Gaming experience again (Dell XPS M1330)

Member Name: gemsarchitect

Product:	Dell XPS M1330
Date:	11/09/08 (868 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good graphics performance, Beautiful looking with colour option

Disadvantages: display problen in bright and daylight condition

Dell XPS 1530
I always give more priority to write reviews on 15.4" series laptop, because in the market they also have more popular and more selling product.
So definitely people will take more interest in these types of reviews and they also get some benefits from reviews also.
So considering XPS series of laptop, these are the powerful graphics and gaming laptop.
Dell wants to break the long run emperor of Apple Macbook in gaming and graphics laptop market.
I think these types of competition will give good results to customers as they will get better technology and featured laptop.
I will discuss here the powerful XPS laptop its good features and some disadvantages also.

The basic features

Processor
XPS 1530 have a good basic processor Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology - Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T8100, with clock speed of 2.1GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, and front side bus speed is 800 MHz FSB.
There are three other option available to upgrade this processor to higher level and that are
* Processor T8300, with clock speed of 2.4GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, and front side bus speed is 800 MHz FSB.
* Processor T9300, with clock speed of 2.5GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, and front side bus speed is 800 MHz FSB.
* Processor T9500, with clock speed of 2.6GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, and front side bus speed is 800 MHz FSB.

So that if we consider the processor the mind of laptop than XPS has good option to upgrade and we can get more gaming fun as well.

Memory
Here sis agaim more considerable feature and that is Memory of the laptop, so this laptop also have good installed memory and upgrade option also available.
The installed memory is 3GB Dual-channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
The Upgrade option available that 4 GB in two slot 2 GB each.

I always used to mention that 2 or 3 GB memory is more enough, and if you wants to consider better performance than give more priority to graphics card, so that better graphics is more important in better performance.


Chipset
Here is the most used chipset and I always say that it am provide Aero experience of Windows Vista Premium version.
Laptop has Intel® 965PM Chipset, and it has good features also.


Operating System

Here we can get the stunning feature of Windows Vista and that is its visual Aero experience due to its premium version.
The laptop has Genuine Windows VistaTM Home Premium .
Keep in mind that Basic version of Vista does not provide Aero Experience, so that in this laptop u can imagine this experience.
There are further option available to upgrade this premium verson to ultimate version of business verson..
But you have to pay more for that and I think this verson of Vsta is more enough to feel in 21st century experience.

Hard Drive

Here again Dell has put better capacity hard disk of 250GB 25400RPM SATA Hard Drive.
And there are option of upgradation are available that is 320GB and the excellent quality 64GB solid state hard drive.
Solid State drive is more reliable but due to latest technology it is expensive so that we can only get less storage capacity and have to pay more.
So wait for some time to drop price and increase storage capacity, till that we can use SATA drive, having less price with higher storage capacity.

Graphics Card
Here again my favourite column to write that is about graphics card and this laptop again never keep disappointing me to consider this factor.
The good featured gaming graphics which is more enough to play Most Wanted like game and can provide better graphics that is 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT.
If we think more about above graphics card than the best gaming graphics available is 8800GT, but this laptop does not have further upgrade option for graphics, but the 8600GT is adequate and we never feel disappointing in gaming.

Battery
Again the laptop has traditional 56 WHr 6-cells Lithium Ion Primary Battery, but the good news is that we can also upgrade it to 9 cell primary batter for more backup.
As my experience 6 cells battery hardly gives about 2-2.5 hours of backup, but in 9 cell battery u can get up to 5 hours of backup.
So that it will be better to upgrade 6 cells battery to 9 cell primary battery.


Now Have a look on some common features.

Internal DVD ROM
Internal 8X DVD RW, dual channel write.

Webcam
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel web cam

Remote & Ear Buds
DellTM Travel Remote Control & Noise Isolation Ear Buds

Display/Monitor
15.4" Widescreen WXGA (1280x800) TFT Display with TrueLifeTM

Network Card
Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet

Controller Card
Intel® 4965 Wireless-N Mini-card

Sound Card
Intel® High Definition Audio 2.0

Speakers
Integrated speakers

Conclusion
As we had discussed on various feature of XPS 1530, the laptop have good gaming features and better built quality.
Availability in different colors it will give more fun in your life.
Solid graphics performance and reliability it can be better companion of your life.

Summary: Have more gaming fun

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