rbblue says "Fast and light. A joy to use." about Dell XPS M1330 Laptop

rbblue — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:26:45 GMT

I'm only a week in but so far I'm loving the Dell XPS M1330 (especially after suffing an HP laptop nightmare for the last year). The system doesn't come with much junk preinstalled and windows vista works well. No crashes so far.

Battery life is about 3 hours.

Critisms:
The card reader which doesn't take XD cards.
An additional battery would have been a lot more welcome than the fairly superflous things that came with the laptop:
- A huge manual in a fake leather folder (unopened).
- A nice fabric carry case (no point if you have a laptop bag).
- A pair of earphones to add to my collection...
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rbblue says "Don't ever buy an hp laptop" about Hewlett Packard Pavilion tx1000 tablet

rbblue — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:16:42 GMT

This hp tx1000 laptop is easily the worst purchase of my life. The first laptop I bought died after about two weeks and took two months (and about 20 phone calls) before I was finally given a replacement by hp. The replacement hp basically stopped working bit by bit:

First I made the mistake of taking out the removable DVD drive. The system never recognized it again.
Then the touchscreen started to go beserk and act like someone was repeatedly pressing the top right corner. Very useful for closing all your open applications quickly and unexpectedly. Luckily I figured out how to disable the touchscreen (had to disable the service)
One fine day the wireless stopped working. Tried reinstalling the software and every other thing suggested by the HP website. Nothing. Had a USB wireless adapter lying around so started to use that. Very convenient to have this thing poking out my laptop all the time.
The swivel monitor mount started to sag, eventually to the point that the monitor hung to one side...

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rbblue says "Fast and light. A joy to use." about Dell XPS M1330 Laptop

rbblue says "Don't ever buy an hp laptop" about Hewlett Packard Pavilion tx1000 tablet