just ordered this baby..
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As stated in the review (somewhere lol) Dell have already stated that the bigger screens are arriving any time now, if they aren't here already. US and Canada have 1680x and 1920x screens already for the 1530. UK as usual, is behind.
But is that just for the 1530 or the 1330 as well? I had a look on the US and Canadian Dell sites and they have the same screens so hopefully they won't change for a while.
Ah apologies I was talking about the 1530. I'm afraid I haven't seen any upcoming changes yet for the 1330. Although I have red that the XPS range will be getting more customisation options. From what I can see, the M1330 is an incredible seller for them.
this is a joke with 10% off i can get the led screen and pay ten pounds less! im extremely annoyed! what can i do, just return it and re-order?? surely calling up will get me no where! voice what is your plan mate? add me on msn if you wanna chat about this
I'm going to phone them, tell them I've had mine for less than a day, and that I want the difference refunded. If I'd had the thing for two weeks already, fair enough, but this is unacceptable. I'm a student, I can't afford to just waive off £55 or so. It's an expensive enough purchase as it is.
Gonna get dialling as soon as it hits 9am, so will let you know what happens. If they don't want to give a refund though, I'm inclined to return it as unwanted/dissatisfied and get a refund. Wouldn't re-order one though, if that happens to be their attitude. I've still got a perfectly good 630m sitting here that I can go back to.
Should have looked at there site better for £650 you could have got yourself a very nice laptop, got two on order myself.
Base Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T7500 (2.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2-cache)
Video Card 256MB nVidia® GeForce® 8600M GT
Hard Drive 320 GB (5400rpm) SATA Dual Hard Drive (2x 160GB)
Memory 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x1024 + 1x2048 MB)
LCD 17.0" Widescreen WXGA+
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They haven't budged for me. They did say, however, that they have a 7-day returns policy, so I could return it and order a new one. Obviously would be waiting for a new one to arrive again though.
Dunno what to do. If it was going to be a better spec as well as cheaper, I'd probably do it. But...I just don't know. Probably the last Dell I'll buy though, in any case.
Dunno what to do. If it was going to be a better spec as well as cheaper, I'd probably do it. But...I just don't know. Probably the last Dell I'll buy though, in any case.
Why? Because they reduced it in price/provided a discount code? All companies do that so it's nothing special about Dell. And it's not as if the discount codes are easy to find, infact I'm not entirely sure why dell do discount codes.
I'm not saying I wouldn't be annoyed if the price suddenly dropped, but that it's a standard thing so you just have to put up with it.
Something interesting I've found: Changing the disk mode (in the BIOS) to ATA rather than AHCI seems to cause a 10MB/sec increase in disk operation speed. Just done multiple HD Tune runs with both, and ATA works out noticeably faster.
On a similar note, my HDD seems to click a fair bit...which is worrying. Does yours do that? It's a Samsung 160GB.
On a similar note, my HDD seems to click a fair bit...which is worrying. Does yours do that? It's a Samsung 160GB.