xps m1330 power supply?

spaceman · 11 Jun 2008 at 18:29

i ordered an m1330 yesterday with the following spec

2.5ghz
LED screen
4gb ram
320gb HD
6 cell battery

it comes with a 90w power supply which i've read is a bit of a chunk. has anyone that got the 90w power supply used a 65w travel power supply?

will this cause any problems? other than the battery taking longer to charge?

spaceman · 12 Jun 2008 at 23:30

should be delivered in the morning, quicker than the 24th when it was expected so i can see just how big and heavy the 90w power supply is..

spaceman · 13 Jun 2008 at 10:59

just arrived, i dont think i'll bother with a travel adapter, the 90w power supply is small, i was expecting a huge heavy power supply like my fujitsu amilo d1845 - phew

excellent little laptop, will wipe it and put vista 64bit on tonight at work

spaceman · 14 Jun 2008 at 05:00

yep the fingerprint reader works perfectly on mine aswell.

just installed vista 64, and updating to sp1 at the moment.

i had fun finding the following drivers, as they arent on the drivers disk or dells site for vista 64 on the m1330 - got them in the end though...

- memory card driver
- touchpad driver
- 10/100 ethernet
- upek fingerprint reader + security suite
- graphics driver 8400 gs (windows update)

spaceman · 14 Jun 2008 at 21:04

Scoobie Dave said:
Are these laptops good enough for playing the occasional bit of BF2?

here's a vid on BF2 on a m1330 with the integrated graphics card http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyW_-q7cSQs

probably be abit better with the 8400 i'd have thought.

spaceman · 16 Jun 2008 at 00:46

i've not played any game on it yet - will probably install a couple at some point.

all i've done is format and partitioned the drive + installed vista home premium 64 (activates fine with the serial on the bottom of laptop) + installed sp1. put all the 64 bit drivers on (can upload all the missing ones to a file share site if anyone needs them) and installed a load of apps.

the is a vista tweek guide here that looks handy --> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=166532 not gone through that yet though.

also enabling virtualization in the bios is ment to make a difference to performance - not sure what it does though.