The Dell XPS M1530 ” Slim and Light Technology
The unit is current technology at its finest. It is at a thin 0.9 inches and thickest at 35.1mm. The carrying poundage is a light 5.72 lbs making it easy to carry and handle. This fifteen-inch machine has become as popular as its smaller predecessor, the Dell XPS M1330, which was considered as one of the best units ever created. Its makers, Dell has definitely improved the strengths of the smaller unit into a bigger capacity resulting in the XPS M1530. It tried improving on what is an already good set up in the latter mobile computer. The changes are improvements though the same drawbacks of the elder still remain.
The XPS M1530 is the slimiest 15-inch laptop, as popular as its senior, the Dell XPS M1330. The preceding model (XPS M1330) was just incredible that it was considered as one of the best notebooks ever made. But Dell was considering that the bigger size might be an edge, and so the XPS M1530 was born.
The increased laptop size and its new powerful build is the new edge of this XPS series. The 15.4 widescreen display is gorgeously bright and brilliant with its straight and horizontal viewing and so with the vertical angles. Moreover, its built-in HDMI is a wonderful thing to look up to for a digital video output. The difference between M1530 and M1330 is that the former offers an XGA (1280x800) display, while the latter had the option for a thinner and more power efficient LED backlit display. However, M1530 provides 2.0MP web cam with the standard thinker CCFL screen.
But who has the better touch? Well, the two XPS models have similar keyboard format. The keypad is firm and is soft for the fingers. However, it produces clicking sounds but comfort is still overrates the noise. Its scroll areas are reactive as well.
In addition, the M1530 offers up to 2.80GHz Intel T7800 processor while M1330 had 2.2GHz Intel T7500 processor. Moreover, XPS 1530 uses GDDR3 RAM rather than GDDR2 which is commonly used. Also, the XPS M1530 has a more powerful graphics card, the nVidia 8600M GT, for a better graphic display performance compared to that of an nVidia 8400 GS of XPS M1330.
Audio quality wise, this business laptop doesnt have a subwoofer so we can categorize it as average. And they are just the same with XPS M1330 with the speaker found at the top of the keyboard. Other than MP3s, the screeching sound of slot-loading optical drive is very audible. As this problem always involves the hard disk, its quite a big turn off.
In totality, we can say that Dells XPS M1530 is good but not enough. With its downside on noisy hard drives and limited options for screen optimization, it could fall to second-best to its counterparts within the price of $1089.
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