I am really convinced and set on buying this one, after my 700m got stolen in France last year 
along with my luggage, but thats another story. The 710m even with many discounts is well over $1000 with my configurations and I bought my previous 700m at only $880 shipped. So I thought about it and click Compare All Notebooks. I was set on either the E1505, but as I saw the close to 7-pound frame and th eprice going drastically high as I added my configs. I started to look the other way. Then I looked into the XPS category for fun and saw the M140 weighing in a a little more than 5 pounds, the lightest next to the 700m. I was pretty impressed as I read the specs and it seemed like a good laptop. The Dell Media Direct, Intel Extreme Graphics were fine with me, this wasn't a gaming platform .I spend the last month building up my own little monster of a desktop (AMD Athlon x64 4200+ x2, Asus A8N-32SLI, nVidia 7800 GTX 256, 300GB 7200RPM Seagate, and more), the last thing I needed was the XPSM170, there was already a crater the size of the moon in my wallet. Besides, the thing would be too heavy for me to lug around the world whenever I traveled. I've been travelling with my 8-10 yr. old Inspiron which weighs in at 10 and it's been hell. So I loaded it up with what I need applied my 10% and the price was just a bit over $1,000 which set exactly to what I could afford. Anyways, with what I'm using it for (not EXTREMMEMEMEEEE gaming, but the occasional CS, Sims), while on the road some video editing and burning whats on my camcorder, surfing the web, showing relatives overseas photos, videos, listening to some music, is this the 'top for me?
sorry for the long read.
along with my luggage, but thats another story. The 710m even with many discounts is well over $1000 with my configurations and I bought my previous 700m at only $880 shipped. So I thought about it and click Compare All Notebooks. I was set on either the E1505, but as I saw the close to 7-pound frame and th eprice going drastically high as I added my configs. I started to look the other way. Then I looked into the XPS category for fun and saw the M140 weighing in a a little more than 5 pounds, the lightest next to the 700m. I was pretty impressed as I read the specs and it seemed like a good laptop. The Dell Media Direct, Intel Extreme Graphics were fine with me, this wasn't a gaming platform .I spend the last month building up my own little monster of a desktop (AMD Athlon x64 4200+ x2, Asus A8N-32SLI, nVidia 7800 GTX 256, 300GB 7200RPM Seagate, and more), the last thing I needed was the XPSM170, there was already a crater the size of the moon in my wallet. Besides, the thing would be too heavy for me to lug around the world whenever I traveled. I've been travelling with my 8-10 yr. old Inspiron which weighs in at 10 and it's been hell. So I loaded it up with what I need applied my 10% and the price was just a bit over $1,000 which set exactly to what I could afford. Anyways, with what I'm using it for (not EXTREMMEMEMEEEE gaming, but the occasional CS, Sims), while on the road some video editing and burning whats on my camcorder, surfing the web, showing relatives overseas photos, videos, listening to some music, is this the 'top for me?sorry for the long read.
