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fishboy91s
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May 5th, 2009 20:00
Studio XPS 13
So I'm looking into a new laptop to replace my XPS m170.
I've been shopping around and finally landed my sights on the Studio XPS 13. It seems to have the power, versatility, and price that I'm looking for in a machine, however here comes the sticky part... I've been looking around and have seen many people complaining of 'issues' with the Studio XPS 13 laptop.
My questions simply are: Do these problems people claim still exist? If so, what are people doing today about them to fix them? And does anyone particularly recommend this laptop?
If the problems still are around and it's just driver updating necessary to resolve them, then that’s no problem, but I wanted to hear from someone out there who perhaps owns one of these machines and could give me their opinion on it. I really like what I've seen so far, I'm simply being hesitant about the final decision.
Thanks for any input out there.
dsuk1978
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Posted May 6th, 2009 01:00
I just recently bought the Studio XPS m1340, this is because I Upgraded to the Max.
Theres still a couple of issues still trying to solve, but with the zalman nc-2000 cooling pad that I just recently bought will take the heat down quite a bit.
from time to time I get a Blue Screen, the blue screen I found out is because the e-Sata port uses the same IRQ of the USB, and when it gets hot, the Vista home edition 64 bit, says the IRQ Not Less or equal with the Blue Screen comes up, is very anoying at times, and the memory dump starts, then you have to turn it off and then on. and hope it won't happen again, but it always does, so I need to find out whats going on with it.
Also the e-Sata Port does not recognize the e-Sata hard drive that I just Purchased the Sumvision e-Sata II APEX 1TB. So I need to find out how to make it work, the USB works fine.
Theres only 1 USB Port, so really buy a USB Hub, or the Cooling pad with at least 2 USBS or more. Has a nice 2.0 webcam, but I still keep my Logitech 9000 because has a much better lightning solution in low lightning and you barely see the grainy, Hate the Grainy, and this 2.0 megapixels integrated cam is good only when there natural light, other wise theres lots of grainy.
Besides that is a very sleek design, is very fast I have 8GB of DDR3 ram and the hard drive 500GB of 7200 RPMS is silent, meaning you don't even notice it spining. the computer is very portable and despite all this bad reviews about the screen.
I think the screen is HD , because is super bright and very clear, like you can almost touch it. so reason to assume is HD.
Haven't played any games on it because I only have the 256mb Nvidia 9500 G, so not sure if can handle games, but I did not buy this for games anyways.
I have the xbox 360 for that, and I'm satisfied.
Hope this helps
Ta
David