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| Dell enters pc gaming market |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 09:35 by Darren Chew |
The massive international computer company Dell have launched there most powerful laptop to date. The new XPS M1710 is there first dual core laptop mainly aimed at high end users and gamers.
The M1710 comes with the latest Intel Centrino 2.16 GHz cpu and a breathe taking 512meg Go 7900 GTX video card. The M1710 boasts a massive ram support of up to 2048meg.
This machine is set to take on even the most graphic hungry games. The graphics card is said to support a staggering resolution of 1920x1200 with the 17” WUXGA screen giving your games the lease of life and colour you've always dreamed of.
When it comes to storage, the M1710 comes with a choice of SATA drives, the biggest being a 120gig. The M1710 also comes with DVD and CD writing as standard, which we would expect from such a high end machine.
It looks like Dell have seen a hole in the market and are determined to take on the likes of Alienware and other high end laptop makers to stake there claim on what is fast becoming a serious money making area of the PC market.
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| Dell is buying gaming-computer firm Alienware, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4835536.stm, so why are they "....determined to take on the likes of Alienware...." keep up with the news! But these look sexy - http://216.127.51.88/laptops/index.htm
Although I think the quality of Dell machines will go down as they move to cheaper manufacturing markets! |
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| That link doens't work...
But if you can't beat them, buy them :) |
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| What's so great about that? It's no where near as good as the M1710. |
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| It's lovely, but not as wildly ground breaking as Darren would have you believe. Dell has been making WUXGA 1920x1200 resolution laptops since at least 2002 (when I bought my Inspiron 8500). FYI, that old machine also supports 2GB of RAM, so no change there except that the new machines have a 667MHz front side bus and dual channel DDR2 667MHz memory. Performance maven Alienware is currently sporting an 800MHz FSB on the AMD Turion 64 CPU but main memory is only dual-channel 400MHz DDR. In general, the CPU speeds have actually fallen over the last few years (to reduce heat and power consumption), e.g. 2.8GHz CPUs were once readily available in Dell laptops. Disk drives have gotten bigger - 160GB seems to be the current benchmark in high-end laptops (so Dell and Alienware are slightly off the mark there). As breathtaking as a 512MB Go 7900 GTX video card might be in a laptop, the real crazies can tap Alienware for a dual 256MB Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics cards for roughly the same money as the Dell. The real question is how a 2.16GHz Centrino Duo (2x 32bit CPUs) with a single GPU will compare against with a 1.8GHz 64bit Turion and dual GPUs. You should also keep an eye on Sony and Toshiba's 1920x1200 17" laptops with Blu-Ray (1020p) HD-DVD drives. |
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Great post Annon, why not sign up and join the discussion in the forums :)
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