Dell Laptop Inspiron XPS M170

...what I replaced it with..........the DELL XPS M170 Gaming Laptop. System Specs: Dell XPS-M170 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™ 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm (upgraded from 1GB) 60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless ...
...which is easily done as DELL supply an operating system disc as well as driver discs and other software. Once I finished the re-format I was pleased to see I had 93% free disc space as opposed to the 84% the laptop had when it first arrived. Screen Resolution: I find the screen to be very clear and the performance is everything I expected for the price. The 1920x1200 resolution took me a bit to get use to as I have been use to a 15 inch screen ...

Kel1981 12.02.2006 · Read full review
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...use complex graphics in games, this must be pretty hard to beat. Be careful with the ordering process though. We had big problems with deliveries not coming when promised. Dell does not seem to have great comms with its delivery agents but all arrived OK in the end. ...

catshark88 18.05.2007 · Read full review
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I had a dell XPS M170. The specs where pretty strong and it was truly a gaming machine. Yet its strongest hardware was its weakest point. The graphics card got burnt twice. I had it replaced on warranty but i still have some issue regarding the graphics card. Its temperature goes off the charts. ...

haxan 09.03.2008
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...say is that it rocks! Dell gives you a nice big 17 inch screen with some fancy truelife technology along with a nividia 6800 go graphics card that makes an eyewateringly good picture and graphics. They throw in an intel m 770 cpu (2.13Ghz) with a wireless network card so all u gamers can play games like battlefield 2 online, in the garden. A healthy 1 gig of ram and 80 gb storage is not to be sniffed at, along with windows media center 2005 so u ...
...your own for about £1100, and a friend of mine who wanted Dell to fix his dimension pc spent 1 and a half hours trying to get through to them. All in all a nice piece of kit let down only by shoddy customer and a bit of over pricing. ...

popperb 26.11.2005 · Read full review
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After buying this laptop i saw that there were alot of cheaper and better looking laptops on the market and almost regretted my decision. but after almost a year of this laptop i havnt had a single problem. it completes every task with in seconds even with several games and large programs stored on it it still refuses to slow down. the fact that i was able to build the laptop to suit my personal needs has proved invaluble in enjoying my laptop. when ...
...of time before you think "i wish my laptop had one of those". well i havnt done that once. put in things i needed and left out things i didnt... best value for money. the customer service is excellent, extremely helpful and replaced a faulty charger within days with no hassle at all. first class product ...

cbr125 30.05.2007 · Read full review
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