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SellingOut Fast? - Dell's XPS M1330

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This attractive Core 2 Duo offering from Dell is only an inch thick, and is the 1st to boast a 13.3-inch WXGA LCD backlit display. The XPS M1330 is selling so fast that one customer has reported a shipping delay of two months.

Dell's XPS M1330 LaptopDell hasused its Direct2Dell blog-heralded as a "one-2-onecommunications" conduit with consumers and computerphiles-forsomething big. How big? To announce officially the Coming. Thatis, the arrival of the new XPS M1330. Much bandwidth has alreadybeen devoted to unofficial banter about this new Dell. But theDirect2Dell post settles some of the rumors out there and hopesto drive the interest even more.


So was thisbig Coming worthy of all the hype? One of the reasons that Dellset up its Direct2Dell blog was to be in touch with its public.So, you the public, be the judge.

Perhaps one of the most attractive features of the Vista-basedDell is its lower price as compared with past XPS models. TheM1330 comes into the market starting at $1,299.

That price tag gets you the latest in Intel's Santa Rosa chipset,which stars the Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 in this case-not tomention your money's worth in accoutrements, including anExpressCard slot, a 2-megapixel webcam, 8-in-1 card reader, andmedia buttons across the laptop's chassis for mucho mediacontrol.

For memory, though, you're looking at 1GB, unless you dropanother $200 at least, in which case you get 2GB. For anotherhandful of hundreds-for a total of $1.754-you can then get a128MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M graphics card, instead of thestandard Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100.

The M1330 is also the first Dell of its kind to feature the13.3-inch WXGA LCD backlit display. This style display isbrighter than most LCDs, and is thinner-the M1330 is less than aninch thin. And it sure is purrrty. The new Dell will come withDetroit-grade paint jobs-of pearl white, crimson or black.

So what do you think? If you need more feedback, several commentsfrom outside readers are already posted on the Dell2Dell page.Roughly half seem impressed that Dell could produce such amachine, while the other half gripe in techie talk about what theM1330's lacking. One poor geezer called Damian was given ashipping date 2 months later than his order. On the plus sidethat must mean these XPS puppies are selling outfast.

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