Dell Vostro 3460 review

Vostro 3460: the Ivy-era budget 14 with the standard floor sheet

The Vostro 3460 is Dell's early-2010s budget compact, the compact sibling of the 3550 generation, and its record is that era's standard bill: an 8 GB pool, office index of 4.8, performance of 1.6 — the same sheet as its bigger siblings with mid-band portability as its one respectable row.

Where it holds up

No axis clears the low band decisively enough to be claimed as a strength. Portability reads 46.4, mid-band — the compact body's honest advantage over the 3550 (25) and 3540-tier machines in this batch — and the 8 GB row is the limit configuration of the tier, the mark of a unit upgraded to its ceiling. Within the 8 GB Vostro group here, the 3460 sits mid-pack: behind the 3300's 62.2 and 3360's 69.1, ahead of the big-body entries.

Where it falls short

Graphics is the flagged weakness at zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero. Overall performance reads 1.6 with the office index at 4.8; every task axis sits on the low-band floor constants (gaming 19, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo work 13), and the composite score of 4 against a business-class median of 49 is the tier's floor verdict. The compact footprint buys carry comfort, not capability — the compute sheet is indistinguishable from the big-body siblings.

Practically: legacy light duty; the record supports nothing more.

Price and depreciation

No listing price is recorded for this configuration and no depreciation curve is modeled — there is no resale math to quote and no dollar projection to weigh.

Alternatives to consider

The Vostro 3300 and 3360 in this batch are the slimline expressions of the same tier at portability 62.2 and 69.1 — the 3360 even earns a mobility receipt. The Vostro 3550 is the bigger sibling at portability 25. For the priced redirect with receipts, the HP 240 G6 ($289, green minimum flags, 16 GB) remains the tier-changing answer in this batch.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class, the Vostro 3460 is the era-standard compact: mid-band portability in a compact budget body, a limit-configured 8 GB pool, and the tier's floor compute sheet — a footprint choice inside a tier the data has already closed.