Dell XPS M1530

I recently had a motherboard failure on my existing Dell Inspiron laptop and given its age, repair looked a bad move as one could buy a new laptop for less. However, once I decided to see what was available and given my two main criteria - a higher than usual resolution screen and three year warranty, I suddenly found the price spiraling upwards. After much searching I settled on an XPS M1530. The price on the Dell web site was around £1000 but a phone call to Dell resulted in quite a dramatic price cut to reflect my 'loyalty as a customer' and that it was a replacement for a failed (nearly ... more

We seem to have a contract with Dell at work, so I've been given several Dell laptops for my use. To be honest I liked the Fujitsu Siemens I had before much better than the last three Dells I was given, but I gave my last one back when I went on maternity leave. having gone back to work part-time now, I have been issued with a new one. And it's this: the Dell XPS M1330. As soon as it arrived on my desk it was obvious that it wasn't just another boring Dell. It looks much much cooler than the older Dell models. It has a 13.3in display and only measures a slender 318 x 238 x 33.8mm (WxDxH) with ... more

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 ... more

I have to admit from the start that while I'm no technophobe, I'm no computer expert either. My previous laptop was a very old Sony Vaio that was dying a slow death and failing to keep up with the modern world - I needed a computer to edit my photos on, preferably one that could connect to the internet on the same day I logged on! My reasons for choosing the XPS M1530 weren't great - I initially planned to buy a much cheaper laptop but had heard that this was top-range, and figured it wouldn't date too quickly. I also needed a computer capable of handling Vista without going into meltdown ... more

Performance The Sheer performance of this machine is able to match anything i have been able to throw at it (including Crysis.) The memory and processing power alone put this laptop above the average performance of a desktop computer but the graphics package on top of that (especially with the 256mb version) puts this computer on another scale altogether when it comes to gaming, I have managed to run a comprehensive list of games on this beast of a machine, many of them released for next gen consoles and was even able to emulate a ps2 (something even a ps3 has trouble doing) Interactivity ... more