Dell launches New XPS Notebook, XPS M1530

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Available in Tuxedo Black and Crimson Red, the latest in Dell's range of XPS notebooks has been launched today. The XPS M1530 is a sleek and powerful multimedia machine with a starting price of £699. The M1530 boasts up to a 2.60GHz Core 2 Duo T7800 processor, up to 4GB of Dual Channel 667MHz DDR2 memory, single NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB video card, a 15.4" WXGA (1280x800) LED back-lit screen, up to 320GB of hard disk space and comes with a genuine copy of Windows Vista. It'll even give you the option of a 64GB solid state drive as well as other optional extras such as a Blu-ray drive. HDMI output comes as standard. The new notebook weighs in at a starting point of 2.62kg. The official product page can be accessed here.



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[nguyenpeter76]

hmm not on american website yet. (as of now)

 

[das müffin mann]

to bad its a dell shame to waste all that hardware

 

[Ripper3]

I've got an XPS m1330, the smaller brother of this (it's also older, as twas released earlier this year I believe), and it's a great laptop, from what I've read, and heard about these new XPS systems, they're possibly the first great Dells, along with some of the new Inspiron range.
They look really good too, just wish they had launched this m1530 earlier, because £699 is £200 more than what I paid for mine, but it's also the same price as the m1330, with 8400m GS, and a 1.8GHz CPU, Bluetooth, and fingerprint reader, and Wireless-N, making it very good value, for a sort of medium-end gaming laptop (the 8600m GT isn't spectacular, but better than the 8400m GS, it most certainly is)

Still, I commend Dell on the new designs, and hope the m1530 is better put together than the early m1330s were (they had a lot of orders, and so they wanted to cut down waiting time, I just bought from a reseller, heh)

 

[kwchang007]

Hmmm the inspiron 15" can have the same hardware...but doesn't look as nice and doesn't have as many ports...wonder which one people would go for.

 

[hacker111]

wow thats a seriously insane notebook,comes with a copy of windows Vista...yay

 

[Ripper3]

One thing I must have skipped at first when reading this, but it's available with a Blu-ray drive as an option, something the m1330 didn't have, even though it came with a HDMI connector as standard.

 

[KennyT772]

notice they say genuine copy of vista...

 

[Ripper3]

Yeah, well, the m1330 didn't have any problems with being genuine. Dell, Asus, and other high-value resellers like those, get special deals with MS, so that they personally activate people's systems, without the need to call MS, or do it via the internet.
It's how some of the better cracks work for Vista. Activates it as though the computer were an OEM made system.

 

[hv43082]

No option for higher resolution screen. I would get one but only if the screen is 1680x1050.