Dell XPS M1330

As seen from previous post, this is one of the fabulous gadgets that i owned and now going to make a short review after 2 yrs of ownership.

Below are the specs for the item :

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 @ 2.16GHz

RAM : 3GB DDR2

HDD : 250GB

GPU : NVIDIA 8400M GS <-- this is what fucked up everything

Display : 13.3'' widescreen

and along with the rest of standard stuffs found in a computer

The xps m1330 is a piece of masterpiece , design wise. In my 2 years of ownership I had absolutely no problem whatsoever that couldnt be handled by myself. Except the dreaded nvidia gpu failure. Well you see, when i bought the model the "scandal" wasnt that widespread and the general public wasnt made known of this GPU failure.

The GPU overheating issue make playing a simple game like PvZ shoot the temperature into the high 90 degrees Celcius.

Apart from the hard disk getting real hot when running some basic tasks and the GPU issue, I would say this is a magnificent piece of equipment even by today standards.

Am now currently planning on whether to extend the warranty , throw in a faster processor and SSD or just to get a macbook.

edit : Just to add, i got a Logitech V470 Bluetooth Laser Mouse to complement my XPS laptop which is also blue in colour coincidentally. It was a bad choice, not only the bluetooth running on the laptop decrease the already bad battery life, also the mouse was showing lagging and gliding issues while using it. Bad buy.