Dell Inspiron 11 3000: A 2-in-1 For The Masses

Name: Dell Inspiron 11 3000: A 2-in-1 For The Masses
Brand: Dell

by Joshua Gulick — Monday, September 22, 2014, 10:43 AM EDT

There are some laptops these days that can get through the day on a single charge, and many more that will give you several good hours of work before needing juice. We run two tests to give you a sense of how long the system will last under light and heavy use. The Web browsing test is a light-use scenario in which it refreshes a webpage over a WiFi connection until the battery is exhausted. Battery Eater Pro gives the laptop a heavier workload to simulate the kind of stress you might put on it during an average workday.

Battery Eater Pro and Web Browsing Tests

Battery Life Testing

The Dell Inspiron 11 3000 handled itself well in the Web browsing test, refreshing the webpage for nearly eight hours before giving up. Given that the convertible is better suited to light use anyway, that’s not a bad score. And in Battery Eater Pro, the system took top honors, even edging out Dell’s XPS 13. That’s good news for anyone facing long meetings or lectures.

Tags: Intel, Dell, laptop, IPS, Windows 8.1

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.