Comments on: My New XPS M1530 Laptop http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/ web / media / business Sun, 18 May 2008 01:44:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Derek Hatchard http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-19462 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:18:49 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-19462 I returned the Dell and went with another Mac: http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/04/03/returned-the-dell-xps-m1530/. @Kris: The LED screen is absolutely beautiful. The MacBook Pro is great hardware. I'm not as keen on OS X. I run Vista pretty much full-time using Bootcamp. If you want to hop back and forth between OS X and Windows apps, you can use Parallels or VMware Fusion, but there is a performance hit. There are no apps for OS X only that I'm passionate enough about to stay in OS X. I returned the Dell and went with another Mac: http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/04/03/returned-the-dell-xps-m1530/.

@Kris: The LED screen is absolutely beautiful. The MacBook Pro is great hardware. I’m not as keen on OS X. I run Vista pretty much full-time using Bootcamp. If you want to hop back and forth between OS X and Windows apps, you can use Parallels or VMware Fusion, but there is a performance hit. There are no apps for OS X only that I’m passionate enough about to stay in OS X.

]]> by: dan http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-19443 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:32:27 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-19443 ahh DON'T BUY ,DELL XPS 1530,it sucks. It becomes hot like a heater,cant use it on ur lap-so i dont consider it a laptop Very slow performance even with a HDD @ 7200rpm. 2GB RAM Comes pre installed with all the useless softwares. Customer service- wait for 15 min to get connected.--sucks bigtime ahh DON’T BUY ,DELL XPS 1530,it sucks.

It becomes hot like a heater,cant use it on ur lap-so i dont consider it a laptop
Very slow performance even with a HDD @ 7200rpm. 2GB RAM
Comes pre installed with all the useless softwares.

Customer service- wait for 15 min to get connected.–sucks bigtime

]]> by: Kris http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-18076 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:33:14 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-18076 Hi, i'm also in the market for a new laptop and i'm trying to decide between the m1530 and a macbook pro. Indeed, it's an almost impossible choice. Yesterday i was feeling very Dell, but today i'm rather feeling Macbook Pro. ;) My thoughts: Personally, besides the obvious office tasks, i'm looking for a quality machine to edit photos (i'm an amateur photographer), so that's why Macbook Pro came to mind -> i'm looking for the best screen available! And i don't think there's any windows pc offering that quality and that resolution with a LED screen? But i'm also a geek so i'm afraid i'll miss the technical playground of Windows. But if i'm correct, i don't have to miss out on anything because i can boot in XP/Vista whenever i want to? And i believe i can even run Windows tools natively while working in OS/X? I wonder how far that goes? Gaming is not important to me because i do that full time on the Playstation 3. Apparantly the MBP can become very hot, that could be a little annoying, but.. still it's better than a noisy notebook to me and i believe the MBP is a silent machine? I've heard about the m1530 sometimes to be noisy, especially the dvd drive. I also have a NAS at home with gb lan port and that's something the m1530 doesn't support (only 10/100 mbit). An other thing is that i would really like a 17-inch screen without the weight and i believe MBP is one of the only 17-inch notebooks which is easy to carry in one hand? So i would have a bigger screen than the m1530 but without the weight of some 17-inch notebooks. What concerns me though, is the fact that IF i would spent a lot of time in Vista, that the Apple keyboard (and mouse) would be limiting to work fast and comfortable in Windows? My ideal situation would be using a MBP with OS/x for the design and multimedia stuff (lightroom, photoshop, iMovie, Aperture, webdesign, etc) and switching (fast) to Vista for the tech tools and other software not available for os/x. I'm not sure what to do with the Office stuff in between (outlook mail, excel stuff, etc) -Maybe i'm just dreaming and the reality will be a little less comfortable? /Kris Hi, i’m also in the market for a new laptop and i’m trying to decide between the m1530 and a macbook pro. Indeed, it’s an almost impossible choice. Yesterday i was feeling very Dell, but today i’m rather feeling Macbook Pro. ;)

My thoughts:

Personally, besides the obvious office tasks, i’m looking for a quality machine to edit photos (i’m an amateur photographer), so that’s why Macbook Pro came to mind -> i’m looking for the best screen available! And i don’t think there’s any windows pc offering that quality and that resolution with a LED screen?

But i’m also a geek so i’m afraid i’ll miss the technical playground of Windows. But if i’m correct, i don’t have to miss out on anything because i can boot in XP/Vista whenever i want to? And i believe i can even run Windows tools natively while working in OS/X? I wonder how far that goes?

Gaming is not important to me because i do that full time on the Playstation 3.

Apparantly the MBP can become very hot, that could be a little annoying, but.. still it’s better than a noisy notebook to me and i believe the MBP is a silent machine? I’ve heard about the m1530 sometimes to be noisy, especially the dvd drive.

I also have a NAS at home with gb lan port and that’s something the m1530 doesn’t support (only 10/100 mbit).

An other thing is that i would really like a 17-inch screen without the weight and i believe MBP is one of the only 17-inch notebooks which is easy to carry in one hand? So i would have a bigger screen than the m1530 but without the weight of some 17-inch notebooks.

What concerns me though, is the fact that IF i would spent a lot of time in Vista, that the Apple keyboard (and mouse) would be limiting to work fast and comfortable in Windows?

My ideal situation would be using a MBP with OS/x for the design and multimedia stuff (lightroom, photoshop, iMovie, Aperture, webdesign, etc) and switching (fast) to Vista for the tech tools and other software not available for os/x. I’m not sure what to do with the Office stuff in between (outlook mail, excel stuff, etc)

-Maybe i’m just dreaming and the reality will be a little less comfortable?

/Kris

]]> by: Nir http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-17421 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:22:16 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-17421 hey, i am about to buy a laptop in the coming month as well, i am trying to decide between XPS 1530 and a MacBook. Now, I am not a mac user not a windows user which means that my neat machine will determine that for me. It seems impossible to decide. Giving your experience with both systems, what would you recommend? hey, i am about to buy a laptop in the coming month as well, i am trying to decide between XPS 1530 and a MacBook. Now, I am not a mac user not a windows user which means that my neat machine will determine that for me. It seems impossible to decide. Giving your experience with both systems, what would you recommend?

]]> by: Derek Hatchard http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-16459 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:08:05 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-16459 Anne, thanks for noticing the post. I didn't have a choice about opting out of a productivity suite (MS Works... blech), security software, or the online backup software. It's certainly better than in days gone by, but I don't want any of that stuff. I already own Office, I prefer the integrated Windows Firewall and AVG, and I use Mozy for online backup. Perhaps it's not crapware so much as unwanted-ware. Definitely not as bad as all the trial software that Dell used to put on new machines. Anne, thanks for noticing the post. I didn’t have a choice about opting out of a productivity suite (MS Works… blech), security software, or the online backup software. It’s certainly better than in days gone by, but I don’t want any of that stuff. I already own Office, I prefer the integrated Windows Firewall and AVG, and I use Mozy for online backup. Perhaps it’s not crapware so much as unwanted-ware. Definitely not as bad as all the trial software that Dell used to put on new machines.

]]> by: anne@dell http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-16290 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:07:25 +0000 http://derekh.com/index.php/2008/02/14/my-new-xps-m1530-laptop/#comment-16290 Derek - glad to hear your first implession of the XPS M1530 was postive! I'm going to pass along you comments on the hibernate / sleep PC-Cillin issues. Also, I'm surprised the system included crapware. When you configure an XPS, all of the 3rd party SW defaults to opt out. We do include a 15-month AV subscription with the XPS however. Thanks again for the postive comments! Derek - glad to hear your first implession of the XPS M1530 was postive! I’m going to pass along you comments on the hibernate / sleep PC-Cillin issues. Also, I’m surprised the system included crapware. When you configure an XPS, all of the 3rd party SW defaults to opt out. We do include a 15-month AV subscription with the XPS however. Thanks again for the postive comments!

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