Dell given up on SSD HDD’s??
I love my M1330. It’s a true workhourse.
Just ordered my XPS1330 yesterday… can’t wait for it after reading all this great stuff. My specs: 2.5gb Proc. w/ 6mb cache, 3gb Ram, 200gb FFS drive, LCD Screen, Dell N Wifi, Vista Ultimate. It will be a nice change from my Thinkpad x41t.
Ive had my XPS M1330 for about a week now and its the best. I got such a bargain on it at bestbuy for $675.00 lcd screen, vista, dvd, built-in cam, fingerprint reader, microsoft works you name it. Very efficient. I def. would recommend.
I have the m1330 with the LED screen, what do you use to clean the screen? Your standard screen wipes just make a bigger mess.
I jus got mine…
simply rocking…
i believe apart from utlity, laptops are style statements…
with everyone carring one these days, this one really sets yu apart… differentiates…
love it…
well technically, my boyfren knows better!
I have a dell latitude d430 with a 32gb SSD drive. I also get the freezes in windows xp when copying or opening large files. I hope someone works out a way to fix this problem.
I’ve been using the 32gb ssd in a Lattitude D420 for nearly a year with XP.
I find it is so so slow. it drives me mad. Fast to boot, but awful to run. I’m convinced it’s the shortcomings of the write process slowing it down. I only found your post while searchi (again) for a solution.
Now that you’ve owned this laptop for 10 months are you still satisfied with it? How do you find the battery life?
I’m asking because I’m looking to replace my 4-year old Dell 700m (http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2022) and this is one of the laptops I’ve been eyeing up, others are the Levono T61§, and the 15in MacBook Pro.
Cheers!
Mick 
I love this product but right now it making me cry bitterly,suddenly it goes off not even rebooting itself but comes up later saying the display driver stopped running as now been recover finally making it go off…I reformatted it but still on the same issue…I need urgent help on this…send me an email anthakins@aol.com
TONY
I work in a big corporation, and I recently replaced my corp-issued laptop. We get to choose from several options: Basically, Dell Lattitude D630, Lenovo T61, or the above Dell XPS1330 (in shiny red!). I ruled out the XPS1330 because:
- Doesn’t have a proper docking station
- Doesn’t have a TPM chip. The corp mandates BitLocker, and without TPM you need to keep your key on an external USB drive - one more thing to carry around and lose.
- Screen res of 1280800. My previous laptop had 14001050, and this would be a significant downgrade.
I went with the T61. I’m still unhappy with the res though (1440*900, WTH can’t you get 4:3 anymore?).
Well I bought this laptop in around the same time and ran into the problem Tony has run into.
Turns out there is a design or video card flaw. Look at all these other people having trouble,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II23pavSeLIfeature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkw47rprZU8
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=204772
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219268
did dell give you that for free?
My 1330 had the same issues as yourself with Dells poor installation set up on an SSD. Also, strangely, on start up after delivery, the os only reported 3.5GB of RAM. Tech support replied to me detailing the definition of GB which also happened to be wrong, lol. Lost patience with the partitions and lack of useable space and formatted the machine with vista business, put on SP1 and the other missing 512M of RAM appeared. A lot happier with the machine now I reinstalled and love using it with VS2005. Not had any issues with Vista either, possibly SP1 addressed the main issues??!! I also use a 160GB portable drive for the virtual os’, works well.
Thankfully, I haven’t seen any of the pausing you speak of.
2.5GHz Duo T9500
4GB of RAM
64GB SSD
Sorry for my ignorance, but I would nede to know if this 1330 would run with wondows xp pro. Have you got any experience, would you recommend me changing it to xp. The thing is at work i can only use XP and I am ddeply moved by the design of M1330. Thnx
Hi
I am going to buy a DELL XPS M1330/ T8100 2.1 GZ/3GB, but still cannot decide, whether to buy Dell M1330 or Sony VGN - SZ 75. I only need this to do presentations, Auto Cad ( Only few basic drawing) and Microsoft office, and Primavera.
I like both and specially Sony palm rest and its durability as per manufactures’ description.
Can anyone help me to make a decision.
Thanks a lot
Well, generally I was quite happy with the unit…that is until the graphic card failed (NVIDIA 8400GS) Apparently the unit has a tendency to overheat, and thus the graphic card goes.
You can get it replaced, but it is rumoured to be somewhat of a struggle. Dell seemingly denying that there is a problem. My screen and a few hundred bloggers must be wrong.
It is a great little machine save for that point. So if you do get it, clean the fan regularly, and GET THE EXTENDED WARRANTY!
I am glad I did.
Cheers,
Ph.
The Dell tech just left. I’ve had my M1330 for about 11 months. 2 Weeks ago, the graphics problems started. The screen would just go blank… .then it would panic and reboot the machine.
Sometimes the screen would just fade to a yellow… then turn into a multi colored vertical stripes… and then reboot.
Dell tech support was great. We tried flashing the BIOS and upgrading the Nvidia drivers. Neither of which corrected the problem for me. So they dispatched a tech with a replacement LCD screen and motherboard. The tech was here for about 2 hours and the laptop works great.
I just flashed the BIOS with A12 (which is supposed to help regulate the temp of the GPU better. Hopefully this problem will be gone for a while.
I’m DEFINITELY going to extend my warranty on this thing.
Other than this problem, the machine has been great.
-Kevin
Mine is just taking FOREVER to be built!
I gotta say, just don’t buy it. I bought it on sale, as did my best friend and her brother. All of our machines immediately had problems. I had tremendous problems with Dell tech support and customer service as i attempted to get my money back within the allotted time period. those attempts ultimately failed.
what happened? within the first week, a key on the keyboard fell off (it looks like a really poor design - not solid at all). constant blue screen errors, shutting down. when it refused to boot up on a regular basis, it had to be restored to factory condition twice according to dell tech support, and after it crashed a third time (all within a matter of two-three months after receiving it), i sent it to tech support at a friend’s office, who convinced Dell to replace the hard drive. the day i received it after repairs, blue screen error again, etc.
it’s so completely unreliable and NOT user friendly! i don’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t employed or studying computer science and related areas.
the extended warranty isn’t worth it! dell isn’t one bit motivated to assist you. if you insist on buying such a flawed machine, save the money that you would spend on the warranty for the repairs that you will ultimately need from an individual who is actually interested in fixing your machine quickly and efficiently. and if you’re like me, you probably can’t afford to spend 8 hours on the phone with Dell every week or two, right?
after filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau (I HIGHLY recommend this option to all of you having trouble - if enough complaints get out there, it will force them to pay attention because this reflects poorly on them and their products), i was given contact information for a guy who would supposedly be able to help me in the future, but of course he failed to return any of my phone calls (if i called the Dell hotline, i kept getting transferred to people who constantly said they couldn’t help me but someone in the next department over could, and of course those people would say the same thing and then i was back where i started).
i can’t warn you away from it enough.