Dell Inspiron 3030 Small Desktop – Intel Core i5-14400 Processor, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel UHD 730 Graphics, Windows 11 Home, Onsite & Migrate Service – Mist Blue

Easy to set up, easy to add components. Leave RAID setting alone.
This is my second Dell Inspiron. My first has an i7-7700 processor which is not supported by Windows 11. Plus, I’ve had it for 7 years, so it was getting long in the tooth anyway. I upgraded to this Inspiron 3030 with an i7-14700 processor and Win 11 Pro. I intentionally decided to go with the single, 1TB SSD because I wanted to move the 250 GB SSD and 1TB HD from my older machine to this newer one. The Inspiron started well and, after the normal Dell/Windows initialization routine, it ran properly; no muss, no fuss. I then began to move components over from my old Inspiron to this new one.Before I started, I read the user’s manual to familiarize myself with the contents of the case. Opening the case is actually quite simple; two thumbscrews and you’re in. (No screwdriver required.) Adding a 7-port USB 3.0 PCIe card was as simple as pulling on a tab, inserting the card, and closing the tab. (Again, no screws involved.) As for adding my older hard drives, inside the 3030’s case is a power harness for three additional SATA drives/cards, and a spare SATA data cable. Moving my 250GB SSD and 1TB HD (both AHCI) from my old machine to the new machine was easy; just unscrew the drive caddy from the old machine and screw it onto the case of the new machine, plug in the power cables and the SATA cables, close the case, and reboot. Bingo! The drives were present and accounted for. (The old drives needed different drive letters assigned (per my desires), and the old SSD (which was the old OS disk with Win 10 Home installed) had to be reconfigured and reformatted to a Data disk, but that was easily done via Disk Management.)Now, many people have said that you have to change the Inspiron 3030’s BIOS setting from the default “RAID” to “AHCI” when installing AHCI drives. However, this is not the case; at least for this particular model. After much review and research (read the owners manual!), I realized that there was no need to change the new Dell’s BIOS storage setting to “AHCI” from the default “RAID” setting. (The Inspiron 3030’s “RAID” setting actually does NOT have a true RAID function and thus does not have to reformat the drives when an additional drive is added.) In the event, I just plugged in the new drives, rebooted, and they were recognized without any problem. Of course, I had backed up everything and had a Recovery Disk handy if anything went sideways.So, long story short, I am satisfied with this machine (I’m writing this review using it). It is already much faster than my old machine, which saves me lots of time when processing and moving large files. Good product, good price. 5 stars.

So far, so good
Just day three with this new box, but setup is a breeze. I appreciate the smaller footprint, the nicer and more convenient connections: plug and play. Bluetooth and printer setups were the only snags and like so much tech support these days Dell insists you read the help forums and interact with a largely clueless AI before getting a real person. Both problems cleared up when I disconnected and reconnected. I really see the speed upgrade from my old unit. Startup is done before I know it, internet connectivity is fast and smooth. We’ll see what the future might hold, but so far so good—knock on wood.

New, fast, Windows 11
Replaces an ancient HP desktop that was hot stuff back in the day. This Dell loads about 20 times faster, what with the SSD instead of an HD. It has a DVD drive, which is increasingly rare, and I have a lot of old pictures and whatnot on discs that I’m only slowly getting around to. Price is reasonable, it has a full slate of ports, runs quietly, doesn’t take up much space.Dell’s OEM keyboard is about standard for this sort of thing; I prefer a mechanical board and will replace that. Everything else is fine. I’m not a heavy-duty gamer and I don’t do a lot of photoshop, so this machine fills all my needs just fine. I’d recommend it as being a good, basic desktop. Longevity? We’ll see.Aside from having some icons rearranged, I don’t see a lot of difference between Windows 10 and 11. Either does everything I need. Actually, XP did everything I needed, and generally faster. You can’t stop “progress”, I guess, but I wouldn’t at all mind a stripped-down Windows that omitted all the A.I. copilot stuff and a ton of other never-used features. That’s what I like about my tablet’s Chrome system. Sleek, fast, lightweight.You’re looking for a medium fast desktop with 16 GB memory, a 1 TB drive and a DVD tray, this Dell should suit you well enough.

Lack of necessary cable and not user friendly directions.
I purchased this DELL Inspiron UHD 4K PC and to go along with it a Dell S2721QS 27″ 4K UHD monitor this week.Now whoever is writing the non supplied user guide thinks they are for tech savvy people when using terms like HDMI upstream and downstream. I expected to simply plug a HDMI cable between the monitor and the PC. And i expected the ports to be named or have an image of a Monitor. Nope thy are ladled HDMI or some weird symbol. Or the user guide to actually specify the word monitor(like the user guide does) , which it doesn’t. It used terms like TV, external display, or another HDMI device.Sure I could have connected the HDMI cable to an HDMI port ,but the non supplier user guide states. HDMI 2 port will only support 1920 x 1200 @60hz video output. In which case they supplied the cable. Now suppose you want the ability to actually display what you just spent over a thousand dollars for. A 3840 x 2160 display. For that you need a special cable . Which they didn’t supply !. A 1.4 display port cable at additional costs.

Acheté pour remplacer un PC i7 de 2017. Très performant, installation simple et rapide. Aucun problème d’installation et de fonctionnement. Il est également peu bruyant ce qui est un point important pour moi.Je l’utilise pour de la bureautique et je fais de la conversion vidéo. La conversion vidéo est rapide avec ce processeur.Je recommande.

Perfect small office desktop.Fast !