Brilliant, good value laptop! I want one too!
5/5
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I decided to get this laptop for my daughter's studies at college. Having owned and used only Dell laptops, in the past, (i7 8th Gen currently), I was a little nervous as to how this would compare. I must say I'm very very impressed, to the point I'm seriously considering getting myself a D14 too now!
It's fantastic ... it's light, pretty solid, very quick with no slow down on loading multiple tabs and applications. The split partition I was aware of before buying, a bit unusual, but not a big deal. This may confuse some non-PC literate people, like my daughter. :-P ... To manage that easily, in Windows, under storage settings, I just set it to use the D drive as the default location for storing pics, music, applications etc. And that is working well, not having to keep telling her to remember to save and install things to the D drive.
My daughter loves the little pop-up camera, some people don't like the position, but it does the job without complaints from her. I tested it, good crisp quality, and I also would be fine with its positioning if it were mine.
I set the laptop up that we both have a profile, and here is my favourite, yet a small feature of this laptop. That built-in fingerprint reader! How I've lived without something like that on a PC/laptop for so long is a surprise!
Love it! And for example, if she needs help or something installed or shared from my Steam account, Win+L to lock screen on her profile, I touch my finger to the reader, it quickly unlocks and loads into my profile, do what I need to on Steam, then lock or sign my profile out. Then she's back in on her profile in seconds with the touch of her finger. No need for passing laptop to each other and having to put passwords in awkwardly. It's such a breeze, and a lot quicker. Love the feature so much, I've since bought a USB finger reader to use with one of my existing machines, and while that does work, it is not as near as accurate and responsive as the fingerprint reader on this D14. Security-wise, it may even be safer against key loggers too.
Overall, I'm very happy with the purchase, the build quality, speed, screen are all on point. Trackpad, a little bigger and off centred, more to the right of what I'm used to, and that is my slight niggle on it. I kept touching it with part of my hand while trying to move about, making it unresponsive at times. My daughter being left-handed doesn't seem to suffer with this all too much, or hasn't complained about it at least.
So, would I recommend it? If you managed to read all the above, then you should know by now, that 10/10 I would! :-)
