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4.5 stars
"The ultimate true gaming laptop, that even gets almost 3 hours of battery life."
Pros: Powerful, sturdy, great WUXGA screen 20-40% off dell coupons!
Cons: Expensive (Find a coupon!), battery life is "decent"
Summary: Since I actually own this laptop, I feel I should help keep the record straight as opposed to those that just seem to hate Dell and write whatever they can think of to detract from their rep.
It is amazingly powerful, the newer versions with a GO 7800GTX and 2.26ghz Pentium M CPUs are even more so. I thought the lack of "smoothness" hyperthreading gives the P4 would detract from my liking of the Pentium M, however this laptop never seems to experience the brief "hangs" my old desktop used to have!
The 1920by1200 WUXGA brightscreen display is perfect, not 1 bad pixel on it. The glossy screen doesn't bother me. The hinges are absolutely solid and still going strong. The brushed aluminum back even hides the usual scruff marks a laptop accumulates, and is a good amour for the display itself. For the power this system offers it is amazingly light and not bad carrying around. It even fits in my 15.4? size rated Targus backpack, despite being a 17? display. And it?s only a mere 8.7 pounds, lighter than anything else in it?s class.
I can squeeze out 3 hours of battery life if I really try, which is very good for a 17? system, and exceptional IMHO for the horsepower you get under the hood. The system temps were good across the board from GPU core to CPU. The DDR2 RAM does get fairly warm however. The fans are silent, and under load you still won't hear them with any other sort of noise in the room. The speaker quality is good, although there is no real bass for that ?thump?. Honestly, this laptop has way more ?bling-bling? than I?d want, but is just personal taste, and anyway you can turn the LEDs off and stick a cover on the lid if you really need to
Now about that high price? I got mine with a 40% off Dell coupon folks. The price was still ?high? afterwards (due to a 7200rpm drive, most upgrades, and 4 year everything warranty in my case), but it was worth it for a TRUE desktop replacement laptop. So if you are interested in this system, make sure you grab a 35 to 40% off coupon off the web before you buy!
For a better price/performance ratio then I would have to suggest you use the coupons on a 9300, same chasis/case without the flashy stuff but without the same crème de la crème of hardware offerings. Otherwise if you want the absolute best, go for XPS Gen 2 as it can handle anything out there
- 3 replies to this review
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There is a $400 coupon from time to time, but NEVER a 40%.
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where the #%^#@ do you find a coupon like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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where the #%^#@ do you find a coupon like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
