This is by far the worst computer I have ever had. There were two other people in the beginning of the year that had the same computer as me. We have all had more problems than any of us can handle, compared with everyone else who has been breezing through the school year with no computer problems. My friend even had dell replace her laptop, and she is still having problems.
None of us even use our lap tops for gaming, or anything fancy just straight typing and internet. its ridiculous.
ROFL at “james braselton”… Idiot can’t comprehend time, but is still able to write (in caps); a medically fascinating specimen.
How do you know the 2.0 webcam gets downgraded to a 0.3mp when you upgrade the screen? I can’t find that on their website anywhere??
DELL SUCKS
I would not suggest you to buy this laptop with Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS. I have one and the 8400M will eventually overheat your motherboard accompanied by blue screens, a display of colored stripes up and down your screen and colorful display artifacts. So get the Intel ones instead.
Check out:
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=2005786
Yes, what about the fading / rewrite limits? Even if you get millions of rewrites on that flash drive, if you’ve got things like the page file on it then you’re going to burn it out within the computer’s normal lifespan.
I know that SSDs are fast and quiet, but I’m not sold on them - too risky, even for a system (not data) disk. It’s disconcerting that none of the SSD manufacturers are even trying to tell us that it won’t be a problem. At least from what I’ve seen, they seem to be completely silent on the issue.
Everybody is looking at flash as a panacea. There are far more promising, reliable technologies out there, they just aren’t quite ready for mass production yet.
Just saw the reply above mine, posted at the same time - if you do the math, you’ll see that it’s certainly not “years of nothing but writes” before you start getting a lot of faded sectors. In any event, what good does bad sector detection do… mechanical drives already reroute bad sectors, they just don’t expect to encounter a lot of them. With the tiny capacities of these drives, the disk may well already be nearly full when the bad sectors start appearing, and if it isn’t, users aren’t going to be too happy when their disk space starts to vanish inexplicably.
But who knows - time will tell, and I suppose I may be proven wrong. For now, though, I’m not accepting “dude, don’t worry 'bout it!” as an guarantee.
Jeff Atwood - I want to thank u , for posting the solution for the “”" After formatting and beginning a clean install of Vista, I ran into a little problem where the machine would bluescreen immediately on startup after the install. I found that switching the hard drive interface from AHCI back to standard fixed that problem. According to the BIOS warning, this precludes the use of Intel’s Robson onboard Flash memory cache, but with a solid state hard drive in play I don’t think that’s much of a loss. UPDATE: it’s a better idea to install the proper AHCI driver during the Vista install process, because that’s the only time you can make the switch! Copy the “Intel SATA driver” to a USB flash drive, and specify alternate driver during the drive selection phase. “”"
THANX A LOT - indeed a professional help.
Jeww will this change make some harmfull effect on my pc?or HDD?
I was one of the first to use the Dell Latitude D430 w/ a 32G SSD.
Bottom line, very fast boot but very slow when using any MS Office application. Even accessing a spreadsheet could take up to 15 seconds but averaged 10. I spoke w/ Dell’s director of product development and he stated that I was the first to call in w/ that data however, their internal testing showed the same effects. His comment to me was that the “bottleneck” was at the controller and I should wait for the gen 3 SSD controllers being developed before I made a D430 purchase. That was three months ago…
I am about to order a Dell XPS M1330 and the Dell Latitude D430 w/ the 64g SSD (second gen controller). Taking a chance…we’ll see.
The future of laptops is not storage on any sort of hard drive. It is storage on the web.
As long as we don’t have stable and at least 100mb wifi everywhere that is not going to happen.
HI THERE WHY DID YOU SPEND A HOLE LOT OF MONY FOR A 32 GB SSD WHEN YOU COULD HAVE BOUGHT A WHOPPING 256 GB SSD FROM DELL FOR $400 INSTEAD OF 16 GB YOU WOULD HAVE 240 GB OF FREE SPACE YOU MIGHT WANT TOO UPGRADE TOO A DELL M1330 XPS OR A STUDIO XPS 13 WITH 256 GB FULLY LOADED THEY WILL TOP OUT AT $2,100 WITH 4 OR 8 GB OF RAM 128 OR 256 MB GRAPHICS CARD AND A 256 GB SSD YOU MUST BOUGHT A THIRD PARTY SSD DELL DOSE NOT OFFER ANY THING LESS THEN 128 GB SSD FOR $200 UNLESS YOU HAVE HADE AT ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO.
Well it’s been a few years, and there have been a few major things that came out about all the series of these Dells.
These XPS 1330’s are PLAGUED by problems, usually from the AC adapter plug chip area. Turns out they used unshielded wiring which usually fried the mobos, requiring a $300 (as of 05-2010 still $300+ USD) mobo replacement.
The biggest problem currently with that is if you buy another mobo, it’s gonna happen again. A few people out there (a FEW, on the whole internet) have posted some solutions usually involving replacing the AC plug on the mobo with a different one at the least.
But you’re still out the money on the new mobo, and if you don’t read this or know about it, you’ll be in the same situation eventually: laptop will die or cut out on battery power; laptop will stop charging the battery; laptop will stop working completely (can’t get power from the battery or AC due to fried circuts) or worse, mobo dies from the AC chips overheating.
Other than that, these were nice machines! Too bad Dell didn’t simply do a re-vamp of them- they changed the whole line to the same hinges and interior but used even cheaper parts.
In my tech experience, I’d recommend everyone look for a 1420/1520. You can get a Gf 8600m in them and easily find one with a Gf 8400m. That’s pretty fast for a 1280x800 LCD! You can also swap out the inverter and LCD for the RGB setup. AND they’re built like tanks.
I seriously thought of buying this laptop Dell XPS M1330 to replace my aging Sony Vaio 550. I priced it out and when I returned to the website, I noticed that the $600 SSD (Solid State Drive) option is no longer available what i have to do…