XPS m1530/m1330 - Lets clear up the hateful misconceptions...shall we!

[houstoned]

i'm still waitin on diablo 3 or mortal online to come out, so i can really use my m1530. mine has been good to me so far. i use mine with a cooler 90% of the time, so that might help a bit. during benchmark06 tests, my GPU never gets hotter than 70c-71c; CPU peak: 59-61c; HD peak: 36c-37c. i have noticed that my fans barely kick in while i'm usin my cooler.

only con is: i hated the fingerprint reader. i don't really use it so i just disabled it.

[Forte]

Though Nvidia is somewhat vague, many do not seem to understand what heat cycling is and think defective cards = fail and the BIOS update does nothing. Hope this clears things up.

Buying an M1330 for Gaming (Warcraft, DOTA, maybe Starcraft 2)

[Shakey_Jake33]

Your post has me thinking. I'm using an older driver revision because it has significantly lower idle temperatures (156.65 idles at 58C compared with ~68C on newer drivers)... could this actually be counterproductive due to the greater amount of fluctuation? (and also, is shooting myself in the foot by using an older, slower driver a wasted effort?)

[Forte]

No your not. When you start gaming, the temperature rising is more or less gradual. Starting up your computer is most detrimental because of the sudden insurge of heat. Your fine, thats why the A12 bios in your case and all the bios revisions kick up the fans at the start. Fans also kick in at a lower temperatures to further help assist in the easing in to higher temps.

[Shakey_Jake33]

Good to know. There has to be a little more going on at a driver level however, since different branches can result in quite significant idle temperatures. I know the 58C on these drivers is not a misreading, because the fan speeds up at the intervals you'd expect (70, 80 etc), though one change with the A12 bios seems to be that the fan does not immediately slow back down again once they drop below 70, I assume to maintain a stable temp.

It's only really idle temps that seems to be greately lower, too. I still get up to 89C playing Devil May Cry 4 or Unreal Tournament (with the new high resolution textures and Direct3D9 renderer), whereas games that are more CPU heavy such as Final Fantasy XI and Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst (ie console ports) hover in the 70's. As you can tell, I've been able to use the m1330 for a fair bit of gaming.

[Modesty]

Well i didnt know really how to answer in the pool, First of all it's my second laptop and the last one was inspiron 6400, so i didnt really have any earlier experience.
Lets start, I like my Xps 1530 it's fast and respondive, i like it's silky design and the "touch buttons" it's quite fast and didnt encounter any big issues the battery life in 9 cell is very good will stand about 4+ hours in normal work with minimum brightness or even maybe more.
I liked is the remote control and the multi card reader and also the fingertip reader.
It has good exists (HDMI and double earphone jacks) and also come with good earphones and discs case and even a nice sheet for you to clean the laptop with the XPS logo on it.
What i didnt like is the heat up of this computer altough first i thought it's my CPU or my GPU i found that they work fine, the real problem was my HD that shoots up to 54 degrees under load, it's located under your "carpals" and it's makes you abit uncomfortable feeling after few minutes of working.
My advise to you try to buy other HD then seagate 160gb maybe it's the cause of the problem...never really tested this computer under games but once i tried to play call of duty 4 with it and it was really nice and fast withouht any real overheating issues (again except my HD).
Well hope it will help anyone to choose.

If you do ask me if i recommend on this laptop then i will asnwer yes, but take account for it's faults.

[paper_wastage]

i'd say i'm very statisified with my m1330... no problems( So far, touch wood..)

[d4nz0r]

M1530 is awesome! So glad I decided to pull the trigger on this baby.

All too often I think people forget that we only hear the complaints on notebookforums. I'm guilty of this as well. I don't post about my XPS as much as I should, since I'm playing with custom themes or looking at other sections of the forum now that I've received my XPS.

[fairtrade55]

according to the poll it looks like most people are satisfied but by the posts on this board it looks like 99% of these laptops end up messed up

[paper_wastage]

most people with complaints will show up

most people satisfied would disapper to play with their new gadget...

80% satisfied out of 50... think we need at least 200 before confirming anything