A huge beast you can say for this laptop which is bascially made for Games which is what i feel. It has XPS logos which glows the touch pad which has red lights you can change the colors, It has a huge keyboard with lot of functions, 17 inch wide screen and plus it also has a 2 megapixel builtin webcam. It is very highly priced, and it does give resoultion but which in turns make the icons small so you need to stress your eyes sometime to read, also at this price it does not have a blue ray disc option, if you want it then you pay more for it, which is again asking for some more. It also not good for HD Videos. It has Core 2 Duo T7500 and 2gb Memory which is ...  Read the complete review

Nicknamed The Beast by DELL, this 'laptop' certainly lives up to it's name. First off, I have yet to encounter any of the issues that many people are experiencing. Although I have only had the laptop for little over a year, it's continuously been rock solid and has never failed me. The M1730 is clearly aimed at the gaming world. This is good for me because I am a gamer. The model I purchased had dual Nvidia 8700m GTs. Unfortunately, by the time I was able to buy this laptop, Dell no longer had the 8800m GTS as an option. But never mind, 512Mb in SLi is still pretty awesome. So awesome in fact, that the last game I played, the newest NFS: Hot Pursuit ...  Read the complete review

As you can see in the description of the product this is a powerful laptop and really only worth buying if you are going to be playing alot of GFX intensive games. They vary in price depending on how to tailor it but it can be anything from £1500-£2500. Before buying any dell system not just a XPS it is crucial you look online for any Dell vouchers, generally you can get 10% of right away if you do a bit of research. I managed to get 15% off and a few freebies thrown in with my purchase. Also it is worth mentioning that you only get 1 years full cover insurance for these machines, it is going to be around 100-200 pounds for 1-3 years additional ...  Read the complete review

Not for the faint hearted. I owned one of these babies for around 28 days before sending it back due to a number of reason. Firstly, i brought the modle with the 8700 SLI graphics ( GPU ) card. I also made sure it came with dual harddrives set in Raid 1. Changeing the hard drives purchased was not as simple as removing the existing and plugging in replacements due to the set up of the raid. Although billed as the ultimate games machine, games were terrible on this device, the only way to over come this was to buy the 8800 SLI GPU, this in turn added £600 more to the configured price or £800 if brought from an online supplier, making the machines ...  Read the complete review

verall the Dell XPS M1730 was everything I had hoped it would be. There were a few surprises like the illuminated keyboard, speakers, mousepad, and lid twinkle like Christmas lights when music is played, but those only added character to the laptop. While I still do not understand why this particular model was not offered with a single GTX260M over the dual 8700M GT's in SLI, if you can keep the heat under control the SLI configuration isn't a bad deal. The in-game performance was satisfactory and ideal for a computer you can throw into a backpack and hit a LAN or gaming night at a friend's house without packing around a computer case, monitor, and other ...  Read the complete review