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The DELL XPS M1530 – An Excellent Laptop

Published on April 13, 2008 in Laptop. 0 Comments
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This laptop is a bigger and better version of Dell’s popular XPS M1330. It is thin and light and has a 15.4″ high definition widescreen. It is also a well designed, attractive and extremely functional Gageet.

It has a starting weight of 5.8 lb and a starting price of 999$. The screen lacks LED backlighting unlike the M1330. It has reasonable 3 hour + battery life and well-designed and responsive keyboard, touchpad and media buttons. The colour options available are Midnight Blue, Alpine White, Tuxedo Black and Crimson Red.

These laptops use an Intel Core2 Duo processor, which goes up to a 2.60GHz Intel T7800 processor. It can have 1-4 GB of RAM and a hard disk drive of up to 320 GB. You have the option of a 256MB Nvidia Geforce 8600M GT or a 128MB Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS for the graphics card. The former option uses high-performance GDDR3 memory. The M1530 includes a Biometric Finger Print Reader and has a built-in Web cam. For connectivity, it has Hyperband Multi-Antenna technology, Wi-Fi, and internal Mobile Broadband options.

Its limitations are the fact that it only has three USB ports. It also has noise issues with Slot-loading drive and the hard drive. Nevertheless it’s an excellent laptop and has great style and performance. It can definitely be considered an improvement over Dell’s M1330 in many areas.

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Samsung’s Flash Memory Laptop

Published on November 23, 2007 in Laptop and Technology. 0 Comments
Solid State Memory Laptop

At the Cebit technology fair in Germany, Samsung unvieled plans for a laptop using solid state flash memory and eliminating a hard drive. The laptop has 32GB of flash memory. The newer memory chips are smaller in size and occupy the same space as traditional 1.8″ disk-drives.

Whats The Advantage?

  1. Speed! - The new chips allow data to be reached much faster, the prototype laptop that Samsung showed off was able to boot in 18 seconds versus 31 seconds for the laptop with a regular hard disk drive. This is a great stride in speed almost 50% as fast as traditional hard disks.
  2. Reliability & Portability - Solid state memory can handle a beating, This is the same technology used in MP3 players that allows you to smack them around without skipping. This makes your data safer. Solid state memory is also much lighter than hard disks. This will open up all sorts of opportunity’s for new super light portable laptops.

The Real Problem Here?

Although there are many advantages to this new technology the only major downside is the cost. One of these 32GB chips cost’s almost 900$ making it hard to have a large amount of storage space in any medium. But technology prices are always falling so in a few years this technology will start popping up on a lap near you.

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