with their mice than the G3’s trackpad. The trackpad itself does its job without getting in the way with unwanted palm inputs, although I felt (as usual) that clicking the trackpad takes a little more pressure than I’d like. The G3 15’s trackpad sits directly below the space bar, which puts is a little left of center thanks to the dedicated numeric keypad. The outlined WASD keys are the only outward sign that the Dell G3 15 is a gaming laptop. Don’t expect anything in the way of bonus macro keys, but a standard set of function-enabled hotkeys, including screen lock, volume and media playback controls, search and display options, are present and accounted for. A hotkey lets you toggle between two steps of blue backlighting, while a 10-key numeric keypad sits on the right.
The Dell G3 15’s chiclet-style keyboard is fairly standard as laptops go, with smooth, flat keycaps, decent travel and a snappy tactile bump on each keystroke. A 250-nit display might be perfectly fine for, say, a mainstream budget laptop, but we expect more from a gaming rig. That’s barely hitting our 250-nit standard for comfortable indoor viewing. The bad news: It’s not as bright as we’d like, registering only 246 nits (or candelas) at dead center according to our measurements. That’s the good news about the G3 15’s display. The Dell G3 15’s IPS display boasts decent viewing angles, but we wish it were a little brighter. On the cheapest end of the G3 15 spectrum, Dell’s $749 G3 15 keeps the same Core i5-8300H processor and 8GB of RAM as our review unit, but downgrades to GeForce GTX 1050 graphics and loses the SSD boot drive. The priciest G3 15 model falls back on GTX 1050 Ti graphics, but ups its RAM to 16GB and swaps in a larger 256GB SSD boot drive. If you’d rather spend extra for reliably buttery graphics north of 60 fps, you can step up to a $1,099 version of the G3 15 with a hex-core Core i7-8750H processor and GTX 1060 Max-Q graphics.
Rounding out the G3 15’s basic specs are 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a 128GB SSD boot drive, and a traditional 1TB, 5,400rpm hard drive for data. We’ll test its real-world performance in a moment. It generally can be counted on to crank out maxed-out gaming visuals between 30 and 60 fps (or at least approaching 60 fps), depending on the title.
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The G3 15’s 1050 Ti graphics card (with 4GB of dedicated GDDR5 RAM) sits near the bottom of Nvidia’s line of GTX Series 10 graphics cards.
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