My Dell XPS M1710 has arrived...

Kyle Heon — Thu, 04 May 2006 20:25:00 +0000

When I ordered my laptop a week ago (last Thursday) it wasn’t scheduled to ship until Monday, May 8th. When I checked on Tuesday night I saw that it had been shipped on Monday.

It came in yesterday around 10AM. I’m simply playing around with it at the moment, just getting comfortable with the laptop (I’m a desktop junkie, the small keyboard and touchpad are going to take a bit of time getting used to).

I’m considering wiping the drive and reinstalling just what I need. Dell installs all sorts of stuff, mostly crap I don’t care about. I want a clean, lean machine.

When I get a chance I’ll try and take some photos of the new rig, the kids love the fact that it glows and especially love that I can change the colors too.

Dude! Your getting a Dell...

Kyle Heon — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:28:00 +0000

So today is my 29th birthday and my wife gave me the green light to finally order a laptop. I’ve been researching them for about a week now having a tough time deciding on what I wanted/needed and what I was willing to spend and could afford.

I can’t afford one outright so I had to find a deal where I could finance the purchase. Dell offered 6 months at 0% but that would have made my monthly payments around $500 which is just way too much. For their XPS systems however they were offering 18 months at 0% so I configured one of the entry level XPS M1710 systems, only upgraded to XP Pro and added 2 year hardware and CompleteCare protection, the rest is standard.

Here are the full specs:

XPS M1710, Intel Core Duo Processor T2400 (1.83GHz/667MHz FSB)
17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA with Black LCD Cover
1GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900
60GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/SP2
Integrated 10/100 Network Cardand Modem
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Integrated High Definition Audio
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps)
80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

It’s pricey and I hope that I don’t regret this purchase but from the reviews I’ve read, the XPS M1710 doesn’t disappoint.

I haven’t had a system powerful enough to play games in years. This system should handle all of the current gen games with ease which is cool because there are plenty I’ve wanted to try out.

Now I need to pick up some supplies, like a carry case, maybe an optical mouse, some headphones (ear buds), an adapter to power the laptop in the vehicle, etc.

The reason I went with such a powerful system is that I want to be able to make this my primary system and that means I need to be able to develop on it and also run Photoshop for on-site photo manipulation.

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My Dell XPS M1710 has arrived...

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