The product: A Dell XPS 17 notebook with touchscreen, Intel i7 Processor, 8 GB RAM, 9-cell battery and 1 TB Hard Drive. Why I bought it: I was looking for an upgrade to a more powerful notebook with a larger screen, particularly for photo editing and music management. I was encouraged to try a Macbook, but I have always disliked the Macintosh operating system so this was an alternative for me. The good: The screen! I found the screen to be of superb quality. The 1600 x 900 resolution displays a crisp image and certainly exceeded my expectations. In fact, the entire build quality seems to be of a very high standard. ...  Read the complete review

The laptop itself is very heavy and not easy to carry around but I don't need to carry a laptop around with me all the time so that is fine. It's a great computer and I use it for my self-employed Web Design business. My only gripe is that it's very sensitive sometimes - I'll be using my mouse to click and drag things and something triggers the "viewing size options in the tools area" and it the screen starts to change size. I haven't worked out why it does this. The speed of the laptop is brilliant and I can have lots of different windows open. The battery life is 3 hours but you can't remove the battery - it's screwed in. I've had ...  Read the complete review

We bought 4 of these as a business to replace the awful HP Compaq 6715s (also reviewed on DooYoo). These laptops were for training clients on CAD, and they've been in use for around 8 months. The build quality is good, with a brushed-metal effect on the casing which looks quite cool. As the keyboard has a numeric keypad and also because of the 17 inch monitor they are quite a lot longer than a standard laptop, so you may want to buy a new laptop bag as they didn't fit in our ones. They're also a bit heavier due to the bigger build. The larger screen was a good selling point for us, with any CAD program extra display real-estate is a ...  Read the complete review