Dell XPS 17

HummuH1 · 16 Aug 2011 at 13:00

Thought I'd keep it away from the outlet thread as I bought it new.

Had my XPS 17 for a week now. I bought it through work as I needed a new laptop but I also wanted something to act as an interim home PC until I can replace my dead system later this year.

Awesome piece of kit. i7-2630QM, 6GB DDR3 1333, GT555M and 1TB hard disk (2 x 500gb) which came to appx £840 inc.

Only slight niggle is the 1600 x 900 panel. Resolution is fine at that size IMO but viewing angle has to be spot on. I only used it for 10 mins though as always have it hooked up to a monitor so not done any playing around with brightness, colours etc.

Weight is much better than I expected too and JBL speaker set-up is pretty impressive given the size of the speakers. Keyboard feels pretty solid and I've finally found a touch-pad I can get on with.

Would reccommend for anyone looking for a good all round machine with the ability to do some gaming as well. Starcraft II is my game of choice and I've not seen it dip below 90 fps in-game, at high settings in a 4v4 game. Not the most hardware challenging game, I admit.

chili · 16 Aug 2011 at 14:51

Cheers for the info. I too am in need of a lappy to replace my desktop,we have recently moved andi have nowhere to plonk my system. I play world of warcraft do you think your lappy would play that fine?

HummuH1 · 16 Aug 2011 at 18:46

chili said:
Cheers for the info. I too am in need of a lappy to replace my desktop,we have recently moved andi have nowhere to plonk my system. I play world of warcraft do you think your lappy would play that fine?

Cant say for certain as I don't play WoW, but I'd think so.

To put it in perspective, I reckon I'm getting equal if not slightly better performance from the XPS 17 than from my dead desktop which was a Q6600 running 3.4GHz and a GTX275, at the same resolution. Haven't done any benchmarks to check though.

This thread on the GT555M from the WoW Fourms may give more specific info.

Too Tall · 16 Aug 2011 at 18:55

I had an XPS17 with the GT555 and i'd say it would comfortably play WOW.

coneypark · 17 Aug 2011 at 11:39

chili said:
Cheers for the info. I too am in need of a lappy to replace my desktop,we have recently moved andi have nowhere to plonk my system. I play world of warcraft do you think your lappy would play that fine?

I got mine off of the Outlet site and am well happy with it as well.

I have the GT550M and play WoW on my 1920 x 1080 screen ok. If you get the GT555M with the 1600 x 900 screen then you will have no problems playing WoW.

I'm well chuffed with mine and think I got a bargain