Dell Vostro 3700 Hands-on Review

The Dell Vostro 3700 is a 17.3-inch desktop replacement built, as Dell claims, ‘with small business in mind’. To this end, you’ll find a mix of cutting-edge tech running along side more traditional business focussed features. Find out what the Dell Vostro 3700 has to offer as we take a first look at this solid and well built laptop in our Dell Vostro 3700 hands-on review.

The Dell Vostro 3700 has quite a boxy look about it, with sharp corners and clean lines. The silver finish to the lid has a black trim and the now familiar Dell logo in the middle. The build quality of the lid and the Dell Vostro 3700 in general feels robust in the hands, much more so than we were expecting.

Open the lid and you’ll see the 17.3-inch screen sits on large hinges built into the casing of the Dell Vostro 3700. The panel opens out over the back of the laptop, so you won’t find any ports or connectors on the rear and the battery is neatly hidden away underneath.

The keyboard on the Dell Vostro 3700 is full size and there is even space for a separate numeric keypad. The square shape keys have slight travel to them, so touch-typing is easy and we have to admit this is one of the most comfortable keyboards of this size we’ve used in a while.

The screen has a native resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels, so you’ll find movies have a letterbox effect to them. However, the Nvidia GeForce GT 330M graphics card with 1GB of its own dedicated memory, which should help deliver some pretty impressive performance, powers the screen.

Powered by an Intel Core i7-Q720 processor, you’ll find the Dell Vostro 3700 is something of a powerhouse. This CPU is a quad-core chip that comes with sufficient tech inside for it to effectively double this to act as though there are eight simultaneous processing cores.

Our test Dell Vostro 3700 came with 4GB of DDR3 memory, which is more than enough to handle most routine tasks on this laptop, but the serious high-end user will no doubt appreciate the fact the machine can support up to 8GB of system memory.

The Dell Vostro 3700 is shaping up to be something of a surprise find, coming cutting-edge features not normally associated with business machines, with an attention to detail usually only found in corporate level machines.

We’ll be thoroughly testing the Dell Vostro 3700 over the next few days but in the meantime check out our Dell Vostro 3700 hands-on review gallery below and see the build quality for yourself.
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