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Haven't heard form you in a while.....busy gaming on your new beast I'm sure!
How about some comments on the gaming aspect? I am into shooters..COD2, F.E.A.R., HL2, Joint Ops & America's Army.
Is it as sweet as we imagine? What kind of frame rates are you getting?
Inquiring minds want to know!!

Yes it's game time soon. I'll reload HL2 and see if I can get my Steam account running again. HL2 played really sweeeeet on my Acer, at max rez, nice grainy detail, so I'm sure the 1710 will not disappoint. TBC.

Updated Sat. 17 Jun 2006: Added comments on Media Direct, Gaming, LCD, and DVD spec. I STILL LOVE IT!

Thanks much for the Gaming update!! I am sooooo jealous!! It obviously is a sweet machine.
Unfortunately, I can't justify blowing all that cash on something that I would not be able to take with me everywhere. I need a gaming machine that is easily portable. Maybe one day I can afford to buy both an XPS M1710 AND the M1210 or ASUS W3J. But, for now, I am going to have to make do with something with a lot less power
Will be checking back on occasion to read your updates.....so keep posting whenever you get the chance!

"Portable" is becoming a very relative term. The upcoming M2010 will NEVER be in anyone's lap. People get hi perf gaming laptops as DTRs so they can move them around, but if they never leave your desk then why not just get a gaming desktop (MUCH more powerful, upgradeable, and longer lasting than a laptop) and get a much smaller "worker" laptop. For my budget, having one item that more or less does it all suits my needs. My Acer was much lighter than the 1710, but I still could barely get it open in an Economy Class airline seat just to read a book on it. Forget it with the 1710, though it still does move around the house. When my Acer was in "desktop" mode I mostly used an external keyboard and the Sony LCD, with the Acer screen (though very good) turned off. So far, my Dell has been in DualView, sitting on my keyboard tray in front of and below my Sony screen. I use both screens all the time and use the 1710 keyboard with my Razer mouse.

Here is a thread on some smaller, possibly gameable, laptops. It can be done. At least we are spoiled for choice. Rather than one size fits all, a person should be able to find a laptop that will suit his preferences, if he has the patience to wade through all the research. At least prices keep dropping. I have a receipt for a Dell XPS450mhz P-II, 128MB RAM, 16MB graphics card, 14.4GB HDD, that I paid $3100 for in Jan. 1999. Look at what you get for that buck now. LOL LOL LOL!

Nice review, I'm currently swept up in the hype as I've twisted a dell sales guys arm a little whilst doing a big order for work, and we have got an M1710 with the GTX, 1gb DDR2 and 100gb hdd on the quote, he couldn't give it away but we settled on £4.94!! so if the plan gets approval this week then it will be winging its way to me

Nice to see the kit that comes in the box too, I can't wait
My old desktop had a 6800 ultra in it, hard to imagine a laptop kicking its ass but thats what its gonna do
"I'm bouncing off the walls again, woh-oh..."


But anyway, as I say, thanks for the review and updates too

You're not talking 4,490 GBP are you? That's over $9,000 USD. Perhaps I misunderstood. Check with Techaholic via the sale link in my sig. He's British (from Melksham), living in America, and can get deals. (I, an American, worked in Swindon and lived in Chippenham and Bath for 4 years.) I know you have to pay customs et al, but it's worth a PM to him. He is very trustworthy.

Heh no I really do mean £4.94 (a decimal point there) which equates to roughly $9 and 4 cents bargaining power hehe the total order is for 3 dual CPU servers, bigass UPS, tape autoloader,rack console and 24 port gigabit switch so he threw it in after much convincing, he just had to give it a price (it couldn't be free) (and this was AFTER i'd already beaten him down on price to match the cheapest competitor I could find!) but for the first major order I'm now impressed and will order again so I guess it works and is worth their while in the end.

WOOF! NICE WORK!!

Yes, it is amazing how far we have come in the Computer age.
I really am looking at either the Dell XPS M1210 or the Asus W3J OR Asus A8JM.
The latter two are apparently quite capable gaming machines & are also rather portable. But the form factor of the M1210 has me smitten. Shame they couldn't squeeze a beefier video card in there

I am in the process of buying/building a Gaming desktop, so I don't really NEED a 17" DTR. However, it is very hard NOT to lust over the M1710!!

Enjoy your machine.

Cheers.

Subtract gaming from the mix and there are a LOT of workable, reasonably priced laptops. The e1405 and e1505 get a little more screen real estate, with the e1505 having "some" graphics options.

I cant wait to get my 1710 .. Superb notebook, even better review.

I just ran across an even funnier (sadder) receipt, Aug. 1994, Micron P90PCI Powerstation desktop, 16MB RAM, Conner 540 (MB?) HDD, Stealth 64PCI (2MB?) graphics, Mag 17" CRT, etc, $4,017.00 tax incl. Oughta' be a ler (law).

Great comparison and review of Core 2 Duo vs. Core Duo at Anandtech. I'll be looking to drop a new T7600 in within 4-6 months, price drops permitting.

great review man setteled thins as the nest lappie that i get lovin all the benchmarks that you gave us. thanks rep for you