What series is Dell Inspiron 14plus (a cost-effective Dell Inspiron series notebook model)?

The new masterpiece of the Dell Yue Ling family, the "Small Steel Gun" Yue Ling 14 Plus, makes its debut.

Currently, users’ demands for digital products are increasingly diversified, and their product quality requirements are becoming more comprehensive. Take a laptop for example. As a productivity tool, it not only requires powerful hardware performance, but also needs a stylish and thin design, and even the personality of one of the devices that can be displayed to users. In addition to meeting usage scenarios such as business office, image processing, and short video content creation, etc. The product that came to our review room today is a high-performance thin and light notebook, which is both internal and external, and has more connotation. It comes from Dell’s new Yue Ling 14 Plus.

Dell's Inspiron series products have a long history. Last year, the entire product line was fully upgraded, and product strength has made great progress. Especially the Inspiron Plus series products have many eye-catching upgrades in design, performance, and intelligence. Today, let us take a look at how this 14-inch "small steel gun" can help users work efficiently and live happily.

High-end fashion body 2.2K high score full screen excellent visual Plus

Let us take a look at the design first. Dell Yueling 14 Plus adopts a new design language, and the streamlined metal body is very attractive. Under the multi-layer spraying process, the surface of the car body has a slight frosty feel, and it feels delicate and smooth without losing texture.

Yue 14 Plus is available in two colors: Deep Sea Inkstone and Galaxy Star Trail. The Milky Way star trail is a classic atmosphere, and the deep sea inkstone is a special green color, which can show a bit of dark blue under different angles of light, which is quite high-end.

Dell Yueling 14 Plus adopts a full-screen design with four narrow borders. Thanks to this, the body size of Dell Yueling 14 Plus is only 314*227.5mm, but the thinnest part of the body is only 16.15mm, and the body weight is 1.68kg

The top frame of the screen is equipped with Full HD FHD camera, and designed with physical anti-peeping paddles that can be completely closed when not in use every day. You no longer have to worry about being remotely controlled by hackers, and can better protect user privacy.

In terms of screen quality, this 14-inch IPS display equipped with Dell Yueling 14 Plus has a resolution of 2.2K and a delicate display effect. Compared with 16:9 monitors, 16:10 monitors have a larger display area and can display more vertical content when displaying documents and tables. In addition, this screen is also equipped with triple eye protection technology: Rheinland-certified hardware-level anti-blue light, color filter and anti-glare, plus DC dimming technology, which can reduce eye fatigue even if users use it for a long time. Protect eyesight.

In terms of color gamut, Dell Yueling 14 Plus achieved 98% of sRGB color gamut and 75% of P3 color gamut coverage in the professional instrument test we used. In terms of color accuracy, the maximum color difference is 3.94, the average color difference E is only 0.89, and the color reproduction is relatively accurate. In addition, with the support of a 1 billion color display, the display of pictures, videos and other materials is more vivid, and I believe that demanding photography enthusiasts can also be satisfied.

The Dell Inspiron 14 Plus uses a full-size backlit keyboard and supports splash resistance. In addition, it also supports three levels of backlight, allowing worry-free input even when used at night or in dark environments. The large seamless touchpad is also very smooth, supports Windows gestures, and can be easily controlled without a mouse.

The tilt axis design adopted by this machine is also quite distinctive. When the screen is turned on, the body will naturally lift slightly by 2~3. The keyboard on the C side of the machine forms an ergonomic slope, making typing more comfortable. At the same time, a gap is formed between the D side of the machine and the desktop, which is more conducive to machine heat dissipation.

In terms of interface expansion, Dell Yueling 14 Plus is equipped with a full-featured USB Type-C interface that supports Thunderbolt 4, a standard-size HDMI 2.0 interface, two USB Type-A 3.2 Gen1 interfaces, SD reading The card adapter and 3.5mm audio interface can fully meet daily use.

It is worth mentioning that the body of Yue Ling 14 Plus also uses water-based paint, which is environmenta

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In terms of hardware configuration, Dell Inspiron 14 Plus uses the new Intel 12th generation Core H series standard voltage processor, which is based on Intel 7 process and high-performance hybrid architecture. The standard TDP is 45 watts, and there are two models: i5-12500H and i7-12700H.

The Core i7-12700H of the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus tested this time is equipped with 6 performance cores and 8 energy-saving cores, with a total of 14 cores and 20 threads. The L3 cache is up to 24MB, and the maximum turbo frequency is up to 4.7GHz. Its specifications are comparable to Intel's previous generation of high-end desktop processors.

In the CINEBENCH R20 test, the multi-core score of i7-12700H was as high as 5418pts, and the single-core score was 679pts. Compared with the 11th generation Core low-voltage i7-1165G7, multi-core performance is improved by 143%! Even compared with the i7-11390H in the 11th generation Core H35 standard, the multi-core performance is still double-leading, and the performance level is amazing.

In terms of graphics card, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card equipped on this machine adopts 8nm process, has 4GB GDDR6 memory, bit width 128bit, the number of stream processors reaches 2048, and the GPU Boost frequency can reach 1057MHz. Compared with some commonly used graphics cards, such as MX450 and MX550, its performance has been significantly improved. Of course, if you have higher requirements, Yue Ling 14 Plus also has an RTX3050Ti version to choose from.

Dell Inspiron 14 Plus also comes standard with NVIDIA Studio drivers, which can accelerate a variety of applications including PS, PR, AE, MAYA, etc. Get the most out of your creative apps. In the test of SPECviewperf 13, the scores of 3dsmax-06, catia-05, creo-02 and maya-05 were 119.02, 67.37, 93.11 and 147.13 respectively. This result fully proves the performance level of Yue Ling 14 Plus. Even in terms of memory, Yue Ling 14 Plus is equipped with 16 GB LPDDR5 memory with a main frequency of up to 4800MHz. In the AIDA64 CacheMemory benchmark test, the memory read, write and copy speeds were 58,185 MB/s, 56,184 MB/s and 52,310 MB/s respectively, which is faster than the DDR4 memory used in ordinary thin and light notebooks. When running large programs and switching between multiple tasks, the response speed of the entire machine can be further improved and the fluency increased.

For hard drives, Dell Inspiron 14 Plus can choose PCIe solid-state drives up to 2TB. The model tested in this article uses Chixia’s 512GB PCIe 3.0 SSD. In the CrystalDiskMark benchmark test, the sequential read speed was 3320.46 MB/s, the sequential write speed was 2641.63 MB/s, the 4K random read reached 64.45 MB/s, and the write speed was 164.33 MB/s. The overall performance was not bad. Not bad, but it's a shame not to use the faster PCIe 4.0 SSD.

In the PCMark10 performance test, the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus scored 6506, with a score of 9960 for basic functions, 8825 for productivity, and 8502 for digital content creation. This performance level is much higher than ordinary thin and light notebooks, and is already on par with professional-grade creative notebooks.

In the cross-platform CrossMark test, Dell Yueling 14 Plus scored as high as 1723, performing well in the productivity, creativity and responsiveness tests, especially the creativity score as high as 1903, fully demonstrating The strength of high-power and light notebook.

Next, we also tested a video editing workload using Premiere. We used Dell Yueling 14 Plus to edit an 8-minute video with a total material capacity of 23GB. Multiple layers of effects and subtitles are superimposed on the video. The video export settings are H.264 encoding, 1920*1080 resolution, frame rate 50FPS, bit rate 10Mbps, and hardware acceleration. The measured output time is only 3 minutes and 26 seconds.

Finally, we used Dell Yueling 14 Plus to simply test game performance. Don I don’t think so. This is a thin notebook that you can't play games on. In fact, the performance of this notebook is no worse than previous gaming notebooks. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised after reading the test results. We tried two representative games, one is the popular 3A masterpiece "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", and the other is the popular online game "League of Legends".

First, in the game "Shadow of the Tomb Raider", we set the image quality to high. Under the default resolution of 2240*1400, the average frame rate of the built-in performance test is 51 frames. If the resolution is set to 1920*1200, the average frame rate can reach 64 frames, and the game process is still very smooth.

In "League of Legends", the performance of Dell Yueling 14 Plus is easier. Under 1920*1200 resolution and extremely high image quality settings, the average game frame rate can reach 133FPS, and the game is as smooth as silk, just like a game laptop. You can play with confidence. Therefore, as a high-performance thin and light notebook, Dell Inspiron 14 Plus has no problem satisfying daily gaming and entertainment.

Judging from the above tests and application experience, the performance of Dell Yueling 14 Plus can be said to be very powerful. This is naturally inseparable from an efficient cooling system.

This machine uses a "hurricane eye" cooling system consisting of dual fans, 3 heat pipes and 122 fan blades, which has higher thermal conductivity and is cool and quiet.

Therefore, it ensures that Dell Yueling 14 Plus can run at high energy. In the My Dell application pre-installed on the system or through the Fn T shortcut key, you can turn on the fast mode and change to "Super Saiyan" seconds to fully unleash the power of the entire machine.

In the AIDA 64 fur mark 15-minute full load test, the average CPU output power consumption was 23 watts, and the temperature was only 78, but the frequency was significantly reduced. The GPU power consumption is about 48 watts, the average temperature is 78, and the heat dissipation capacity of the whole machine reaches 70 watts. The temperature control performance and performance release are still worthy of recognition.

In terms of battery life, Dell Inspiron 14 Plus has a built-in 64Wh battery. In the PCMark10 modern office endurance test, the final score was 8h21min, which is also a very good performance. Business trips and short trips can meet mobile office needs without carrying a bulky charger.

In terms of charging, the Dell Inspiron 14 Plus comes standard with a 130-watt two-level charger. The charging curve shows that it can charge 30% in 30 minutes, 54% in 60 minutes, 79% in 90 minutes, and it takes 132 minutes to fully charge. The charging speed is quite average.

Ultra-intelligent AI empowers notebook computer temperature control black technology intimate experience Plus

At present, smart PCs have become one of the important development directions of the notebook industry. Some artificial intelligence-based functions make computers more intelligent and even proactively serve users. Taking Dell Yueling 14 Plus as an example, it adds many AI intelligent optimization features that can improve our experience.

First of all, the video resolution of the front camera used by Yue Ling 14 Plus can reach FHD level. Compared with ordinary 720p cameras, the picture quality is better and the details are clearer. The built-in AI smart assistant can also optimize the video experience.

At the same time, the machine has a built-in Waves Maxx Audio audio solution, which can reduce background noise and provide high-quality recording and live broadcast effects even in noisy environments. It can be used in online meetings, distance learning and other scenarios. Bring a better experience.

In addition, Yue Ling 14 Plus also adds a smart byte function, which can intelligently analyze the quality of nearby wireless networks and select the best access point. In automatic mode, it can intelligently identify the priority of video traffic and optimize the network for video, web pages, downloads and other scenarios to avoid lags.

As a "laptop" computer, it is inevitable to be used on the move. Dell Yueling 14 Plus also has a black technology: intelligent temperature control. The built-in gyroscope can identify whether your laptop is working in an unstable state. For example, when worn on the leg, the system will automatically optimize the performance release, and the temperature of the air outlet will not make the user feel hot, but very sweet.

These functions have brought us a more convenient, smart and considerate experience. Smart PCs are within reach, and this experience will inevitably become popular in the next PC era.

As a high-performance thin and light laptop, especially in the compact size of 14 inches, Dell Yueling 14 Plus achieves a balance between thinness, portability and high energy output. The second generation Core H series processor brings powerful energy efficiency, the excellent high-resolution full screen brings excellent visual perception, and has long-lasting battery life. It is very suitable for high-energy workplaces that have dual requirements for performance and portability. Users, even those with higher requirements such as content creators and fashion designers can be satisfied.

By the way, Dell also provides the Inspiron 16 Plus for users with higher performance requirements, which can be equipped with up to a 12th generation Core i7 processor and RTX3060 graphics card, with a larger display and stronger performance. Yue Ling's new products have been launched.

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