Dell XPS M1330 Laptop (Black) Ultra Slim 13.3" Widescreen, Vista Premium, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Blazing 2.0ghz Speed, 250GB Hard Drive, 2GB DDR2 Memory, 13.3 Inch Wide Screen Wxga , 128mb Nvidia, Finger Print reader, Bluetooth, Webcam, 6cell Battery, Dvd/rw (Burn DVDs & CDs)

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Product Details

• ASIN: B001AHJRC4
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,540 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 29, 2008

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a good machine with serious flaws, December 29, 2008

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Kevin B. Smith "kavein" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dell XPS M1330 Laptop (Black) Ultra Slim 13.3" Widescreen, Vista Premium, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Blazing 2.0ghz Speed, 250GB Hard Drive, 2GB DDR2 Memory, 13.3 Inch Wide Screen Wxga , 128mb Nvidia, Finger Print reader, Bluetooth, Webcam, 6cell Battery, Dvd/rw (Burn DVDs & CDs) (Personal Computers)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Xps M1330: Simply..Amazing!, February 23, 2008

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Debra Alliegro (Dover, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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I bought this laptop a couple weeks ago and its just..well...amazing! It looks awesome, so sleek and sexy, with a black finish and a very VERY thin screen. The whole computer is very thin.

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!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars really nice, March 10, 2008

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K. Irez "gadget lover" (NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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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 choose