Dell Inspiron 5370 review

Inspiron 5370: the slim mainstream entry that bets everything on mobility

The Inspiron 5370 is Dell's general-purpose slimline from the 5000-series, and its record reads like a deliberate trade: a light chassis with a comfortable office floor, paid for with a graphics column that simply is not there. For a buyer scanning used listings it is the classic thin-and-light proposition, minus any serious number-crunching ambition.

Where it holds up

The headline strength is mobility: a reading of 88 against a general-class median of 50, a 76 percent gap that places this machine in the top quarter of its category. Portability backs that up at 77.2, a high-band figure and one of the stronger showings among the general-purpose Inspirons in this batch. Day-to-day office work is covered too — the office index reads 58.9, comfortably mid-band, with a 32 GB memory pool that sits exactly on the 32 GB class median.

The composite score of 15 is low in absolute terms, but that is the era and the segment talking, not a defect of this particular unit: nearly every legacy general-purpose record in this batch lands in the same single-digit-to-mid-teens band.

Where it falls short

Graphics is the flagged weakness, and the reading is zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero, since no discrete GPU entry exists for this configuration. Every task axis sits in the low band (gaming 19, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo work 13), floor readings shared by nearly every legacy record in this batch. Performance overall reads 19.63 against a category median of 43.05, well below the middle of the class.

In practice that means browser tabs, documents and video calls are the ceiling; anything that leans on a GPU is out of scope for this sheet.

Price and depreciation

No listing price is recorded for this configuration, and no depreciation curve is modeled — so there is no resale math to quote and no dollar projection to weigh.

Alternatives to consider

The closest sibling in this batch is the Inspiron 5405, which carries the same 32 GB pool and identical core readings but gives back some portability (72.5 against this one's 77.2). Buyers wanting a bigger screen at the cost of carry comfort could look at the 5575 or 5580 entries here, both with the same office floor of 58.9 but portability down at 39.1 and 43.3 respectively.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class, the Inspiron 5370 is a straightforward pick when weight matters more than power: top-quarter mobility, a mid-band office floor and a full-size memory pool, with graphics and heavy workloads explicitly out of the picture.