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The new hotness !
Date of Review: Jan 29, 2009
The Bottom Line: Buy it !
If you search for pictures of the M1330 you will always come up with a side profile but the coolness of the hinge design for the lid didn t dawn on me until I saw it no, until I felt it.
At the top of the keyboard are a set of controls to eject the CD/DVD, control the audio & playback etc. These are not buttons per se, but little touch sensitive spots that glow when you touch them. Very cool.
The XPS M1330 comes with Creative EP-630 Noise Isolation earphones that compare quite favourably to my standard work wear Philips SHP805. They have 3 sizes of rubber seal for your ear, dunno how they feel when used for extended periods yet. This was a nice surprise.
...and there are other little supprises all throughout this machine. Someone, somewhere put thought into the design of this machine and it shows.
So, what s not to like:
There are a couple of minor things so minor I only list them for completeness. None of these are an obstacle to being very happy with this machine:
When you eject a CD the sound is like strangling a pigeon. Don t ask me how I know what that sounds like, it just does.
Chipset does not support Intel VT. I use Virtual PC a lot, but VMs run fine without it.
The system comes with a 10Gb recovery partition. This isn t a worry to me with 250Gb but if I had gone for the 64Gb Solid State drive for the extra thou I would be nuking this straight away
The battery in the media remote is tricky to seat properly.
