I've had very mixed luck with this machine. The pros listed in the very positive reviews are right on--it is fast, it is sleek and light etc etc. However, I've experienced some serious problems with this machine:1. The drivers for the video card are incredibly buggy, and routinely lead to the screen blanking out (this is a well known problem, and it still hasn't been satisfactorily fixed).
2. Windows vista has never worked well. I'm not sure if this is a Vista issue or a hardware issue, but this machine and this OS have not worked well together (e.g. I initially could not shut the machine off except by using the power button--vista has a lot of shutdown options, all of them simply froze the computer; the machine still crashes, freezes and slows down at random).
3. I've had problems with the Wi-Fi -it's simply not that great at picking up a signal. On several occasions I've had to borrow a laptop to get online; other machines were picking up the signal but not this one.
4. The computer regularly simply stops working. It won't start, or if it does it won't boot. I suspect it was simply set up very poorly by whatever Dell tech put things together. I paid a computer technician a couple hundred bucks to go through the system, and this made things a lot better--but it made the problems less frequent rather than cured them.
A simple summary of my experience with this machine can be summed up by this fact: I'm writing this review on my wife's MacBook because my XPS is currently in its "I'm not working today" mode.
I've been a huge Dell customer over the years--this is my fifth machine ordered from Dell. There will not be a sixth.
The xps m1330 is soooo fast. It loads up really really fast and the screen is soooo bright and clear. Vista is awesome too, very good looking and you will never go back to Windows. Some ppl say it is buggy but i have experienced nothing wrong so far.
I highly recommend this product! This is the first fast computer I purchased ( also the first one that cost almost a thousand dollars ) Well I bought a refurbished XPS M1330 from Dell website but it works really fast. Using Vista with a computer that cost 600$ is not a smart idea since Vista slows down the computer significantly. However with XPS 1330 ( 3 gbyte ram and 2.4 Ghz clock speed) I can use Vista as XP.
Pros: Fast, thin, light ( not so light with 9cell battery), has firewire and HDMI outputs, 2 ( or can be three) headphone jacks, has remote control, have nice keyboard ( for males who has large hands) and ( with 9 cell battery) can be used up to 5 hours without plugged in to electricity plug.
Cons: Doesn't have any modem (telephone) output, only has 2 USB ports, and Wireless Card 4965AGN might have some issues from time to time ( forced the computer to restart once since I purchased the computer ( in more than 1 month) but probably can be fixed easily with a firmware update).
So far I haven't encountered any serious problem with the computer. After I installed Linux ( Ubuntu )software the startup takes more time than usual but it's not a hardware problem. So I would recommend this computer who are fed up using cheap and slow computers, and want to buy a nice and fast computer.
Hope this helps you chooseI owned this laptop for a year and a half now. Original price was $1200 with the EPP discount.
The biggest plus of the laptop is probably the weight around 1.8-1.9kg. The touchpad is the next thing I love, it just feels much better than probably any other I tried. Keyboard is ok, nothing fancy (small Enter...), feels ok. Performance wise, laptop works fine in Win7, games worked great (untill the GPU burned that is; see below), I used it for World of Warcraft raiding first couple of months.
The fingerprint reader takes forever to log in. I never figured whats the "magic" way to swipe your finger for it to work faster than manually typing in the password. Slot DVD drive makes funky noise but works fine. Remote that comes with the laptop is cool for presentations, and works with Media Player too (even though with 13" laptop you can't be that far and look at the movie). Battery was pretty lousy even when the laptop was new, barely made it 2hrs with watching movies on almost lowest brightness, surfing the web etc. Webcam is above the screen and the laptop has a microphone array -those work great with Skype and much better than most webcams (
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