DELL 14z (i14z-1424BK)

What Dell have delivered with the 14z is an Ultrabook for the mainstream. Those on the tightest budget can get into the ‘Ultrabook’ market for just $799. I say ‘Ultrabook’ because with an optical drive and a spinning disk this model varies...

Nice and sleek looking. Good hardware for the price. Mine actually came with 8gb and an ATi dedicated card. It was either a mistake in spec listing or I just got lucky ; The 32gb mSATA ssd is a nice piece. I installed Linux Mint 15 on it. Runs great ;...

The ATI card is power hungry and gets hot. Its worse under Linux because of bad drivers. If you are using Linux like me, turn off the dedicated card. It'll cut your battery life in a matter of minutes and overheat ; Wifi is a little iffy in Linux but...

Beautiful design for an entry-level laptop ; Newegg has great customer service, they send a replacement right away for my issue

IRST Caching using the mSata SSD is not configured by default. I have to setup it, and it's not easy for non-technical customers ; Hard drive rotating noise (or similar) can be heard from 3ft. I actually got the same issue with my Dell Inspiron 620...

It's very lightweight, fast as advertised, easy to set up. Love the look and feel overall

Less than 24 hours of ownership, the hard drive fried. Needless to say, I was unimpressed. Dell would not pay to have a new hard drive overnighted, so, I have to wait 2-3 days. But hey ! They're going to call me to see if I received it ; WHAT

Aluminum cover is nice very clean look ; very good value you really get a lot for your money ; comes with adobe photo shop preinstalled elements 9 ; clean interface great keyboard very comfortable

dell bloatware some of it is use full like the snip it app but mostly annoying easy to remove though ; finger prints get on the cover easily and are hard to get off might not go well if your ocd ; integrated graphics not optimal for gaming but to be...