Dell XPS15 R2 (L502) Thread

[Occams_Cat]

just out of interest, has anyone used the Dell GPS utility? I suppose that this works off mobile signal triangulation...unless there's a GPS module in there too?

[mkj]

White cable to white arrow.

I'm more interested in why there isn't a third antenna for a Wireless N card

IEEE 802.11n-2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The third antenna makes a huge difference to signal quality.

Because he has a 6200 series card and not a 6300 card. Unfortunately on consumer lines Dell only installs as many antennas as required. So if he had a 3-antenna card, he would have got 3 antennas to use with it. Same with WWAN - if he didn't have that WWAN card, he wouldn't have got WWAN antennas (black/gray and white/gray). And that really sucks, because it makes it difficult to upgrade these cards.

what do you think about Lenovo's Thinkpad series?
Is it worth buying? or IBM is better

I'd say... I there isn't a thread on that model in Lenovo forums, start one And I believe there is no IBM ThinkPad anymore...

just out of interest, has anyone used the Dell GPS utility? I suppose that this works off mobile signal triangulation...unless there's a GPS module in there too?

The Dell 5540 WWAN card is GPS enabled. I've used it with a Sat-Nav software.

[DakkonA]

White cable to white arrow.

I'm more interested in why there isn't a third antenna for a Wireless N card

IEEE 802.11n-2009 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The third antenna makes a huge difference to signal quality.

Intel's Ultimate 6300 series is 3x3. The Intel 4965 card in my m1530 is 2x3. I think the simple answer is that they wanted to put out a range of prices to fill the market. And unfortunately, Dell only made the mid-range card available.

[pinsb]

Because he has a 6200 series card and not a 6300 card. Unfortunately on consumer lines Dell only installs as many antennas as required. So if he had a 3-antenna card, he would have got 3 antennas to use with it. Same with WWAN - if he didn't have that WWAN card, he wouldn't have got WWAN antennas (black/gray and white/gray). And that really sucks, because it makes it difficult to upgrade these cards.

The Dell 5540 WWAN card is GPS enabled. I've used it with a Sat-Nav software.

That's changed since the M1530 series, on there you got all the wires in the system regardless of the actual cards fitted. So if you buy a WWAN card post delivery you have to do a complete strip to mount the antenna? That's crazy......

+1 for the 5540, it's got a great GPS chip onboard that does not rely on mobile connection, the drivers include a specific driver for the GPS. The best GPS software IMHO is the IGO8 stuff on the Windows Mobile phone, unfortunately there isn't a very good PC version available.

[pinsb]

Has anyone installed 'nix on a 502 yet?

[Antsm]

Mine shipped today ordered on 11/3 should have it on Monday it's coming from china to ireland, two days to come from china sounds abit optimistic? edd was 6/4,

[mkj]

That's changed since the M1530 series, on there you got all the wires in the system regardless of the actual cards fitted. So if you buy a WWAN card post delivery you have to do a complete strip to mount the antenna? That's crazy......
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Not quite... You need to order a brand new back cover with a full set of antennas. Pretty much the same effort to install and more costly, than you'd pay for antennas, if they were available separately.

[KenNashua]

You're going to need to explain why some posts are giving you pause, assuming it is separate from Optimus?

There appear to be lots of incompatibilities with Optimus seemingly caused by the requirement that the Nvidea GPU basically stream its frames through the i7 instead of going directly to the monitor as was done prior with dedicated GPUs.

[[-Mac-]]

In Italy we can't have the backlit keyboard Italian on XPS, but the new Vostro 3550 has a backlit keyboard Italian on board and looks the same as that of XPS.
I wanted to ask the owners of XPS if in these photos you notice differences between your keyboard and that on new Vostro 3550.

[Rebellion]

Ordered my XPS 15 on 3/12 and its on a truck out for delivery today. 7 days, pretty impressive. It appears that it was shipped from New Jersey.

Thank god I didn't have to work today!