Dell XPS M1210 - Feedback,Pictures and Regrets? ANYONE??!?! - Page 2

The battery life with 9 cell is more than long enough for a day full of college classes. The screen could be better, but I think of it as adding security to whatever you may be doing, keep those peeping eyes guessing what you are doing :P

I got my M1210 a few weeks ago and am very impressed. I purchased mine from the outlet for £717 with Core2Duo T7200 2gb 677Mhz ram and 7400 GFX, but the laptop that arrived had a damaged screen. I contacted Dell and they sent me out another one which was also damaged. I contacted them again and they apologised and said they would build me a new M1210 from scratch, I agreed obviously and even cheekily asked for a processor upgrade for all the inconvenience, which I got the relpy 'send me the spec you want and we will build if for you'. Now to me thats a open invitation so I specced up this top of the range M1210:

XPS M1210 Core 2 Duo Processor T7600 (2.33 GHz, 4 MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Memory Dual-Channel 2048MB (2x1024) 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM)
GeForce Go 7400 TurboCache 256Mb
Wireless Card Dell 5505 Mobile Broadband (HSDPA/UMTS) Mini-PCI Wireless Card
Wireless Card Dell 350 Bluetooth
Genuine Windows XP Pro SP2
3Y XPS Support

They agreed eveything. The original spec only had a 2.0Ghz T7200 and I chanced it and stuck in the Wireless 5505 aswell. The only thing that never came was the 160gb HD only a 120gb.

The laptop is very fast and so far has handled everthing I've chucked at it !

wtf is Second Life? anyways I played everything upr to and including Oblivion on mine. Its a great portable teh screen is a little weak but whatever on that too, it works and its a nice little machine. I got mine through costco online and the same specs are now a few hundred more on dell and you cant buy it anymore on costco. I wonder if a new machine is coming or if demand was so high they figured a price raise would be ok

Second life is a virtual word environment which can be considered as a game, but it is not exactly a game. Anyway the reason I am concern about that it the fact SecondLife is some times does not work in specific systems. Also can u let me know about heating situation of M12. Does it get warm alot while playing game?

a little warm but nothing like the Sagers i had. Its really not to bad most of the time. The right hand palm rest gets somewhat warm and the left side fan port gets some really hot air blowing out so dont block it.

Do you have any experience about installing Vista on XPS M12?

nope but there are some threads here about that and it seems easy but not necessary and also not compatible with all older hardware and/or software

hi, I'm new to the forum, and got my XPS 1210 two weeks ago (2GHz core 2 duo, 1GB PC2-5300, 80 GB, Intel integrated gfx 950 ) with Vista, and it runs good. It's a bit hesitant, because Dell direct suggests the NVIDIA card, and 2GB ram would work nice. I ordered another gig of ram (to put me at 1.5GB) , and am anxious to see the results (new RAM is expensive).

as for fan issues, check this out: http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html

found this on http://www.bootstrike.com/Articles/D...210/index.html

I love my new laptop. Initially ordered a MacBook (black) which didn't recognize the harddrive, so I sent it back and ordered this.... trust me....the 1210 is far more configurable.

(linux users: this laptop is extremely linux-friendly....got dual boot Windows Vista/OpenSuSe 10.2)

super thanks polymer! that second link is great with some wonderful ideas. I do agre with a post on that page that a full rormat is not the best idea. The ability to reset the computer to a base+dell crap install could be a lifesaver although I might just build a ghost image and bury it in another partition.

Received mine Feb 9, love it. Core2Duo T7200 2.0GHz, 2MB DDR2 667MHz RAM, NVIDIA GPU, Vista Ultimate, AV kit, Samsung LCD, Draft N wifi, Bluetooth, 9-cel battery. Battery sticks out a bit i nback, butI got used to that quick, and I prefer to use the box wherever I want without being plugged in rather than be tethered to the power cord all the time. One recommendation: if you don't wipe and reinstall, remember to set restore point after you first fire it up and things automatically install. I didn't, (too excited to get started playing) and something I added later didn't install correctly and it was a pain to solve. I get an error screen every time I cold boot warning me about a Sonic driver (something for the Roxio software for the DVD recorder) but I rarely shut it down, just put it to sleep, so can wait a while longer for MS and Roxio to get over finger pointing and fix it. My screen is Samsung and beautiful, good saturation and no light leakage. The gamma was off but not noticeably, ixed with Adobe Gamma. Case is well built, I had none of the keyboard flex or battery wiggle I've read about elsewhere. I got the draft N wifi card for future, have a G wireless network at home and it works great. Speakers tinny, but earbuds great. Got the NVIDIA GPU, loving it after updating the drivers.

Was hard to get used to 12" screen but not the weight! Very luggable, sturdy, and I don't agree with other postings that it runs overly hot.

Can't speak to games much, but WoW is fun and runs Burning Crusade extension at 100-180 latency over WiFi on low power settings. Sound choppy at times, but not enough to make me invest the time to research whether this is hardware, driver, game software, OS or latency-related.

im sorry but im not happy with mine

i wish i had a macbook

I don't. I want a computer that is compatible with more programs. If you got a macbook you would actually have to...purchase software.... O_O!!!

what kind of a world would that be

the 12" is hard to get used too, although everything is perfect for a laptop!

i agree with that sir BowevelJoe, there are plenty of software in windows, i mean compatible software, i guess almost all of it..

And that relates to this thread........???

Why are you not happy with your M1210 ?

As i stated earlier in this thread I love my m1210, my only regret. I've stopped playing PC games nearly completly. Really I feel like I've wasted the 1210 and kinda wish I went for an even more mobile 12-13incher. The macbook is starting to look pretty sweet aswell for some reason.

Conclusion, the m1210 is an awesome bit of kit, but unfortunatly the fault lays with the user.

Atleast Vista runs nice on it.

I don't know what gives you the impression a macbook is any more portable. It's an inch larger all around, and although somewhat thinner, it's half a pound heavier. The architechtures are somewhat identical, though there are more hardware configurations possible with the XPS. The MacBook and XPS are fairly evenly matched, but don't think gaming would be better on a macbook, it really isn't. macbooks weren't built for gaming; and I see you have the NVIDIA card, so you have one up on the macbook anyway, as it only comes with the mundane Intel 950 GMA. IMO, and I've done my homework on the 1210 AND macbook, the macbook is way overrated. The MacBook pro is in another league (same league as the dell precision laptops)... my friend brought his MBP over, and I was humbled... but he uses his for video editing, and I use mine for music production, molecular analysis, and word processing/spreadsheets (and the XPS does all of this quite well) , so I don't feel too envious. It all comes down to what you plan to do with it I almost jumped on the apple fanboy bandwagon too, but decided to learn linux on PC architechture instead (macs can run linux too, since it's unix-based, like OSX). the film industry and science communities seem to be moving in that direction as well. Apple software is expensive, most of linux-compatible applications are free.

I've owned many laptops (get a new one for work every several months) including a loaded Inspiron 9300 and E1505. The M1210 is the best notebook I ever owned. Build quality is great, it's light, fast, and does just about everything a desktop can do.

if you asked a month ago I would have said great machine. But endless problems and looping the machine back to dell and waiting to be re-delivered have soured me completely.

It could be a great machine, but shite keeps breaking.