Is this XPS good value?

Gandalf23

Lads I'm in the market for a new laptop .. need something fairly powerful. I'm thinking of an XPS from the Dell outlet store. Is the laptop below good value at about €700?


DELL XPS M1530 CORE 2 DUO T7250 2.00GHz
English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium

Operating System: English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium
Memory: 3.0GB MB (1X2GB + 1X1GB) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Disk Drive: 200GB HD Free Fall Sensor (7200RPM)
Video: ASSY, BASE 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT
NoteBook Screen: 15.4 UltraSharp Widescreen WSXGA (1680x1050)
CD Read-Write Drive: DVD+/-RW (8X)
MISC: Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-PCI Card EUR

pwd

I would think so.
I have a different spec of the same laptop and the gpu is pretty good - but it is also one of the nvidia cards that are supposed to have a higher failure rate than normal.
Personally I think you'd be better with a lower native resolution - depending on what you want to use it for: I have 800 resolution and most games run at high settings with that resolution - but I'd say newer games wouldn't run so well on the higher resolution. (my spec is 2.4ghz processor + 4gb ram)
The design of the laptop is very nice. The screen is good. I'm very happy with my one except for the reports that the gpu is dodgy. The only other negative point about it is less significant - the speakers are sh!t.

Alanstrainor

The prices on Dell outlet are excluding VAT. Is that 700 including VAT? It should also be noted that there are a lot of issues with the Nvidea graphics chips these days, it's an issue relating to over heating. Just something to be aware of, although, that being said, issues are more prominent in the 1530's little brother the 1330, so you'll probably be okay. Yeah 'tis a good machine, if it's 700 then it's well worth the cash

Sherifu

Stay away from the nvidia 8400/8600s

Gandalf23

Thanks lads ... advice is much appreciated.

Is the Dell outlet price before VAT? The link to the laptop is here ... its the 15.4 screen.

pwd

yeah it's before vat

Gandalf23

OK ... if prices are before VAT they suddenly dont look like such good value

delta214

Hey can somebody tell me if this is good value?
(sorry, dont mean to hijack thread)

CPU: T9300 Intel Penryn Core2 Duo 2.50GHz (6MB Cache, 800MHz FSB)
Memory: 4GB (3072MB) DDR2 667MHz
Hard Drive: 250GB Serial (SATA)
Operating System*: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
Display: 15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife
Video: nVidia GeForce 8600M GT Graphics with 256MB Dedicated RAM
Soundcard: Sigma Tel Audio HD
Wireless: - Dell Wireless 4965AGN
- BlueTooth
- Integrated 2.0 MegaPixel Webcam
- 8-in-1 Multimedia Memory Card Reader
- HDMI Output for High Definition (HD) Output
- FireWire (For Video Editing etc)
- Broadband Ready Network Card
- DVDRW

For €950.

me-skywalker

Seems to me like a great deal.... the only catch is.... its dell! you'll be sending it back 2months later! so if your looking for somethign to hop around on for 2 monhts great!

kaizersoze

me-skywalker wrote: »

Seems to me like a great deal.... the only catch is.... its dell! you'll be sending it back 2months later! so if your looking for somethign to hop around on for 2 monhts great!

Nonsense.:rolleyes:

Dartz

I've had one for three months... aside from a buckled palmrest caused by me leaning on it (I'm no lightweight btw)... it's doing fine. 950 is a brilliant price... I paid 1440 for mine iat the start of May. Grrrrr....