DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in price in Canada starts from CA$2,638.00. This 11th gen Intel Core i7 powered by Hybrid (2-in-1) laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in Canada due to its 68 Wh battery with very decent battery life and 16 GB DDR4-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of CA$2,638.00
Design and Built quality
From top view, the laptop is 379.8 mm of width and 266.4 mm height and total thickness of 1.93 cm. being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 2.43 kg
Display
DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in has a very large screen of 17 inch display which would be perfect for any professional who needs a big screen and doesn't want to use an external display at all the times. graphic designers and gamers love this screen size. Having a 17 inch Quad HD+ display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution means more screen space to do more things. which makes this one of the best screens for productivity and artistic work.
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Performance
Processor :
With the powerful 4.7GHz 11th gen Intel Core i7 i7-1165G7 processor, this DELL laptop is a power house for all the applications or games that are available in Canada. Using DELL utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 4.7GHz.
Having 4 cores with 12MB cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
16 GB memory is fairly enough for day to day activities. and for most of the apps. this should be more than enough to get done your business work. DDR4-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR3 or other RAM types. 3200 MHz is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This DELL laptop has 2x SO-DIMM RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to 16 GB.
Graphics :
This laptop comes with a dedicated 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce MX350 graphics chip with extreme cooling system. You can use this laptop for Gaming and All the Graphics oriented work just like on desktop PC.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 512 GB SSD. This is also compatible with M.2 NVMe, PCI Express storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Bluetooth version 5.1 connectivity. WI-FI 6 means you can transfer data around 10Gbps which is 3 X times faster than the older version which only could up to 3.5Gbps. Wi-Fi 6 also uses Target Wake Time (TWT), which allows devices to determine when they will normally wake up to begin sending and receiving data. This extends the battery usage of DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 2 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This DELL laptop comes with 1 USB Type-C Ports which is perfect to be used for high speed data transfer devices. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It has an HDMI port for video output so you can easily connect your monitor or a projector. Laptop is charged using DC-in jack port.
Camera :
Built-in camera in this laptop is a 0.92 MP HD with 1280 x 720 pixels image resolution. Which would be decent enough for your video calls.
Battery :
68 Wh is decent battery capacity so you will be able to use the laptop 3 to 6 hours on battery power. DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in has a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery which weights around 340 g. This is bit heavy battery considering the 68 Wh battery capacity. DELL has prioritized on overall performance of the battery rather than form factor. Battery is charged with 90 W power adepter using DC-in jack port. It takes around 4 h to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in in Canada is CA$2,638.00 from newegg.ca, Ontario , which is CA$46.00 (2%) less than the highest price listed here for DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in, price from pc-canada.com, Toronto which is at (CA$2,684.00) .. You can find DELL Inspiron 7706 i7 17in for the above stated price range in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Hamilton, Brampton, Winnipeg in Canada
