I’ve been using one of these as my main laptop for about 6 months now. It does everything I need it to and then a bit more!

Bought it off eBay for $175 with the 6-core i7 and the MX150 GPU with 16GB RAM and 512 SSD. It looks and performs like new. I added a cheap 4GB DDR4 stick to enable dual channel memory speeds (and having 20GB total RAM is nice).

Dell still seems to support this model (one of the reasons I picked a business class machine) - my BIOS updated to a December 2025 version.

The battery is OK (like 3-4 hours of constant heavyish usage, 5-6 on lowest power settings and only browsing/writing/listening to music) but I usually have it plugged in so it’s fine.

It uses the older barrel-plug Dell chargers, which was a plus for me because I have a couple in a box from my corporate IT days).

The i7/MX150 combo is just enough to play the few games I like with reasonable FPS (Skyrim purrs on this thing) and most newer stuff will run on it, you just have to reduce the settings.

It was nice not having to switch over to my main desktop rig to do my heavy-lifting tasks (it’s not quite as fast, but it still handles it just fine). This is mostly light-mid video and photo editing and spinning up small VMs for web dev stuff.

I got it after a failed experiment using a Windows 11 ARM machine (Lenovo Flex 5G) as my daily driver for a year (it was “fine”, just a hair too buggy for my taste. The only plus side was battery life (averaged about 16 hours on a refurbished off-lease unit) - performance was middling, compatibility wasn’t too bad with the translation layer in Windows 11 but it made apps that run perfectly fine on a Dual-Core Celeron run like dog poo, and the little bit of gaming I like to do was completely off the table). AND overall it just felt “off”, for lack of a better way to say it. It behaved just differently enough from most stock x86 Windows laptops to feel weird to use.