Well I spend many late nights at the office, and I really wanted a lappy, so I got one to entertain me and for work purposes. I was browsing through Staple's and saw this: CSB Dell XPS 1330M Giveaway! * Congrats to our winner!!*

Not bad, a 13'' screen, HDMI output, 2GB's of RAM, Core2Duo, and weighing in at under 4 lbs. Only downside is Vista. I spent 4 hours tweaking the first night I had it and other than the automatic updates getting caught in a loop it's usable after the bloat has been disabled. I did hunt down the XP drivers just in case I needed to go that route, there's an XP thread just for this PC lol.

All in all it's a nice piece of kit, I primarily run Winamp on it and listen to music at work while doing paperwork with the milkdrops going.

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Nice LS. Dell makes fairly good laptops. I have had mine for quite a few years now and it still works fine. Wish i had more of a use for the thing though. I use it when i travel to do my work, but at home i rarely have a need for it because the desktop is just faster.

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Yeah I feel ya. I bought some wireless bluetooth headphones to take advantage of the built in bluetooh. Anyone know if 1.66Ghz for two cores is enough to watch 720p?

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You just answered your question "Dual core". It will play 720p, but 1080 is pushing it, but playable. Depending on what codec.

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Aight thanks Kam! It's a Core2Duo, not a crappy Pentium D, so 720 should be okay.

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so im guessing your parts are able to downgrade to xp huh..lucky.. well yea dell pretty good since i still use a 4 year old laptop wit dothan processor but it gets so hott!

Well it wasn't hard in my case, there's a couple threads dedicated to it with links to all the drivers: How to install Windows XP on the Dell XPS m1330 - Step by Step instructions

There's another somewhere which covers the same procedure, so no great accomplishment lol.

I actually decided to stick with Vista for now, it's fairly responsive and works okay with all the crap tweaked out. I ordered 2x2GB's of RAM to max out my RAM. It probably won't make a huge difference with a 32 bit OS, but any performance boost is worthwhile imo.

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