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£100 off Dell XPS this week, s'got nvidia GFX

http://ecomm.euro.dell.com/dellstore/ba ... 51f71b7ccc

How good are those Intel Graphics Accelerators? I know it's not for blazing framerate games, but Albatross does like a bit of hardware acceleration. That price is around 7700 territory, but as I say, I don't know if they are actually better.

Link doesn't work, but i'm assuming it's the 2nd XPS M1530.

Looks a better deal to me (but still costs almost £600 )

Hmm, can't find it now from the front of the site but it is the

XPS M1530 - N02X5303

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5450 (1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache), Genuine Windows Fista® Home Premium - English
NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 8400M GS with 128MB dedicated graphic memory [Included in Price]

Edit: http://search.euro.dell.com/results.asp ... 03&cat=all

Does this work?

Damn you Bobbins! I was happy to spend £400 on that HP, but the graphics card in the Dell is making me want that instead. So from a budget of £300 I'm now looking at spending over double that

The prof swears by dell lappies, even though Eion swears at them. I think a laptop for £300 would just annoy you with slowness and opening too many things equalling the onset of retardism. Get the dell (I never thought I'd say that).

I'm actually a fan of Dell. I wouldn't buy their desktop machines because they use weird custom builds that are tricky to upgrade, but that's not an issue with a laptop. Of all the many machines I've dealt with at work, the Dells are the most reliable. I ordered that one (cheers Bobbins), although I spent an extra £40 on the 8600GT. So much for my £300 budget

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Dog Pants wrote:So much for my £300 budget

But it comes with a biometric fingerprint scanner!!!!!!

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I too has just jumped on the laptop buying bandwagon with a HP 6720s for my dad to break within 3 months.

mrbobbins wrote:Hmm, can't find it now from the front of the site but it is the

XPS M1530 - N02X5303

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5450 (1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache), Genuine Windows Fista® Home Premium - English
NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 8400M GS with 128MB dedicated graphic memory [Included in Price]

Edit: http://search.euro.dell.com/results.asp ... 03&cat=all

Does this work?

I'm still using a Dell laptop I bought 5 years ago and it's pretty much on it's last legs now. I must say I've been mightily impressed with it's reliability and longevity (it even survived Iraq).

My brother bought one of those XPS at Christmas and is very happy with it (he upgraded to XP straight away though). I'm considering buying one this week, though I might go for the custom upgrades to make it last a bit longer.

I have been very tempted, and gaming (ish) ones are sort of cheap enough now, but I can't really justify the need for a laptop, I'd probably just sit at home with it so there's no point

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I too has just jumped on the laptop buying bandwagon with a HP 6720s for my dad to break within 3 months.

Well, that was fairly painless, got laptop, waited 45 minutes for Fista to do post install shit.

Got bored, Poked my latest Slipstreamed/DriverPacks XP disc in, Waited, Updated windows and Installed Office.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Well, that was fairly painless, got laptop, waited 45 minutes for Fista to do post install shit.

Got bored, Poked my latest Slipstreamed/DriverPacks XP disc in, Waited, Updated windows and Installed Office.

XP drivers updated Fista - also I thoroughly hope it was of the open variety.

Fear wrote:XP drivers updated Fista - also I thoroughly hope it was of the open variety.

Nope, I got bored of Fista before it'd finished installing itself, so I accidentally replaced it with XP.