The retail price I paid out for this implies a few niggles ought to be ignored however there are a few gripes none-the-less.

The viewing perspectives on screen are very poor with shades of black being washed out very easily, and when you are purchasing this, invest the additional cash for the 1080p screen, 720 does not make the grade on this device. Furthermore, the graphics card is very poor, when compared with The new sony Vaio E series where one can spec it up to an ATI 5650, it helps make the Studio 1558 very tame.

Put together quality is very sound, and also the keyboard is great with well put down buttons along with a really good response from them, addititionally there is no bend on the keyboard helping to make typing a pleasure on this laptop.

It has an unusual design flaw by Dell on the laptop in that the back exhaust is often covered by the screen once tilted back, some thing that is a drawback on the Studio XPS also.

Sound is moderately good for a laptop computer nevertheless the bass speaker inside it is like a bit of a gimmick, even though it is not bad.