Dell Inspiron 15 3580 vs Lenovo Ideapad 15 330 Laptop: Detailed Comparison

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This is the comparison of Dell Inspiron 3000 (3580) and the Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptops. Both have a 15.6-inch display and are comes under budget. Here, you will get a clear idea about these laptops.

BUY NOW	BUY NOW
Dell Inspiron 15 3580	Lenovo Ideapad 15 330
PROS	PROS
Starting price very low. Good battery life. It supports M.2 PCIe NVMe/SATA SSDs. Hard body.	Premium look and design. Keyboard and toupad are comfortable to use. strong performance in productivity.
CONS	CONS
Overall build is plastic. Only covers 50% sRGB. Contrast ration and view angle are not so good. Easily gets a little bit warm.	Poor battery life.

SPECIFICATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

The Dell Inspiron 15″ 3580 is one of the budget laptops that offers some great features. The design, features like the performance of a processor, the battery is amazing in this laptop for this price range.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

This is an entry-level laptop from Lenovo. It’s simple enough, this is a basic laptop for people who have some basic needs on the laptop.

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

The design of this laptop is good enough for the price. There are lots of color options available for this model. If you purchase on any other color other than black, even the rubber pads have also come in red color which is quite a nice touch and looks so good. Full body of the Inspiron comes in plastic or something like polycarbonate material. Even though it is made up of plastic though, the build quality is quite good. 

The design of the Dell Inspiron 3580 looks a little bit old with huge bezels. But even though it looks outdated, the finish and construction are quite nice for the price it retails. The weight of this one is around 4.85 pounds and it’s not the slimmest laptop in the world but it is good enough in this matter.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

On the top, we have a very well interesting finish given its price point. We don’t have anything as you would expect, on the back nothing except the hinge. It only weighs about 2.2 kilograms, so it’s not that difficult to carry it around.

DISPLAY QUALITY:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

It has a full HD multi-finished display. The display’s light, brightness, aspect ratio, and everything good. Even everything is good enough for the price, the color option of display rated around 50% in sRGB. Also, it has anti-glare technology in the display that will stop the glare, so it will be a great feature for the people who want to use this one even on the outside.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

The display has the camera on the middle top along with the microphones. Unfortunately, we have a 768p display as a standard model but you can also choose a more good one that this on this particular model. Even the maximum brightness doesn’t look bright on this laptop. Also, the panel is not the best around. The colors are all over the place the panel is available 768p and 1080p contrasts, and the 768p is really bad, and the brightness is not the best around. The 768p is definitely not for the people who do a lot of gaming or video editing or image editing or anything like that because the colors are all mixed up. If you buy it in a 768p, then the panel will be a major disappointment with low contrast and narrow color coverage.

FEATURES:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

It’s a Dell Inspiron 3580 with a 15.6 inch full HD display available on different processor options. Usually, it comes with eight gigabytes of RAM and one terabyte of HDD but you can also get 128 gigabytes of NVMe SSD. For storage, you can save your photos, videos, documents, and whatever else you want. It’s equipped with Intel UHD Graphs 610 which allows gaming in quite a good way. We have DVD Drive, USB, SD card reader, and on another side, it has HDMI, a regular pop-up network, and two more USBs, and phone’s headphones jack, and the power.

It comes with a big touchpad and a nice full-size keyboard. Also, you will find a nice 65-watt adapter for charging in the box. In this box, you will find nothing other than the laptop and an adapter.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

The charger which comes with the laptop looks very similar to a mobile phone charger. The charger comes with it is about 45 watts which is quite disappointing. 

On the right side, we have the optical drive, this is one of the few laptops they still have an optical drive, and on the left, we do have the charging port, Ethernet port, HDMI, two USB ports, 3.5-millimeter jack, USB type-c which is really nice with USB 3.0, SD card reader but unfortunately, it doesn’t have a spring style, Lenovo reset button, and the LED for power. Through this maintenance cover on the back, you can very easily well take a look at the insides but you can’t really replace much.

The keyboard is not as bad as it seems. I think it’s a bit improved compared to the previous model 320. The touchpad is simple enough. The hinges does its job, it’s not the sturdiest I’ve seen and it’s not the best I’ve seen but still, for less than $500, you cannot really expect that much.

At this price point, it’s one of the few laptops that offers an optical drive and USB 3.0 in the form of USB type-c. Still, there’s quite a long list of disappointments if you’re really looking for something like the daily driver which can do many things at once.

CPU OPTIONS:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

In the CPU options, you will see different variants of CPU available in this model which simply means a “processor”. There are two options in the processor of Dell Inspiron 3580: the first one is Intel Celeron Processor 4205U and the other one is Intel Pentium Processor 5405U and this one is a little bit costly than the first one, with a 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive and 1 TB 5400 RPM 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drive storage options. 

Choose the best processor as per your usage, if you want to the laptop heavily then you have to choose the higher variant in this model with a higher storage option.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

This particular laptop has Intel Core i3 and i5 CPU with the integrated Intel HD, Intel UHD, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics, one terabyte hard drive, and 6 or 8 gigabytes of RAM. Here, the intel core CPU processor is available in two options with a frequency of 2.3 up to 4.0 turbo speed.

GPU OPTIONS:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

Graphics affects your gaming and video purposes, so it will be your choice that which one will be good for you. In this model, you don’t have any options in the Graphics card. There are no other options of graphics in the variants of this model. The only option you have in the Dell Inspiron 3580 is the Intel UHD Graphics 610 which allows some gaming but maybe hard gaming will perform with some lag.

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

We have quite a decent integrated graphics card which has different options, the Intel HD 620, Intel UHD 620, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics. It took quite a long time to boot up, so it took its time probably around 30 seconds or even more to boot up. it will perform well for light or casual gaming.

BATTERY:

Dell Inspiron 15 3580

The Dell Inspiron 3580 has a lithium 3-cell battery inside it. the capacity of this battery is 42 Wh. The run-up time of full charge is around 7 hours with web surfing. We can say, it has average battery life. 

Lenovo Ideapad 15 330

Battery life is not the best. It gives around 4 hours if you connect it with your Wi-Fi network. If you would switch to a more battery efficient profile, you might increase the time of battery life. You also get this conservation mode which only charges the battery to 55 to 60 percent of the capacity and it maximizes the battery lifespan. So, basically, you can have this laptop plugged in the whole day and the battery will remain at a constant capacity of around 60 percent. It also has a rapid charge and some other settings.

WHICH TO BUY?

Dell Inspiron doesn’t have so many disadvantages comparing it to the price. It will be better for office works, multimedia purposes with some light gaming. Lenovo Ideapad 15 330 is quite a decent laptop for the basic stuff, so for movie watching maybe, for some light gaming, office works. It’s a sort of a multimedia machine. It has low specs variants comparatively.

In my opinion, I think Dell Inspiron will be good to buy in this price range and if you buy 1080p in Lenovo, then Lenovo will be better for gaming and entertainment things.

Expert reviews of Dell Inspiron 15 3580:

By Laptopmedia
Inspiron 15 3580 is still the typical low-cost multimedia laptop. It may not have some of the good looks of Lenovo Ideapad 330s for example, neither does…

By Dealectronic
Dell’s Inspiron 15 3000 series has been getting a lot of positive reviews lately – especially models such as this one, as it makes mobile computing easy. It’s available with a 15.6-inch TrueLife…

Expert reviews of Lenovo Ideapad 330:

By Laptopmag
The Lenovo IdeaPad 330 is an affordable 15-inch laptop with a good keyboard and sturdy chassis, but poor performance and short battery life hold it…

By Gadgetspeak
Both speedy at boot-up and shut-down processes, the Lenovo Ideapad 330 fulfilled all the tasks I asked of it. While you would not want to use it for video editing or hard-core gaming, it can cope with other tasks and offers plenty of storage for your documents, photos, videos and casual game collection.

By Notebookcheck
We cannot recommend the Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15IKB. It falls so far short of expectations in so many areas that we would urge you to look elsewhere if you need a budget 15.6-inch business laptop.

By Digit
The Lenovo IdeaPad 330 is ideal for somebody who uses the computer very infrequently or for very few lightweight activities like checking email and playing a video on YouTube.

By Windowscentral
Best Buy has these on sale regularly. It costs $530 right now, but I picked it up for $439 a week ago. Even adding $100 for an SSD, either of those prices is a bargain for a laptop with the i5-8250U and 8GB of RAM. If you don’t mind the effort it takes to install the SSD, and you can find a way to manage the battery life, it’s hard not to like this laptop despite its faults.

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