Dell Inspiron 1520 review

A 2007 Machine With Honest Frame Rates: 5 and 2

The Dell Inspiron 1520 pairs a Core 2 Duo T5450 with a GeForce 8400M GS and 4 GB of memory — hardware old enough that its measured frame rates are single digits. No listing price is recorded. The Witcher 3 and Counter-Strike 2 both fail their bars at minimum settings, and those failures are the most honest sentences in this record.

Where it holds up

Battery capacity is the flagged strength: 56 Wh against a class median of 48, above-median. The graphics reading of 0.24 behaves as unmeasured rather than as a real score, yet the gaming axis still reads 25 — the scale's placement for era hardware. Portability posts 21.7. The record at least carries real measured gameplay data, which is more than most of its empty-record neighbors can say.

Where it falls short

Graphics is the flagged weakness — 0.24 against a class median of 27.24, a near-nil reading that functions as unmeasured. Performance reads 0.53 against a median of 43.05, office 1.1, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo design 13, all low band. The measured games confirm the floor: The Witcher 3 and Counter-Strike 2, both failing at minimum settings. The Grand Theft Auto V entry fails its bar as well. Memory at 4 GB is 87.5% below the class median of 32.

Price and depreciation

No listing price is recorded and no depreciation curve is modeled for this entry.

Alternatives to consider

The Inspiron 1521 in this batch is the same chassis without the graphics record. The Inspiron 1720 adds a larger body with an 8600M GS entry and the same single-digit frame rates.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class. The frame rates say everything: 5 and 2 fps at minimum settings is a complete review in eight characters.