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Dell XPS M1330

Started by HJennerway · 10 months ago

The XPS M1330 is the second Dell laptop I’ve owned. The Inspiron 9400 put me off buying another Dell - for the wrong reasons really. I didn’t want another high end laptop with poor battery life, and at just over £1000, the XPS M1330 seemed like a good choice. At 13.3 ... Continue reading »

30 comments

  • NA

    1 year ago

    Your keyboard isn't flat?!
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    What do you mean? Of course it's flat.
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  • NA

    1 year ago

    There a bump in the centre of your keyboard, curved upwards very slightly.

    First pic you took illustrates this clearly: http://leghumped.com/images/1330_keyboard.jpg
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  • Khris

    1 year ago

    Looks like the camera lens distorted the picture.
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  • Natan Shmueli

    1 year ago

    Beside all the advantage, there is one big disadvantage at the XPS 1330: The keyboard gets hot which create difficulties to work smoothly on this laptop! The palms getting nearly burn .
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    Sounds like you have something stuck in the fan. Mine's on for 12+ hours per day, and the keyboard never gets too hot to type.
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  • Mark

    1 year ago

    I have one of these - bought it off ebay (new) for half Dell's price. Worked well out of the box. Lightweight - fits in a small bag. Absolutely beautiful screen but niggles.

    Noisy - High pitched whistles (I believe from the processor) - unpleasant when quiet.
    - Extremely loud and unacceptable charging whistle. If you sleep in the room where you work (e.g. student, travelling salesman) you can't even with earplugs. Extraordinary can't imagine what Dell were thinking of.
    Cheap metalized plastic case wich is rubbing off after one mnth
    Weird keyboard - need to hit keys too hard for comfortable typing. Otherwise end up with missing letters from words.

    A criticism of Microsoft really - with the screen resolution 1024 x 800 the new Office 2007 has a ridiculously large ribbon and icons which doesn't appear to be customisable - reduces working screen area. If you do lots of wordprocessing - get a bigger screen.
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    The only thing I've noticed is the whistle while charging. My Inspiron did the same thing. I usually charge it during the day, but I can see how it would get annoying if you had to charge it at night.
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  • Mekalu

    1 year ago

    Hi,
    I am about to place an order for this XPS 1330. I need to install XP on this, as I do not want to waste my time on Vista. I have seen users breaking their head for drivers on this machine for XP.
    Please anyone can post a step by step procedure for installation of XP on this? (like how to deal with SATA HDD? How to deal with sound drivers/ finger print drivers on XP etc)

    Thanks in advance
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    SATA drivers would probably need to be installed during text-mode setup. There seem to be quite a few drivers at Dell's site.
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  • vivek

    1 year ago

    hi
    i need to buy laptop of dell
    but i am affried of screen which is di-mish we con't work for more time
    and about the cost , its high i think because they were the direct dealers they use to sell for low price .wht do u say?
    is there any discounts on xmas ,i need intel 2 deocore , graphicalcard &web cam,ram 2 etc ,can u help me .
    wht abt the colour?
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    The screen's plenty bright enough to see clearly in bright sunshine.

    They stopped selling a lot of colours due to problems with the finish. Black looks good though.
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  • QsilverG

    1 year ago

    I just found this simple solution: link

    You just have to power off the system and hit the mediadirect button again and it will reboot into windows. Phew!!
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  • Rus

    1 year ago

    I found out that there is an option on your System Setup... which allows your system to run as IDE and not SATA... that way you can install XP... as of the drivers, you need to google them up... i'll be checking this post in a few days... if you need assistance with the drivers, let me know... they were given to me by a tech support agent (who i consider so far the more knowledgeable people all over Dell)
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  • Alaa

    1 year ago

    this laptop is the perfect one,
    but as u mentioned above the only problem is the whistle while charging it.
    its perfect for games I installed Call of duty 4 and its workin like charm!!! with the highest specs...
    Crysis is good at medium specs but still u need to decrease the shader a bit.

    and after installing ubuntu I cant access the direct media partition, any ideas I dont feel searchi for a solution :)
    over all its the best so far.

    thnx for ur cool post.
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    Why would you want to access Media Direct anyway? It's just a stripped down version of XP.
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  • How to overclock your CPU

    1 year ago

    The only thing I like about Dell is their monitors. I've currently got a Dell 24 inch and its mint. but as a gamer and mad about overclocker, Dell machines always seem to fall short for these kind of thing. To tell you the truth I'm superised that you can get it to run Crysis in medium. Whats the average FPS?
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    I can't remember the FPS to be honest. I didn't really get the laptop to play games, and I only installed Crysis to benchmark it. If you're in to gaming, you shouldn't really be buying a 13" laptop. I also have a server with a Lian Li cube case which would probably be great for gaming.
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  • houshang

    1 year ago

    i have this notebook for one week, mine has 1 gb ram, 128 mb 8400, 1.66 core 2 duo
    the touch-pad get too hot, is this common or it's a problem ?
    i think it's slow on vista .... i want to install my win xp pro, but will everything work under xp ?
    like dell media button, or finger print, can i trust the drivers on dell site ?
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  • Dellm1330user

    1 year ago

    I have the same complaint. The touch pad gets too hot for comfort. The surrounding are is warm but the pad is beyond acceptable limits.
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  • Rasmussinsmoonshadow

    1 year ago

    How in the world do you get that slot out of the right hand corner to replace it with the teeney remote?
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    It's spring loaded.

    A word of warning though - Don't, under any circumstances try to put a mini-cd in the slot loading drive. I had to use two knives to fish one out.
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    Over the last couple of weeks, this has developed an unknown fault which causes it to crash. Dell have been out and replaced the motherboard, GPU and heatsink, but it's still happening.
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  • HJennerway

    9 months ago

    Small update (resolved shortly after it started happening actually):

    Dell fixed the laptop after sending an engineer out three times, replacing the motherboard twice, the graphics card, display and RAM. It would have been cheaper for them to give me a new laptop, but if it works I'm not complaining. =)
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  • AMP3seven

    1 year ago

    Is it possible to install a 64 bit version of Vista on this Specific laptop, and have all the appropriate drivers, and if so wil the machine support more than 4 gigs?
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  • HJennerway

    1 year ago

    Probably not, since it has a 32 bit CPU ;)
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  • neuroticsquirrel

    12 months ago

    Do you know how to make the screen as bright as it was when the computer was plugged in. That's my only real problem with this computer - on battery power, I can't make it as bright.
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  • HJennerway

    12 months ago

    You can change the brightness by holding Fn (next to the windows key), then pressing the up and down arrows. On Vista you can set the default brightness in Control Panel->Power Options->Adjust display brightness.
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  • gtp-tech

    8 months ago

    hold down f2 on system boot. go into bios and go to the display category. hit enter. There are 2 options for the brightness maximum settings. For A/C power and for battery power. adjust it there.
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  • Petrovez

    12 months ago

    Until that time I have not read about it
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