How Practical are 20-inch Laptops?

GeneralPacket writes "A 20-inch laptop might sound perfect for a game of Grand Theft Auto on the way to work, or navigating a mammoth spreadsheet. But are they really usable as laptops, or are they just luggable desktops? This week CNET attempted to work on the super-sized 20-inch Dell XPS M2010 laptop while travelling across London on the subway. The resulting video review is hilarious. This is not your typical tech video review — it's actually funny, and, refreshingly, completely advertising-free. The reviewer is in constant fear that anti-terrorism police are about to swarm him. Would you use a 20-incher?"

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Good Luck

[bad_fx]

Hmm... I have yet to watch the video, but good luck working on *any* laptop on the london underground during rush hour... ;)

Re:Actually it seems fairly luggable.

[modemboy]

SO wrong on so many levels. Raid 1 does speed disc access: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/si ngleLevel1-c.html
Slows write a little, speeds up reads.

This machine was out 2 months before Dell bought Alienware, I believe acer makes them.

Also it depends on what you consider your average dell lappie. The Inspirons are complete plastic crap you are correct, the XPS and Latitude line are quite nice, you get what you pay for...

So much for the video.

[Kadin2048]

Yeah what the fuck is wrong with that video? (Let me count the ways...)

Seriously, I really tried to watch it. It would play for about three seconds, and then stop for "buffering." No surprise there -- I'm on a shared connection. I don't have enough bandwidth to watch something like that live.

So I thought I'd just pause it and let it load -- like any decent system ought to allow me to do -- but oh, no; it had better ideas. As soon as I put it on pause, it stopped buffering. I can tell, because the traffic through my router just abruptly stopped. When I hit play again, then it started buffering again.

How brain-dead is that? Even if I tried to play it through at its stuttering, three-seconds-per-load speed, and then rewind back to the beginning and play it again, it apparently doesn't "buffer" for very long, because it tried to reload the data.

I want to find the person who thought that encapsulating videos inside Flash objects was a good idea, and put their face in a bench vise. They could have just used a good-old streaming video object, but no. They had to do it with Flash. Well, the hell with them.

XPS M2010 Specs

[@madeus]

All talk, no facts.

Yeah, not like your post, which was a fountain of knowledge.

You could at least have linked to the specs on the Dell website, which lists the the specs as:

CPU options:

        * Intel® Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor
        * Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
        * Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7400 (2.16GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
        * Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T7600 (2.33GHz, 4M L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)

Other misc. info:

        * Up to 4 GB of DDR2 dual channel2 memory
        * 20.1" Widescreen WSXGA+ display
        * 256MB ATI® MobilityTM RADEONTM X1800 Graphics Card for multimedia intensive applications.
        * Integrated 1.3 megapixel web cam and array microphone
        * 8 speakers and subwoofer
        * Up to 240GB3 of storage across two hard drives
        * Optional RAID 0 - 1
        * 8x DVD/CD Burner (DVD+/-RW)4

Weight & Dimensions

        * Width: 18.85"
        * Height: 2.90"
        * Depth: 15.90"
        * Weight (lbs): 18.305

I/O Ports

        * IEEE 1394 integrated port (1394 cable and software sold separately)
        * 4 USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) compliant 4-pin connectors
        * ExpressCard Slot
        * RJ45 Ethernet port
        * RJ11 Modem port
        * Video: Digital Video Interface (DVI)
        * S-Video: 7-pin mini-DIN connector
        * Component Video, S/PDIF Digital & Analog 7.1/5.1 Audio out
        * 13-in-2 removable memory card reader