

A dark display and a crummy touchpad, however, kick the Inspiron 7415 out of the elite 2-in-1 club and make it look and feel like a not particularly impressive budget model. Its all-aluminum chassis makes it feel like a premium unit, and its AMD Ryzen 7 CPU helps it outrun pricier Intel-based models.

The Dell Inspi2-in-1 (starts at $799.99 $999.99 as tested) occupies the middle ground between premium convertible laptops like the HP Spectre x360 14 and Dell's own XPS 13 2-in-1, and more affordable alternatives such as the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i 14.

On some HP laptops, you can go to the BIOS and change this setting. Of course, the only way to tell which state it’s in is to wait and see if the light turns off. When you tap it, it toggles through its three states. You can toggle the state via the keyboard light button. The backlit keyboard on an HP laptop works in three states off, time-out, and always on. If you have a Dell laptop, you even control the time-out duration. On both Dell and HP laptops, you can set your backlit keyboard to always on. If the manufacturer doesn’t have an option to set the backlit keyboard to always on, you are out of luck. It’s up to the device manufacturer to provide it. Windows doesn’t have a built-in option to control the backlit keyboard on a laptop. This has its limitations foremost of which is the make of your laptop. If you find the timeout counterproductive, you can set your backlit keyboard to always on. To turn the light on again, you have to tap any key or tap your touchpad.

The light times out usually after 5-10 seconds if you don’t use your keyboard or touchpad.
