That's because the G5 15 is rather bulky and heavy, measuring 1 inch thick, and weighing 5.6 pounds.

Still, I felt more embarrassed than I normally do when I used the G5 15 on the small table of a local Brooklyn coffee shop. While not quite as narrow as those on the XPS laptops, these thin display borders keep the G5 15 relatively compact. Dell made another major improvement in trimming down the display bezels. Part of me wishes Dell had kept a consistent color scheme, while another part of me appreciates the cold, black aluminum deck, which feels more premium than what I'm used to in this price range. That clean white finish is sadly absent on the inside of the laptop. MORE: Best and Worst Laptop Gaming Brands Sure, it looks cool next to the white bottom panel, but I can't think of any good reason to look at the underside of a laptop. Unique to the special edition version of the G5 15 is a glass window on the bottom that reveals blue heat pipes and fan blades. Also on the lid is a silver hinge with an embossed G5 logo.Īngled rear vents reveal stylish blue trim on the inside of this rig, while a stack of ridges wrapping around the chassis gives the G5 15 an aggressive stance when it's closed. Matching the blue keyboard font and touchpad trim, a centered Dell logo on the lid shifts from indigo to chartreuse depending on how the light hits (the effect is pretty trippy). Our unit's white lid looks clean and gives the laptop a certain allure that's missing in the overcrowded group of black-and-red laptops. The special edition we reviewed has the same Arctic White plastic lid we praised on the last-gen G7 15 (sadly, the 2019 version has a black-and-red color scheme), while the nonspecial edition has a Deep Space Black finish. Not a fan of the Alpine White? Dell also offers similar configurations of the Deep Black nonspecial-edition G5 15 for less money.ĭell dialed back the 'gamer' aesthetic of the previous model and gave the G5 15 a sleeker, more modern appearance. The $1,519 high-end model ditches the 144-Hz display but comes with a Core i7-9750H CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and RTX 2060 graphics. You also get a 15.6-inch display with a 144-Hz refresh rate, up from the 60 Hz in the lower-tier models.

That model packs a Core i7-9750H CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD + 1TB SATA HDD, and a GTX 1660 GPU.

The $1,369 version is a big jump in both price and performance.

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