Dell Inspiron 15-3542 Windows 7 X64 (64-bit) Drivers
The Dell Inspiron 15-3542 sports a smooth black plastic chassis. Most of material is matte, however the truth that the left and proper aspects of the bottom unit and the edges of the display lid are smooth as an opportunity. The once more of the display is textured. We like the fact that the pocket book has a upkeep cowl, which makes having access to the difficult strength and the RAM a bargain less difficult. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer notebooks are organized with one. The Inspiron's battery is detachable.
We can not discover many faults with the overall sturdiness or the assemble exquisite. The Inspiron is robust at some stage in, even though it shares a number of the common vulnerable factors with specific notebooks: the chassis flexes to the left of the keyboard, and neither the base unit nor the show lid are torsionally very inflexible. When we twisted the display, the lid protested with slight creaking sounds and the photo modified slightly. Pushing down on the lid from behind impacts the photo as properly. The hinges keep the show securely, in spite of the reality that we decided a few bouncing. We have been able to open the display lid with one hand, so long as we jiggled it a chunk to resource the way.
Keyboard - The Inspiron comes with a chiclet-style keyboard which is not backlit. Something we didn't understand is the truth that the lettering of the unique characteristic keys (like amount manipulate) isn't a special coloration. We could not have anticipated more from Dell as far as ergonomics are involved. The flat, slightly difficult keys feature quick tour and a clean feedback, although the resistance might be a hint higher nonetheless. When typing, the keyboard only flexes a piece on the right aspect, although it's minor enough to now not be bothersome. The Enter secret is a piece at the small facet, that could result in unintended misses.
Touchpad - The multitouch-succesful clickpad measures 10.Five cm x 6 cm. In our opinion, there may be enough room for an exceptional big touchpad. The surface is slightly hard to the touch and lets in the arms to go along with the glide effects. Gestures were easy to manipulate and the configuration menu lets in them to be grew to grow to be on and off as desired. Click tour is short with clean and audible feedback.
Display - The 15.6-inch glossy show has a close-by selection of 1366 x 768 pixels. The brightness of 211 cd/m² isn't any purpose for birthday celebration, however given the rate of the pocket e-book, pretty loads expected. The show display of the Ideapad Z50-75 features a comparable brightness (223.Nine cd/m²), on the same time because the Aspire E1-572G is a superb deal dimmer (182.Three cd/m²). The excessive first-rate outlier is the Pavilion 15-p008ng (329.Four cd/m²), which additionally comes with a Full-HD display.
Drivers:
Realtek ALC3223 High-Definition (HD) Audio Driver Version 6.0.1.7288,A01:
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Realtek Card Reader Driver Version 6.2.9600.39054,A00:
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Intel Chipset Driver Version 9.Four.0.1026,A00:
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Intel Management Engine Interface Driver Version 9.5.24.1790,A00:
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Intel(R) USB three.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver Version 2.5.3.34,A00:
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Dell Touchpad Driver Version 18.0.7.1,A00:
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Realtek RTL8106E-US & RTL8111G-US Ethernet Controller Driver Version 7.88.617.2014,A01:
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Dell Wireless 1704 WiFi + Bluetooth Driver Version 6.5.1,A00:
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Dell Wireless 1705 WiFi + Bluetooth Driver Version 10.0.0.303,A00:
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Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver Version 12.8.2.1000,A00:
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Intel HD Graphics Driver Version 10.18.10.3945,A02:
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nVIDIA GT840M/GT820M Graphics Driver Version 9.18.13.3311,A02:
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Applications:
Dell Update Application Version 1.3,A06:
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Dell Digital Delivery Application Version 2.8.5,2.8.5:
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Dell Quickset Application Version 11.1.18,A00:
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BIOS:
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Dell Inspiron 3442,3542,5748 System BIOS Version A05,A05:
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Documents:
Inspiron 15 3542 Owner’s Manual PDF (8427 KB):
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Inspiron 15 3542 Specifications PDF (3032 KB):
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Inspiron 15 3542 Quick Start Guide – Windows 8 PDF (748 KB):
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Inspiron 15 3542 Quick Start Guide – Windows 7 PDF (1442 KB):
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