XPS Notebook Torn-Apart and Overclocked

Pelly writes "For those who are interested in seeing the inner-workings of Dell's latest XPS M1710 flagship notebook, Hot Hardware has taken the time to rip the system apart and photograph the hardware for your viewing pleasure. In addition, there's some amusing overclocking attempts which utilize the sub-zero temperatures of New Hampshire's winter weather to provide an interesting spin on the review."

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Guh!

[gEvil (beta)]

In fact, it would have been even better if NVIDIA (or ATI for that matter) could have offered a DX10 GPU to pair with Dell's latest revision to their XPS notebook. With no mobile DX10 parts available just yet, however...

So, they're complaining that something that doesn't even exist wasn't included in the machine?!? There's some quality reviewing for you...

Re:Guh!

[dave420]

It has the 7950, which is as powerful as notebook GPUs get, so it's not as if it has some shitty onboard Intel video :) Getting upset with Dell for not magically summoning yet-to-be-created parts is pretty funny, though :)

XPS

[Sneakernets]

The XPS notebooks are little powerhouses, but complaining about the lack of DX10 support? Why is this an issue in a NOTEBOOK?

XPS M1710 = impressed

[brenddie]

Im writing this from the same model they reviewed except my cpu is a T7400 @ 2.16GHZ and I need to say Im impressed. This is my 3rd lasptop (1st-acer travelmate,2nd-compaq evo,3rd-compaq r3000) and is by far the best overall. If you have the money or can get your company to buy one for you, this is a good choice. If you think its too flashy you can get the M90 that its the same hardware but with a Quadro GPU instead of a GF, and its looks serious and enterprisy. I just turn OFF the leds on mine for normal use.
Performance wise, Core2 VT extensions seems to boost performace for VMWare as I have run VISTA and fedora6 at the same time on VMs and nothing lags. I usually have 15 - 20 windows open and response is instantaneous. Using the "Maximum Battery" power profile Im getting almost 3 hours on a 9 cell battery and performance is not that bad.
Dell bundled software is not that bad once you show whos boss. I didnt felt the need to reformat for this one although the default patitioning is a little too much with a service partition, media direct partition, windows partition, recovery partition.