Reviews for new Dell Inspiron 4k

No SSD? For $1100 and what you're using it for? Waste.

If you are dead set on it, then spend another $70 and at least get a small SSD to go with the 1TB slow drive.

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I'm no sure i know what SSD is? If you have any suggestions I'm open to hear it based on what I said I will be using it for.

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Traditional hard drives use spinning disks and mechanical actuator arms with read/write heads to access your data. Solid State Drives (SSDs) are a more efficient and significantly faster storage medium. Everything you store on a SSD will be accessed faster. Windows will boot faster, sleep faster, resume faster, and programs will launch faster, files will save and load faster, etc. SSDs make you feel like you're actually using a computer that should exist in this decade.

The cost is prohibitive, so you mostly find them in expensive laptops and ultrabooks, and they're almost always, and unfortunately, kept low on the priority list for PC makers. But SSDs have come down in price over the years, and currently sitting around 33-40 cents per gigabyte. Very affordable if you don't actually need all that hard drive space and could instead archive things on an external. For most users, they'll get a better experience from buying a $350 laptop and a separate SSD purchase than they would with a $2000 laptop with a traditional HDD. In your case, you may take advantage of higher end hardware when editing video. It's certainly a good looking machine, and it's actually only $999 at Best Buy: LINK

It's a shame that it doesn't have an SSD. But if you do end up getting it and a separate SSD, keep in mind that in this model, you can have one or the other. You'd have to sacrifice storage space and use an external drive instead. You'll need to spend $14 on a 2.5" hard drive enclosure LINK , and I'll update and repost my instructions for cloning a hard drive if you decide to go this route.

I ordered one for a client and it should be in this week. I'll let you know what I think once I have it.

Samsung 850 EVO, Crucial BX100, Crucial MX100 or MX200, OCZ ARC 100, or Sandisk Ultra Plus are all decent budget options at the moment. For premium drives, Samsung 850 Pro and Sandisk Extreme Pro.

Well, I was going to say that the 4K resolution would be a bit of a waste for what you're doing, because unless you get less than a foot away from the screen, you won't be able to see the difference between 4k and 1080p. However, I don't exactly see any other equivalently spec'd 1080p models for a whole lot less unless you want bigger and heavier.

There's a dell with a 4th gen i5 for $800 LINK, if getting the SSD for the 4K dell would put you over budget. You don't lose a whole lot of performance with the i5, honestly. Like 10-15% on average.

There's a nicely spec'd Toshiba model for $849 with a i7 and 12GB of RAM, but the resolution is 1366 x 768. It's a shame we still have $800 laptops on the market with 1366 x 768 screens.

I'm seeing some good prices on NewEgg for laptops with 5th gen i5s and 8GB of RAM. This Acer is one I'd been considering for myself. 5th-gen i5, 8GB Ram, 1080P display for $589. You may not need more than 8GB, and if that's the case, 12GB would be a waste as well. However, this one doesn't have a touch screen (doesn't matter to me, might matter to you), and since both RAM slots are occupied with 4GB modules, upgrading the RAM to 16GB would cost about $110. The panel on this laptop is probably your average less-than-stellar TN panel, and I'm going to assume that the Dell 4k panel is a little better quality.

So overall, I don't see anything wrong with the Dell other than the lack of SSD. The above suggestions are just money-saver options.