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[venkol]

Just ordered a new Inspiron 1520

T7500/1GB RAM/8600GT/80GB 5400RPM Drive/15.4" 1280x800/Blu Ray Player all for $970 after taxes.

I'm going to upgrade the RAM and HD Drive by myself. Should I have picked up the 1440x900 monitor instead? It was a $50 upgrade but I would have to take a Glossy screen as well.

[the_forge.nz]

Not sure aboyt the screen. All I know is that 1600 by 1020 is too sharp for a 15.4 or so people say , so I took the middle road .
I like to play the odd game so so I adopted for a slighlty higer resolution of 1440 - 900

[Widge]

I got the 1440 because I use Ableton Live and I'll need it once I start getting right into a mix etc.
Otherwise I would have got the lower res with the philosophy of lower native res for games = better FPS.
Dunno how knocking the res down to non-native affects the way games display actually.

Boo, emailed Dell and they won't upgrade my hard drive post-ordering. I may call them to say "do it or I'll cry" or something.

I always get in a flap when I buy something major like this, hoping I've got the right thing!

Happy with the 2mb cache processor now though. Even though I do media stuff, rendering Ableton mixes will now seem like a breeze when compared to my old AMD 3000+ desktop. Just a concern as to what my 120gb choice of hdd will turn out like in reality (I forget that you don't get all of the quoted size).

[the_forge.nz]

120 GB wll get you like 110 maybe , my Freecom external is 400 but I get 385 GB or something when i first got it

[Widge]

Now 160GB, and a naff USB mouse up

£739ish inc del I believe, can't quite stretch to that T7500!

[Shadis]

I was going to buy a new laptop a year ago, and my car died, so...there went the laptop. Then I lost my job. So, still no laptop. But now, I've got a car, I've got a job, and, I've just ordered not one but TWO laptops (one for the wife, too, as hers is ancient). Here's what I ordered. Can't wait to get these babies:

Mine:
XPS M1530
T7500 2.2GHz
Tuxedo Black
3GB RAM
1440x900
8600M GT
250GB 5400RPM
DVD+/-RW
HD Audio
Intel Wireless N
Bluetooth
6 cell
3 year warranty


Hers:
Inspiron 1520
T2750 2.0GHz
Jet Black
2GB RAM
1280x900
8600M GT
160GB 5400RPM
DVD+/-RW
HD Audio 2.0
Dell Wireless G
6 cell
3 year warranty


Total for both was 2385 after tax. I got 12% off with the EPP from my company, since I bought both on the same order. Plust 4% for Dell financing. Overall I'm pretty happy. I'm thinking though that I should've bumped her down to the 8400, and got a 7200RPM drive on mine, since I'll be gaming and she won't. Oh well, I'm sure we'll both be more than happy.

[TX Free Bird]

My 1520 bought through the EPP purchase program arrived Tuesday. Haven't had time to test all the gadgets yet, but so far it looks and acts terrific!


No cosmetic issues. No CPU whine yet. No static or other noise when listening through headphones. The Samsung screen looks very nice (didn't get high-res). Colors are quite vibrant. I did have to back off the Gamma a bit through NVIDIA. No grainyness. The brown case color is not as dark (near black) as some have said it is. Very cool looking. The keybord is level. No looseness in the power jack. XP rocks. No need for Vista. They didn't send any ear buds, but who needs 'em. Watched Pirates I on DVD. Had to set the DVD format to US. Not sure why it wasn't already. The movie looked and sounded great. Now if I can figure out how to save movies to my HD. DHL said they came by Monday morning and tried to deliver, but they didn't! I would have seen them since I was camped out at the front door... lol Going to get a USB mouse tomorrow.

Any questions?

Not a bad machine so far!

[perrylyzr541]

Just ordered my new M1530.....so excited, specs in the sig.

[the_forge.nz]

Just ordered my new M1530.....so excited, specs in the sig.

I just hope well all get a descent screen. Everybody has been complaining about it. Although I probably wont even notice as I have been living in the UK for a while and borrowing a 7 year old laptop with a resolution of 1000 by 600 or something .
will buy gig extra ram of ebay maybe , kingston stick selling for 30 quid


Dell XPS m1530
ordered 23 Jan UK.
T-75 2.2Ghz
2 gig ram
160 gig 7200rpm HDD
8600M GT DDR3

[perrylyzr541]

Not to worried about the screen. If it's not what I think is quality they will be replacing it. Dell has exceptional CS.