Dell Vostro 5370 [N122VN5370W10]

Rugged aluminium body

The body of the laptop is made of lightweight and durable aluminium alloy. The model looks strictly and discreetly, the orientation of the model towards businessmen and entrepreneurs is visible. The case is assembled solidly, because of the strong hinge it is difficult to open the laptop with one hand, but it will not allow the screen to hang freely after 3-4 years of active use. The surface of the case is matte and leaves virtually no marks.

Performant iron

At the centre of the Dell Vostro 5370 is a 13-inch Full HD TN+film screen with anti-reflective coating. And this is a rather strange decision, because laptops with a price tag of around $ 1000 have long been accustomed to IPS matrices with greater contrast, colour depth and viewing angles.

But with iron no problems. The laptop relies on the Intel Kaby Lake R hardware platform. In particular, a 14-nanometer Core i5-8250U processor with four cores is used. The nominal clock frequency is 1.6 GHz, in case of increased loads, the clock frequency automatically rises to 3.4 GHz.

Complementing the picture are 8 GB of DDR4 RAM and an SSD drive with a capacity of up to 256 GB. The amount of RAM can be increased up to 32 GB. This combination of iron provides a power reserve that is more than enough to solve household and work tasks both right now and in the very distant future.

Modern graphics card

Although the model is positioned as a solution for business, instead of the integrated graphics card familiar to ultrabooks, the Dell Vostro 5370 has a much more efficient discrete video chip Radeon 530 with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory. Its performance gives a comfortable 30-40 frames per second (FPS) on medium settings in recent hits like ES: Skyrim, Assassin's Creed Unity and Titanfall.

In principle, a 2 GB video memory reserve is enough for very fresh games, but for them the graphics settings slider will have to be lowered to a minimum, and the number of frames per second will periodically sag to 15 – 20.

business oriented

The laptop has a modern selection of connectors that are evenly distributed on the side faces of the case: HDMI, 2 USB class 3.0 ports, one USB-C port and a card reader. And the business orientation is reminiscent of a bundle of Kensington lock, fingerprint scanner and TPM cryptographic module, which allows you to increase system security through additional hard drive encryption, enhanced system software verification and improved credential protection.